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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.

Not on a bike, but when I was 5 a friend and I were scrambling on the "cliffs" in a neighbor's front yard when I slipped backwards and fell about 5', landing forehead-first on a sloping rock. Wound was small but bled "like the Red Sea" (friend's description). No obvious long-term effects, though others might disagree. On a sadder biking note, about 5 years ago I reconnected thru FB with my best friend (ages 8-22) after nearly 50 years. He moved to Idaho shortly after finishing college and at reconnect time he was dominating the state's age-class mountain bike races. A couple months after the reconnect he took a bad fall at speed while practicing, resulting in serious brain damage. Then cascading issues culminating with a spinal cord infection took his life.

PF's "warm wind" post: BTV 88/69 and gusting almost 40mph out of the south. Feels like the Caribbean when it’s around 90F and the flags are straight out in a hairdryer wind. From my report of the forestry peer-review trip of Sept. 31-Oct. 1, 2005 We were heartened by the rain having nearly stopped while we dined. It was replaced by a strangely warm (for this latitude) strong wind, tropical air transported north by the remains of the hurricane. The first day was a downpour from the remnants of Katrina. Then we dined at the hilltop restaurant in St. Agatha. After dinner, about 9 PM, was when the unnaturally warm wind was noted - temp was probably near 70, especially mild after a day of 50s RA+. Normal temp there on 9/31 is about 56/36.

And one by GYX north/NE from Jackman, though that one may have expired. Edit: It's expired, though the cell still has some strong echoes as it moves past Seboomook Lake.

Had a TOR warning north of Jackman. Still some 55-60 dbz pixels when I looked 10 minutes ago but earlier there were shades of 70.

I think it was 6 in the same week earlier this month, all on inland waters.

Yesterday the PoP for Tuesday was 80% at my ZIP. It's now 30%, climbing to 40% Tuesday night (when I except full-on CAA and beaucoup dry air.)

Had 5 minutes of that just before 10 this morning, probably the heaviest RA here since last summer. Glad to get the 0.27" because forecasts are continually reducing what to expect before the CAA ends the chances. There's a realistic chance this whole bunch goes thru here dry, save for that morning surprise.

Ground zero! When I smack one there all her chums come to the funeral, and of course after the service they expect a meal. Only ones and twos so far here, and nothing outside of Aroostook has approached the dozens (seemed like hundreds) that would torment me in the Allagash/St. John woods. While high 80s and beyond usually discourage the black flies (1996 the notable exception) I've never seen it too hot for deerflies. Maybe they're use to it because of where they come from?

Little shower ended with a 5-minute downpour, total 0.27". That patch of rain, now mostly dissolved, acted like Rt 2 was its monorail. Very uncommon.