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If you go back and get to Bergen, the historic fish market is wonderful, though mobbed when we were there. One stand had samples of reindeer and whale meat, both tasty, and we all had some sort of fish for lunch. Mine was "fish on a stick", 4 golf-ball-sized pieces, salmon and white fish, about 3/4 cooked on the griddle but great anyway - was primed for the undercooked part by our visit to son/DIL in Japan the year before. Clouds held off last night, so we had 30° and light frost this morning. Still sunny here. Median date for last frost is May 23, so the 19th is no surprise.

101 in June, then the Sat-Sun-Mon (7/4) weekend had 100/103/98 at Central Park. LGA reached 107 on the 3rd. Then NYC notched 101 on 7/13. Met summer 1966 was NYC's hottest and driest summer on record. The precip record still stands but met summer 2010 topped 1966 by a couple tenths.

99/58 on 5/19/62. I was tossing the baseball around with friends that day. We had the radio on, and when noon's 89 became 95 at 1 PM, we chose to go inside. Not too humid, as the temp fell to 64 by next morning.

Local long-term co-op dates back only thru 1893, and the period 1893-97 appeared to have issues with siting and/or instrumentation, as that span featured 11 days with 90+, including a six-day heat wave 5/6-11, 1894 that peaked at 97. Since 1900, May 90s have averaged about 0.3 per year, with lots of grouping. 1911 had 4 including the 100° all-timer, 1977 (the CAR record breaker) and 1992 had 3 (each consecutive), and six other Mays had 2. That leaves the other 113 years 1900-on with 14 Mays having only one and 99 with none. I've reached 90 this month and it's probable the co-op also has made it. More on 1893-97 heat issues. The co-op has reached 100 on 14 days. Fully half came 1893-97, five were in 1911, that May topper plus 4 more in the well-documented NNE heat wave that July. In the 110 years since then, 100 was reached only in June 1944 and on Hot Saturday in August 1975. It's 26 years since the co-op has gone hotter than 95. Tree encroachment may be an issue there.

Even after 130 years, daily records are stochastic and thus variable. Thru 129 years, the May daily heat records at the Farmington co-op range from a modest 84 to 100. Year 130 (2022) will move that lower number to 86 (on the 1st), as the 84 was set for May 13 - last Friday - and my 85 here likely means 86 or 87 at the co-op.

I'm Northern European mix, probably mostly English as my maternal grandfather was born in Wales and his wife's family reached our shores before the Revolution, but there's probably some German and Scandinavian in there as well. My wife's grandparents were all born in Norway, places listed alphabetically: Bergen, Drammen, Oslo, Trondheim. We visited the big three on our Norway/Iceland trip in 2017, and Drammen isn't too far from Oslo.

Have you tried gamelost, means "old cheese" and has an evil green interior covered by dark brown crust. I was offered some when visiting my then fiancée's maternal grandfather, and considered it a rite-of-passage test. (Our 51st anniversary is next month. ) My opinion: It doesn't taste quite as bad as it smells.

0.28" here in the last 3 days, 0.73" for the month. Maybe the BN precip will mean the next generation of skeeters will be less abundant. The current batch is as bad as we've had it here. Still quite windy here. Lost power for 1.5 hr yesterday afternoon; a tree dumped onto power lines in Farmington, providentially a bit in front of 2 Lucas Tree bucket trucks which were doing line maintenance for CMP. We were in the process of making Norwegian waffles to go with our gjetost (aka brunost, "brown cheese") and lingonberry jam, and the genny kept us cooking.

Don't like the big heat when it's here, but I brag about it later. For the other 4, yes, yes (except 12/1 thru 3/31), yes (forlorn hope) and YES!

0.10" more than here - our 0.04" ranks 90th of 92 cocorahs reports, above only the 0.02" obs from Kennebunk and my crosstown neighbor. The month is now up to 0.73". No lightning close enough to brighten the west horizon. Not surprised.

Good friends got married on July 20, 1996 in South Gardiner, Maine. Ceremony was inside the church while the reception was in a 3-pole tent on the adjacent lawn, with sprinkles and howling wind all afternoon Tent stakes were 4 feet long steel bars that the wind kept working upward, such that every 5-10 minutes we were pounding them back down. 70 miles west and 6,250 feet higher, MWN recorded a 24-hour average windspeed of 99 mph, strongest measured there in met summer, with a 154 mph gust. We'll never know how close it came to launching the tent into the nearby Kennebec.

