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Made me scratch my head, as 27-30 minima were anything but chilly. Then I checked the numbers and 23-25 had cool mornings, including 37° on the 24th, lowest for the month. Had 0.23" at 7 AM as rain began sometime after 2. Currently steady light rain, as the stratiform precip continues to dominate here this warm season.

Started moving wood onto the porch after lunch and the sun almost burned thru the clouds for a few minutes. That plus dews made for some serious sweat. Radar says it's raining but nothing has made it to the ground yet. GFS doing its incredible shrinking qpf (TM) as the event get closer.

Sounds decent. I've not fished Flying Pond in open water in years but I've pulled some big bass thru the ice. Had to put the biggest back due to the 1-fish-over-14" rule. It was a full inch longer than the 4.75 lb fish I'd put on the ice about 4 hours earlier and quite a bit fatter - no scale with me but I'd guess 5.5 lb at least, biggest bass I've ever caught. Hope you visited Mosher soon after Elsa. Prior to that event there probably wasn't more than a trickle dribbling over the rocks. How were the crowds at Tumbledown? Excluding ski areas, that peak might be summited more often than any other 3,000+ mountain in Maine. We (Parks and Lands) has decided to eliminate overnight camping at/near the top due to increasingly harmful impacts on the ecosystem, also on day hikers. We'll see how well folks conform to the change. Another cloudy but dry day here, so far.

Only one rainout but a lot of cloudy days and no real heat until the last couple days. Odd for July. Do any fishing?

Model maps have up to 1" here and more on your rock. Seeing would be believing, though Sat into Sun might act like stratiform RA rather than convective. We've done okay with the former but the tree-blaster on 3/26 used up all of the latter here with a single bolt. (The storm that slipped by to my south at 1 pm grew up to severe - 60 mph, 1" hail - south of BGR an hour later.)

Wagons - or duckboats - south. (Except for the storm that barely missed to the north about 11:45.)

A small but bright echo just slid by a couple miles to my south. 75 minute ago a much stronger system passed just north, close enough for some 20-25 gusts and a few sprinkles. We don't always miss to the south.

Back in the day the Cavalier was a good-looking ride. We bought a wagon in 1983, 1st year with the EFI 2.0 liter and 5-speed, and drove it nearly 150k before the unibody frame rusted out. The engine never skipped a beat, we got 32-34 mpg and with studded snows on the front that rig had the best traction of any 2WD I've driven. The road to our back settlement home in Fort Kent climbed about 450' from town and more than half of that was in the final half mile, nearly 10% grade. Never had an issue getting home and it snows a bit there. Edit: Have not bought a new car since.

I'd guess a decade later if one includes construction and logging equipment but who knows. And the changeover has to be matched by a stronger grid; the big heatwave out west had CA telling people not to drive their EVs unless absolutely necessary.

Though I agree in principle, I think 10-minute recharges are further down the road than 500-mile ranges. Would not mind being wrong.

Similar here, though the TD is probably U-60s. Good to see the sun, though, as 9 of the first 1 days this month were cloudy. Max for July is 14 (2009 of course) but no other year topped 10.

If my Husky 353 dies, I'll look into electric saws. I rarely need to use a chainsaw for more than 10-15 minutes and the battery should easily last longer than that. When I bought the 353 early in 2008, that was not a real option. (Long ago - 1950s - my dad had a plug-in electric chainsaw. It cut only slightly faster than I could chew off the piece of wood.) IMO, EVs have something of a chicken-egg situation. Probably a good use of our tax dollars would be to invest in widespread fast-charge sites and retrofitting home entry panels for charging there. Having a range that would match a full day's driving, say 500+ miles, would also be a good thing for folks with miles to go. Many people smarter than I are working on such things.

If there is a hole big enough to insert a common pencil, mice can get in.

But of course, monsieur! Merci beaucoup! I play on a co-ed beach v-ball league and I could see lightning way to the north as well...amazing how far you can see it...probably 60 miles away I assume it was after dark. Some years (30?) ago a co-worker and I were returning from a day in the eastern Maine woods, and at about 10 PM when we turned from Rt 1 in Belfast to Rt3 heading west, we could see flashes in the distance. Later I learned that it was lightning from the Rangeley area, 100+ miles away.

