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Maybe that's why the lower one doesn't have much of the classic widening toward the tip. 91 on the remote, not interested enough to go out in the swamp to check the max-min (though I will in a minute to get the mail). LR at 80 thanks to the heat pump; feels like the fridge when I walk there from the back bedroom (SW corner of the house) where my workstation has to be sited.

Top one looks like shagbark, bottom ??, as my hickory knowledge is probably less now than when I roamed the woods of NNJ in the 1960s.

Ah so. Makes sense now. Low was 68 here. Unless we get the big TS (2% chance) that will tie 6/29/99 for highest minimum in June. Only 4 mornings have been milder, 3 in July and one in September.

The records I've downloaded show numerous 70+ minima, topped off by 3 mornings at 75. Different spots in town? 7/22/1978 96 75 8/2/2006 97 75 7/12/2011 92 75

86/64 yesterday and didn't get much (if any) below 70 this morning. 70+ dews all over New England.

Experiments that add nitrogen to the soil have shown increased growth, but the costs/benefits don't work in a forest setting. Years ago we had bioash (from biomass electricity facilities, applied at no cost to the land manager) spread on state land near Greenville and that resulted in greater growth, though that may have been mainly due to lowering soil acidity.

Adequate moisture and nutrients, and the factory (live crown) mostly in the sun? Works every time (though genetics play a part.)

A red oak of that size without deeply furrowed bark has had a happy, fast-growing life.

More snow talk as we head into a run of triple H. Adding 4"+ and 10"+. 10"+ is storm total while all the others are calendar day (except largest). Earliest flakes, accum., 1"+ 4"+ 10"+ Largest 98 11/3 11/17 12/8 12/30 3/6-7 14.5" 3/6-7 99 10/4 11/10 11/13 1/16 none 8.2" 1/25-26 00 10/9 10/29 10/29 10/29 12/31 19.0" 3/30-31 (48" depth on 3/31. Even in Fort Kent never had that much on 3/31 or later.) 01 10/31 11/1 11/29 12/15 none 9.0" 3/20-21 02 11/1 11/1 11/4 11/17 1/4 13.8" 1/4-5 03 10/22 10/23 12/6 12/6 12/6-7 24.0" 12/6-7 04 11/21 11/21 12/7 2/10 2/10-11 21.0" 2/10-11 05 10/23 10/25 10/25 12/16 none 5.9" 1/29-30 (Most recent previous winter I've seen w/o a 6"+ event was 1967-68 in NNJ.) 06 10/23 12/7 12/8 12/8 2/14-15 18.5" 4/4-5 07 11/8 11/20 12/3 12/3 12/3-4 12.5" 1/1-2 08 10/29 11/25 11/25 12/17 12/21-22 24.5" 2/22-23 09 10/13 11/5 11/6 12/9 2/25-28 10.7" 2/25-28 (2.67" LE, 4:1 mashed potatoes) 10 10/22 10/31 11/26 12/27 4/1-2 15.1" 4/1-2 11 10/29 10/29 10/30 10/30 none 9.7" 11/23 12 11/5 11/8 11/8 12/17 2/8-9 12.5" 3/19-20 13 11/10 11/10 12/2 12/15 12/15 13.5" 3/12-13 14 11/1 11/2 11/14 11/26 11/26-27 20.0" 1/27-28 15 10/18 11/23 12/29 12/29 none 8.5" 1/12-13 16 10/25 11/21 11/25 12/12 12/29-30 21.0" 12/29-30 and 2/12-13 17 11/10 11/16 12/9 12/25 1/4 13.0" 1/4 18 10/13 10/27 10/27 11/13 1/19-20 19.9" 3/7-9 19 10/25 11/8 11/11 12/31 3/23-24 10.3" 3/23-24 20 10/26 11/3 11/25 12/5 none 9.5" 2/2 Earliest flakes; accum; 1"+; 4"+ 10"+ Winter's largest Avg 10/27 11/9 11/22 12/10 1/21 14.5" Med. 10/26 11/8 11/25 12/15 1/4 13.5" OCT 15 6 3 2 6 w/none 0 NOV 8 16 12 3 1 1 DEC 0 1 8 16 6 1.5 JAN 1 3 7 FEB 1 4 4.5 MAR 2 7 APR 2 Never had 1"+ w/o an earlier T/0.1"+. Closest was 2011. Only "triplets" were 10/29/00 (accum, 1", 4") and 2/10[11]/05 (4", 10", largest)

Nice. Looks like a veneer log in that oak.

