Tag Archives: Catskills Autumn

Daily Catskills: 11/16/16

50F by noon after a moody morning with swirling cloud, clearing up by mid-afternoon

© J.N. Urbanski 9am

© J.N. Urbanski 9am

Daily Catskills: 11/15/16

43F by 8.30am with mid-morning rain. Thickly overcast and misty.

© J.N. Urbanski 5pm

© J.N. Urbanski 5pm

Daily Catskills: 11/10/16

37F at 8.30am and chilly.

© J.N. Urbanski 9am

© J.N. Urbanski 9am

Daily Catskills: 11/09/16

48F by mid-afternoon, thickly overcast, misty and raining.

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

Daily Catskills: 11/08/16

62F by 2pm, with wispy cloud and warm in the sun.

© J.N. Urbanski 1pm

© J.N. Urbanski 1pm

Daily Catskills: 11/07/16

36F at 8.30am with clear skies and warm in the sun. 55F by mid-afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski 8.40am

© J.N. Urbanski 8.40am

Daily Catskills: 11/05/16

50F by mid-afternoon, humid with a light breeze and overcast.

© J.N. Urbanski 11.40am

© J.N. Urbanski 11.40am

Daily Catskills: 10/30/16

60F by mid-afternoon, overcast, humid with rain for most of the day.

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

Daily Catskills: 10/25/16

41F by mid-afternoon and windy with rolling cloud.

© J.N. Urbanski 4.40pm

© J.N. Urbanski 4.40pm

Daily Catskills: 10/24/16

48F by noon and overcast with high winds.

© J.N. Urbanski 3.30pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3.30pm

Daily Catskills: 10/23/16

52F by mid-afternoon with high winds and rolling clouds.

© J.N. Urbanski 4.40pm

© J.N. Urbanski 4.40pm

Daily Catskills: 10/22/16

37F by 2pm, overcast after overnight rain with fog, rain, sleet and a bracing wind. First snow of the season descends at lunchtime.

© J.N. Urbanski 11.15am

© J.N. Urbanski 11.15am

Daily Catskills: 10/21/16

An overcast morning, with sunshine emerging midday. 70F by mid-afternoon with rolling cloud.

© J.N. Urbanski 3.40pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3.40pm

Daily Catskills: 10/20/16

70F by mid-afternoon and overcast with lunch-time rain.

© J.N. Urbanski 4.30pm

© J.N. Urbanski 4.30pm

Daily Catskills: 10/19/16

64F at 8.30am, warm, cloudy and wet after overnight rain.

© J.N. Urbanski 9.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 9.30am

Daily Catskills: 10/17/16

57F at 8.30am and humid with moody skies. Update: 70F by mid-afternoon with periods of sunshine.

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

Daily Catskills: 10/14/16

61F by mid-afternoon and warm with clear skies.

© J.N. Urbanski 12.20pm

© J.N. Urbanski 12.20pm

Daily Catskills: 10/13/16

61F by mid-morning, rising to 65 by 2pm, raining and misty.

© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm

Daily Catskills: 10/12/16

67F by mid-afternoon with mostly sunny skies.

© J.N. Urbanski 10am

© J.N. Urbanski 10am

Daily Catskills: 10/11/16

66F by 2pm and warm with clear skies.

© J.N. Urbanski 3.15pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3.15pm

Daily Catskills: 10/10/16

55F by 3pm with clear skies and a cool breeze.

© J.N. Urbanski 3.45pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3.45pm

Daily Catskills: 10/09/16

54F by 2pm and overcast with rippling clouds.

© J.N. Urbanski 4pm

© J.N. Urbanski 4pm

Daily Catskills: 10/07/16

50F at 8.30am, nippy with thick fog steaming out of the valleys.

© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am

Daily Catskills: Fall Watch

© J.N. Urbanski 1.10pm

© J.N. Urbanski 9/28/16 1.10pm

Come late August a red leaf or two fell here and there. For the first half of September, there appeared a light dusting of red across the mountains and a lightening, as if the landscape was turning into an antique before our eyes. Mid-September was quite foggy and enigmatic. This week and some of last, individual trees are blushing individually amongst the greens, creating sparse pockets of vivid, fiery red. Overall, fall is happening later than it did last year and you can go to last year’s Daily Catskills in September to judge for yourself. While you’re there, take a look at October too.

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Daily Catskills: 12/21/15

35˚F at 8am with a shimmering cloud cover this morning that had dulled by the afternoon. Today is the last day of Autumn and the eve of the Winter Solstice, which is officially the first day of winter (tomorrow). Tomorrow morning we will have a new winter sun. The northern hemisphere of the earth will be pointed the farthest away from the sun at 23.5˚ tonight and tomorrow will begin its slow return towards it until the June Solstice of 2015. The ancient tradition of Yule will begin tomorrow with the Solstice and will end on January 1st, 2016.

© J.N. Urbanski 8am

© J.N. Urbanski 8am

Daily Catskills: 12/20/15

Only 31F at 2pm, with most of yesterday’s snow melting, except parts that were in the shade. Clear skies all afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski 2pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2pm

 

Daily Catskills: 12/19/15

26F at noon with an overnight snow flurry having dusted the landscape. More gentle flurries beginning in the afternoon. 30F by 3pm.

© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm

Daily Catskills: 12/18/15

34F at 8.30am, dull, grey and overcast.

