34F at 7.30am. 36F and bright at midday, despite the metallic grey, misty canopy of cloud cloaking the mountains. The rain came at 5pm and lasted into the night which saw 34F.
© J.N. Urbanski 11.45am
Daily Catskills: 12/16/14
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Daily Catskills: 12/15/14
30F at 7.30am, a cloudy morning with the sun peeking through over the mountains. Warm, sunny and cloudless for most of the afternoon.
© J.N. Urbanski 7.40am
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Daily Catskills: 12/14/14
32F and overcast at 10am, rising to 36F mid-afternoon. Overnight flurries on the peaks.
© Erik Johanson/@halcott718 1pm
Daily Catskills: 12/13/14
30F mid-morning and partly cloudy, partly brilliant sunshine: perfect ski-ing weather in the peaks.
© Chase Kruppo
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Local, Antique & Vintage Holiday Gift Guide 2014
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Go to Blue Barn Antiques, in Shandaken/Phoenicia for some excellent bargains on high-quality antiques like this Rockwell-painted plate (above) for $15. There is still a pile left with different Rockwell paintings. Other utterly gorgeous vintage and antique dresses are still there alongside modern artisanal products like Pillowtique’s pillows and handmade crafts.
Daily Catskills: 12/12/14
27F and cloudy for most of the day.
© Erik Johanson/@halcott718 1pm
Daily Catskills: Belleayre Special 12/11/14
Atop Belleayre Mountain © Chase Kruppo
Daily Catskills: 12/11/14
Another day of monochrome skies from which fickle flakes continue to fall in the Catskills. Temperatures only rose from 22F in the morning to 26F by lunchtime, with “feels like” temps only in the teens. Still, ice has yet to form on the frigid fast moving waters and streams.
© Mountain Girl Photography and Design
Daily Catskills: 12/10/14
8 inches of snow on Belleayre and 2 inches of snow reported in Oneonta, the morning saw 30F, with successful ploughing and reasonably clear arterial routes. 27F and cloudy by 3pm.
© Mountain Girl Photography and Design 12.30pm
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Daily Catskills: 12/8/14
A bitterly frigid 20F at 7.30am. Hazy and sullen for most of the morning with thick cloud cover descending in the aftenroon, rising to 21F at 2.30pm. The odd faint flurry here and there with snowstorms to come.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.54pm
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Daily Catskills: 12/7/14
30F by midday and a crunchy layer of overnight snow was vanishing in the areas where the brilliantly azure sunshine reached. Cloudless and sunny for most of the day.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.07pm
Daily Catskills: 12/6/14
A hazy, misty morning with overnight ice on dirt roads melting to slush in the morning rain. 38F at midday. Update: charismatically misty and raining like a Thomas Hardy novel for the remains of the day. Only down to 34F by 6.42pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.40pm
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Daily Catskills: 12/5/14
24F at 8.30am with a light sprinkle of crunchy, icy snow having fallen overnight. 30F by 2.30pm with the occasional flurry of snow.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.20pm
Daily Catskills: 12/4/14
28F at 9am with freezing rain having left a crunchy layer of icy snow and ice where the mud used to be. The sun came out just after midday, raising the afternoon temperature to 32F. Cloudy and 28F at dusk.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.30pm
Daily Catskills: 12/3/14
34F at 8am with wind whistling and thundering through the naked forest. 36F at 2pm, cloudy, gloomy and raining by 4pm. A grey day.
© J.N. Urbanski 1pm
Daily Catskills: 12/2/14
21F at 8am: a cobweb sky dissolving in a brilliantly sunny dawn and snow making on Belleayre Mountain. The temperature rose to 30F by 1pm, as ominous cloud cover rolled in, then rapidly back to 27F at 3pm. A flurry of crunchy snow that began at 3.30pm had turned into a blustery whiteout by dusk.
