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Nice tender yearling. Hope you get that kind of view in daylight.

Kinda like deer hunting. Once brown is down, the work begins. Nice dried-on-the-stump red oak - finest kind. Bluebird day with a bit of breeze.

Like many things, it depends. The hard pines ("Southern yellow pine", several species) are stronger than the soft pines (Eastern white). The damage to our white pines last Dec occurred where they were 50-60 feet taller than the other trees, mainly hardwoods 50-60 feet tall, and about 90% of those 100'+ trees were undamaged. A small (~1/3 acre) plantation of red pine - one of the hard pines - was destroyed by the 4 hours of gusts ~50+, 2/3 broken or tipped over. That stand faced upwind across a long field, with nothing to break the wind. Red pines elsewhere suffered much less damage. White pines 50-foot-tall or greater, out in the open, are likely to fall before sustained 50+ and probably near 100% breakage/uprooting in 60+. The Southern pines have a taproot and are less likely to uproot. Maybe add 10 mph to their resistance, but that's a guess as I've never lived south of Baltimore nor seen wind effects south of NJ.

Nice. (Like the pine seedlings too.) If we get some 70+ warmth after yesterday's rain, I'll check around the white birches by the old stock pond to see if any Boletus betulas (birch boletes) pop up.

Lowest so far here is 37, which will probably stand as the month's coolest. It's our least cool for Sept's lowest, beating last year's 35. 3 of the past 4 Septembers have failed to have a frost. That happened only once (2011) in the previous 23 years.

Finished with 1.41" from 19-20 hours of continuous RA, light to occasionally moderate. Still need a bunch more before the swamps get filled.

Guessing ~400-450 tons in our 47 years (77-78 thru 23-24) as we averaged 5+ cords/year and using 3,500 lb/cord for (mostly) air dried wood. We moved to the back settlement of Fort Kent in Sept 1981 and shoved 9 cords of mostly green wood thru an inefficient stove during a very cold winter. Better stove/system/firewood lowered that to 6 cd/yr the following 3 winters before we moved south.

0.61" thru 7 AM, septupling (not a real word?) my September rain, now up to 0.71". (Not counting the ~2/10" since, and the echoes to our west promise a good bit more.)

Last Dec 18 we had 4 hours of gusts that I guesstimated as ~50 mph. At least half of the larger fir on our 80-acre woodlot were toppled, along with some aspen and a defective large basswood. Also, 2 of our 120-foot-tall pines had their tops blown off. The basswood and 3 of the fir fell across our road and our Generac had a 101-hour workout. I'm confident that an anemometer at 10 meters would've topped out below 40 but the 75-foot fir and those scattered big pines were catching a lot faster wind. Three months earlier we had 3 hours of ~40 mph gusts from Lee (and 0.02" RA compared to 4.21" in Dec), and the only tree damage was breaking off the 2nd fork from one of the tall pines and dumping a couple of defective fir, along with 2 hours of genny. 50 is a lot more real than 40. Hours of gusts 60 would wreck the woodlot - mine and many others'.

Signed in, looked at last winter's totals, no problems. Thanks for setting up the site once again - hope the action is greater than last time.

One can say almost the same things about snow.

Our kids/grandkids had central air both in Decatur, IL and in SNJ, and it's very nice. At my location it would be gross overkill. Our heat pump is all the AC we need, and that's why we bought it. With 5 cords of wood on the ready, we'll not use it for heating unless we both become unable to stoke the Jotul.

I shudder to think how many trees I'd have to dump before solar would be efficient here.

We're 80 miles NNE from Waterboro, and haven't seen temps above 80 or dews taller than low 60s (and only 2-3 days >60) since August 5. The heat pump has been idle since then.

Too dry.

Fat deer going into winter. Too few oaks in our area to have much effect on the critters. 37 this morning, season's lowest. If tonight is clear (which I doubt), we'd make a run at 32. Only 0.10" for the month, 0.01" (our share from the big EMA rainer) in the past 2 weeks, though we should get a modest drink this week. Fall colors are early and muted, except for some of the red maples.

It's tidal all the way to ALB, where high tide occurs about 9 hours later than at Battery Place. Very weird that ALB high tide comes while at Manhattan low tide is passed and it's almost halfway to the next high. And I thought that AUG high tide being 4 hours behind Popham Beach was strange.

Cloudy with low 60s, nice wx for lugging firewood up the stairs. No sun, no rain either. Maine sun is up in the County. (60s there, too, but that's their average.)

Swing and miss (IMO) - looks like something Great Snow would write about "stat geeks" in the baseball threads. It shouldn't be either/or, but both. My stats (and those of others) add to my enjoyment of all wx characteristics (though I'm not big on HHH ).

Over 6" at one CHH site. 0.01" at my place.

We've had some significant warm (like +7 and +8 days) in the past week, but August 5 thru yesterday has run 0.3° BN here.

Peak summer's normal max at EWR is 87. I'd guess that BTV is about 5° below that. Edit: Checked on CLIMOD - it's 83 at BTV.

My first football practice in pads was Sept 1, 1961 - mid 90s and humid in NNJ. Found 0.01" in the gauge this morning. That lifts September into double digits (of hundredths, of course).

Variable. Apparently, the Maine foothills did as well as any. Site BGR CAR Rangeley Hartford** MBY Avg SN* 73.9 120.2 120.9 105.5 89.0 22-23 72.6 133.4 92.0 119.2 101.2 23-24 45.5 88.2 93.8 109.6 99.0 * 1991-2020 norms for the first 3, 1998-99 onward (total records) averages for the other 2. ** Hartford Maine lies in the Sumner Hills of central Oxford County. It's 26 miles SW from my place and 310 feet higher in elevation, a good snow catcher. Biggest foothills "catches" compared to the other sites' snowfall were 20-27"+ on Dec 16-18, 2022, 20-24"+ Mar 23-24, 2024, and 14-20" Apr 4-6, 2024. Hartford had a total of 68.3" from those 3 storms; my share was "only" 57.9".

Ash, both white and brown, are dropping leaves about 2 weeks earlier than usual. Those trees are quite variable due undoubtedly to genetics as all seem vigorous, with leaf drop ranging from 20% to total, the brown a bit less drop than the white. The white birch sprout group within our driveway circle has dropped 60-70% (it always drops early) but the bunch near the old stock pond only 20% drop. Other species maybe 10% except the red oaks, which still think it's June. Color change is modest near the house.