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You need to think of midsummer when it's 96/76 on the Boston Common and 72 (both air and water) at your place, with a nice sea breeze. Had 73/30 yesterday. This morning's low of 37 ends a six-day run of sub-freezing minima. Forecast contrast not often seen: Maine foothills, sunny and 85. Inland SNJ, sunny and 69. Only in late spring NNE.

66/26 Monday, 69/29 yesterday, 30 to low 70s today and not a cloud for days - 8 of the month's 1st 11 days have been sunny. 180° from the rhea sector of the wheel, but Sun-Wed looks less benign.

Near 70 here after yesterday's 66, and pure sun. Amazing run of sun for early May, will change for the weekend and spoil yet another total lunar eclipse - would be the 4th in a row clouded out here. If 4/8/24 is socked in, the frustration would boil over - first lifetime chance to view a total solar eclipse wrecked by the atmosphere, not good.

Only 24 years of record here, but there's a distinct difference for the period 12/21-28 (centered on 24/25) compared to the 8-day periods before and after. Numbers are temp departure, daily snow and number of 10"+ storms for each period. 12/13-20: -0.9° 0.74" 2 12/21-28: +1.5° 0.49" 1 (on 21-22/2008) 12/29-1/5: -0.5° 0.94" 5 Looking just at 12/23-25, it's even worse, temp avg +3.7°, daily snow only 0.34" and apart from the 8" on Christmas 2017 there's no storms reaching 5".

66/26 yesterday, first "forty" of the spring. The entire month of April only spanned 39° - highest 60, lowest 21. Low of 29 this morning, decent chance of another 40+ range as it's already past 60.

Maybe arithmetically fair, but not always logical - probably works best for places averaging 60" (+/- 10"?) Much higher/lower would result in illogical grade distribution. Comparing/grading 1990-91 thru 21-22 to the 1991-2020 norms for NYC would yield 22% of A+, 34% F and only 16% C, a reverse bell curve. CAR goes the other way, with one A (their 197.8" in 2007-08, highest ever by 15", didn't rate A+, only 164% of avg), no F's and 56% C's, for a squashed bell. Of course, I have no better suggestion.

Another upper 20s morning - yesterday had 61/27. Maybe we can reach 65 today, which would be the year's highest so far. Leaf-out seems about average here despite the lack of real warmth, but may sprint ahead with the late week heat. No black flies sighted, but I expect the little carnivores to be checking the menu by Friday, maybe even taking a nibble. Most years the blood loss begins in the 5/10-15 range. Sandy River is dropping quickly, already well below the 25th percentile mark, might be setting low-flow records next week if we don't get significant precip. Forest floor is greening up, which might deter brush fires a bit though the wx is very fire-friendly. Trout lilies in full bloom and some trillium blooms have opened.

Five warmest days in Farmington, Maine since records began in 1893: 83 3/22/2012 82 3/21/2012 80 3/20/2012 79 3/20/1903 78 3/18/2012 Only 2 other March days milder than 74, both in the mid 1940s. Upper 20s here this morning, 5th day with a frost this month. Average is 6, range is 2 to 12.

Good conditions to translate that to 2m warmth, too - low dews, early August sun angle, trees <5% leaf-out (a guess for Thurs-Fri; <1% currently). That last has 2 effects, very little transpirational moisture to be heated and sun beating on the leaf litter to add warmth from below. We hit 89 on 5/2/2001 (with zero leaf-out, as pack lasted thru 4/23); can we sniff 90 next week?

Already underway in SNJ where the grandkids live. Tomorrow's forecast includes a wind advisory along with the rain and daily high about 20° BN. Meanwhile it's sunny and low 60s here today, maybe some rain late next weekend?

Bright sun, light win, low 60s - seasonal (except the full sun is an extra ) Hope the grandkids in SNJ took advantage of today. From mid-morning tomorrow thru Sunday it's wind-blown rain and low 50s, 2-3" forecast.

I expect frost or freeze both Saturday and Sunday mornings, maybe Monday as well. Fortunately, the more vulnerable trees are barely awake externally. Oak buds are elongated but no green in sight, and ash/basswood have barely done anything. No 1999 or 2010 killing freeze this year unless we get mid 20s after May 20.

Looking forward to some top 10 spring wx midweek, though it doesn't meet my def of "torch" - average for this coming Wednesday is 63/38 and forecast (modified for my microsite) is about 72/42. Need 10°+ AN for a May torch. See 2001, when 5/3,4 had 20-21° AN.