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Daily Catskills: 12/1/14
The morning was a warm and humid 44F, but gradually got cooler, but remained humid, throughout the day to about 36F at 3.30pm. Most of the snow had melted by lunchtime, with the exception of Bellayre and roadsides.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.15pm
Daily Catskills: 11/30/14
46F at 11am with the powdery snow sliding lazily into slushy chunks, melting to reveal the muddy lawn carnage that is the plough’s wake. Mid-forties for most of the day with high temperatures turning fleeting precipitation into a fine, misty drizzle.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.15pm
Daily Catskills: 11/29/14
Reportedly 8F in Margaretville this morning, rising to 28F in Phoenicia by 3pm. Another enigmatically cloudy Catskills day with no discernable wind and no additional flurries as of 3pm.
Daily Catskills: 11/28/14
25F at 10.30am with gusty winds blowing snow through the naked forest. Light flurries all day with intermittent sunshine and cloud clearing and rolling in throughout the afternoon with temperatures dropping to 24F by 2pm. 17F at sunset.
© Erik Johanson/@halcott718 1pm
Daily Catskills: 11/27/14
28F at 8.30am, overnight snow had lain almost another foot by the morning of Thanksgiving. Winter wonderland continues today with light flurries in the morning becoming heavier throughout the afternoon. 31F at 2pm.
© Erik Johanson/@halcott718 1pm
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Daily Catskills: Winter Wonderland
Winter has begun in earnest with the first few feet of the seaon dumped in the lower valleys of the Catskills today 11/26/14 and further south towards New York City with anecdotal reports of cars on the I-87 sliding and spinning off roads. Up until now, we’ve only had occasional, whimsical flurries and a light blanket on 11/14/14. Compared to last season’s Fall Foliage, taken in the same place, today’s image looks barren and frigid. The home fires are truly burning across the Catskills this evening.
© J.N. Urbanski 11/26/14
Daily Catskills: 11/26/14
A dark, gloomy, forboding 30F this morning, with a frigid stillness in the air and the sun barely shining through the cloud. Heavy snow forecast for today. Update: Snow began with a flurry at 9.21 and was a whiteout and an inch deep by 10.30am. What a difference an hour makes. Home fires burning, check. About a foot or two of snow and 28F at dusk.
© J.N. Urbanski 7.30am
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Daily Catskills: 11/25/14
44F at 7.30am rising to 46F: a cloudy, nippy, grey day. The sort of day that only the dog enjoys, one that you’ll want to waste away on work. Heavy, disastrous snow forecast for tomorrow. Time to fire up the wood stove again and hunker down.
© J.N. Urbanski 1pm
Daily Catskills: 11/24/14
Overnight rain and strong winds continued into the morning with a humid 56F at 8.30am. rising to 60F by 2pm. Thick, rolling clouds made for a slightly moody, windy afternoon with occasional bursts of sunshine.
© J.N. Urbanski 2pm
Daily Catskills: 11/23/14
A balmy 48F by 9am with overnight rain having made the ground unusually sodden and squelchy. Consistent cloud cover for most of the day, warming up to 53F by 1pm.
Daily Catskills: 11/22/14
23F at 8.30am, with the rest of the morning bright and sunny, rising to 40F in the afternoon on the first day of the ski-season. A sprinkling of rain at 3 o’clock. Belleayre is open all weekend and then closes until November 28th.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.20pm
Daily Catskills: 11/21/14
© Chase Kruppo
20F this morning at 8am with Belleayre Mountain getting ready for ski-season by making snow. Belleayre is having a Thanksgiving food drive. Lift tickets are $38 at the mountain, but $30 if you bring two cans of food for their drive. Online tickets for the weekend are $25 if purchased today. Afternoon temperatures were 26F in the lower valleys but still on 21F on Belleayre Mountain.
And meanwhile, down in the lower valleys…
Daily Catskills: 11/20/14
Today’s starting temperature of 20F rose to hover around the freezing mark, with intermittent clouds and sun. A light snow overnight and a left-over flurry of big fluffy flakes left a blanket of white on the thin ice forming on Lake Wawaka , while water continues to rush beneath.
© Mountain Girl Photography and Design Midday
Daily Catskills: 11/19/14
This morning saw 12F on the mercury (9F reported in Halcott at 7.30am), with a rise to a sunny and brisk 24F. The Catskills have escaped the snow that is bludgeoning the western part of New York State, but ice is forming on the waterways, proof that winter is serious about its arrival.
