Its become evident over the past week the beating the trees are taking with the lack of rainfall and the heat, some trees turning early with faded colors and more and more yellow and brown leaves each day dropping.
I ran some numbers, looking at actual rainfall IMBY for met summer up to now (Jun 1-Aug 12) and it confirms this is the driest summer to date here:
2005: 5.79
2006: 10.39
2007: 13.06
2008: 8.49
2009: 18.26
2010: 9.91
2011: 14.65
2012: 10.08
2013: 21.34
2014: 7.61
2015: 9.42
2016: 11.62
2017: 10.26
2018: 14.21
2019: 8.41
2020: 8.28
2021: 9.99
2022: 4.39
I had to weed whack for about 5 minutes, twice since I last mowed on 7/4. Will still be at least another week before I'll need to mow, if then. Incredible.
My Old Man used to tell a story about a forest fire up in New Hampshire when he was a vollie up there how one of the Indian tanks carried a precious cargo…let’s just say the water was frozen in the form of ice cubes and I’m sure you can figure out the rest…
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/06/nyregion/ground-fires-scorch-acres-of-the-hudson-highlands.html
Mt Beacon burned bad in 1993, somewhere I have VHS footage of it from the Newburgh waterfront.
My longest streak of 90 or higher for the high temp is eight, set in 2013. Yesterday marked day six, will I tie that streak of eight tomorrow afternoon? Thankfully there is relief in sight this week regardless.