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Had anaplasmosis in November 2022, wife thought I was having a stroke, vision was messed up, 10 days of doxy did its work. Mot trying to lower the danger, but I've found that ticks seem less prevalent here during the 2nd half of met summer. Whether they estivate then to avoid the heat, or some other phenomenon, they seem to disappear then.

I'm happy for the unexpected 0.42" last night. That modest addition more than tripled July precip.

Our Lab mix, a rescue from TX who arrived on Feb 4, 2017, turned 10 yesterday. Her build, toe webs, inner hair, form says nearly all yellow Lab, but the DNA results had about 1/8 Lab plus a number of quite different breeds, so I wouldn't put a lot of weight on the test. "Retriever" didn't come with this super-sweet critter, and she doesn't like the water. (Our black Lab of 2003-16 would be in the water, any time, any temp, any conditions.) When our current friend first arrived, she had a habit of needing outside time about 3 AM, which could be a chore in Feb/Mar, but quickly changed for the better. She was somewhat tolerant of thunder until March 26, 2021, when a bolt destroyed a large fir 55 yards from the house. Now she's terrified by the least rumble. (That strike also wrecked the underground connection between our 13kw generator and its dedicated panel, making it no longer "on demand". It also took out a wire between the DirecTV dish and our set.)

That's the difference between the forest at Central Park and all the pavement at EWR. For the period 2000 to now, NYC has recorded 6 triple-digit days but only 3 that were 101+. EWR has 34 triples peaking at 108 and with 21 days 101+.

Days with thunder have been gradually declining here in recent years. The running 10-year avg was 16.1 after 2017, down to 12.7 after last year. And 2024 was a good year with 16, best since 2017 and adding 0.3 to the avg. Thru June 30 we're 4 days behind last year (2 vs. 6), and nothing yet in July.

It's amazing this summer how easily 70+ dews can leave our area with little/no precip to show for the CFs.

All true. but . . . My impressions came from the PoP being 70%, forecast precip .10-.25 and .25-.50 depending on location plus each amount included "more in thunderstorms". Only 5 of the 102 cocorahs reports had more than 0.41" while the median report was 0.11".

AFDs will not infrequently add qualifiers like "heavy" or even "torrential" (have seen both from GYX). Also, crying "wolf!" too often can lead to complacency. GYX/CAR appropriately had both CWAs entirely in SVR-watches. There were several warned storms and a lot of fierce-looking radar. Only a handful if sites reported 1"", none over 1.5", and local cocorahs reports here were more like 0.12". The ingredients were there, the watches posted, but the system underperformed.

Not quite 50 but close enough - 7/31/76 was the date of the Big Thompson River (CO) flash flood that took 144 lives plus a handful of others never found. One hopes that disaster remains at the top (maybe "worst" more appropriate).

Lots of sites in the Northeast had their coldest August morning during the last few days of that month in 1965. Also, MWN had a couple inches of snow.

Mild TS finishing here, no strikes within ~4 miles, mostly light RA. Some 1" hail reported in N. Aroostook.

Snow season started great, with 8" paste T-Day night. The 9.3" fell on 12/4-5, bring the pack to 15", tops here for the date. Little did I know that the best was behind; that 4-5 event was the season's biggest and the remainder was mostly spent escaping from serious snowfalls. After the nice 6.3" fluff on 12/24, we had only one event greater than 4". No other winter here can claim that factiod.

We're already in trouble. But not because of a carpet of oak germinants - 99.9% will die due to insufficient sunlight.

Mature trees produce 100k's of seed in a good year. Only takes one making it into the main crown canopy to sustain the species.

About +1.35 here. We were +1.6 by 6/6 and the final 24 days were almost exactly average despite last week having days of +13, +12 and -13. Whipsawn

In a few hours this month will be only the third June out of 28 to have zero thunder - others were in 2007 and 2014. Also, this will be our only year in which the first half failed to produce a single calendar day with 1"+ precip. The year of small storms.

As long as the temps aren't heat-stroke threats. 59 years ago the 4th was a Monday and the 3-day period below shows the NYC-area highs: NYC: 100, 103, 98 EWR: 102, 105, 100 LGA: 101, 107, 99 Dews were about 70 so no TD records, just head-cracking heat.

Keep telling folks that, so they won't move here and turn it into Massachusetts.

QPF has slid from 1.5-2.0 down to 1.0-1.5, now 0.5-1.0. Last time I saw that kind of trend we had 0.01". Seems like once I put in the garden it stops raining (this year) or never stops (2023).

Low of 42 this morning, 52° lower than Tuesday's high. (And possibly the coolest until September.)

GYX precip map has us at 1.5-2", though the AFD is only 0.75-1.25". Either one would be welcomed, as we've had only 1/2" in the past 2.5 weeks and my current limited movement prevents watering. Forecast high for Saturday is 58, cool but nothing special.

AN, surprisingly. Average is 88.5" and 2022-23 had 101.2", jump-started by the 22" dump in mid December. Pack reached 36" after a 12.1" storm on March 4. 2023-24 was very different, well BN until we got 40.9" after the equinox, including another 22" storm on 3/23-24 then 13.9" in the April storm, for a total of 99". The big March storm had 6" fall from 9 to 10:30 PM, the heaviest rate I've recorded. Thanks to the warm temps, pack never got past 22" and SDDs were well below average. DJF temps in 2024-25 were 0.7° BN, coldest since 2018-19, but we never had any strong storms, no double-digit snows, and finished with 75.6".

Not VT and thoroughly unofficially, but our place in the western Maine foothills had its mildest DJF in 23-24, with 5.4° AN. The previous year was 2nd, only 0.2 less mild, with January at 9° AN.

Reached 94 yesterday, hottest I've had since July 4, 1983 in Fort Kent when it also was 94. Hottest in FK was 95 on May 27, 1978 and we also had 95 on July 8, 1973 at BGR. Of course, the big daddy was Hot Saturday when BGR hit 102, their hottest by 5°. (They hit 103 in the 1930s but I've no idea where the site was.) Monday's knee surgery went OK though the car was rather warm after sitting in the record heat yesterday for about 5 hours. Today's PT was an adventure, with the therapist saying he was taking things easy on me. Friday's session should be just peachy.

BGR reached 102, and even BHB had 100. We picked blueberries in Gouldsboro that morning until we couldn't stand the heat, then drove to Acadia and found a place to swim just south of Otter Cliffs. Only time I've encountered really warm seawater in Maine. That day in 1966 saw NYC at 103 and LGA at 107. I spent the day cooking dogs/burgers at a NNJ lake resort. The temp in the 5 feet between grill and serving counter might've been 140; the coil thermometer 10 feet away was well past the 120 mark.