© J.N. Urbanski 12.30pm

© J.N. Urbanski 12.30pm

The Catskill 35: Indian Head Mountain

© J.N. Urbanski

© J.N. Urbanski

It’s difficult to decide what was more remarkable about a hike up Indian Head Mountain during hunting season. Would it be the periodic burst of gunfire from the local sportsman’s club every few hundred yards of my 13th peak over 3500 feet, like distant, anonymous cheerleaders? Perhaps it was the burly, camouflaged hunters strolling nonchalantly around the parking area, with loaded weapons over their shoulders, incongruously set against our hippy neighbors in their tie-dye. Possibly it was the roadside pile of dead deer we passed on the journey, but I think it was actually the unseasonal weather: t-shirt warm and humid at 55F by 10am on December 13th. I had no mobile phone service at lunchtime, so I could not tell what exactly the temperature was, but it felt like at least 60F. We’ve had a smattering of snow this year, but thus far that has been all. Last year was a strikingly different story as you can see here from our Daily Catskills picture of the same day. The lower parts of the trail to the summit and back down were wet and there were frequent stream crossings, but they were very low.

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Daily Catskills: 12/17/15

45F at 9.30am, humid and grey with showers mid-morning. Update: 48F and raining for the rest of the afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski 9.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 9.30am

 

Daily Catskills: 12/16/15

35F at 8.30am, cloudy and humid rising to 41F by mid-afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

Daily Catskills: 12/15/15

45F at 8.30am with the sun twinkling through the gaps in the shimmering cloud.

© J.N. Urbanski 8.40am

© J.N. Urbanski 8.40am

Daily Catskills: 12/14/15

53F at 8am, cloudy humid and warm. Almost 60F by noon: t-shirt weather.

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

Daily Catskills: 12/13/15

54F at 10am, mild and warm all day with hazy fog hanging over the mountains and multifarious cloud cover.

© J.N. Urbanski 12.40pm

© J.N. Urbanski 12.40pm

Daily Catskills: 12/12/15

54F by 1pm, balmy and overcast.

© J.N. Urbanski 1.15pm

© J.N. Urbanski 1.15pm

© J.N. Urbanski 1.20pm

© J.N. Urbanski 1.20pm

Daily Catskills: 12/11/15

52F at 2pm with a mixture of cloud and the occasional twinkle of sun.

© J.N. Urbanski 2pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2pm

Daily Catskills: 12/10/15

40F at 8.30am and partially cloudy.

Daily Catskills: 12/09/15

38F and cloudy by noon.

Daily Catskills: 12/08/15

28F by 8am with mixture of sun and clouds. Mostly cloudy by the afternoon.

 

Daily Catskills: 12/07/15

31F at 8.30am with brilliant sunshine in clear skies and a hazy horizon rising to 42F by 1pm.

© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am

Daily Catskills: 12/06/15

29F by 8.30am with a frost burning off in the clear skies. 47F by mid-afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski Noon

© J.N. Urbanski Noon

Daily Catskills: 12/05/15

A clear, cloudless day and a balmy 44F by 3pm.

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

© J.N. Urbanski 3pm

Daily Catskills: 12/04/15

A morning layer of overnight snow had melted by by mid-afternoon. Overcast and 40F by 3pm.

© J.N. Urbanski 2.30pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2.30pm

Daily Catskills: 12/03/15

35F at 8.30am and overcast with snow flurries beginning mid-morning, taking break for lunch and then continuing throughout the afternoon.

© J.N. Urbanski 1pm

© J.N. Urbanski 1pm

Daily Catskills: 12/02/15

47F at 8am and gloomily overcast with layers of fog cloaking the mountains, and rain.

© J.N. Urbanski 8.10am

© J.N. Urbanski 8.10am

Daily Catskills: 12/01/15

35F at 9am with steady rain melting overnight icy patches and fog smothering the mountains.

© J.N. Urbanski 9.40am

© J.N. Urbanski 9.40am

Daily Catskills: 11/30/15

25F at 8.30am and bitter, with the landscape coated in a layer of grey frost evaporating in the sun. Clear skies save for a distant cloud of fog hugging a far off mountain. 34F by noon.

© J.N. Urbanski 10am

© J.N. Urbanski 10am

Daily Catskills: 11/29/15

41F by 9am and frosty, with thick, rolling fog hugging the mountains. Clear skies at dusk.

Daily Catskills: 11/28/15

46F by 10.30am and cloudy with showers.

 

Daily Catskills: 11/27/15

56F by 2.30pm and warm with an enigmatic mix of sun and cloud.

Daily Catskills: 11/26/15

40F at 10.30am and overcast, rising to 48F by 2.30pm.

Daily Catskills: 11/25/15

38F at 8.30am, with clear skies except for a thick layer of frost evaporating off the mountains in the strong, morning sun.

© J.N. Urbanski 10.20am

© J.N. Urbanski 10.20am

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am

Daily Catskills: 11/24/15

24F at 8.30am and bright despite clouds, rising to 38F by 2.45pm.

© J.N. Urbanski 2.45pm

© J.N. Urbanski 2.45pm

Daily Catskills: 11/23/15

35F at 8.30am, brilliant sunshine with scant cloud like cotton wool balls. A light, frigid breeze. A thinly spread, easily broken sheet of ice on the pond where the beaver has been beavering.

© J.N. Urbanski 9.20am

© J.N. Urbanski 9.20am

 

Daily Catskills: 11/22/15

40F at 8.30am with a sky dappled with cloud, rising to 43F by noon.

© J.N. Urbanski 11.30am

© J.N. Urbanski 11.30am