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It's 50 years ago when a (later) co-worker was stationed at the AFB in western Long Island. Another AF buddy was driving in on the Long Island Expressway when he had a flat. Went back to the trunk and was freeing up the spare when he heard a noise up front, and walked around to see the hood up and a guy fiddling with something. Guy said "That's cool; you get the spare and I'll get the battery!"

That phenomenon was helped by NYC reporting oddly low snowfall for the 1958 storm, 5.9" on 2/16 and 7.9" total, with temps/LE making significant p-type issues a low probability. EWR had 13.3", PHL 13.0", BDL 11.6", inland NJ 16-21", BOS 19.4". (Trivia: That was my 2nd of 7 storms 18-24" 3/56 thru 2/61. Never since experienced such a flock of huge storms, though we had 5 events 15.5-21.0" from 12/16 thru 3/18, 6 if the start point is 1/15.)

Finished with 1.50", 0.25" by 7 AM yesterday, 0.42" in spurts during the day then 0.83" between 9 PM and 4 AM. SEP now at 3.17", a tenth more than ultra-cloudy August and 3/10" above the May-June combo. Saw some 3"+ downeast and a couple 6-7" reports (CHH was one) on the cape.

Had not heard of the cat-converter stealing ring. However back about 25 years or so there was some tree rustling being done, mostly in the Midwest and especially with black walnut. Thieves would attach big mufflers to their chainsaws, and homeowners would wake up to see just stumps along the driveway.

Average at best here - had some issues with fungus on the beans (though mostly after a planting had been picked) and on the spaghetti squash vines. Oddly, the cukes right next to those vines are fine, though yield is BN. Carrot tops look lush. The white fungus on the beans began in late July; the month's RA was 2" AN but it was the endless cloudiness of July/August that fostered the rot.

After watching the play about 10 times and using Google earth, looks like that throw carried about 285' on the fly and 20+ on the bounce. That's assuming my guess on where Renfroe picked up the ball and a release about 10' from the track.

Had 17.5" of 16:1 fluff here, biggest snowfall of my 13 winters in Gardiner. Had a forestry meeting in Lovell the evening of 12/20, followed by the 70-mile drive home in the Olds version of the Chevy Citation. Only about 1" when I started home (Lovell was west of the best stuff) but closer to 10" when I got back to Gardiner 2+ hours later, almost all on not-yet-plowed roads. The fluff occasionally kicked up over the hood for a quick white-out, but otherwise wasn't a problem. Next afternoon when the sun came out the Kennebec between Augusta and home was filled with snow rollers, 1st I'd ever seen.

While I lamented that the record pack following Feb. 3-4 was gone by late that month, we had 16" in March - 12" wet surprise on the 23rd- and 6" in April, a messy 4" mix on 13-14. And a few IP during the cold rain on May 27 that year. Of course, NYC had only 2" after 2/4/61.

Reloading? Same for the W. Pac, which had been unusually quiet for about 2 weeks but now as a super typhoon heading NW, may affect Taiwan, almost certain for China.

Winter 1980-81 is Farmington co-op's least snowy with 43.0", one inch less than the winter before. Average there is 90". The double ratters followed 5 straight winters with 100"+, longest such run in the co-op's 128-year POR, and 1981-82 was back in triple digits.

Maybe it was a slow news day so they just re-ran the Ida forecast for kicks?

Thru 1980 (42 years) the mildest Feb temp at CAR was 49. In Feb 1981 they tied it twice and added 7 days with highs 50-53. (Current record there is 59 on 2/20/94. Not only did warmth come a month after CAR's coldest month on record (-0.7), but Feb was about 6° BN despite being +35 on the 20th.

Law enforcement tries to avoid the doofuses and "badge-heavy" people, but as in any organization, some slip in anyway.

Nothing except for 1980-81. Feb. 2018 in NYC was 8.69° milder than the Dec/Jan average, while Feb. 1981 was 9.94° milder than Dec/Jan. At CAR those respective mild-ups were 6.58 in 2018 and 20.25 in 1981. Feb. 1981 was 22° milder than Jan. 1981, and caused the ice to run on the Allagash and St. John Rivers, which was (and is) unprecedented for February.

Will posted here (Eastern) in the middle 2000s, 20+ years after we moved from Ft. Kent to Gardiner. I think Vim Toot was from PQI, near its border with CAR.

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.