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Doesn't take much sun to bring the metal surface to 100°, even in early September. (Ambiguous pronoun reference ftw)

Dews might not be high enough - need to be in IA/IL for those corn-fed mid-80s TD.

I never checked in on that furniture offer - we're not in need of new stuff - and wondered whether "sweep" meant that another 2004 or 2007 would count but 2013 and 2018 would not.

My garden is dry but that's only the top 8" of soil. I started keeping wx records in the early 1960s in NNJ, so while the current deficiency of RA is irritating, it's far from a real drought.

Maine vies with twice-as-large Washington for having the most bears of any state in the lower 48, estimated at more than 30,000. We also probably have the most liberal hunting regs of the 48 for bear hunters, allowing bait and use of hounds during the early season and having no cap on the number of hunters - anyone qualified to hunt in Maine can buy the modestly priced permit for the bait-dog seasons, and those licensed to hunt deer can also take bear during the 4-week firearms deer season. Despite that, the wildlife branch of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife say that the bear kill is 30-40% too low to keep the population from increasing. I'm very pleased that the referendum to prohibit bait/dogs/traps several years back was voted down, though not by all that much. It's also amazing how few bear incidents occur in this state, with most (other than vehicle collisions) resulting from dumb human behavior. (In 1977 I was scoping out roads and harvest areas about 10 miles west of Allagash Village during deer season, carrying the old 7x57 Mauser in case one was numb enough to let me have a shot. On a low hardwood ridge a large bear - looked 9 feet long but I'll only claim "200+ lb" - which let me approach within 25 yards thanks to its love of beechnuts. Rifle went up, I had the beast in the sights, not a particularly difficult shot, but my brain asked, "Do you really want to kill a bear?" To this day I've never eaten bear meat. I'm confident I'll like it a lot, but until/unless that gets confirmed, I'll not shoot a bear unless it's me or it, about a billion-to-one chance. After that bear had departed, I remembered that I was 3/4 mile from the nearest woods road, about half thru a recently harvested slash-tangled cedar swamp. Might still be trying to drag it today!)

New record for New England's hottest day, topping Hot Saturday 1975 by one degree. Lock it.

Over the past 2 days of forecasts, PoP has descended 70-60-50 and now 30%. GYX generally doesn't make qpf calls beyond 3rd period, so tomorrow jut came in range and it's <0.10".

Just a light breeze here in the woods. Glad I'm not on North Pond in my small canoe.

Had 0.30" in the Stratus this morning, right within the 1/4-1/2" forecast. Would've preferred 2-3 times as much. Over the last 6-7 years, May-Sept precip has been significantly lower than in previous years - garden not like.

Probably moved the obs location a few dozen yards due to development - building? Parking?

Elevation was listed at 2,001, changing to 2,009 on 4/1/2007. Feb 24-28 noted below for Pinkham and MWN. The Rockpile has midnight obs while Pinkham was then at 7 AM, thus the slightly different-looking chronology. Pinkham MWN 2/24 36 22 92 15 6 0.64 6.7 21 2/25 27 18 2.11 21.0 113 16 7 8.40 49.3 26 2/26 22 18 2.50 24.5 137 9 3 4.12 27.8 26 2/27 26 15 1.61 27.0 164 17 1 1.61 14.0 25 2/28 22 9 0.25 4.5 158 18 10 T T 25 6.47 77.0 14.87 97.8 Season totals: Pinkham - 323.0; MWN - 560.8* (Now 564.8") *3/3/69 at MWN: 15 7 3.51 msg. Depth rose 2" to 26. My estimated 20" (now 24") for that day is within the above total. Pinkham recorded 1.57"/31.0" from that event. Edit: Based on the linked article, I've revised my 20" MWN estimate for March 3 to 24", to make the total the same as that from the article.

Would've been 1969, when MWN had over 500", including 98" in the late Feb storm, the one that built pack at Pinkham to 164". Folks around there were wondering if the Mount Washington glacier was being born.

Here it's about a 30-day plateau, July 10-Aug 10, in which our average temp stays within 1° of the warmest day. Winter's coldest is much sharper, with only Jan 17-28 within that 1°.

Maybe he thinks it's early May?

Looks like some nubs ahead of the ears, so likely a yearling bull. Weve had moose prune our apple trees, though less often than deer, but neither critter has messed with the garden.

The NNJ lake community where i grew up (1950-71) now has bears wandering between the houses - most on lots 1/4-1/2 acre - and along the road I took for the 1/2-mile walk to the beach. Never saw one while living there, only a friend's sighting one crossing a side road about a mile from our home.

Same here. Lots of seedlings all over next spring.

For your area - hope there's some excitement. We're done here, with a bit over 0.4". No thunder, just a nice (though less than half what was needed) garden rain. Aroostook had some storms earlier, saw on FB that Route 1 was closed due to damage in Monticello, a few miles north of HUL. Last month's washout in Cyr Plantation is still under repair, though there's been a temporary crossing since a few days after that storm. Edit: That Aroostook deluge came May 27-28, not early June. Van Buren, closest to the washout, had 4.93", Fort Kent 3.30", CAR only 1.40".

Some moderate RA 5:45-7:15 then light. Reported 0.38" by 7 AM to cocorahs and the 2 Farmington reports ere 0.38 and 0.39. Temple, one town farther west, had only 0.11", but they reported at 6 AM so I'd guess their storm total will fit with others in the area. Looks like less than a tenth fell here after I dumped the gauge - would've liked twice the 0.4-0.45 total but it came at rates that allowed it all to soak in.

Only 0.46" since June 13, and 3/4 of that day's 1.14" came in a 10-minute toad-strangler, so not much help to the soil.

Quite different farther north. The "humid months" (July-August) haven't recorded 90+ here since 2002 and 10 of our 19 days with 90s are in May-June. We had 11 years, 2006-16, with no 90+, and have seen 5 since then, 2 in May and 3 in June. It's no surprise that CAR's 3 hottest days, each 96°, came in May (1) and June (2).

Other than the BN precip, this has been one of the nicest Junes in years, and the May-June couplet had CoC wx day after day. June climo: Avg max: 70.7 0.8 BN. Highest: 89 on the 26th, low max: 50 on the 19th, latest in season for 50 or below (and the afternoon temp was 45.) Avg min: 48.1 1.2 BN. Lowest: 38 on the 1st and 21st. Mildest min: 58 on the 27th Mean: 59.4 1.0 BN, 1st BN month since January Precip: 3.43" 1.58" BN. Wettest day: 1.14" on the 13th, with 2 TS, the 2nd one near severe, dime-size hail, 0.85" RA in 10 minutes, gusts well into the 40s. Thunder: 3 days, average for June

Can't speak to other areas, but last June was 4.1° AN, quite respectable for a met summer month. The 92 on 6/28 was one degree below the hottest here in the woods, 24 yr POR, and that day's mean of 80 is our hottest. Previous record was 79.5 on 7/3/02. This month will finish very close to 1.0° BN, with a rain deficit of about 1.6". Very nice month overall though the garden wished for about 2" more RA - lots of CoC days and one near-severe TS with that extremely rare (for here) phenomenon of bouncy things falling.

The dews arrived on July 4,1988 - daughter and I were visiting the wildlife park in Gray, and the cool morn turned into a sweaty afternoon. The humidity got worse and worse, peaking for the 1st 2 weeks of August; PWM TD reached 77° in early August, their highest on record - probably still stands. Then fall-like air finished the month, 1-15 averaged 73° and 7° AN, 16-31 had 60, 3° BN. Summer 1989 was closer to the average.

Crisp 45 this morning. June will finish slightly BN after 4 consecutive AN months.