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Nest populations increase all thru the warmer seasons, and when cool temps arrive, the yellowjackets get slow and dumb - stings hurt just as much but the nasty critters are much easier to avoid, also easier to whack.

That storm spent about 3 days heading almost due north, holding its strength well, and seemed likely to stay on course until landfall in RI/EMA. Then it pulled a sharp right just before its significant effects reached the shores.

Southern Maine, maybe. P&C from GYX tops out at high chance for Sunday-Tuesday, and we're inside 72 hr.

Less effective here, thanks to a healthy coyote population and a fair number of fishers. Inside cats live longer.

Might not be far off. Our shortest frost-free season in Fort Kent was only 44 days in 1978, as parts of ours and our neighbors' garden got singed on July 31. The late August added a hard freeze, with mornings at 28 and 29.

I'd agree if the kids were a bit older, but the younger ones will probably like the Cape's beaches better than the cool water at Sand Beach. And the 1-to-11 crew probably won't even notice the fall colors on the rocky hills of Acadia.

Impressive. Only got to low-mid 40s here as there were thin clouds well into the evening. Saw 39 for IZG, 36 for HIE. September comes in beautifully.

Probably the only time I'll ever be in the 1%.

I have Friday/Monday off, too. Of course, it's because I retired 13 months ago.

Frost at Estcourt Station? Doing chainsaw work, could not ask for better wx.

August 2022 data: Avg max: 76.3 +1.3 Hottest: 88 on the 7th Avg min: 56.7 +3.6 Coolest: 48 on the 13th. Weakest August minimum in 25 years here; other August minima range 36 to 45. Avg mean: 66.5 +2.4 3rd warmest. Highest daily mean: 77.5 on the 7th, 2nd hottest August day (8/1/99 was 78.5) Only 31 HDDs, lowest of any August. Warmest August, last year, had 10 more HDDs but also 25 more CDDs. Precip: 3.80" -0.13" Wettest day: 0.87" on the 31st. One TS day, tied with 2 other Augusts for lowest. Kind of a meh month, higher than usual dews but nothing spectacular in any parameter.

I remember the forecast perhaps more than the storm: "1-3 feet with life-threatening conditions." At our Gardiner home it was 10.3" of heavily rimed 6:1 stuff with temps near 20. Not many places in New England with less snow from that one. Also recall that Monday morning seeing BGR with calm winds while Mt. Desert Rock, about 60 miles SE, had 56 kt winds gusting into the 60s. Farmington recorded 18" from the storm, and had 97" total for Feb (51) and Mar (46), and snow cover went from a trace on Jan 31 to 56" on 3/15.

Raccoons are more nocturnal than most of the canids, but I've had normal-acting coons around here in daytime. The dark feet are diagnostic for red fox. As the 2 pics show, much different than coyotes. Also, the fox's tail is much longer/larger in relation to its body than the coyote's and has a distinct white/light-colored tip. Edit: Quick shower 3-3:10 this afternoon added another 0.15", so now August is at 97% of average, or barely distinguished from normal. However, BN is BN, and this makes 11 BN months in the last 13 and 13 in 16.

If it's hanging around the house and/or looking kind of tame, I agree. But I've often seen foxes looking totally normal during the daylight hours, as many of their small rodent meals, especially squirrels and chipmunks, are in their nests at night.

Their fur makes foxes and coyotes look twice as big as they actually are.

Better move north. CAR data: 9/29/1991 48 32 0.47" 2.4" 9/30/1991 48 32 0.04" 0.4"

For lethal weapons I'd choose rat traps. When my corn was being ravaged by non-raccoons, I set several thinking that red squirrels were the culprits - those traps were the right medicine for the reddies that invaded our back porch before I scribe-cut two pieces of plywood to block the holes I'd not noticed earlier. Caught none, then observed blue jays dive-bombing the ripening ears, and now I plant other things where the corn would've been.

Up here we had lots of nice CF during the first half of met summer, with mostly fresh CoC wx and no sustained heat. 2nd half of July and nearly all of August have been totally different and dewey. July 1-16 had temps 1.5° BN. Since then, it's been nearly 3° AN, which would be no news in Jan-Feb but is significant for the warmest part of the year. Stratus had 0.72" this morning, most coming 6-7:30 though RA began prior to 5 and ended after 9:30. (Local forecasters' 5-10 AM was amazingly precise.) That brings August precip to 3.65", which is only 7% BN. Not often does a month with more days with rain (17) than without come in BN. However, that 0.72" is the greatest calendar-day precip since the strong TS of June 14, which is lame. 6/14 had 1.14" from 2 TS, including more in 10 minutes (0.85") from #2 than in any of the 77 days since.

I agree in principle, but would the new systems actually handle 15-20" RA in 8 days? ORH does have some advantage with much of the town being on a hill rather than in a valley. I wonder what the estimated return interval would be for such a scenario - the (recently) oft-mentioned 1000-yr event? There were sites in western CT that bagged 22" in those 8 days; building systems to handle that deluge would financially be like DCA (or maybe RDU) equipping their road dept. with CAR-level snow removal equipment.

$3.99 US or CA? Also, as Jeff noted, they don't have the strict lobstering rules as much as Maine.

Nice price, though I'm guessing they were shedders, modifying the cost. That big boy must've been close to the 5" max.

I think the low-mid 60s minima from the other sites are more reasonable as well. Only when one looks at NYC can similar maxima be encountered, as Central Park recorded lows of 77/75/76 for 9/21-23/1895. The first 2 remain records but 9/23/1970 had a low of 77 - was humid, too. Farther east in Maine, Orono didn't get the heat until the 22nd (21st: 78) when it hit 97, then 93 on the 23rd, followed by cooler temps 24-on. Addressing the first frost subject, the average and median date for first 32 or below is Sept 18. Last year it came on Oct 24, which was 18 days later than any other year here and only the 2nd in which 1st frost didn't arrive in Sept. Moved avg/med a full day later.

Thanks. I thought one of us was going crazy. And that "M" makes more sense than the 78. 9/24 had a max of 78 (the other sites in my previous post were also in the 70s) and I've wondered whether the low for the 23rd wasn't observed so they plugged in the next day's high. I need to revise my data.

GYX 1895? That's a century before the WSO began reporting. Sept heatwave, 21-23, 1895: Farmington 94/100/99 Lewiston 92/92/96 Gardiner 92/95/92 Bridgton 93/93/93 (also, NYC 95/95/97) The Farmington co-op had an in-town location during the 1890s, and records make me think that summer maxima were boosted by the site. The co-op has recorded only 14 triple-digit maxima since 1893, and half of them came 1893-97. Five more came in 1911, four the well-documented blazing NNE heat of July. The other 2 came in June 1944 and Hot Saturday in 1975. There's no doubt that maxima have been reduced by the 1966 move to a location 1.5 miles north of town center. (And I think encroaching trees have further modified maxima, as the co-op hasn't exceeded 95° since 1995.)

September-specific, the Farmington co-op recorded 99/78 on 9/23/1895, for 34° AN. That day is the co-op's hottest mean temp and highest minimum for any date. However, though the day's high is supportable, I think the data from the few nearby sites (LEW, Gardiner, Bridgton) with records that far back indicate the Farmington minimum is bogus, as the other 3 sites had lows near 60 that day.