The Morning Blog 09.27.23
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Good morning! Didn’t want you to think I totally forgot about Upstate Snow. I didn’t. Just taking advantage of these longer fall days and approaching peak foliage in the Adirondacks and Catskills to set me into a better mood. Over the next 1-2 weeks: There is not anything happening. Unless you like warm weather. Going
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The Morning Blog – September 19, 2023
Monday, 18 September 2023
My name is Rich Lupia. I have been a snowmobile rider for a long time, for many years. I have also been leader of this patchwork known as Upstate Snow, one of the top leadership posts on Facebook and on Social Media since 2012. I have at my hand as of right now over 15K
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The Morning Blog – October 25, 2022
Monday, 24 October 2022
If you are looking for early season snowfall, you ain’t gonna find it here. At least not yet. As a gentle reminder, we still have several weeks to go before we get to serious snows of several inches to a few feet. But we are not as far away as you think. Above normal temperatures
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I’m back!
Thursday, 20 October 2022
It’s October 20th, 2022. The leaves are falling. The snow is not that far behind. It’s time to hit the trails and start asking what the heck is going on! First of all, I’m over 9 weeks from a major hemmoraganic stroke that nearly killed me on August 16, 2022. I also nearly died again
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The “Official” Winter Weather Forecast
Thursday, 04 August 2022
OK OK after all these folks put out their winter weather outlooks, I figured it was time to do my own! Please enjoy! HAHA! OK, seriously… this is a joking outlook. It’s August. There is NO scientific basis to predict with any accuracy what’s ahead 180+ days from now. The accuracy is very limited going
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The Morning Blog 04.22.22
Friday, 22 April 2022
Three full days after the biggest Nor’easter so late in the season, we still have as of this writing over 14K folks without power. That number was pushing 200K at its peak. This has turned out to be one of the biggest power outages in the state since the Labor Day Storm of 1998 with
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The Evening Blog 04.18.22 – HUGE late season Nor’easter
Monday, 18 April 2022
This is a big one. This will be one of the bigger late season snowstorms that starts in just a few hours, hits hard all Monday night and into Tuesday morning with lingering snow showers and lake effect during the midday and afternoon on Tuesday. This will accumulate, even in the lower elevations, substantially, enough
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The Easter Blog 04.16.22
Saturday, 16 April 2022
It’s Saturday afternoon 440 PM live from Barneveld NY as I’m writing this blog. It’s 37 and cloudy. It has rained all day. After leaving sun and 80 in Greenville, SC 48 hours ago, this is bull. We have had accumulations of snow at and above 1500′ on the Tug Hill and in the Adirondacks
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