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Very Florida like with the afternoon pop up thunderstorms past few days.

I may have done poorly to supplement calcium, and compensate for the dryness. Or more likely my tomatoes getting a late start really hurt bc the blossoming coincided with the worst of the heat/drought. You’re doing much better than most. https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/08/03/homestead/maine-tomatoes-are-rotting-on-the-vine-n6hjn1me0n/

Monday looks like the worst heat yet. I’m seeing widespread dews 73-75, while 850’s are cooked. Looks like a heat index 105+ kinda day. Joy.

Don’t like this at all. It’s good for the pool, and parking your beach chair right where the water meets the sand. Other than that, it might as well be raining. We’re losing more nice weather days during summer bc of this.

Yea I’ve been watering every day just about since June. 30 vegetables plants. Really appreciate how much water they need for yield. I thought having the heat back loaded vs front would be much better for production, but even my tomatoes and peppers, which love high heat have been struggling with producing good fruit. Despite frequent watering, Blossom end rot got about 1/3 my early tomatoes. Learn something new every year.

First real Bermuda high this summer and guidance selling a back door.

Dews are cranking into early next week. This looks the worst stretch of heat yet.

Watch Monday and Tuesday end up hottest of the season ex Maine and northern NH.

Bro. Grab a thermometer and take short drive to DAW. You can leave the chickens for an hr. They’ll be alright.

Would be the first door since early June? And we still haven’t experienced a pattern flip. Let’s see… Early August climo ++ SST anomalies in GOM Weak signal cooked soil temps Sell.

You guys are getting baited by the GFS on this BD. The GEFS shows a very weak signal until you get into Maine. And the last run was less a signal than the previous. The EPS is showing a torch, Region-wide. SELL. If you want to hedge, go Winne—north and east. The WAR is flexing. I believe Tuesday ends up another 95+er, my back yard included.

Aiming for legit desert climate to New England before it breaks I guess. It's been boring, might as well get something "extreme". I guess.

Outside of Maine, and Winne North, I say sell the BD. Looks like 90+ every day here through at least Tues. Brutal. Not even my hot weather plants like this shit.

I believe the persistence long term trend in the northeast has been more of an east vs. west rather than north vs south. Worst conditions, east. Last year Maine was hardest hit, percentage wise.

Data Tables | U.S. Drought Monitor (unl.edu) Last year peaked at 4% of NH in Severe. There were water restrictions in Dover last year. 2021-07-20 47.51 52.49 19.94 3.03 0.00 0.00 75 2021-07-13 39.98 60.02 30.58 3.92 0.00 0.00 95 2021-07-06 10.39 89.61 57.07 3.93 0.00 0.00 151 2021-06-29 9.75 90.25 58.47 3.93 0.00 0.00 153

Pretty sure this is the 3rd consecutive summer I've hit severe drought conditions. Maybe 4th.

We severe. Drought. Drought. Let it all out. These are the things I can do without. C’mon. https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?Northeast

Right. “Before” as in last week, and the week before that and the week before that…

Said like a real politician

Barring tropical threats, this upcoming H5 pattern looks like the warmest and driest yet. Really hoping to score a t-storm or two before this locks in. Looks like our best chance at drought ending rains will be all at once (be careful what you wish for), bc baroclincity will be confined to Canada.

Usually the yin and yang of anomalies is visible by just zooming out to the CONUS—east vs west, north vs south. But it appears the whole of the Western Hemisphere is significantly drier than normal, and has been this way for a few months. Hell, we here in New England have managed severe drought conditions with persistent eastern CONUS UL troughing.

I’ve had a lot of success growing fruit/vegetables in drought. Sunlight difficult/expensive to harvest. Easy to collect enough rain water through persistent moderate to severe drought conditions once you have a system setup. My yields would be a lot lower with excess rain in summer, no doubt…

60+ dews throughout. And ~65 as a mean throughout the 6 day stretch. This wasn’t a dry heat. Period. Not my opinion either—the dews were *additive* to the Heat Index. So this idea of a dry heat is a non-starter. 55 or less sure. Otherwise it’s a tenuous point, objectively and subjectively.

DAW 6 day stretch. 95, 95, 95, 93, 96, 99

You live close enough. Go take a drive and a reliable thermometer. We are cooked.