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August 2025: Avg max: 77.2 +2.4 Hottest: 92 on the 12th, hottest August day. The avg is 4th warmest. Avg min: 50.6 -2.4 Coolest: 38 on the 19th. The avg is 5th coolest. Mean: 63.9 +0.02 Precip: 1.32" -2.78 Wettest day: 0.47" on the 25th Met summer total: 5.29" -7.55" Previous low for met summer: 7.24" in 2002 August 2025 featured only our 3rd heat wave, with 91/92/91 on 11-13. (The others are 90/90/91 on August 13-15, 2002 and 91/91/90 on June 25-27, 2003.) It had the greatest available sunshine, 71%, of any month here. (July 2019 with 69% is now 2nd.) The month also was the first August here with no thunderstorms, and met summer had only 2. Next lowest is 5 in 2010. August 2025 also went against the tall minima that's been the usual in recent years, with the 2nd highest average diurnal range of 26.6°, 4.8° AN and tied for 2nd greatest after 1998's 27.8°.

At 3 PM, 36F, 39G47, vis. zero. Hope no climbers (also drivers and Cog passengers) were expecting a view. Just had a quick shower with some gusts into the 20s and temp dropped into the 50s. Had showers at midnight and 8 AM also, probably under 0.2" in total though the MTD is about 1.3".

Might reach 0.05". The many yellow-to-red patches danced around our place without ever getting here.

Since it hasn't begun raining here yet, we've had only the ditty's 2 days of rain this month, though not on consecutive days. Too young to have seen Johnny Sain pitch, but Spahn was a favorite with the big kick, deadly pick-off move and the best screwball since Carl Hubbell. His 16-inning duel with Juan Marichal at age-42 might be the best such game since the dead ball era.

When I was 10-11 yr old, I'd pull poison ivy vines off of trees and out of the ground as it had no effect on me. Then I read that one could suddenly become susceptible and decided to be a bit more careful. I got a very mild P.I. rash about a dozen years ago, but only after spending the morning pulling plants from the embankment behind the church parking lot - filled a 30-gallon garbage bag. Another crisp autumnal day that started in the 40s.

Rain! Had more than expected, with 0.47" just before sunset and another 0.27" between 10:30-11 PM. August total is now 1.02" and met summer 4.99". Driest met summer thru 2024 is 7.24" in 2002. That record is toast. (Max is 23.82" in 2009.)

Reported zero precip to cocorahs for the 24th time this month. We had 0.28" in about 30 minutes on the afternoon of the 17th and about 580 hours this month without a drop.

Maine public lands has had good results from seeding logyards and winter roads just before spring breakup. They can still get to the sites with the 4-wheelers with attached spreaders then and the catch has been satisfactory. Their seed mix isn't lawn grass; it's designed to limit erosion and provide food for wildlife.

And I thought 0.28" was bad. Driest month since moving here is 0.31" in April of 1999. I think Monday will allow that mark to stand. 2nd is January 2004 at 0.57" and that may be in play. 3rd is 0.84" in both November 2012 and September 2014. I think they'll be tied for 4th on 9/1.

Same here, but I think it's drought rather than coolness.

Same here. Usually, my site radiates better than yours - maybe a bit of breeze last evening here? Absolutely beautiful today, 73° when I got back from my knee-exercising walk at 3 PM, almost 3/4 mile - taking it bit by bit. Looked at what my new neighbors - 3 families, dad, 2 sons, families - have been doing this summer other than burning powder at the big (200' by 100') old logyard. Even at 800' thru the woods the noise is serious, though it's mainly 9 mm pistol. Only a few .223 cases and 12 ga. buckshot hulls, also 3 well shot-up pieces of plywood. Maybe they can push a deer to me while I'm sitting next the sled trail thru our woodlot this coming Nov.

Fake cold? We're good at that here.

In most years, our white birches start dropping leaves in mid-late August. Drought (1.82" July 1 on) has brought some leaves from other species. Our driest August is 0.88" in 2002 and we're 0.60" behind that. GYX discussions have .25-.50 Sunday/Monday then some dry days. Could be close.

When I caught that in November of 2022, my wife was convinced I was having a stroke. It messed up my vision as well. Fortunately, it was quickly diagnosed (Doc seeing another tick stuck to my back at the ER helped) and doxycycline knocked out the worst symptoms in 24 hours.

Through yesterday, August has offered 75% of available sunshine. Tops for a full month came in July 2019 with 69%. Some overnight downpours would make this month nearly perfect. 68/44 yesterday and 38 this morning, first sub-40 in August since 2020.

In the 40s this morning. First August rain (0.28") yesterday afternoon between 4:20 and 5. Enough breeze to bring down some early leaves but no thunder.

Met summer here is stuck at 3.93". Average thru August 16 is just over 11".

Meh here. Only 4 days with thunder and except one strike about 3 miles distant last May, nothing has come within 5 miles. Average here thru mid-August is 11 and lowest thru 8/31 is 8, in 2010 (also that year's total).

Nasty stuff. Pic below is from 3/27/21, a day after that 70-foot fir tree was blown apart, 55 yards from the house. In addition to traumatizing our yellow Lab mix (she was still shaking 45 minutes later), the strike ruined the connection between our generator and its dedicated panel. We only learned that in April when power went off. Genny started as usual but no transfer to the house. Technicians came and created a manual work-around (in rain turning to snow plus wind) so I could go down-cella, open the panel and flip the switch, until they could do a complete fix when the ground had thawed. Last winter the transfer again quit but I could do the manual switch; the tech came in the spring and had to replace the toasted auto-switch within the panel - probably had been compromised back in 2021 then finally died.

Not yet. Our shallow well's reserve is usually ~500 gallons (5 ft deep in the tubs). In 2001, our driest year here, it was below 300 and dropping, until late fall. CON is +4.8F on the highs and -1.1F on the mins. Yore heat Similar here: +5.5 and -0.8

Late March into June, yes. Then I planted the garden and the spigot was turned off - 1.53" since July 1 and 0.00" since August 1.

So far August has produced . . . dust. GYX has us with 60% PoP Sunday. 2 days ago that same 60% was forecast for today. Reminds me of an old comment about wx signs - in a drought, all signs fail.

Sounds great. Sometimes trout will find a hole in the river just downstream from where the cool tributaries enter, also the pool below the falls. My only trip there (May 1981) began at Henderson Brook Bridge and ended with a night at the falls, as I had a family trip planned and had stashed my vehicle near Michaud Farm. The rest continued to St. Francis. Parks had asked Seven Islands to check whether the freaky February (CAR had +15 for the month, which also included their 7 mildest days in Feb) that sent the ice bridge downriver had left aspen logs blocking the critical take-out above the falls. All was clear.

Beats my 1.53" for the same period. Had some sprinkles in Farmington last evening, not enough to wet the ground, but not a drop at home.

91 at 1:20 and maybe going higher - 3rd heat wave here in 28 summers. Reasonable dews preventing huge discomfort, though full sun is still a furnace. Temps Mon/Wed: 91/60; 92/61; 91*/59. *so far. First 2 HWs also suggest bearable TDs: 8/02: 90/57; 90/61; 91/62 6/2003 (note correction of year): 91/52; 91/60; 90/64. Yeah. We have been noticing a lack of bats. White-nose fungus has decimated many species of bats, especially those which overwinter in hibernacula (e.g. caves). The fungus causes them to awake too early, depleting stored energy such that the critters don't survive hibernation.