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I'm actually curious to see how much the river here will rise compared to a similar amount of rain in a typical season. In the spring, an inch of rain makes it rise as much as 2 feet and sometimes more. Now the ground is very dry and wetlands are low, so I imagine it will take a lot more rain to result in a similar increase.

Might as well add the euro too. Last year at this point I was mourning summer, which I felt like it had just started. This year I am ready.

Speaking of bulls eyes, is it time to start posting the clown maps?

You're a bit North of the bulls eye on that but a good soaker nevertheless. I'm actually hoping it doesn't go overboard with rain. Last time we had a "drought" here it ended in the October 30 storm which dropped 6-7" of rain in one night and flooded us badly. And speaking of bulls eye, I struggled with figuring out my location on these maps at first but it's actually easy. Bretton Woods is right on the line between coos and grafton counties, just above the phallic thing that Carroll County points right at us through Crawford Notch. So you're just a bit North of it.

Fall never ceases to amaze me. And pictures don't show it at all!

We are pretty much sold out the next 3 weekends. There's going to be some very disappointed people

Gondola is finally open! The new restaurant up top is sweet

I agree. Everyone wants peak, and I always the 10 days or so before peak to be the best. Once everything is orange/red you lose the stark contrast.

We actually had a shower earlier today. Dropped a whopping 0.01

It’s getting quite beautiful around here

21.6 this morning - lowest so far this season

Already down to 30 here. Another cold night. My greenhouse is still going but it's getting close. 33 for a low in there. Pretty sad that the peppers in it haven't even started ripening yet and they're already fighting for the life!

Taken today

That's too cold Agree!

23.2

We heat

29. Yuck

32. It's going to be quite a few hours below freezing tonight. Not that it matters, plants are dead

I'm not disagreeing. But my post was started by your comment that the trees in my pictures looked "drought." I don't dispute that trees in Southern areas may be stressed. What I was saying is that I don't think they are up here, and therefore disagree that those trees looked droughty. They look like pretty typical early foliage trees.

39. It's frigging freezing, Mr Bigelsworth!

We had about 10" or so. The last 2 weeks have really been the only really dry stretch (0.25"). Below average for sure, but not like it hasn't rained in months!

1. WTF is mental loss 2. You will notice it says "parts of the Northeast". This isn't one of them. Sure, top soil is dry. But there's plenty of water around. There is still water in the wetland and vernal pools around my property. It's not the Sahara you imagine

The whole "foliage is bad because of drought" seems ridiculous to me. We've had about 2.5" of rain in the past month. Sure, only 1/4" in the past 2 weeks, but tree roots are not 10" deep. Even my grass is still doing fine and I don't have a sprinkler system. If grass can be green, I doubt trees are suffering that much.

Huh?