Two sources is better than one! DT is not perfect, but generally pretty accurate.
With “cold” this early & potentially early frosts, it sounds like a long, cold winter ahead. Where I am now (as opposed to a year ago), fall is about a month earlier, spring about a month later. This past spring, I was really frustrated thinking it was getting so ‘late’ for putting out plants when it was pretty normal for around here ... mountains make a difference! :-)
Here’s Ryan Halls forecast and as a meteorologist myself, I agree he has good reasons to come to the conclusions he has.
This Winter Is Looking VERY Weird...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYSdYFyMrw
Sems like the severity of the winter depends some on your location. His forecast for the NE is mild first half and then VERY cold and slammed by fast moving nor’easters. Now, the nor’easters aren’t that much of a problem if there’s time and milder weather between them for the snow to melt.
This doesn’t look to be the option.
I’m suspecting mr. mm and I are going to have to go sparingly on the wood for the first part of fall, and save it for the colder weather that probably will include power outages.
We had the best intentions of harvesting trees to season for the next winter but due to a lot of circumstances beyond our control, mostly health things that have taken far longer to resolve than we wanted, we did not get done nearly what we wanted.
We’re likely going to be asking some of the men at church for help on a work day to take down some trees and get them pieces at least to the wood shed. We do have a professional logger at church, and others can help with cutting up the downed trees and transporting the pieces to the wood shed. Splitting them can maybe wait a bit.