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I'd say they've been here 3 years. It's not quite as bad this year as the first real year but I don't bother killing them anymore. The bats eat them which is maybe why the #'s seem a bit less this year.

Highs will again reach the upper 70s and lower 80s tomorrow. It could turn somewhat warmer on Tuesday with the temperature topping out in the middle 80s. Showers and thundershowers are possible Tuesday night and Wednesday. The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +4.0°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was +2.6°C for the week centered around August 19. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +3.87°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged +2.43°C. The ongoing strong El Niño, which has reached super El Niño threshold, will continue to strengthen through the summer. The SOI was -1.94 today. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +0.501 today. Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied near 92% probability that New York City will have a cooler than normal August (1991-2020 normal). August will likely finish with a mean temperature near 75.9° (0.2° below normal). Supplemental Information: The projected mean would be 0.7° above the 1981-2010 normal monthly value.

I don’t know, I think Tuesday and then Thursday could produce in some areas. Thursday may be best chance further east? But good trajectory especially on NAM. Good 850 theta e advection in Nam.

This one has legs

Why?

That spring and summer climate is generally brutal . Ocean temps prohibit swimming and now it’s a huge drought area

They must have just crossed over the Quinnipiac River/New Haven. Only saw them out your way in Milford, Orange, West Haven prior to seeing them here this summer.

I don't go out of my way to kill them but I just probably mowed over dozens of them cutting the grass. I have battled many invasive insects but the shear number of these fuckers is astounding. I have also been reading they are drastically changing the taste of the local honey.

Yup wrong

Low of 54F. Back broken!

Now we are like “it got into the 40s for 7 hours!”

Sorghum is supposed to be drought- and heat-tolerant, the fact that it’s down 24% this year in France is alarming. Hopefully there are more heat-tolerant strains available that they haven’t tried there yet.

They are everywhere here and have been for a couple of years now.

CON’s earliest freeze on record was 32° at midnight. It fell to 29° by morning for their all-time August record. 7+ hours at or below freezing in August…brutal.

Pit2 is about 33 miles NE from PWM and 15 miles up the Kennebec estuary, which is mostly fresh water that far up - only when all the rivers feeding Merrymeeting Bay are very low does muc salt gets there. PWM is 2 miles from Casco Bay, and its 1991-2020 norm is 69". 2001-30 so far is 65", both close to ORH. Pit2 probably gets 5-10" more than the Jetport, though I'm not sure it beats ORH for retention.

Cant trust long or even mid term heck even short term models given their failure the last 6 weeks

We need a nice rex block

With no weather ever happening , facing a snowless winter, I need something to damage something

It SEEMS (and I hope) that starting Friday we enter a nice late summer pattern featuring upper 70's and low 80's with fair weather.

Perfectly stated. Ive noticed its very common with some to make winters of yesterday seem harsher than they were, winters of today seem less harsh than they are, and use all-time severe winters as baseline for "typical" cold. Its funny to see so much pushback by some in admitting last winter was cold. Mind you, this a winter expected to be very mild by these same folks. Since it was cold, all we hear is "it was record warm in the west" "this used to be the norm" (it did not) "it was colder in the 1970s" (who said it wasnt?) etc etc etc

Had a brief downpour around lunch. Ruined the chance to mow. Hoping tomorrow will be dry.

PWM touched 33 on August 31. Next coldest August temp is 38. MWN had a couple inches of snow.

Ditty purposely breeding gypsies and lantern flies in Tolland. We need to get him some of those hammerhead worms for his lawn.