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I'm familiar with the Marion Downeast - Parks and Lands has a nice beach property not far off the highway. Was ignorant of Marion Mass until today. Flash flood warning for you (written before learning you stayed in Pit 1) or maybe just to your north and extending into Penobscot Bay. Had 0.24" overnight with the heavier stuff just to my east. Yesterday it was just to my west. However, JAS are currently 2.30" AN so we're not in bad shape, despite the May-June couplet being 6.14" BN. Another 60° morning here.

Getting what hit BGR-Orono last night. Curious why you were in the area, as it's not the tourist or business capital of the region. (He said understatedly)

Just ask for BN temps in Oct - usually results in less snow thru the cold season.

Bermuda basher?

Saw that in my 'hood yesterday - 0.42" in my gauge as we never had even moderate rain save for 2-minute bursts. Cocorahs obs 1.13" in Farmington next door and 1.69" in Temple, next to Farmington. Lots of FF warnings last evening for Cumberland and Oxford Counties, but the big dumps, 2-3", were in the lower Penobscot Valley and on the Bay

We had 125% of average snowfall in 14-15, but any winter when Machias gets 5 feet more than here cannot be a great winter.

Worked out right for EMA and DE Maine. Elsewhere it was a very good winter that just missed (several times) from being epic.

We've had 4 discrete RA events ranging from 0.81" up to 1.50" in the period 9/2 thru 9/16 that totaled 4.14". Today's lighter than forecast (so far) is the first measurable in a week. Odd to get moderate RA here on 9/24 at 70°.

RA arrived about 2:45. The line of bright echoes crawling eastward has morphed into clumps of duller stuff. Doubt we reach 1/2" from this bunch. Don't really need big RA here though we remain 5.7" BN thru yesterday, at 83% for the year. Saw that NYC had TD of 45. Not often do we have dews 20°+ higher than there.

It is, s-l-o-w-l-y. At the same time the band of heavy stuff is moving north much more quickly, increasing its persistence over a particular locale. Not a drop yet here, just cloudy, humid and breezy. P&C forecast adds up to <1" here while the GYX map has us in the 2-3" color. Computers. Looking more and more like this will be my 2nd September of 24 without a frost. The 1st, 2011, had a month minimum of 33. Its first frost came Oct 6 and was a 25° hard freeze. So far this month the bottom is 38.

Seems reasonable, though I still doubt that the queen carries those few eggs thru hibernation. Probably holds sperm thru that time and develops the eggs in the spring, perhaps while she's building the starter nest.. And the hornets are basically doing what a groundwood paper mill does, on a slightly smaller scale - grinding wood down to the individual fibers then allowing it to dry as it's applied to the nest. Biggest difference (other than scale) is that the paper mill mix is 99% water when it hits the Fourdrinier (fast-moving screen that begins the water-extraction process) while the hornet mix never has nearly as much water.

IIRC, 1992 was well below normal for ACE, but the folks in south Florida might think otherwise.

Was at the BGR Subaru dealer this past Monday for routine maintenance on our Forester and was amazed at all the empty pavement. Probably could've landed a Cessna 185 there.

Hoping to add a memorable Decemberable - last 3 have been mediocre to awful.

Oct snow is not what concerns me, though the winters following our 5 Octobers with measurable SN were either ratters or bumpers for snow and almost canceled out each other. Current average here is 89.0". 05-06/11-12 averaged 58.9" (66.2%) 00-01/10-11/18-19 averaged 112.3" (126.2%) All 5: 92.5" (103.9%) It's Oct/Nov temps that show some significant trends in our 23 autumns here: Month Years SN % of avg Oct AN 10 106.8% Oct BN 13 94.8% Nov AN 12 87.6% Nov BN 11 113.5% Both AN 5 89.4% Both BN 6 104.6% O.AN/N.BN 5 124.2% O.BN/N.AN 7 86.4% This was last year's Oct/Nov - worst case scenario.

Nor here. Within 10 minutes of when I posted upthread about continuing cloudiness, the sun popped out and it's been PC with humid 70s since. Thru yesterday the month was 1.1° AN, with maxima 0.9 BN and minima 3.1 AN - the tall lows continue. Today looks to finish about 75/63, with max +9 and min +20.

Farmington's mildest minima is supposedly 78 on Sept. 23, in 1895. However, I'm convinced that's a measurement error as none of the few sites in that area with records that long had minima anywhere near that warm: Bridgton 60, LEW 59, Gardiner 58. 78 is also the max for 9/24/1895 and I think the minimum obs for 9/23 perhaps wasn't recorded so they inserted the next day's max. Cloudy yesterday with "T" in brief dz, cloudy today and still dry. Morn low about 63-64, norm is 43.

I'd guess she retains sperm and then produces fertile eggs in the spring. (Though I've never asked her.)

Right under the rainbow?

About 30% color near the house, less change down the road. The significant ash and basswood component outside the window here always bring early change, and the maples have enough yellow to brighten up the woods as well. Of course, the oaks still think it's August.

9/24/2017 BDL 92 ORH 86 GYX 89 CAR 88 Farm 90 Dews probably mid-60s.

We have paper wasps all during the warm season, but the yellowjackets have arrived in force once they had apple drops on which to gorge. Cloudy, near 70 and dewy. Light dz became light RA as I drove into Farmington for an 8 AM Dr appt and did the opposite an hour later as I drove home. The thicker dz hasn't reached here yet.

My memories of the cafeteria at Hopkins included the famous vile veal stew, green beans cooked to mush and soaked in bacon fat, cube steak with nothing but soup spoons with which to attack it, and frequent episodes of top-and-bottom misery - only once for me, from a veal cutlet, after which I consistently chose the tuna salad. And on the cube steak adventure, a friend was bashing it with the spoon when birdshot clicked onto the plate.

The social wasps - wasps, hornets, yellowjackets - all die in the fall except the queen, which hibernates (in the ground, I think). Yellowjackets in particular always seem to get dopey this time of year - more pesty about your food, less aggressive about stinging, easier to smack' Most yellowjackets we've ever had in a house where I lived came when I was 5 y.o and came screaming thru the door with some awful buzzing coming from my clothes. My mom had me strip to skivvies and hide in the bathroom while she did battle with a flyswatter. With 5 down she gave the all clear but as soon as I came into the living room another flew out from under a lampshade and away I scrambled - twice. Ended up with 7 lined up on the windowsill. Can't remember how many stings I had, but it was the first of many dozen painful encounters with yellowjackets, wasps, hornets (and the occasional bumble or honeybee.)

Salmon on the grill last night - love it. (Undoubtedly farmed, Maine, Maritimes, maybe even Norway as they're the world leader by far in farmed salmon.)