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Daily Catskills: 10/05/23

Another sweltering July day in October: a high of 86F with gauzy cloud and leaves flying in the wind like confetti.

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Daily Catskills: 09/28/23

Another crisp morning under a big dome of pale blue with cloud moving in early afternoon. Humid with a high of 68F. Fall colors are muted by the cloud.

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Daily Catskills: 09/27/23

A clear, still morning with fog in the valleys. Mostly clear sky all day, and a giant moon. A high of 62F.

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Daily Catskills: 09/24/23

Another chilly, wet day with cold rain, and foggy mist obscuring the yellowing of the foliage. A high of 58F.

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Daily Catskills: 09/22/23

A bright day with cloud like a thin veil, and one big fluffy cloud that looked lost. A high of 69F and another fiery sunset. The last day of summer.

Daily Catskills: 09/21/23

A chilly sunrise with overnight frost whitening the flora, and steaming mist rising into a crystal clear sky. A crisp day, with a high of 69F and the landscape looking like it’s slowly being sanded down. This is the penultimate day of summer.

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Daily Catskills: 09/20/23

Warm and sunny, with wispy bits of cloud like someone didn’t clean up the sky properly and a high of 70F. Overnight lows dipping into the thirties. Frost warning.

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Daily Catskills: 09/16/23

Warm and sunny, mostly clear with a high of 71F.

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Daily Catskills: 05/21/21

A bright morning warming up to a sweltering high of 87F, well, sweltering for this time of year. Bees doing their first swarm of the season (the dark mass at top right).

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The Upstate Dispatch You Tube Channel: Laura Silverman of The Outside Institute

It’s always a joy to interview Laura Silverman, founding naturalist of The Outside Institute. We caught up with her just before the holidays to see how she had spent her quarantine, what she was working on, and her thoughts on the pandemic and beating the blues by getting back into nature.