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And ENE got squat. We were forecast for advisory level snow but by the time the cold air arrived the precip was about done - just a few flakes here. Fitting end to a crummy snow season.

With the July 4th weekend crowds, surprised there was any uncovered sand above the high tide line.

Hoped to find records back thru 1965. If they're available, I could not find them. Quabbin probably hit their lowest in August 1966.

2005-06 definitely, my 2nd lowest snowfall of 22 winters here and less than 8" after Jan 31. 83-84 and 85-86 were mostly meh where I am now, though 83-84 had a cold March with a 23" snowstorm and that winter we lived in northern Maine and the March storm dumped 26.5", biggest snowfall I've experienced and brought the pack to 65", also tops. The other 9 averaged 104" compared to the nearby co-op's 90" average. Weak ENSO in either direction averages AN for snow here though La Nada is about average.

Thanks for the full context; I was writing from memory. My semi-quotes came from the KJV. Both are reliable versions.

As a grandfather, I still look back to 1966 when I lived in NNJ. That met summer held NYC's heat and drought records for 44 years until 2010 came in a fraction warmer. Still holds the drought record, also tied with 1953 for most 100+ (4) though the earlier year's 4th triple came in met fall. Since I spent that summer working between counter and grill at Curtis-Wright's summer resort, that additional heat just accentuated the extremes that season. On Sunday, July 3 NYC was 103 and LGA 107 and we had the biggest crowd through the gate of any day in my 2 summers there. The coil thermometer at the end of the counter was well beyond 120, the highest number on its face, and I worked a lot closer to grill and fryers than was that instrument. It was so far beyond anything in my NNE experience that the memory is emblazoned on my brain.

Today's mid-60s dews take it out of CoC for me, but it's looking like things dry out during the day tomorrow.

Reminds me of a parable in Luke's Gospel. Paraphrasing it very loosely, a man has crop yields too great to fit in his barns, so he decides to tear them down and build bigger. He thinks that then he'll be all set for years and years. But God says, "Thou fool!" and says the man's life ends that very night, "and whose will be your goods now?"

More likely the owners didn't want to be associated with the poor folks who can only afford $5 million mansions.

The Coplin address piqued my curiosity but when I read about Beaver Mountain Lake I knew they had the wrong township - Coplin is next to Stratton and north from Sugarloaf. To see that lake from there would require X-ray vision to penetrate Crocker and Redington Mountains. It's Sandy River Plt, as your earlier post noted. Looks like a nice spot though the driveway seems steep. (And both Coplin and Sandy River share the 04970 ZIP with Rangeley.)

"Safe" in this context is relative. The science says that wearing masks greatly reduces the chances of getting COVID-19 but I've not heard any science that says it totally eliminates the chances. Sitting in a poorly ventilated room (typical of many small-town voting places) for 8 hours while hundreds of people file by multiplies the "greatly reduce[d]" chances. Volunteers in our town are generally dedicated and will be there, but reducing the number of folks parading past the registry table can only help. Edit: 'Berg nicely describes the "lock the gate behind me" syndrome.

Depends on how one does it. When "phase 2" arrived in June, meetings of up to 50 people were okayed, with masks and/or distancing. Our pews are tape-blocked such that differing family groups sit 6+ feet apart and families with younger kids view the service remotely from a downstairs room to ensure <50. We do sing hymns, but those with louder voices (like me) mask up to sing. Choir has not yet resumed - we had hoped to present our Easter program for the church's 40th anniversary in June - no go - so now were looking at December and doing it as the Christmas program as the material works for either holiday. I'm not real confident it will go completely, maybe just the spoken parts w/o the choir. Just common sense.

With the new town hall just beginning to be built and no sizable place in town to vote, a social-distanced queue of more than 10 people will have most standing outside. November can be messy, even during the 1st week. Because of that and our ages, my wife and I will vote absentee but hand-deliver our ballots before the crowds arrive on election day. Killington folks gone wild And it may be just beginning. Less than 30 of the 65 guests at the infamous Millinocket wedding early last month got the virus, but with secondary/tertiary infections the total related positives is probably approaching 140, with 66 in the York County jail alone. When it was 54 the cases included 19 staff and 35 prisoners. Yikes!

The arborist bill might be more than what it cost (in 2020 $$) to build the pool.

Despite the SNE damage from Isaias, it was still a Cat 1, so the season to date might be called "Laura and the dozen dwarves."

