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34 this AM, crisp. PQI had 29 but that's not unusual for late May at that site.

That's less than 15 miles to our southwest, the storm that barely grazed here (0.01") though we had 45 minutes of near-continuous rumbling. Another 0.05" around 10 PM bringing the May total to 0.98". The big heat didn't make it to here, high was 81 yesterday - 15° AN but nothing like the previous weekend. Nice crisp air today, dews 40s.

Warned storm (half-dollar hail) looks to slide to our south, giving us only sprinkles (unless it changes course). Dog not thrilled with the rumbles.

1st rumbles of the year last evening between 9 and 10. Saw one nice C-C bolt running horizontally, counted to 61 before the noise arrived. That's about as close (10-12 miles) as the storm got before either dying or sliding to our south. Typical. Cellphone popped up with a tor warning ("take cover immediately!") about 7:30, but no location given. There'd been a SVR warning earlier for a storm some 20 miles NW from Moosehead.

Hot Saturday, 103 at PWM, 102 at BGR, both all-timers. 100° at BHB just feet from water that was probably <60°. We (wife, 3 y.o. son, BIL and his Hawaiin wife) drove from BGR to Gouldsboro where there were blueberries in abundance on non-commercial land. Got there late morning and it was already blazing. My wife and her brother hid in the shade with our son, BIL's wife had grown up in the pineapple fields and kept on picking. So did I, due to stupidity. Probably could've made jam simply by sprinkling sugar on the berries. We then headed to Acadia and found a place to park by the water just south of Otter Cliffs. Only 3-4' deep, calm, and the one and only time I've gone swimming in Maine salt water that was actually warm. Sunday's forecast was for another 100+ day and our cheap apartment was roasting when we got home that Saturday, but then during the overnight came the most blessed BD ever - 70 and sprinkles on August 3.

Quite the heat wave, hasn't been above 60 since Wednesday. The 0.02" of dz overnight was just enough to make everything wet.

Morning drizzle makes it 5 of the last 6 days with measurable RA, total 0.45" and 0.90" for May. Everything's wet except the soil.

Some have postulated that trees getting taller/bushier have impacted Central Park obs, but I don't think that was nearly as much of a factor 56 years ago. Airports tend to be hotter anyway because it's harder to distance the instruments from the tar. Central Park itself is hotter than the official NYC site thru 1960, Battery Place, near the south end of Manhattan. (And I'd love to access those old records - for instance, where SPK has 3/1888 as 21" all on 3/12, BP has snowfall over 3 days, 3/12-14: 16.5/3/0/1.4, which more closely jives with written descriptions of the blizzard. BP also was measuring temps to 0.1°, greatly limiting ties.)

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.)