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Daily Catskills: 11/18/14
The winter chill seems to have permeated the Catskills for good, with temperatures only rising 2 degrees, from 20F to 22F. A light snow fell in the higher elevations last night, but today the sun broke through so the skies and the mountain peaks are showing off their majestic blues.
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Daily Catskills: 11/17/14
32F at 7am with snow still lying stubbonly on the peaks, but turning slushy in the misty valleys. Light rain at first light got heaver by mid-afternoon with temperature of 36F. Intermittant rain throughout the afternoon.
Daily Catskills: 11/16/14
27F at 9am, reasonably bright and still with a thick, inpenetrable blanket of cloud overhead. 34F in the sun by 1pm with a nipping breeze, the cloud remained but the brightness began to wane.
Daily Catskills: 11/14/14
First blanket of the season. 30F at 8am and although the temperature only rose to 32F, the brilliant sunshine had melted most of the snow in the valleys by midday. Update: snow came back with a vengeance at 4pm to create a whiteout.
© J.N. Urbanski 9am
Daily Catskills: 11/13/14
An overnight low of 32F had lain a veil of frost on blades of grass and iced beaded water on porches and decks. A chilly 36F at 8am, with a hazy, lightly cloudy sky ushering in some sunshine. Dark days ahead as the sun is lower in the sky and sets earlier until the solstice on 21 December. Update: first came the mist late afternoon, sinking into the valleys and then the snow arrived around 5pm, in earnest this time, like it meant business.
© J.N. Urbanski 11am
Daily Catskills: 11/12/14
A remarkable 60F at 7am, with the rising sun fighting through the clouds to bathe the landscape in an autumnal glow. Diverse cloud cover bringing morning rain in some areas and mist that sank into the valleys. Back to 48F by 1pm, cloudy and damp.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.30pm
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Daily Catskills: 11/11/14
40F at 7am, fleeting cloud cover, bright and sunny with the air chilled by the wind. Temperatures rose swifly until they reached 56F by 1.30pm with an armada of hefty, chubby scudding clouds concealing the turquoise sky above. Hunting season well underway with shots thundering through the valleys.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.30pm
Daily Catskills: 11/10/14
44F at 8am with a serenely hazy sky covered with a scanty cobweb of cloud cover in hues of pinks and orange. By midday, the cloud was wispy with bright sky, a hazy horizon, 58F by mid-afternoon and later, a noteworthy fiery sunset.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.30pm
Daily Catskills: 11/09/14
A grey morning and a grey, still day punctuated by the first shots of hunting season and their echos across the ridgelines and in the valleys. 44F at 2pm with rolling two-tone cloud cover in metallic grey turning to a vivid pink at sunset.
Daily Catskills: 11/08/14
32F at 7.30am, with the sun shining brightly through gauzy cloud cover and a crunchy dusting of overnight snow. 42F at 1pm with mostly clear skies and brilliant sunshine.
© J.N. Urbanski 1pm
Daily Catskills: 11/07/14
40F at 11am, ovenight rain having stopped and been replaced by snow flurries at the higher elevations. Moody, tumultuous skies lowering a fine mist over the mountains by 1pm. Update: steady, light snow began just after 1pm turning into a whiteout which had faded to a light flurry by 4.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 11am
Daily Catskills: 11/06/14
A chilly 40F at 7.30am that looked rather like a whiteout, with the mountains subdued by a heavy blanket of obdurate cloud cover. 42F and humid at 2pm with the air filled with a mist that descended like rain. Update: rain late afternoon with mist sinking into the valleys.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.49pm
Daily Catskills: 11/05/14
52F and gusty at 8am with a multifarious sky: glassy, flossy and hazy in parts with a pink strip on the horizon. Almost continual cloud cover for the rest of the afternoon with temperatures rising to 55F.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.20am
Daily Catskills: 11/04/14
A balmy 48F at 7.30am with the usual blanket of rolling metallic grey cloud darkening the mountains. Clouds reduced to hazy strips of gossamer by mid-afternoon with a high of 60F. Update: a balmy 58F evening followed, with clear skies and a bright, waxing gibbous moon.