Dec 1992 was just wind at my (then) home in Gardiner, nary a flake. PWM had 2" so I doubt IZG got much. Feb 1978 dumped 22" at the Farmington co-op, only 2" where I lived in Ft. Kent. We were marking timber near the south shore of Eagle Lake about 15 miles south of FK and had S- on an eerily steady north wind about 25 mph. I can't remember another significant wind that had so few gusts. In my 10 years in northern Maine we had only one decent snowfall that also tagged both CHI and NYC, the April 1982 blizz. Anything else that got both sites at 40-41N invariably kept heading east.

August numbers: Avg. max: 74.61 0.30 BN. Warmest was 86 on the 11th, coolest 55 on the 29th - tied with 8/29/09 for month's coolest max. Avg. min: 53.52 0.81 AN. Coolest was 38 on the 28th, mildest 66 on the 12th. Avg. mean: 64.06 0.25 AN. Was running +3 thru the 1st 2 weeks. Warmest mean was 74 on the 12th, coolest 52 on the 29th. Precip: 1.79" 2.18" BN. Greatest one-day: 0.90" on the 29th. Had 0.71" from Isaias on the 4th-5th, thus 0.18" for the other 28 days. 1 TS, tied for lowest Met summer: Avg. temp: 64.45 1.26 AN. 4th warmest of 23. Warmest: 65.78 in 1999; coolest 61.24 in 2009. Hottest day: 90 on 6/20; coolest: 27 on 6/1. Precip: 11.82" 1.37" BN. 8.33" (70%) fell June 28-July 14. Wettest was 23.82" in 2009 (of course), driest was 7.24" in 2002. Greatest one-day: 1.98" on 6/30

4th warmest of 23 here, about 1.5 degrees behind 1999 and slightly less warm than 2001 and 2005. The last 6 days of August averaged 64/45 and kept this summer out of the #2 slot.

York County locations had up to 21" and Machias 25", so those big Maine forecasts verified in a few places. Had 125% of average snowfall that winter, but for "woulda-coulda" frustration it ranks behind only 2009-10 since we came to Maine in 1973.

It was 38 years ago that we watched and read about NYC to BOX getting a freak April blizzard, then went to bed after seeing the CAR forecast for windy 20s and flurries, that last added only late in the evening. By 2 AM we had S+ and CAR wound up with 26.3". Only 17 at my place, a wild guess in the 50+ gusts (27" at the stake pre-storm, 25" after but 6' drifts a few yards away on either side) but the most impactful snowstorm of my 10 years in northern Maine though only 5th biggest snowfall. Of course, the VD massacre of 2015 is the other kind - blizzard warnings for 18-24, lowered to 12-18 by the afternoon shift and verifying at 1.5".

I was fortunately having way too much fun to think about retiring that early. It's in the works now, however, for December if Maine PERS can get to my benefits options in time - they have a lot of folks in the queue. Might look into a private contract to assist with next year's full recertification audit.

I can't fault you for disagreeing. BOX depth reached 31" in Jan 1996 while 150 miles north we never got past 28, as the big KU was a fringe job there. That was somewhat AN for max depth in Gardiner but peanuts compared to BOX's anomaly. My "affection" for deep pack was born in my Fort Kent years. The monster pack in 1961 in NNJ is a strong memory, but that winter was almost the only incidence of significant pow-pow. Usually the snows fell on bare ground there, or on a bit of whitish crust. In the years once I became interested in snow records (began about 1956) until moving to BGR in 1973, my area in NNJ averaged 50-55", which is about 15" above the long-term average, and the Feb 1961 storm is the only one that brought a 10"+ storm atop a 10"+ pack. Even the snowier locations in NW Jersey at 1000+ elevation did that only the one time. Where I live now it occurs in more than half our snow seasons, even this past BN one though barely - the 10.3" on 3/23-24 fell atop a 10" pack.

First fire in the stove this season (except for burning some non-recyclable papers) as the past 2 days' means of 52 and 54 had cooled the house to 63-64. (Thermostat set near 60 so no oil used.)

Not quite as stark here. We've had 11.82" May 17 thru today (average for the period is 15.17", so not terrible) but the 17 days June 28-July 14 had 8.33" and the rest 3.49" - 2.59" over the remaining 88 days w/o Saturday's 0.90. Another CoC day, low 40s this AM to upper 60s this afternoon - w/o yesterday's wind, clouds and 60° max. Last 5 days' highs: 64, 65, 72 (low of 38), 55, 60. Middle day's high only 1° BN but the other 4 averaged -12.

Probably about the same here, after being +3 a couple weeks into the month. Yesterday's 55/49 took a bite out of the AN. That max ties for the coolest I've had in August here. Exactly 11 years ago we had the same 55/49, but only 0.62" compared to yesterday's 0.90.