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And I thought 0.28" was bad. Driest month since moving here is 0.31" in April of 1999. I think Monday will allow that mark to stand. 2nd is January 2004 at 0.57" and that may be in play. 3rd is 0.84" in both November 2012 and September 2014. I think they'll be tied for 4th on 9/1.

Same here, but I think it's drought rather than coolness.

Same here. Usually, my site radiates better than yours - maybe a bit of breeze last evening here? Absolutely beautiful today, 73° when I got back from my knee-exercising walk at 3 PM, almost 3/4 mile - taking it bit by bit. Looked at what my new neighbors - 3 families, dad, 2 sons, families - have been doing this summer other than burning powder at the big (200' by 100') old logyard. Even at 800' thru the woods the noise is serious, though it's mainly 9 mm pistol. Only a few .223 cases and 12 ga. buckshot hulls, also 3 well shot-up pieces of plywood. Maybe they can push a deer to me while I'm sitting next the sled trail thru our woodlot this coming Nov.

Fake cold? We're good at that here.

In most years, our white birches start dropping leaves in mid-late August. Drought (1.82" July 1 on) has brought some leaves from other species. Our driest August is 0.88" in 2002 and we're 0.60" behind that. GYX discussions have .25-.50 Sunday/Monday then some dry days. Could be close.

When I caught that in November of 2022, my wife was convinced I was having a stroke. It messed up my vision as well. Fortunately, it was quickly diagnosed (Doc seeing another tick stuck to my back at the ER helped) and doxycycline knocked out the worst symptoms in 24 hours.

Through yesterday, August has offered 75% of available sunshine. Tops for a full month came in July 2019 with 69%. Some overnight downpours would make this month nearly perfect. 68/44 yesterday and 38 this morning, first sub-40 in August since 2020.

In the 40s this morning. First August rain (0.28") yesterday afternoon between 4:20 and 5. Enough breeze to bring down some early leaves but no thunder.

Met summer here is stuck at 3.93". Average thru August 16 is just over 11".

Meh here. Only 4 days with thunder and except one strike about 3 miles distant last May, nothing has come within 5 miles. Average here thru mid-August is 11 and lowest thru 8/31 is 8, in 2010 (also that year's total).

Nasty stuff. Pic below is from 3/27/21, a day after that 70-foot fir tree was blown apart, 55 yards from the house. In addition to traumatizing our yellow Lab mix (she was still shaking 45 minutes later), the strike ruined the connection between our generator and its dedicated panel. We only learned that in April when power went off. Genny started as usual but no transfer to the house. Technicians came and created a manual work-around (in rain turning to snow plus wind) so I could go down-cella, open the panel and flip the switch, until they could do a complete fix when the ground had thawed. Last winter the transfer again quit but I could do the manual switch; the tech came in the spring and had to replace the toasted auto-switch within the panel - probably had been compromised back in 2021 then finally died.

Not yet. Our shallow well's reserve is usually ~500 gallons (5 ft deep in the tubs). In 2001, our driest year here, it was below 300 and dropping, until late fall. CON is +4.8F on the highs and -1.1F on the mins. Yore heat Similar here: +5.5 and -0.8

Late March into June, yes. Then I planted the garden and the spigot was turned off - 1.53" since July 1 and 0.00" since August 1.

So far August has produced . . . dust. GYX has us with 60% PoP Sunday. 2 days ago that same 60% was forecast for today. Reminds me of an old comment about wx signs - in a drought, all signs fail.

Sounds great. Sometimes trout will find a hole in the river just downstream from where the cool tributaries enter, also the pool below the falls. My only trip there (May 1981) began at Henderson Brook Bridge and ended with a night at the falls, as I had a family trip planned and had stashed my vehicle near Michaud Farm. The rest continued to St. Francis. Parks had asked Seven Islands to check whether the freaky February (CAR had +15 for the month, which also included their 7 mildest days in Feb) that sent the ice bridge downriver had left aspen logs blocking the critical take-out above the falls. All was clear.

Beats my 1.53" for the same period. Had some sprinkles in Farmington last evening, not enough to wet the ground, but not a drop at home.

91 at 1:20 and maybe going higher - 3rd heat wave here in 28 summers. Reasonable dews preventing huge discomfort, though full sun is still a furnace. Temps Mon/Wed: 91/60; 92/61; 91*/59. *so far. First 2 HWs also suggest bearable TDs: 8/02: 90/57; 90/61; 91/62 6/2003 (note correction of year): 91/52; 91/60; 90/64. Yeah. We have been noticing a lack of bats. White-nose fungus has decimated many species of bats, especially those which overwinter in hibernacula (e.g. caves). The fungus causes them to awake too early, depleting stored energy such that the critters don't survive hibernation.

Indeed. 91/92 the past 2 days, and here in the woods we aren't likely to reach the upper 90s of the AUG/BGR airports. (That 92 sets a new max for August here.) We've had only 2 heat waves here, June 27-29, 1999 and August 13-15, 2002. Only some siggy clouds would prevent #3 as today's launch pad was near 60, again - relatively dry equals quick heat. Day 1 of our annual forestry "peer review" field trip stayed mostly in deep shade, fortunately, and so far no reports of tick encounters. They seem to disappear here in August, but unfortunately they're back in a big way a month from now. Today's agenda includes some strategies for protecting brown ash from EAB, as the species has shown little/no resistance and it's culturally critical to indigenous peoples in NNE and the Maritimes/southern PQ. (I'm skipping today in favor of resting my new knee joint and surrounding tissue.)

Probably just dormant, but 'crunch, crunch' when walking on it is a bit unsettling. Temp has reached 90 here, first time hitting that mark in August since 2002, when it was 90/90/91 on 8/13-15. Can we have another triple? My guess is that we get clouded (and 'dewed') out of 90s on Wednesday.

Thanks for the update. I'd missed that.

June 19, 2020 rather than last year. I chose that May day to add 6" of fiberglass insulation to the attic of our tiny (18x20) 2-story. Finished by 11 AM but it was already near 90 outside, 120+ in the workspace. Next day CAR had 95/69; that 82° mean is only 0.5° below their all time hottest.

Today makes 10 without a drop, only 0.03" in the past 16 days and 0.13" in 3 weeks. The town did a great job late last month of adding gravel to our road and grading/rolling it. Nothing but dust now without any real rain to settle the stuff.

Might be tough. Though CON is a warmer spot, its 9-day heat wave in 2002 started on 8/11 (Monday) with highs of 95, 96, 97, 99, 96, 97 before cooling to 92, 96, 91 to finish the run.

Probably heading ENE by then, so eastern SNE gets 60s gusts and a pile of rain while August stays dry here. Had some rumbles about 6 last evening from a TS a few miles north. A bigger system seemed aimed right at us, but it only reached West Farmington, where it died. August precip still 0.00", only 0.13" in the past 19 days and the current forecast has nothing thru Friday (though the AFD mentioned some possible TS midweek).

Nice looking echoes on radar, looking to pass about 5 miles north of here. Just one more tease.