Frost on Saturday/Sunday mornings.

Assuming that would be near-BDL forecast, it's a nice AN treat but hardly a furnace. May average there 2010 and forward is 73/50 so perhaps 1° cooler for next Thursday - 10° AN for the max and 5° for the min.

Not New England and 51 years ago, but I'd nominate the Little Whiteface chairlift for that title. The summit lift might've been at least as terrible, but it wasn't running when we visited during our honeymoon in June 1971. The chairs on the L.W. lift had no footrest and the lap bars were ridiculously small - 10" or less. The ride finished with a single catenary of about 2000' - per Google Earth - that seemed to rise straight up (probably closer to 60°) at the end, with a counterweight chunk of concrete nearly as big as our house. That span was way above ground, 50' and higher, with a not-trail below - trees just cut and jackstrawed, nice place to land if one fell off the chair. Can't imagine a rescue from there if the lift broke down.

My area can't get 2 rotations of carrots - not even close unless I wanted the 2-3" babies. There may be varieties that mature more quickly than the Bolero I plant, however.

It's surprising how well the roots can shape up when growing only 2" from each other. I plant carrots in a strip 5-6" wide with 10-12" between - more per sq.ft. than single-row planting.

1st and 2nd here, both mostly sunny and temps 63/27 and 64/29. Clouds moved in overnight.

It's certainly not rocket science. Years ago we were "alarmed" from our motel in North Chicago - son was graduating from Navy basic. Some doofus lit a cig in the hall at 3 AM and in less than 2 minutes we were outside in the snow. Grabbed the car keys and scooted.

Did the public launch get blocked due to invasive water plants? That's what happened at the Rt 27/Belgrade launch on Messalonskee - milfoil there.

Front loaded April AN here but w/o real warmth. Having a March day milder than any in April happens on occasion and not just in 2012. However, having April's mildest just 4° above that in February is a first-timer.

That was the case here, and it seemed most days had significant wind. April 2022: Portrait of a mega-meh month. Temps: Avg max: 51.60 -0.32 Highest: 60 on 12th/15th. This is my first April (24 yr) that failed to get milder than 60. Avg min: 30.30 +1.73 Lowest: 21 on the 5th. Only my 2nd April that didn't reach 20 or below. (23 in 2010) The 39° span is easily the smallest for April here, average is 58°. Mean: 40.93 +0.70 Tale of 2 different halves: 1-15 was 52.1/29.6 and +3.5 Sunny/PC/Cloudy days: 5/4/6 Sunny plus PC/2 = 7, or 47% sun. 16-30 was 51.1/31.0 and -2.5 Sunny/PC/Cloudy days: 1/6/8 Sunny plus PC/2 = 4, or 27% sun. Most of the windy days were also in the 2nd half. There are 6 temp items for which I keep daily extremes: high, low, mean for both warm and cold. Usually a month will establish several new extremes, but April 2022 never got close to setting any. I can't recall any other month with no new extremes. Precip: 4.90" +0.77" Wettest day: 1.00" on the 27th 2022 cumulative is 13.88", a mere 0.01" AN. Snowfall: 0.2" on the 19th plus two days with T. Average is 4.90". Season total snowfall is 67.1" which is 21" BN. SDDs were 1,518, which is 246 BN, though 37 above the median. Tallest pack was 26" on Feb. 4. That's right on the median but 3" below average.

63/27 here yesterday, mildest for the year so far and little wind. Quite the treat after Thurs-Fri with both temp and wind in the 30s at our men's retreat NW from Moosehead.

Hope you were inside. We drove thru PWM about 5:30 yesterday afternoon and it was upper 40s and spitting rain. Forecast for Pittston Parm, NW from Moosehead Lake, where I'll be from tomorrow afternoon thru Saturday lunchtime: Tonight Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 3am. Low around 31. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Thursday Snow before 10am, then rain and snow showers between 10am and 1pm, then rain showers likely after 1pm. High near 36. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Thursday Night Snow showers likely. Cloudy, with a low around 28. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Friday A chance of rain and snow showers before 4pm, then a chance of rain showers between 4pm and 5pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38. North wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. Friday Night A chance of rain and snow showers before 11pm, then a chance of snow showers between 11pm and 2am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Saturday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 44. The bolded part of tomorrow's forecast just screams springtime. Last year it snowed there too, about 5" new with closer to 8" on the high ground near Jackman. Crummy winters trying to make up for it in late April? Another 2002?