[at-l] Weather Here (NNY above ADK Park)

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

After the longest summer on record (measured by last frost date to first 
frost date) we are poised to have one of the earliest winters. It's snowing 
here. Not sticking yet, but snowing none the less.

The Adirondacks and points South (as far as WV and NC from news reports) 
already have snow on the ground but we have a peculiar climate here. Many, 
perhaps most NorEasters slide up the coast and we are just far enough 
inland that we get only the edge of the storm or it misses us entirely. 
Last night areas just an hour South got up to a foot of snow and it's still 
snowing there.

Alberta clippers OTOH often turn NE down the St. Lawrence River thus 
sliding by us to the NW. The result is that our winters are highly 
variable. Given the price of fuel oil I'm praying for a mild one but the 
only long range prediction I'm willing to make about weather is that we 
will have some.