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I have been thinking about friends up Erie way and counting my blessings that I do not have to live with the vagaries of lake effect snow. We have members flung far and wide across the US and Canada. What are the seasons and climate like in your area?
Location. Maryland, near the Mason-Dixon Line, equidistant between Baltimore and York PA. We do get all four seasons in distinctive flavors.
Spring seems to come earlier every year, with confused trees and flowers budding out inappropriately early. But spring is typically a decent padding weather hereabouts, a fine time to be out on the water when everything is calling, singing and croaking for, well. . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=mem...hXqSN8KHSIgAh8Q9QEIKzAA#imgrc=ePHLLIwf9v_IPM:
Summer. Comes in like a lamb, leaves like a lion. Can stay a while too, even early October can be sweltering. August and September are often oppressively hot and humid. A degraded hurricane or tropical storm occasionally comes near, but the clear blue skies and abundant water after they pass is a special time in its own right. Expect to sweat in a mid-Atlantic summer.
Fall. Beautiful, especially with the riparian valley hardwoods turning color. Some of my favorite river trips have been on windy days when the leaves were ready to drop at the next breeze, paddling in an absurd blizzard of falling foliage. It does not get any better. November is also historically our rainiest month, so there is a chance to catch smaller creeks up and running.
Winter. That is a different mixed bag, especially hereabouts. Winter can produce 50F sunny Indian Summer Days. Or it can be in the teens or, rarely, the single digits. The tidal waters at least usually stay open, except for prolonged spells of the latter.
It may, rarely, blizzard and snow 3 feet. And sometimes do it again a week later and drop another foot or more. But more often it is a fugly mix, sometimes all within the same week, of snow, near snowmelt temps, then sleet and freezing rain, then some more near melt and refreeze, followed by some other form of frozen pluvial deposit, encasing everything in a crusty icy coating that lasts for weeks.
This area has its own peculiar micro climate. The notorious Hereford Zone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_Zone,_Maryland
Living in The Zone has challenges, but the benefits outweigh the demerits. I will grant Maryland this, it an easy 8 hours to the Adirondacks, and 8 hours to the Carolinas, easy excepting the Washington DC exurbs.
What is your seasonal weather like?
And where the heck is Steve in Idaho? I seem to recall that he lives in some clement valley pocket that somehow escapes the worst of Idaho winters.
Location. Maryland, near the Mason-Dixon Line, equidistant between Baltimore and York PA. We do get all four seasons in distinctive flavors.
Spring seems to come earlier every year, with confused trees and flowers budding out inappropriately early. But spring is typically a decent padding weather hereabouts, a fine time to be out on the water when everything is calling, singing and croaking for, well. . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=mem...hXqSN8KHSIgAh8Q9QEIKzAA#imgrc=ePHLLIwf9v_IPM:
Summer. Comes in like a lamb, leaves like a lion. Can stay a while too, even early October can be sweltering. August and September are often oppressively hot and humid. A degraded hurricane or tropical storm occasionally comes near, but the clear blue skies and abundant water after they pass is a special time in its own right. Expect to sweat in a mid-Atlantic summer.
Fall. Beautiful, especially with the riparian valley hardwoods turning color. Some of my favorite river trips have been on windy days when the leaves were ready to drop at the next breeze, paddling in an absurd blizzard of falling foliage. It does not get any better. November is also historically our rainiest month, so there is a chance to catch smaller creeks up and running.
Winter. That is a different mixed bag, especially hereabouts. Winter can produce 50F sunny Indian Summer Days. Or it can be in the teens or, rarely, the single digits. The tidal waters at least usually stay open, except for prolonged spells of the latter.
It may, rarely, blizzard and snow 3 feet. And sometimes do it again a week later and drop another foot or more. But more often it is a fugly mix, sometimes all within the same week, of snow, near snowmelt temps, then sleet and freezing rain, then some more near melt and refreeze, followed by some other form of frozen pluvial deposit, encasing everything in a crusty icy coating that lasts for weeks.
This area has its own peculiar micro climate. The notorious Hereford Zone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hereford_Zone,_Maryland
Living in The Zone has challenges, but the benefits outweigh the demerits. I will grant Maryland this, it an easy 8 hours to the Adirondacks, and 8 hours to the Carolinas, easy excepting the Washington DC exurbs.
What is your seasonal weather like?
And where the heck is Steve in Idaho? I seem to recall that he lives in some clement valley pocket that somehow escapes the worst of Idaho winters.
