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Driest it's been all summer around here oddly enough.

So we're not getting a hurricane this weekend?

I'm not buying that study from a bunch of economists.

We take: September around here used to be more of a transitional month into fall. It often would start on a warm note, but then turn fairly cool. Increasingly, the month is more like a fourth month of summer with many days well into the 70s and 80s. The nights are also a lot warmer than 30 or 40 years ago. Since 1872, if you look at the top 20 Septembers you will find 10 of them in the past two decades. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/07/metro/keep-your-ac-unit-out-summer-isnt-over-yet/

Or Birch

Didn't know there were any trees left in Connecticut? Thought the moths got 'em all...

“Current conditions are setting the stage for an earlier start to the fall foliage season, with ‘peak color’ happening not all at once, but lasting several weeks in parts of the state,” said Chris Martin, Connecticut state forester.

Yeah too bad it wasn't hot and sticky.

64/61 not a cloud in the sky. Going to be a beauty.

Not a big Aerosmith fan but that's a good one.

Should help with the drought. mushrooms. In forests across the world, Earth’s decomposers are helping seed clouds and promote rainstorms.that’s the conclusion of a study published this week in PLOS ONE, which adds a fascinating layer of nuance to the connection between fungi and rainstorms. Rain, as we know, stimulates mushroom growth, eventually leading to fully-fruited mushrooms that release spores. Once airborne, these spores, much like salt and dust particles, can act as cloud condensation nuclei — surfaces on which water vapor condenses, eventually forming rain. “We can watch big water droplets grow as vapor condenses on [the mushroom spore’s] surface,” study co-author Nicholas Money of Miami University told Discovery News. “Nothing else works like this in nature.” https://gizmodo.com/the-way-that-mushrooms-bring-the-rain-will-astound-you-1739453857

Fruit withering on the vine...

Trails have turned to nothing but dust.

With all this drought rain the mushrooms are going nuts.

For sure

Tolland Connecticut had more than that in the past month alone. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCTTOLLA31/graph/2020-08-31/2020-08-31/monthly

They wouldn't listen.

Looks like a beauty Clark.

.50 of slow soak from yesterday and this morning.

72 and still raining.

August itself was hot, but not exceedingly dry. We have certainly had drier Augusts in the past. While both Boston and Worcester ended up hotter than average, Worcester actually had more rain than is typical in the eighth month of the year.

Ugh no more rain please. Not what we need after a rainy August.

A couple pics from today. The flyers are loading up for the journey south. Summer's holding on by a thread...

Torch!

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