While it’s certainly likely that we’ll have a bit more snow - and I see 20 degree temperatures in the forecast - the snow is now almost all gone. Yesterday it rained all day, and I watched it eagerly, thinking - “It’s rain! Water! From the sky! Not snow! What a miracle!” I would look [...]
As I came up here I saw one thing which told me almost everything I needed to know about conditions on the ground in the Catskills: I passed the Neversink Reservoir and saw that it was not yet overflowing. That meant the river was not flooding, which meant the snow had not melted yet.
That was [...]
March weather in the Catskills. Come quickly, spring!
On in the valley, at least as far as the fire station.
There’s still no power here in the valley, a week after the snow began. Official totals (as I hear through the grapevine, which certainly doesn’t decrease the total) for the upper elevations in this area for last week was 55 inches. This is believable. It has been compressing impressively; in front of my house, my [...]
Dawn from the cabin. The month of melting begins.
Wow. It just keeps snowing here. It’s been snowing all day, wet snow, blizzard conditions, the whole thing. At least eight inches, but who knows how much there really is, and no sign of stopping either. I was planning on heading to the library today for some intellectual nourishment, but that has been postponed. I [...]
February at the cabin. Every bit as cold as it looks.
Not much in the Catskills, in fact. Five inches, perhaps. Looks pretty, no doubt. But not a big storm here at all. In fact, there hasn’t been nearly so much snow here this year as snowy places like Virginia Beach, or Ocean City.
I had been gone for ten days. When I woke up yesterday morning, it was 30 degrees - and that was inside the cabin. Though I had had a fire the previous night, the first few fires warm the air only, and at night the coldness of the structure reasserts itself. A book, for instance, [...]