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I remember that one. It was the final field day of our sustainability audit and I had to remove a large dead fir from our road to get in on the fun. When I crouched down to hook the tow strap to the tree, a gust whipped my rain jacket up over my head and the RA+ did its thing.

Of course, it's New England. For areal damage the October 2017 storm beats anything since Bob and it's not really close.

Radar looks like it's working on the great divide, with more to the north and much more to the south. Hoping for at least 1/4". Near 90 in Aroostook with low 60s dews.

Awesome. Up to 21.58" here with last evening's 0.19" and waiting for Freddie's diminishing echoes to do something. We're 11.63" BN for the year, through yesterday.

Amazing for sure, especially when he first hit the gravel section. Looked like a slight wiggle then, only one on the trip.

Don't know what the airport measured, but on cocorahs "Bangor 2.1 N" reported 0.30" and no one in Penobscot County reported more than 0.43".

That's a tall bar. And flooding back then extended from BDL west into the NJ/NY/PA tri-state region. A mini-55 would be bad enough.

Isolated storms. A couple of Kennebec County sites about 25 miles to my south reported 1.90" and 1.42". No other cocorahs reports higher than 0.52" and I had only 0.19". Glad to see a poster from the Queen City. Maine beyond its SW 1/4 has been poorly represented in recent years.

Radar at this latitude is moving at a crawl. Not sure how much gets up here, though GYX has us at 1-2" during the overnight. (Only a tenth to a quarter before then.) Generally, systems moving ENE and drowning SNE are much less wet here. We'll see.

Gutted of wind, still had the water. 4-6" RA in the northern tip of Maine, most between 6 and 10 PM. It blew out Rt 161 in several places west of Ft. Kent and took out a significant fraction of logging road bridges west of Allagash. Some of those "gutted" hurricanes took their revenge with flooding re. 1955.

I'm not. 1.07" this month but despite last month's rain, the May-June-July period was 4" BN here. River thru town is at 25th percentile, not good but better than the record-setting low flows during parts of May and June.

Domestic violence and CTE are testing the patience of many ardent NFL fans. The league needs to do more to stay on top.

Enforce the pitch clock!! Reduce the average time between pitches by just 10 seconds and game time goes back to what it was 50-60 years ago.

Can recall that storm heading due north straight as a string for about 2 days, right toward us, then making a near-instant (for a 'cane) turn to ENE and OTS. Barely got a cloud in central Maine.

Kind of like Sugarloaf in Irene when the upper Carrabassett had 8" while all the neighbors had half that or less. Only road access is Rt 27 and bridges blew out just north and south of the "Loaf's main entrance. (There was a rough back road that allowed one to access Rt 27 south of the blockages.)

Given ski area prices (and those of many other sports/games) I can see why. But spending $3 for coffee and a donut at Sandy River Farm Supply down the road makes cash the simple answer.

In 2007 the 5-acre field where our gravel road meets the tar, about 2,000' from home, was plowed and disked. Next summer it came up 100% goldenrod and thick, probably caught a load of seeds from nearby. (Why would anyone spend money to plant it?) By mid-August they were in full bloom and for the first time in my life I was miserable with allergy - would cough all day then wake up about 2 AM full of mucus and cough for 3/4 hour straight each night, lasted about a week doing that. Same amount of blossoms in 2009 but only very mild reaction and none since, with lots of goldenrod still there.

I'd guess closer to the 10th there. Median here is 9/19. Other than 2011 (10/6) first frosts have all come in September here - 22 of 23.

Haven't had any for 45 years, but maybe those forecasters took my share?

Watched 2 different PWM stations' forecasts this noon, and they must be looking at different models (or something). 1st one had possible Fred effects late Wednesday but it may stay west. 2nd had the effects Friday but may stay south.

Saw the same for HIE. Probably 43-44 here, love it.

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".