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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.

Working on it. (Though I'm surprised that debit cards re a no-go.) The new Kennebunk plaza has high-speed lanes for EZ-pass. The one in Gray on the Turnpike has been there for maybe 10 years, so it was past time for the big one at the south end.

That nice looking band of precip yesterday brought only 0.06". June will finish with 3.33", while the avg thru last year is 5.08". May/June totaled 4.87" compared to an average of 8.92". After the 1.14" on 6/12, this month has had only 0.45". Those 2 months have been dry over the past 7 years. In the 17 previous years they averaged 9.93" compared to 6.10" over the most recent 7. The other 10 months 2016-on have been 99% of the 1998-2015 average, essentially normal.

Not even that much here, look like about 0.05" at best, not enough to create a puddle. Looks like a split in the good stuff went overhead.

A bit different here - last 6 weeks have been almost exactly average, 0.3° AN. Yesterday's 84 was the warmest in that period. The real May heat was the 90 on 5/14.

Then yesterday he need only 7 pitches to lose out the win. Relief pitchers are an odd breed.

Then the adrenaline continued as Tanner Houck flirted with disaster in the bottom of the 9th. How many long-tern Sox fans thought that Ramirez, leading the AL in RBI, would hit a walk-off slam?

I still have bad memories of the early 1980s. We were taking the kids to an allergy specialist in Lawrence, Mass, about 400 miles from our home in Fort Kent, and we'd combine the trip with a visit to my parents in Woodsville, NH the day before. Next morning we'd drive thru Kinsman Gap to reach I-93 in Lincoln, and from about CON south it as an increasing disaster. Below MHT it was "winter", even the pines and hemlocks were stripped. Most pines were able to set buds the following year but for hemlock it was one and done.

Maybe - see my above post. Probably 95% of the homes in the lake community where I grew up were in place by 1965, and were occupied by pretty much the same socio-economic strata that live there today, though probably somewhat more diverse now.

Avg low at NYC for July 2013 was 73.3, 2nd only to 1908, but 7/13 ranks only 9th for hottest July, as the avg max was barely +1.

When I lived in NNJ (moved to Maine in 1973), bears were a myth except in Stokes State Forest in the NW corner of the state. A friend of my dad saw one crossing the road about a mile from our place, and almost no one believed him. Now I see FB pics of big bears along the route I took walking to my lifeguard job on the local beach (and for 10+ years before that, starting at age 6 when I gained deep water solo privileges.)

The 4 weeks from late June thru about July 20, 2013 were one long super-dewy run, with TDs frequently 70+, not all that common here. Then there was a brief cameo in early Sept. Temps never got past 86 that summer - takes a lot of energy to heat all that water.

1.6 BN thru yesterday, due mainly to last weekend. Month should finish very close to my average.

Black bears are classic omnivores. As PF noted, they eat almost anything. That's true of most North American bears, with the obvious exception of the polar bear. Even the salmon-gorging monsters of the Alaskan coast spend much of the summer chowing down on fruit and veggies.