Monthly Archives: January 2021

Daily Catskills: 01/31/21

We’ve spent the rest of January frozen over with frequent snow storms and frigid, low temperatures. 3F at a glorious red sunrise and a high of 20F. Sun glowing through gauzy cloud for most of the day.

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Sunday Reading & Drinking: Links & Retrolinks

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Drinking

Local mushroom tea, dried mushrooms and tinctures from Birch Boys Inc in Upstate New York.

A recipe for Golden Milk and something a little stronger: Mulled Port or Hot Toddy.

How to fill a hip flask without a funnel.

Reading

Prepare for Spring by reading Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook by Dina Falconi.

Local Natural Historian Michael Kudish’s The Catskill Forest, A History.

Taproot Magazine, based in Portland Maine, is an ad-free, bimonthly print publication for “makers, doers, and dreamers”, with a focus on food, farm, family and craft.

Daily Catskills: 01/09/21

Back to the quiet glassy dome in the morning that dissipates into cotton candy swirls by late afternoon, revealing some sky. No breeze and a high of 28F.

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Daily Catskills: 01/08/21

Another mostly clear day with a thin veil of cotton wool cloud stretching across half the sky. Bitterly cold with a high of 29F.

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Daily Catskills: 01/07/21

A rare sunny day: clear, expect for squally clouds that drop snow on the high peaks like they’re icing a cake. Always fun to watch. A light breeze blowing snow off branches in the valleys. An uplifting day with a high of 30F.

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Daily Catskills: 01/06/21

Another gloomy day up on the peaks: as quiet as the moon. A high of 30F and overcast with a low cloud, flurries lead to a swirling whiteout at sunset.

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Daily Catskills: 01/04/21

An overnight snow storm has passed by morning leaving 6 inches of snow under rippling morning cloud that transforms into a solid dome of milk glass by afternoon. Still and quiet. A winter whiteout with a high of 36F.

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Daily Catskills: 01/03/21

Overcast for most of the day with individual foggy clouds of snow wafting over the peaks. A high of 30F. Snow storm on its way.

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Daily Catskills: 01/02/21

Freezing overnight sleet turns mushy and then disappears throughout the morning. Light flurries on the peaks, but one end of Belleayre gets a substantial dusting of fresh powder. Gusty winds, swirling clouds and a show-stopping gunmetal sky at sunset. A high of 36F. It’s as if the year has decided to get going after a quite gloomy, pensive beginning.

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Daily Catskills: 01/01/21

The first day of both a year and a decade is still and quiet with snow remaining only on the peaks. Overcast with a high of 32F.

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