21F at 9am and mostly sunny.
© Niva Dorell 10am
Daily Catskills: 01/21/16
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Daily Catskills: 01/20/16
25F by 10am with a mixture of sun and clouds.
© Niva Dorell 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 01/19/16
10F at 9am with a mix of bright sun and clouds.
© Niva Dorell 9.30am
Daily Catskills: 01/18/16
16F at 9am with shimmering blue-white cloud and a thick layer of snow rising to 18F with cloudless, hazy skies.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am
Daily Catskills: 01/17/16
32C by 11am, dull and overcast. Snow on the peaks laying thickly on branches.
© J.N. Urbanski 1pm
Daily Catskills: 01/16/16
38F at 9.30am and foggy with 2 inches of powder dripping off trees loudly onto the forest floor.
© J.N. Urbanski 9.50am
© J.N. Urbanski 10am
Daily Catskills: 01/15/16
30F by 10am and partly cloudy and sunny, rising to 38F and overcast by 4.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 4.30pm
Daily Catskills: 01/14/16
14F at 8.30am with still air, shimmering sky and with the barest of flurries.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.30am
Daily Catskills: 01/13/16
16F at 9.30am with shimmering clouds and a layer of powdery snow on the ground. 19F with drive-by clouds at 3pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 3pm
Daily Catskills: 01/12/16
19F at 9.30am, overcast and lightly snowing.
© J.N. Urbanski 11am
Daily Catskills: 01/11/16
20F at 8.30am and lightly snowing with isolated snow flurries moving across the landscape.
© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 1/10/16
45F by noon with fog, mist and rain. Continual rain with a brief gap in the clouds at 2pm and then Winter Storm Hera at about 2.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 2pm
The Catskills 35 (W): Blackhead Mountain
© J.N. Urbanski
There’s a part of the final metres of the ascent to Blackhead Mountain that is a vertical climb and one from which you should not look back down if you suffer the slightest vertigo or you will invite a case of the wobblies. It’s even worse now that it’s entombed in ice. My husband and dog hopped up it like mountain goats and I was left in the metaphorical dust, grappling with uncertainty, stabbing my spikes into the ice and, finally, hoisting myself up over the rocks with the roots of an aging birch tree. As I finally managed to haul myself over the top, I wondered if there was such a thing as hand crampons attached to a set of gloves because they would have made the job much easier.
Daily Catskills: 01/09/16
34F by 10am and overcast with fog and mist, rising to 37F mid-afternoon.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.50pm
Daily Catskills: 01/08/16
25F at 8.30am and still wiith marbled skies and a hazy horizon.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.45pm
Daily Catskills: 01/07/16
20F at 8.30am with hazy cloud cover fading with the dawn.
© J.N. Urbanski 8am
Daily Catskills: 01/06/16
18F by 8.30am, with clear skies and frosty air, rising to 28F by 11am.
© J.N. Urbanski 9.30am
Daily Catskills: 01/04/16
A hair over 10F at 7.30am and still with clear skies. Not much warmer by noon.
© J.N. Urbanski 7.45am
© J.N. Urbanski Noon
Daily Catskills: 01/02/16
25F at 8.30am, cold and enigmatically overcast with snow on the higher peaks. 30F by mid-afternoon.
© J.N. Urbanski 11am
Daily Catskills: 01/01/16
Still only 32F at 11am with flurries of morning snow that settled more thickly on the peaks and overcast skies. A seasonal start to the New Year.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.40pm
Daily Catskills: 12/31/15
34F at 9.30am, humid, overcast and bleak with brief periods of sunshine and the odd flurry of snow.
© J.N. Urbanski 10.40am
© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 12/30/15
39F by 2pm, overcast, misty and dark.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.50pm
The Catskills 35 (W): Balsam Mountain
© J.N. Urbanski
Winter hiking can get dangerous pretty quickly. One minute you could be trotting along atop a magical winter wonderland and then the next minute, you might take your gloves off to take a picture and be left wondering if you’ll ever feel your hands again. Your water might freeze in your backpack at the summit of a mountain and if you’ve layered with cotton and start sweating on your ascent, you’ll stay wet for the duration of the hike. Winter hiking in the Catskills is only for the experienced or very prepared. At the very least, take spare socks, t-shirt, food and don’t wear cotton under- or base garments. Drink a liter of water before you set out and eat a hearty breakfast. Take a lighter, some pocket hand warmers and a gadget that turns snow into water. Or wait until Spring. Just stay at home and read, catch up on correspondence or binge watch quaint BBC period dramas because if I haven’t mentioned it, winter hiking in the Catskills can get serious suddenly and without warning.
Daily Catskills: 12/29/15
31F by 10.30am and overcast with a thin blanket of overnight snow settling only on paths and roads.
© J.N. Urbanski 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 12/27/15
52F by noon, overcast, raining and miserable rising to 54F.
© J.N. Urbanski 2pm
Daily Catskills: 12/26/15
38F at 9am, mostly cloudy rising to 43F by 2pm.
© Erik P Johanson
© Gavin DuBois
Daily Catskills: 12/25/15 Christmas Day
47F at 10am rising to 52F by noon. Humid, wet and cloudy.
© Gavin DuBois
Christmas Eve in the Catskills: The Pepacton Reservoir
© J.N. Urbanski 10am
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
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
Daily Catskills: 12/18/15
34F at 8.30am, dull, grey and overcast.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.30pm
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
Daily Catskills: 12/16/15
35F at 8.30am, cloudy and humid rising to 41F by mid-afternoon.
© 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
Daily Catskills: 12/14/15
53F at 8am, cloudy humid and warm. Almost 60F by noon: t-shirt weather.
© 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
Daily Catskills: 12/12/15
54F by 1pm, balmy and overcast.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.15pm
© 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
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
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
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
Daily Catskills: 12/05/15
A clear, cloudless day and a balmy 44F by 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 10.30am
Daily Catskills: 11/24/15
24F at 8.30am and bright despite clouds, rising to 38F by 2.45pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.45pm