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Met summer with 23.82" RA, avg is 13.19". Eight week stretch with only 7 rainless days and 17"+ RA, tomato plants rotting (6 main crop and 6 cherry, total crop 3 almost ripe cherry tomatoes) and neighbors had the same. Town was replacing a bridge at the other end of our road so they fixed up the (formerly) unmaintained 3/4 mile to allow access for folks east of the brook. August had far more sun than that June-July, but also 3 rain event that blew out the new material and cutting off those folks until the runoff ended and repairs could be made. The summer of mold and mushrooms. Edit: Got my obligatory sprinkles from today's system.

We're -4.2 thru yesterday and +1.50" precip. Since May-June were -6.1" that's only a start. First half of 2021 was 8.7" BN, 62% of average. If the 2nd half has a similar departure, 2021 would be our driest year by more than 3".

Last evening's news claimed 130, even adding "just 4° from tying the record." Meanwhile the month's 2nd 40s minima this morning (touched 41 on the 5th) after last July not getting lower than 51.

That's where we started our honeymoon in 1971 - stayed at Fisherman's Wharf. (I don't even know if that's still there.) Then we headed up to BHB on June 24, bought a couple lobsters for a scenic top of Cadillac feast. Visibility 100 yards in fog, we forget to get napkins - few foods are messier than eating a whole lobster - and the park hadn't turned on the water yet up there , but the critters tasted great.

Looks something like an equatorial rain forest. Water table should be all set there, but most garden plant roots live in the top 12" so they'll need some refreshers.

Currently 5.2° BN for July. Would take about +2.3 rest of month to finish AN, very doable. Difference is in the maxima, currently about -9.5 while minima are <1° BN. July to date (3.03") is 1/4" wetter than May-June combined.

Two-system total was 1.79", with about 1" in 5 hours from Elsa yesterday afternoon. Still more data coming into cocorahs, but earlier I checked 2-day totals and found only one - Readfield, about 15 miles to my south - with less (1.72") and my crosstown neighbor matching my total exactly. July now up to 3.03". Total for May-June was 2.78".

Have not checked the Stratus since noon, when there was 0.38" to add to the 0.37" reported to cocorahs in the morning. Might've had up to another inch since, no truly heavy rain but hours of moderate - like a high-end synoptic event. We take. Radar says the good stuff ends before 6 PM with only scraps afterward. With this drink and summer-normal temps* in the days following, the garden should go nuts. *Tomorrow the mean temp climbs above 65° (76/54) and stays there thru August 9 without ever getting higher than a tiny bit over 66.

Same temp here and it feels a bit stuffy, especially compared to the mid 50s earlier.

ACK was cloudy at 1 PM, 73, SE 37G47. Nobody else had gusts even to 25.

What kind of weenie are you? At least put out an empty soup can or something.

Overall prices for mot everything tend to be high in the Nordic countries. At least you've got a better exchange rate (~125 ISK/dollar, was ~100/1 in 2017) than when we were there. Dollar 20% stronger but twice the kroner - yeah, soaked.

0.37" thru 7 AM, now probably 1/2"+. Hope GFS was off-base, had 2.4" for PWM, 1.4" for AUG, 0.4" for RUM.

We're up to "T" here.

Unless they decide to emulate Australia.

Dense population crowded onto the relatively small amount of less sloping land in a country filled with mountains and subject to tropical and ET heavy rains. Edit: Japan is slightly smaller than CA but has more than 3 times the population and a considerably lesser proportion of non-mountainous terrain. It's pop density would rank 3rd compared to US states, a bit more than MA but well back of NJ and RI. Of course, those 3 states are parking-lot flat compared to Japan and get less precipitation. It's also on the Pacific rim of fire, with volcanos and especially earthquakes.

Controlled release from Rip Dam and there's nothing on the Saco like the Cribworks. It's probably the only Maine rafting spot where the companies have rescue staff on the shoreline rocks.

Saco is a flashy river - quick up/quick down, like the St. John upriver from Allagash but on a smaller/quicker scale. Once the snowmelt ends there's little storage capacity and lots of grade until it crosses into Maine, and while it's then pretty flat the storage doesn't improve much.

People don't realize - or do... - that your actual physical house re-radiates heat back to the interior air space. Goes the other way, too. We had hot air heat in our back settlement house in Fort Kent and we'd set the thermostat at 50 when we'd travel. Arriving home we'd up that to 68, the furnace would get the air to that temp in 10 minutes then kick on again as the cooler structure sucked out the heat. Went thru 10+ cycles before both air and materials had warmed.

BOS/PVD/BDL/NYC all reached HI of at least 95. ORH did not.

Assuming that surgery will do as well for you as it did for me.

June 1.05" (my driest of 24) and July 1.24". Hoping to double that July number by Friday night.

2016-17 ranks 3rd for total snowfall, behind 07-08 and 00-01, but for big storms only 00-01 comes close. Had 21" events in both Dec and Feb; only other winter I've experienced with >1 event 20+ was 60-61 in NNJ. Then Pi Day dropped 15.5" as just the 4th (and most recent) storm here that met all blizzard criteria. (00-01 had a 17" dump in Feb then storms of 16" and 19" in late March. The 47" depth on April 1 is the tallest I've had, 1" more than 4/1/84 in Fort Kent.)

I wonder if that "consistent decline" is merely return to the norm. Prior to 16-17 half of your winters had storms of 20"+. Same ratio for the 4 winters since 16-17. On the other hand, I'd never had back-to-back winters without a 12"+ event from 98-99 thru 17-18, and now I've had 3 in a row, so maybe something's there.

If the mountains and coast each get 2-3" and I get only half as much, no complaints here. My JJA average precip is 13.19". It's ranged from 7.24" in 2002 to 23.82" seven years later. Currently at 2.29", with July already with more than June.