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Hit 90 and 92 in June, 1st year with more than one day at 90+ since 2003. (Tops is 7 in 2002.) Also had 3 days at 88, maybe today joins that club. Dews were ~70 on that 92 day (6/28), perhaps a degree or 2 higher today and average temp is 2° lower today than in late June.

A shroom-loving friend once offered this test: Take a bite and wait 20 minutes. If you begin feeling dizzy, don't eat any more. (Since some of the deadliest mushroom poison is asymptomatic for several hours and incurable, that might not be a good idea.)

Similar situation here, morning sun only thanks to 70' trees most sides. Not sure how the panels would perform given our pack retention spot - do they shed snow naturally?

We used to get large puffballs in our Gardiner lawn. Get them while the centers are sill creamy white and they're delicious. (One hint of tan - out they go!)

Had that happen to our 1983 Cavalier wagon - twice - and for the same reason. $300 to replace in 1989 and by the second failure the unibody frame was rusted beyond repair and we had to junk it. Sad, because that EFI 2.0 liter never skipped a beat in 147k miles, gave 32-34 mpg, and that rig had easily the best traction of any 2WD I've driven. (Except for using chains.) Bought that car from Bean & Conquest in BGR with 2 miles on the odometer - last new car we've owned. The 2.0 4 cyl. in the rangers/Mazda I've driven 400k+ over the past 27 years have also been great though other things have gone wrong when those neared 150k. Only engine related issue was a stripped sparkplug hole in the Mazda - climbing Mile Hill on 3 cylinders was an adventure. 1st mechanic at the shop I use said new cyl head, $1000 or more. The boss laughed and sold me a heli-core for less than $50 installed.

Fix, Overhaul, Repair, Daily (For an opposing view: First On Racing Day) My Ranger is just under 145k. The 2 earlier ones (92 Ranger and 04 Mazda) stated having serious issues about 160.

Less common at this latitude, but we had 70+ dews in 1999 and 2010. 11-year cycle? (Also had late frosts kill most of the new growth in 1999 and 2010, but not this year even though the warm spring was the perfect set-up for a late killer.) yellow jackets out in full force, yikes .Hordes gorging on the drops under our apple trees. They seem to know their time is limited.

Thru yesterday this month is running 0.9° warmer than the current warmest August I've had here. Near 100% chance 2021 takes over 1st place.

Do a search for arborists in your area. Maine licenses arborists and I'd guess Mass does as well, to avoid uninsured yokels with a ladder and chainsaw from dumping a tree on your house and disappearing.

Thanks. Figured it was related to Henri, but I rarely read the AFDs from CAR.

And what was going on BGR to HUL and points east? They got bombed yesterday, some sites 3"+, while places between there and York County got dribbles.

Same 0.45" here. Two TCs and couldn't reach 0.8". Odd distribution of RA yesterday, with 2-3" in York County and BGR to HUL, with only crumbs in between.

Unless we see another Connie-Diane dance, not even close. Top 4-month RA here is 28.27" in May-August 2009, and that's already 10"+ lower than your current total. Edit: 11"+ after seeing your rain for today.

A quarter of the way from my RA to yours would be about right. May: 1.73" June: 1.05" July: 6.25" Aug.: ~2.10" (1.97" before the little 3:30-4:30 shower here.) Since May 1: 11.13" compared to your 38.63". (My average 5/1-8/23 is 16.03".)

Those manzanita hillsides and dry forests out west are fire-driven ecosystems, just like southern longleaf pine and the Jersey pine barrens. Exclude fire long enough and it's like overfilling a gas tank while next to a bonfire. On a somewhat related topic, ever torch a dried Christmas tree" Flames 20 feet high and fierce crackling and lots of sparks flying. I still wonder at how fortunate Maine was in the mid-late 1980s to avoid huge catastrophic fires with a billion or so dead "Chirstmas trees" (some 60 feet tall) killed in northern Maine by spruce budworm.

Had 0.36" between 6:30 and 11 last evening, adding to the earlier 0.01" of dz. Brief little shower about 9:30 may have brought the event total to 0.4" and the month to exactly 2". Humidity still rules.

Controlled fires in the brushy hills and dry forests of California may never be feasible either practically (droves of people have built houses there) or politically. And it would hardly be tampering with a natural system as human occupancy and fire prevention have created an unnatural condition. If fires or other fuel reduction can be done, it should be intended as ecological restoration. And referring to "controlled burn" as a euphemism, an attempt to control the uncontrollable, has some truth but also ignores its extensive use in a far different ecosystem, the Southern pine forest. Site preparation using fire prior to planting is a way of life there - probably millions of acres annually with escapes exceedingly rare.

Did you use Triclopyr 4? I think the 3A (amine) formula is more gentle to grass than the 4 (ester) formula.

We missed some of Edna's rain, maybe a bit too far west. I remember flying kites that afternoon. Hazel plastered our house with leaf salad, a phenomenon I've seen only twice. 2nd time was June 1975 in Franklin, Maine, with tender early season leaves shredded by RA/wind at Donnell Pond. Hazel held its winds for an anomalously long time over land. IIRC, it set a wind speed record at BTV in addition to NYC. 1954 was our "family" season for 'canes: Carol (cousin), Edna (aunt,), Hazel (great aunt).

LEW hit 96 in 9/02, Bridgton and Farmington 95, and IZG might've been hottest of all. However that was on 9/9, nearly 2 weeks closer to met summer than the 1895 heat. (Farmington hasn't reached 95 since that 2002 day; best has been the 94 in June 2020.)

IIRC the CAR office had the Cleveland monster as a mix and mess, which is exactly what we had in Fort Kent. Jan 20-Feb 7 featured 3 huge NE storms and my snow stake had 1" less on 2/7 than on 1/20. (And unlike 4/82, the decrease wasn't due to blizzard winds. We got fringed twice with the mess in the middle.) Today's rn 0.00". What a bust. Not that we were supposed to get more than 0.5", but low clouds and off and on mist was annoying Much better up here. We scored 0.01" in morning dz.

It's way back (1895) but Maine sites hit low-mid (some upper) 90s on Sept 22-23 that year.

Sounds more logical than a misplay of the OV Bomb. Even CAR had that one as mostly RA (accurately).

In a perfect world controlled burns would've been being done for the past 50+ years. By now there may be so much fuel on/near the ground that attempted controlled burns would be exceptionally hard to keep controlled.

Cocorahs report of 6.16" thru 7 AM from "Brooklyn 3.1 NW". Some flooded out cars in Hoboken as well. More places getting big RA than big wind.