"The Turn"

[S_jenks]

The 'turn' is when we get that first real pattern change in the climate, and for me it was always the storm that breaks the back of summer.

Temps can rebound all they want at that point, but it puts the summer weather on notice.

[JaytaeMoney]

You all should read the OP of this thread, it wasn't about when the leaves change or the first snow. When people bump this thread in July it's silly but around mid August you can feel a noticeable change in many ways especially if you live in the high country.

[chicken feathers]

Dammit! We go through this every year.

Bunch of morans

[rod9301]

For sure it's turning. The chipmunks are already collecting pine nuts and i see a lot of cores on the ground.
Nevada City, ca

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[byates1]

There will be a photo of someone blasting pow at Silverton in 3 weeks.

[PB]

Silverton: code for grass and twigs

[Brock Landers]

Mid 50s Sunday night on the Cape. Sunrise close to 6am. Peanut bunker have left the estuaries. It’s turning.

[PB]

The weather varies way too much from location to location, day to day; the only thing I feel comfortable with calling "the turn" is the change in light in mid/late August, when it becomes golden and honey soft in the evening. After that, it's pretty much waiting for the next Turn, which is an actual turn on snow.

[XXX-er]

around here if it gets really hot & dry in august the trees will lose their leaves and needles

[SILENCER]

Arguing specifics about when exactly the turn is allowed to happen makes me chuckle. This place is built on a temple of pure stoke. If someone runs through their lawn sprinkler on a hot day in August and gets a turn-like-chill, and it gets us stoked talking about ski season....WIN!

[zion zig zag]

My wife is wrapped in a blanket, turned on the gas logs and started complaining about winter. Pretty sure thats the turn.

[BCMtnHound]

Pretty much. As far as I’m concerned, given the fires and smoke, the cold wet and dark can’t come soon enough.

[interloper]

The herd is shedding to start their Winter coat.

[ISL]

Been feeling it for a couple of weeks now in Washington. Cooler nights, shorter days. Summer still has legs, but we're past the first Turn.

[gaijin]

JP is in its prime of summer. Cicadas chirping, obon season— which is basically summer vacation for the whole country. Beach season. Mountain lodge season. Three showers a day season.

We soak in the humidity of insanely high temps and high humidity from the typhoons lingering off the coast.

The Turn… is when the bugs go quiet. That’s when we realize summer is over.

But today it’s baseball tournament season, salads for dinner, carnitas for tacos tomorrow. Probably gonna smoke three days worth of food tomorrow. And then spend three days just vegging in the AC between pre-sunrise road trips to the beach and sunsets up high from the peaks.

We are in the soul of summer… at least until the bugs stop singing around mid September.

[Buzzworthy]

Moving my kid into her college apartment and I’m not dripping sweat off my nose in the middle of the afternoon. We’re getting somewhere, gimme some more baby.

[byates1]

Felt, the feeling not the fabric.

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[pfluffenmeister]

Felt, the feeling not the fabric.

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Felt feels good.
Felt felt good.

[liv2ski]

Must be nice. In So Cal the turn is October. Which is glorious as is November. We call it locals summer. Really nice out, the tourist are gone and the surf picks up. Such a great time to be here.

[byates1]

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[EWG]

Which turn?

When Xover made this thread I figured he was actually talking about getting older, but the board just immediately warped into meaning the coming of the new ski season.

So if we are talking about the colder season coming, there are two turns:
- The first is when the summer starts getting cooler at night, and while it's still summer, it's clear it's on the second half.
- The second is when it turns from summer to fall.

And most of our arguments here are about which definition should be used.


The answer is the second one, ya dumbasses.

[byates1]

Dust incoming. Snow levels 8k this weekend

[GoldMember]

I could definitely feel the difference today. We're on the edge of the turn. Cooler, high in the seventies, cool breeze with the feeling of Fall in the air.... Yep, it's starting.

[365wp]

When Xover made this thread I figured he was actually talking about getting older

I can dig it.

Seeing the first leaves change color at the end of July this summer was kind of a shock, a reminder that our time here is fleeting, and not unlike the feels I've been having as I near the five zero marker in life.

[Stuntmonkey]

I could definitely feel the difference today. We're on the edge of the turn. Cooler, high in the seventies, cool breeze with the feeling of Fall in the air.... Yep, it's starting.

Same here. Nice and cool mornings, evenings becoming brisk. This is my favourite time of year outside a powder day.