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sitting in dining room with a fleece on, 65 inside the house and outside too. It feels colder somehow

Isn't that how hot dogs usually smell?

not a bad summary of reports here https://www.wcax.com/2026/07/15/tuesday-nights-storm-damage-reports/

Humans survived the Cubs and the Red Sox both winning the Series. We will be ok (unless Cleveland wins it)

Nice MCS coming into Maine and NNH to start the morning.

Except that they did improve some of the area in NY and CT by one grade to reflect the rain. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast Change map shows this plus the improvement in Maine on in RI

Fuzzy Anvils= great name for a punk polka band 69f here

Pulled it back up, triple staked it and got it firmed in. Other than one small broken twig, it looked okay and roots looked fine.

3 closest Wunderground stations range from .83 to 1.38 on the day, closest is at 1.03, each had about .2 prior to midnight last evening.

I guess this apple tree is too young to have unstaked.

https://www.wcax.com/2026/06/18/possible-tornado-tears-through-woodstock/ NWS team to investigate Woodstock tomorrow.

We ended up with a inch to 1 1/2. A station a few miles from me reported about 3.5. They got just shy of 3 inches in the first round which really had the stream up on the side of 132 as I drove home.

This ended up knocking out our power for 3 to 4 hours last evening. We got about 3/4 inch of welcomed rain and constant thunder for about 45 minutes. It passed just to our north so nothing too strong. Some good gusts.

We had a couple of rounds of graupel late morning while I was doing work outside

Snow has stopped here and the skies have brightened. The evergreens are lightly covered with snow as if in a painting by Bob Ross.