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And that day, 40/36, was 19° BN - it can happen; the 31st was 48/25, for 20° BN. Average for Oct. 29 is 57, about 67/47 for max/min. They've probably touched 90 sometime in early November.

Not that much wx info then, but those decades offered some of the best events of my experience. 1960-72 NNJ, 73-75 BGR 76-79 Fort Kent 1960-61: March blizzard, 3 big storms DJF with 62" total, near 4-foot pack, 12" paste 3/23, a few IP on 5/27 12/31/62: Temp 5/-8, gusts to 70, bare-limbed oaks ripped from frozen ground, plate glass windows smashed. 1966-67: 2 15" storms, 12/24 with thunder (did not believe until the 2nd boom) and 2/7 with S+ at 5°. 3" surprise on 4/27 1969: Mayor Lindsey storm 2/9, 18" - much fell while we drove 30 miles to home from scout camp. Dec 1970: 2nd biggest ice storm of my NJ years (but 100 times less damaging than Jan 1953) Dec 1973: 56 with RA+ at BGR, at same time ZR and 25 at NYC and 15 with IP at the NNJ place. Aug. 2, 1975: Hot Saturday - 100 at BHB next to the cold sea 1976: Jan 12: -41, welcome to Fort Kent Feb 2: Heavy rain, CAR bar. 957, 115 mph gust Stonington (Pen. Bay) and the south wind floods downtown BGR, 15 ft rise 15 minutes. temp at home 44 to -6 in 5 hours. Mar. 19-20: From -25 to 50 in 32 hr. May 7: 1.5" in 45 minutes, as I tilled the garden. Aug. 10: Remains of Belle, 6" RA, mostly 6-10 PM, major road/bridge damage, especially logging roads. Dec 26-30: Two storms total 36", burying our blue Beetle. We drove thru S+ from Kennebunk to Fort Kent, midnight to 8 AM on 29-30. Jan. 10, 1978: 40° at 10:30 PM, TS/hail and 24° at 10:45, 17° with SN by 11:30. 1979, Jan had 5 minima of 33-35, only >32s in our 10 Januarys. That month also had lows of -39, -42 and -47, 3 of our 5 coldest mornings. Feb. 10-17, 8 straight days with subzero maxima, with winds 20-35 and one day up to 25-50+ Oct. 23: Avg temp warmer than mid-July norm.

Hope so. Our 26-year average for August TS is 3.1, but we've had only a total of 5 in the past 4 years. September (avg 1.0) has had the same number.

Many years ago (1982) we spent the July 4th weekend at Allagash Bible Camp, next to the St. John River. We'd had a strong CF come thru on the 2nd (Friday) and both the 3rd and 4th would see temps climb to the 60s, then the cold aloft would trigger afternoon showers that chopped the temps into the 40s. Everyone was looking for extra blankets. At home, 350' higher elevation, the 4th had 65/33 for temps, and had we been there, I wouldn't have been surprised by some IP/slush in those showers. (We did see slush that summer, on August 28.)

The boletes are pretty distinctive. I've yet to find Boletus edulis, the best of that genus, but used to pick birch boletes when we lived up north. Haven't seen any on our woodlot. The one who told me about the boletes had a thick book on mushrooms, edible species, poisonous, non-poisonous (probably not tasty but non-toxic). His mushroom test (tongue firmly in cheek) was to take a bite, wait 20 minutes and if one feels dizzy, don't eat any more. He then noted that some of the most toxic ones don't produce symptoms for several hours, and the effects are irreversible.

The mid-60s drought was huge in SNE/MA. At Central Park, only a very wet November prevented 1963 being the driest since records began there in 1869, pushing it back to 3rd place (temporarily). 1964 did break the record and 1965 had 6" less than '64. 1966 was tracking very close to '65 thru August - it's still NYC's driest met summer and 2nd only to 2010 for hottest. Then 4-6" fell on 9/21/66; one storm doesn't end a multi-year drought, of course, but from then on, we had normal to AN precip. The city's water managers breathed sighs of relief, as their massive reservoir system was down to a couple weeks' supply. In 1965, six states recorded their driest year, the 3 SNE states plus NJ, PA, DE. NY missed, as its Southern Tier counties' climo is considerably drier than the rest of the state, and its driest is in that region.

