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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.)

I've noticed the same and have had nurses make the same comment. I've also exhibited white coat syndrome, though not consistently. Earlier this year at the orthopedist (my cortisone for the knees) the BP was significantly higher than usual, then last month at my cardiologist appointment - one would think a prime WCS opportunity - it was my usual 130/70. (And after an EKG and exam, he referred to the visit as "dull and boring". )

Yesterday's low of 38 was the 2nd latest date to get under 40 in our 24 years here. In 2015 it took until 9/21, but that year did it with a bang - after never getting below 43 since June, that 9/21 morning was 32. Another beauty today after the early fog. Some leaves drifting by though we're at less than 5% leaf drop, maybe 15% color.

Bingo. I've had BMI over 30 since before BMI was invented and statins have kept things under control for 2 decades. My older brother, who is nearly as trim as when he graduated from West Point in 1965, has been on statins longer than I have.

Yesterday's +12 brought the month up to +0.8. Would not surprise me to finish the month +1 to +2, pretty modest furnace.

Yes, about 55 years ago. Fortunately I've forgotten most of it. (Though I've read that it was an intentional over-the-top satire on sex-filled books.)

A day 14 forecast failed to verify. Stop the presses!!

Looks like each year on that table should be one year later than shown, thus including 20-21.

Thru June precip here 2021 was 8.7" BN and 62% of average. Thru yesterday we're 5.4" BN and 84% of average. Gaining . . .

Don't want that kind of September. Would love that kind of Oct-May.

94-95 was the first time I saw a foot of snow utterly disappear in a Maine January, thanks to the second mildest (daily mean) January day in the Farmington co-op's 129-year POR, though well behind the 1932 record. Jan '95 saw temps go from 27° BN to 32° AN in 5 days. 2-storm winter, and the first was a major bust - even at first flakes near sunrise on Jan 2 the forecast was 1-3" and 2 hours later we were getting 3"/hour and finished with 12.

Ike would stay at the camps there during his presidency and fish Little Boy Falls on the Parmachenee River below the lake.