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Average speed about 83 mph. !!!!!!!

When I worked at the pizza shop 1973-75 while in UMaine forestry school, we could be a bit smug when the power went off as the ovens were gas and we had battery lighting. The old fashioned mechanical register was electric but could be run manually with a crank. (And might be a museum piece today.)

Afghanistan has been a tribal mess for centuries and neither the old USSR nor the US changed that much. What's especially sad is the Taliban's treatment of women - slaves and brood mares.

Probably had dews in the 70s in the north woods Thursday, as PWM topped its record with 78. However, August 1988 when the PWM TD reached 77 had nearly 2 weeks when dews almost never fell below 70 - longest dewey heat stretch I've experienced and the only time we had white mold growing on everything in the basement. PWM minima averaged 70.1 for the period 8/4-8/13 that August. I think it's their only 10-day (or even 7-day) run with a 70+ average low. Their mildest minimum of 76 in July 2011 was within a warmest week averaging 68.1 for minima. Nice 0.71" drink yesterday, August up to 1.07".

Nice. Ever been to the larger Duck Lake maybe 20 road miles to the south? Never fished it but I've been told the big ones hold to the south central shore where the big hemlocks come to water's edge. Couple of awesome water access campsites on the west shore, too.

Terrible estimate on my part - morning shower was 0.49". Probably another 1/4" in a weak TS and light showers this afternoon. Triples our August rain.

My guess is 75, unless he reaches it with 2 outs in the 5th and a lead.

True, and in the same hemisphere.

Just checked the Jay Peak co-op. Last record was April 2014, with 39" on 4/1 the only entry. Nothing in 2021, nothing in 2017, nothing in 5/14. I'm confident it's been offline for 7+ years.

And shrugged it off, as their construction is very different. 7+ in developing countries is often a disaster. Took a 9+ in 1964 to do major damage in AK.

Our party of 40 had a fairly long walk into Big Reed Pond north of Baxter Park on Thursday. The mantra was bring water and watch each other. Had no issues, other than some incredibly dusty roads. Coldest I saw was next to a glacial lagoon…7C on the car thermo, so 45F. Warmest was 20 or 22 C so 72ish. Some parts of the country were seeing 25C while we were there. We packed for 50s We packed for 60s-70s on our Iceland/Norway trip. 10 days in Norway included about 2 hours above 70 (barely) plus 2 full days of 50s RA. Iceland never reached 60 on our 2.5 days there. (Of course, I wore the same clothes at 50 as at 70 but I'm weird.) Edit: Glad J.Spin included that "most" as we moved north for the trees, with snow a very nice side benefit. Had a briefly heavy then lighter shower 8:35-9:15, maybe a tenth or 2.

Different people have different tolerance for heat. Same goes for cold. My cold tolerance is abnormally high and I caution against forcing my preferences on others (though I haven't given up short sleeve shirts in winter, which make some friends feel colder.) It's probably not 100%, but I'd guess that most folks with high heat tolerance do less well in cold, with the cold-tolerance people not liking heat.

Probably my hottet vigorous work was in July 1968 while framing the 2nd-story walls of a sizable (for the 60s - modest today) house. NYC had 98/78 that day and dews were likely close to that minimum. By 2:30 the combo of direct sun and reflected heat off the plywood deck was making us dizzy, not good when working next to a 15-foot drop onto rocks, so we bailed. It was much hotter (150+?) next to the grill at Curtiss-Wright's summer resort the Sunday, July 3 when Central Park hit 103 and LGA 107, but I was doing less rigorous work. The other candidate was insulating the attic of our 1st Ft. Kent house the day in May 1977 when CAR hit 96, but I was only in the (estimated) 120+ heat for 30 minutes. For cold, the day in the Aroostook woods in Jan 1988 probably is the winner. CAR was -9/-20 that day and reported a WCI (old scale) of -85. When we left the Forestry building next to Portage Lake the temp was -32 and the wind wavering either side of 30. On the Bald Mountain lot about 20 miles west of Ashland we spent the afternoon on a wind-facing hill and I doubt the temp passed -15 there, not bad for a few minutes but after 8 hours it began to sink in. Only minor frostbite, fortunately.

Around here August blackflies tend to be vegetarian, though they're good at flying into ears and eyes. 100 miles northeast in the Mattawamkeag drainage the blackflies usually remain bloodthirsty all summer.

Opinion - which is fine. (Although "Cold does absolutely no good to anyone" is obvious hyperbole. Ask PF.) I never complain about cold, though I brag occasionally. I feel that the non-laments give me some moral standing to whine about the heat.

For winters 1988-89 thru 2012-13 the Jay Peak co-op at 1,875' averaged 228" - the extremes 343" in 00-01 and 103" in 11-12. Last full month on my records was Jan. 2014, followed by end-of-month depth numbers then nothing. Have not re-checked since then to see if the co-op is back in operation.

Absolutely. For 35 years I was organizer, note taker and report writer for these "expert review" field trips and did much of the organizing this year, but having retired at the end of last month I was relieved of the note-taking, though I'll help with the write-up. Now I'm one of the "experts". (Ex" = has-been; "xpert" = a drip under pressure.) As for the install-uninstall, we had a heat pump installed last fall to make an end of put and take.

Stayed Wednesday night at a sporting camp north of Baxter Park, and several attendees at this forestry/training field trip stayed up to watch meteors. Saw mostly clouds. And next day probably the fewest deerflies I've ever seen in August hot wx - usually those horrid beasts love HHH.

Two days in the woods north of Baxter Park, one cloudy and sticky, one hot and stickier, and very few deerflies. Usually they love the heat. Only the occasional skeeter, and blackflies absent.

Driving home yesterday late afternoon from our 2-day "peer-review" trip in the north woods, I turned off I-95 in Newport and the whole western horizon was dark. Continuing west I watched the dark slide to my right and never saw a drop or wet road. My wife said there had been distant thunder for hours when I got home about 6:45. May: 1.73", temp 1.5 AN June: 1.05", temp 4.1 AN July: 6.25", temp 2.7 BN Aug.: 0.36", temp 1.8 AN (to date) One of these things is not like the others.

Different vibe here: 0.36" August; 6.25" July; 1.05" June. August is behaving like May/June with near misses and little precip so fa. Thank you, July!

More likely it's Jackson Mountain, about 8 miles west of Mt. Blue and over 400' higher.

Was there significant advance warning that this step would be taken? Otherwise, one week is mighty short notice. Imagine someone getting Moderna #1 last week and having 2-3 weeks unpaid leave until that person can receive #2 and be fully vaxxed. Or would getting the first Pfizer or Moderna count?

Volcano says wish you were here - bubbling up throughout the main caldera when I checked an hour ago with multiple incandescent flows.

First sentence in PF's "observational" post: Purely observational, was it a combo of masking and hygiene theater that seemed to completely nip any sickness at all out last winter? Didn't look the least bit surprised, just posed rhetorical questions with an obvious "yes" answer.