Even when they don't spring. While gathering firewood west of Allagash Village, I encountered a horizontal sapling springpole (1-1.5" dia.) that blocked my access to a nice pole-size beech that had been bulldozed over during road building. I carefully cut the sapling from above (wrong way, but Game of Logging was yet to be developed) but it only "sprang" a couple inches and would swing like a turnstile. I bucked the tree and began tossing 4-foot pieces over the sapling and toward the pickup. The last piece was 5 feet, and at the but end, probably near 100 lb. As I tossed it forward, the far end caught the sapling, and at the end of my throw the strongly deflected "turnstile" slipped over the log and caught me squarely on the forehead. When the stars finally stopped circling, I realized how fortunate I had been - a hit that powerful anywhere on my head but where it struck would've been very destructive, possibly fatal. We actually had some sun, first in 3 days. Some storms in the area, though they look to slide by to the north. Rain isn't needed right now, but I like a noisy TS. Other than Feb 10 (when I was trying to protect food platters we were loading into the car for a church supper, so distracted from enjoying the storm), we've not had even a moderate TS since June 2022.

Absolutely. Our landlord when we first moved to Fort Kent had a firewood business, among other interests, and some years after we'd moved to our first house, he was out alone working on wood. He had no memory of what happened, just that he awakened in great pain, while sitting on a stump. After walking out to his truck and driving to the hospital (needless to say, he was tough), doctors found 7 ribs broken, right close to the spine, along with some other trauma. Springpole to the back? He was unable to cut wood for a month or so, but I'm sure he continued shearing his Christmas trees!

Greenbriar is one plant that I've happily never seen in Maine, but we had impenetrable thickets of it in NNJ. I've donated enough blood to blackberry bushes in Maine, usually while surveying recent (<10 years old) harvests to check the status of regeneration. I assume you'll dump that little dead leaner before attacking the big dead tree.

In addition to greater variability, CC is higher dews/minima. Looking back 113 years to NNE's hottest run, most sites would drop into the 60s after their 100+ afternoons. For the hottest 9 days, July 3-11, Bridgton's avg temp was 99/67, Farmington 98/62, EEN 99/63, LEW 95/67. Only ASH (100/70) bucked that trend.

Surprising, since we reached 90 at our transpiration-cooled site last month, on the 19th, and narrowly missed our first double play in 22 years with 89 the next day.

-3.5 here yesterday, thanks to the first sub-70 max of the month. Five straight BN days have dropped the month average from +5.1 to +3.4. With next week's warmup, we may finish near +4, which would be our warmest July of 27 here.

Precip has been all over the place here during the period Novie to now: Month Avg 23-24 Departure (Boldface denotes a new record here. July record is 7.91"; I don't think we'll reach that.) NOV 4.21 2.63 -1.58 DEC 4.74 9.35 +4.61 JAN 3.31 5.47 +2.16 FEB 2.97 0.95 -2.02 MAR 3.68 8.67 +4.99 APR 4.09 3.51 -0.58 MAY 3.86 4.25 +0.39 JUN 5.15 5.74 +0.59 JUL 4.04 4.84 +0.80 as of 7 AM today. We might add another inch by Friday morning. Total: 36.05 45.41 +9.36

PWM had 100/76 that day, their warmest minimum on record and the daily mean tied Hot Saturday (103/73) for their hottest. Some thunder and RA+ between 4:30 and 5 this morning, spooking our dog and giving the garden 0.85". More to come though only DZ at present. Dews back up after yesterday's low of 45, the month's coolest. July is now AN for precip with 4.84" thru 7 this morning. 6 of the past 8 months have been AN with both Dec and March setting new marks for precip. Only Feb (driest of 26 - DJFM was a precip rollercoaster) and April were BN.

When we were responsible for mowing my maternal grandparents' 3/4-acre lawn, each mow would discover 2 or 3 nests. For ones close to the house, my dad's 'medicine' was to wait until full darkness, pour in a few oz gas, then toss in a match. One very well established nest still had a small flame flickering the next morning and the soil had collapsed as the interior yellowjacket-paper structure burned, leaving a hole bigger than a 20-gallon washtub. We have reached the peak. Happy slide down to winter day Same here - 76.7/55.5/66.1 today. However, my data is still "live", and adjusts automatically with each entry, as my numbers for here started 5/17/98 and there's a whole week with means within 0.15° of that peak. If I'm still recording when the 2001-2030 norms are put in place (would be about my 85th bd), I'd need to decide whether to lock in my 01-30 averages or continue the present practice. Probably easier to just keep using all the current formulas.