Yes, absolutely. But the issue in this little part of the thread was length of immunity after recovering the disease, mostly folks who had COVID-19 before the vaccine was available. Should those folks be treated like unvaccinated non-COVID "veterans"?

BOS 102/83; PVD 104/75 (RI hottest)

I think the current max for New England is 107 on 8/2/75 (Hot Saturday) at New Bedford, MA. All 6 states have relatively close all time hottest. RI is lowest at 104, also on Hot Saturday. CT and NH have reached 106 and VT/ME 105. All 3 NNE states set their records in July 1911, CT (Danbury) in July 1995. Edit: Looked at GFS for SEA and it had H5s up to -2, so the freezing level is well up the snowy Cascades.

Also the low number of people who are contraindicated for ANY vaccine due to medical reasons. Might run afoul of ADA by blocking those folks.

Rhetorical question, and somewhat irrelevant. How many smallpox or measles survivors got the disease a 2nd time? Only anecdotal, but I had measles about 1952 before the vaccine was available afaik and haven't contracted it again. (Also have not been tested for immunity.)

We're in the western edge. June precip up to 0.83", driest June of 23 here is 1.22". June 1-9 was +9.8 here but since then it's been about average. After today the month will be running +3. I see a decent chance that the coming heat will push June 2021 past 2001 for 2nd warmest but essentially no chance of catching 1999 for 1st place. We'll be about 2.3° less warm than 1999 with only 5 days remaining - would take the 2-3 hottest days we've had since moving here in May 1998 to make up the difference. Not impossible, highly unlikely.

As I watched the towers collapse, one after the other, I wondered why they pancaked rather than falling over (or just standing until the fires burned themselves out.) Thinking later and considering the evidence - each tower probably weighed something north of 500,000 tons and 20%+ of that was uphill from the points of impact. The fires involved 4-5 floors, say 50 feet, and when the structural steel heated until it lost most of its tensile strength, 100,000+ tons dropped that ~50 feet with little resistance. The impact of that huge mass hitting the undamaged floors below - nothing was going to even slow it down.

38 here. Might be the coolest until Sept.

Upper 30s this AM, coolest temp of the month and latest day in 24 Junes here to be the month's minimum.

0.11" yesterday, 0.83" for June. Maine's Steiniest locations (0.09" to 0.15") centered on the foothills. (As usual) Edit: Farmington's driest May-June couplet in its 129-yr POR is 3.46" in 1980. They had 1.54" last month so would need more than 1.91" to avert a new low. If their RA this month is like mine, that's more than an additional inch - might be hard to come by.

SSTs at S.Maine beaches should be mid 60s by then. Not Ocean City, MD but quite tolerable, especially if it's a hot day.

A full order of magnitude too high for here?

30 minutes ago radar looked filled in from overhead to a long ways upstream, albeit with RA-. Just looked again and Poof! - nothing between here and AFN. That 0.50" model output I noted a couple minutes ago is more likely to be 0.05", if that.

90 minutes of occasional dripping (not dz) so far, adding up to "T". Missed out completely last evening as well, only the unforecast "Little Shower That Could" yesterday morning has averted a total failure so far. GFS has about 1/2" between now and 03z for both AUG and RUM. Seeing would be believing; radar seems to shred a bit as it approaches here.

Hope it's a spasm rather than a disk - initial pain probably similar but far briefer consequences. I've only had the former but my first one - age 34 and after a month in a walking cast thanks to the woods wreck (pickup vs. log truck, predictable results.) Probably the worst pain of my life. Next morning I spent about 15 minutes traveling the 20' to the commode, 3 or more firm points of contact at all times, in terror from the possibility of an unexpected move. Because it was muscles only, the pain was becoming significantly less by Sunday PM (spasm hit Friday PM) and was essentially gone by Tuesday. Subsequent spasms were less acute but lasted longer.