Daily Catskills: 11/03/14
36F at 7am rising to 50F by 1pm, a quick rise in temperature that melted the rest of the snow. Clear and sunny skies with occasional scudding cloud.
© J.N. Urbanski 1.21pm
Daily Catskills: 11/02/14
A frigid 30F at 9.30am with a crunchy topping of overnight snow on the ground and in the treetops of the highest peaks, like Belleayre and Peekamoose, that still lingered in shaded areas by the afternoon. 35F at midday with bracing wind and cloud cover rolling through quickly with bursts of sunshine. Update: cloud cover rolled away completely to reveal briliantly clear skies until dusk.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.02pm
Daily Catskills: 11/01/14
A grey morning and a sullen grey day, with not a scrap of sky to be seen. 40F at midday. The outside world might have stopped for all we know. There would be an eery stillness in the air, if it wasn’t for a light breeze that moves the branches gently and chases the odd leaf here and there. An endless-cups-of-tea kind of day. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starts today: 1666 words by midnight. Update: Light snowfall began late in the evening.
Daily Catskills: 10/31/14
An enigmatic dawn for Halloween: Jack Frost paid an overnight visit, glazing every blade, leaf and branch with a icy mantle of ghostly grey that receded quickly in the rising sun. Bright, clear skies and warm in the sun at 40F at 9am with only wispy, trailing clouds and the usual thick mountain mist dissipating into the valleys. Update: 50F in the valleys by 1.30pm. A bright, crisp autumnal day with high, thin layer of cloud cover.
© J.N. Urbanski 9am
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Daily Catskills: 10/30/14
Very fast-moving and multifarious cloud cover rolled through like aerial tides pulling hues of wispy white, dark blue, metallic grey and then, a few minutes of clarity burned through by the rising sun. A morning light show. A chilly 51F at 8.30am. Cloud cover for most of the afternoon with some rain mid-afternoon.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.35am
Daily Catskills: 10/29/14
Overnight rain continued into the morning with a warm, humid 52F by 8.30 and rising very quickly to 58F at 9.30am with rolling clouds. Mountains shrouded in mist and cloud. One of the those days where you have to switch on a lamp or two at 10am as the rain beats down. Rain had subsided by 2.30pm with the temperature back down to the 48F as the mist rolled off the mountains.
© J.N. Urbanski 9.15am
Daily Catskills: 10/28/14
The thermometer reached 50F by 8.40am: a warm and pleasant morning with hues of pink and orange coming over the mountains with the rising sun. High temperatures predicted for this afternoon. Update: it was t-shirt warm at 70F by 2.30pm with hazy cloudy sunshine. As the sun set, it pulled ribbons of bright pink across the sky and it was still 62F at 7.30pm. The day ended as it had begun, with a minor light show.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.32am
© J.N. Urbanski 2pm
Daily Catskills: 10/27/14
40F at 7.30am with a dull but distinct chill in the still air, rising to 58F by 11.30am. Clear and sunny, and an ever-so-slight breeze, with passing clouds by midday.
© J.N. Urbanski 8.05am
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Daily Catskills: 10/26/14
Torrential rain and fierce thunder storms which lit up the mountains during the night had waned to a light drizzle by morning which saw 42F at 10am and a biting wind. 44F at 1.30pm with hardly any wind but continual rain and overcast by 1.30pm. Only the stubborn, red and yellow hangers-on nestled in the vast brush don’t realize it’s winter now. A layer of mist had settled over the mountains at 4.30pm.
© J.N. Urbanski 12.46pm
Daily Catskills: 10/25/14
50F at 9am with the usual hovering mist in the valleys being slowly burned off by the brilliant sunshine. It turned out to be a bright day, no gloom to be found anywhere. A balmy 58F and warm in the sunshine by 4pm with the occasional passing armada of scudding clouds.
© Michael Urbanski 9am
Daily Catskills: 10/24/14
The weather is going through its BBC Period Drama phase: mist stealing through the morning gloom; the gusty air spritzing your face with freezing rain; humidity turning your climate-controlled hair into corkscrew ringlets. 42F at 9am, rising to 50F mid-afternoon with a significant brightening. The rain abated for most of the day.
© J.N. Urbanski 2.42pm
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© Michael Urbanski – Dusk