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Coldest of our 10 Februarys in Fort Kent, despite 1, 2, 24 and 28 being 15+ AN. All we got was a few clouds from that storm on the 17th. Feb. 10-17 averaged -4/-19 with max running -2 to -7, min -16 to -22, and the wind never quit the whole 8 days, peaking on 16 (-5/-16) and 17 (-7/-22). Those 8 days ran 22° BN, peaking at 28° BN on the 17th.

Maybe for SNE, especially skewed by the Octobomb. That storm is the biggest single October snowfall (8.0") at the Farmington co-op but the 2010s total was 10.8" while the 1960s had 23.5". ORH recorded 16.0" in 10/2011 but that was the 2010s total. They did record 2.4" in 10/2009. However, Octobers 1960-64 each had measurable snow for a total of 11.8". (And that was the only October measurable from 1948 thru 1978.) The 4 winters 60-61 thru 63-64 all finished AN for snow, averaging 85.5", while 64-65 was BN at 62.9".

Same here. Yesterday's garden variety TS was the best of the year (faint praise) and I still haven't seen a lightning bolt since summer 2020.

Leaf-out was early here due to the warm spring, so if the above is a player the colors might come earlier than what folks would expect given September temps.

Wasn't given a chance. They didn't want to pitch to him (even the one called strike was above the zone) but giving an IBB with runners on 1st and 2nd is a tactic reserved for Barry Bonds.

This isn't the SNE sub-forum. If September fails to bring a frost here, it would be only the 2nd time in 24 years. I'll go with climo. ASOS was 58/54 during +RN and those temps definitely pack a different QPF punch than +RN at 72/68 a week ago. Yesterday's TS dropped the temp from 75 to 62 in 10 minutes. That wasn't happening with met summer TS - more like 78 to 70.

0.67" TS with some 30+ gusts, only a few leaves down.

Decent TS 3:45-4:30 this afternoon, 0.67" (about 0.6" 4:05-20) and gusts 30+. Thunder was modest, as usual.

Average here for Sept 11-15 is 69/45. If it's 2-3° AN for the period, what's not to like?

Same here. Though Sept 3-5 was mostly cloudy, the rain came before 9 AM on the 3rd and after 6 PM on the 5th. 5/28 58 37 5/29 56 42 5/30 58 35 0.24 5/31 53 44 0.72 (Kept May 2021 from being the driest of 24 here) 7/3 56 51 0.02 7/4 56 50 0.88 7/5 72 41 7/6 76 55 9/3 64 50 0.06 9/4 69 44 9/5 60 41 0.11 Today should be the first 70+ of the month.

Getting to an 0-1 count is bad, of course, but when they put 1st pitches into play it's generally better than their overall record. Looking at splits for 4 Bosox hitters, OPS only: JD Martinez: All: .868 1st pitch: .792 82 PA Bogaerts: All: .867 1st pitch: 1.300 20 PA Devers: All: .891 1st pitch: .897 68 PA Renfroe: All: .820 1st pitch: 1.009 55 PA So JD does worse, Devers about the same, and the other 2 do better though with X it's a small sample. A rough combining of all 4: All: .861 1st pitch: .922 Again, this ignores 1st pitch swings that don't put the ball in play.

You must be close to jumping into the next category.

Seeing 1986 and 1991 reminds me of 2 very different events on 9/30 of those years. In 1986 straight line winds flattened 600 acres about 15 miles south of Fort Kent, half on Parks and Lands Eagle Lake tract and half on J.D. Irving, and ending by blowing trees into the NW end of Square Lake. Damage was consistent with winds 90-100 mph, but I don't know if the CAR folks made a survey. Five years later on the same date folks woke up to see 2-5" of snow, CAR's largest (only?) measurable Sept snow with 2.5". St. John Valley sites didn't record any snow but our airphoto project, flown on 9/30 in that area, shows white ground and white trees in those areas.

Actually, there was no 1980s whiplash, just a pair of mistakes in my post, reversing the 8 and 9 in the 7th (tied) and 9th driest. The dates are now corrected.

Which river, Passaic? Raritan? Other? Losing a heavy vehicle like a fire truck is amazing. Road/bridge wash out under it? Would take 4-5 ft. with significant current to move a 15-20-ton rig.

IIRC, the NYC reservoirs were down to 2-3 weeks supply when the 5.54" deluge arrived on 9/21/66. Might have been a real horror show had the drought continued another couple of months. Ten driest years at NYC (Starting in 1912, trace amounts are shown as 0.005", which added 0.1 to 0.3" to the totals in may records. The numbers below have those 0.005" days deleted.) 26.10" 1965 32.90" 1964 33.72" 1910 33.84" 1935 34.28" 1963 Only 8.24" in November prevented a new record. The 4.23" on 11/6-7 was NYC's biggest Nov rain event at the time. 35.30" 1970 35.37" 1885 35.37" 1895 35.44" 1892 35.60" 2001 1966 was running just 0.72" ahead of 1965 for Jan-August. Then the last 4 months averaged over 5" each and 1967 was 7" AN. However, it was 1971-73 with 57"/67"/57" that finally refilled the reservoirs. The 1960s drought began in late 1961, with the last 5 months averaging 2.60". Then 1962 had 37.15", 20th driest and 5.5" under the 1931-60 norm.

Fun facts: JAS 2021 is already 2" ahead of the 1965 total. Only took 2 months - Aug-Sep 2011 - accomplish the same feat.

My brother's house in Leland, NC (just inland from ILM) is engineered to withstand 130 mph wind. Falling trees and flying objects remain a threat, so as Florence approached the family retreated to CHT.

Slight chance of 30s here tomorrow morning if the clouds hold off. Nothing special, as half of our 24 Augusts have recorded sub-40 minima, but welcome after the August humidity. Woodstove at work this morning.

Noted the 81+, so Jerry and I are no longer the board's leading geriatrics.

Interesting graphic, though 2021 should have an orange tip as Mullica Hill was a solid EF-3. I wonder if all those zeros in the 50s and 60s had some missed EF-0s; the 22 years 51-72 recorded just two.

I'd long forgotten Agnes had made landfall in the FL panhandle. What I do recall is that NNJ had dire forecasts for heavy rain feeding already bankfull rivers but we were sort of the hole in the donut, got less than 2" but had low-end trop storm gusts. The heavier rain was north, south, and especially west of us.

Lot of NJ transplants in this sub-forum. We came to Maine in Jan. 1973.

Similar area of huge RA though SW by 100+ miles, so a solid resemblance in the Northeast, but without the Gulf hit and IIRC Agnes never got beyond Cat 1 (like most June 'canes).

That disease shows up as wilted leaves. (And as with EAB, I'm concerned that there's no stopping it.)