The reno shows usually use the fancy-pants "on-suite". (Not sure if that's the right spelling as I've never seen it in writing.)

Appears that the "wagons south" pattern is coming back. Elsa's gift was 6 days ago, and while it will help the well for weeks to come, garden watering probably resumes this weekend.

I haven't been stung in 2 years, so I know if I get zapped this year I'll develop swelling around the sting site 15-60 minutes after the hit, and no other symptoms. (Get stung on my left hand/wrist, I immediately put the wedding band in my wallet.) Swelling goes down slowly over the next 6-12 hours with some residual soreness in the stretched tissues that persists a day or two. If I'd been stung last year, my only symptom would be the short duration pain followed by some itching at the site. During my lifetime I've probably been stung in more years than not.

Thanks to zero upslope and less overall snow, we're way lower than the above. Avg. Med. Hi/Lo Trace 67.5 72.0 79/48 0.1"+ 41.8 42.0 55/27 1.0"+ 21.7 22.0 32/13 4.0"+ 7.4 7.0 14/3 6.0"+ 4.0 4.0 9/0

That's how we lost Marshall Dodge (Bert and I) and almost the same for Stephen King. And only in a minority of times it's the biker not the driver. Several years back on the "Bike Across Maine" fundraiser a biker was killed when he took one hand off the bar to grab a drink, just as a log truck was passing him. Truck was well off the shoulder and at the same speed as other traffic but the big rig's slipstream pulled the one-hander biker into a rear bunk, right at helmet level. Driver had no clue until he stopped in Farmington, and even then there was no evidence except the timing of both vehicles and some eyewitnesses. Combination of small phenomena resulting in a big tragedy.

When my FIL was training for a marathon (late '70s, he was in his 50s), he'd cover the nips with tape.

Some similar though not graphic numbers: Season Total * Lg * Sum top 5 98-99 79.2 14.5 44.2 99-00 67.2 8.2 35.5 00-01 137.1 19.0 72.5 01-02 72.5 9.0 34.0 02-03 67.8 13.8 37.0 03-04 72.7 24.0 55.8 04-05 94.3 21.0 54.4 05-06 52.8 5.9(!) 22.2 06-07 95.3 18.5 62.9 07-08 142.3 12.5 49.7 08-09 101.4 24.5 67.2 09-10 64.8 10.7 40.2 10-11 100.5 15.1 46.3 11-12 68.0 9.7 37.5 12-13 90.4 12.5 49.9 13-14 101.3 13.5 59.8 14-15 112.8 20.2 57.2 15-16 48.2 8.5 27.0 16-17 125.3 21.0(x2) 72.5 17-18 105.5 19.9 66.4 18-19 109.2 11.7 40.9 19-20 85.1 10.3 37.0 20-21 52.5 9.5 30.7 Avg. 89.0 14.5 47.9

When we lived in Gardiner and our parents had retired to Woodsville, NH, we'd drive over via the Kanc and return thru Gorham and the Sumner woods. N. Conway was a convenient place to stretch our legs at the mini mall where 302 meets 16. Wife would load up on cheap-but-good pantyhose she couldn't find near home. Sometimes 302 would be backed up well across the border into Maine. Maybe Phin's view of that area warrants the Yogi Berra comment (about a NNJ restaurant): "Nobody goes there any more; it's too crowded."

A dumb decision in TN but that's a really wide tar brush to use the term "death cult". May be satisfying for him to say but it just adds to the unfortunate divisiveness in this country.

Would need to run 8-10° AN for tomorrow thru 7/31 to get there, or the hottest 2.5 weeks in my 24 summers, by far. Sell

Seems like a valid article - is there evidence that it's bogus, or is it unworthy of note by MS medical folks? There are a lot of folks saying that the kids are at a risk level above zero but almost indistinguishable from it. (Excuse the hyperbole.)