Doesn't look all that different than up here. Leaf-out went from <5% to well over 50% in about 5 days - quickest I've seen it. Maples are almost fully out, oaks 50%, ash still lagging as always. Yesterday's 60° RA probably didn't slow the process much. Only 0.24" thru this morning, needed 4-5 times that much.

for you. Overcast with light RA here - knew last week we wouldn't see it. Last full lunar eclipse here came Jan. 20, 2019, during the end of that winter's biggest snowfall. We've fared quite poorly here on recent lunar eclipses.

Earliest in the year. We hit 89 on April 28, 2009 and May 3, 2001, but yesterday was the first 90. Next in line is 91 on May 18, 2017 then 90 on June 7 last year. Looks like about 0.15" in the gauge, barely enough to wet the ground. Hoping for more before the CF and dry air arrive.

How about the one 4 years later, Boundary Waters to Bangor?

F irst cloudy sky here since May 6, quite the run. Yesterday's 90/52 eclipsed the 91 on 5/18/2017 for earliest 90+. Dews were moderate - upper 50s - and the leaves are bursting out.

Recent flow on the Carrabassett River at North Anson (near where it empties into the Kennebec.) Discharge, cubic feet per second Most recent instantaneous value: 639 05-14-2022 13:00 EDT No precip at all, and those "bumps" resemble diurnal snowmelt surges. From Sugarloaf snowmaking trails? (Gauge is 30 river miles downstream from "Loaf trails, no other snow in 'Bassett watershed. Saddleback drains into the Androscoggin system.)

87 for IZG at 11, though TD has mixed down to 56 while most spots are low 60s. Maybe a mini-door in Aroostook? N winds, temps low 70s, dews +/- 50. Yesterday they were about the hottest in the Northeast.

Of course. It's a female white ash.

Northern Maine on late-spring west winds, some of their hottest days on record. The 3 days 96/95/94 on 5/22-24/77 is unmatched at CAR, with only the 95/96/93 of 6/18-20/2020 close to it. CAR has recorded 12 official heatwaves since records began in 1939, two of which lasted 4 days - 6/15-18/1949 and 8/29-9/1/2010. Hottest 3-day averages: 95.0 for 5/22-24/1977; 94.7 for 6/18-20/2020; 93.0 for 8/3-5/1944.

Scads of bumblebees working the blossoms here, an order of magnitude more than last spring. Love to see it.

Add NJ to the dreary May. A number of popular beach areas are struggling to repair damage from last weekend's extended gales before Memorial Day weekend. Saw some dramatic pics of once-sloping beaches now almost level and backed by "cliffs" 5-6 feet (up to 15) where waves had cut into the dunes behind. 85/43 yesterday, 18° AN and 6th straight with diurnal range 40+. Hope today breaks that run, as morning low was 52. Up to 80 by 10 AM so "10 after 10" might make it close.

At NYC the mark is 99 (5/19/1962) - friends and I were playing baseball in NNJ, and when the noon 89 became the 1 PM 95 we went inside. Fairly low dews, temp only fell to 62 next morning. May's top at CAR is 96 (5/22/1977) as I was insulating the attic of our tiny 2-story in Fort Kent. Finished by 11 AM, thankfully, and we "only" got to 93. The 21st was 86/30, widest diurnal range I've recorded that didn't include a sharp frontal passage. The WSO only dropped to 69 on the 23rd, and that day's mean of 82 (95/69) is their 3rd hottest mean, topped only by 2 July days at 82.5.

PQI at 91. Forecast for my area from GYX has tomorrow at 92, up 4° from the morning number. Black flies and mosquitos arrived here in force yesterday, and no messing around looking at the menu this time - they had the knives (straws for skeeters) out and sharpened from the start. I had some outdoor tasks that occupied both hands yesterday and the little fiends took advantage.

By 2 PM, CAR, PQI and FVE had all reached 89. Also IZG but no surprise there. Still 99% stick season in Aroostook, so no tree-moisture to suck away heat, no shade to keep the old leaves from cooking.