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EWR had a low of 86 to go with that 108 on 7/22/2011. The low was tied the next day and those 2 are warmest minima on record by 2°. That 108 is tops by 3° - half a dozen days have hit 105.

Friend in Farmington got caught in a brief cloudburst yesterday afternoon. Here we haven't even had a heavy dew since Isaias went thru.

Then about 16:30 another monster gust took out the silver maples across the road, and it seemed the heaviest rain came after the 26-minute mark, though that was also when it started sluicing the window. (And that "pine" is/was a Colorado blue spruce though the entire spruce genus is in the pine family. Also, note the tree that's behind the house across the street, in line with that foreground iron lamp holder or whatever. Retained full foliage and branches while other ones broke or partly defoliated or both. Made me wonder what species that was to hold together so well.)

My mom's parents had a summer place in Long Valley (part of Chester, NJ) that had 3/4-acre lawn that we would mow periodically during the summer, with 2-3 yellowjacket nests found per visit. That's where the burnout crater occurred. From age 5 thru 20 I doubt there was a single summer in which I didn't get multiple stings. The critters' love for me remains - several years ago on one of our peer0review field trips, 25 of us were tromping over some logging slash - me toward the middle of the line - when I got hit, hollered "yellowjackets!" and all the folks sped the hundred yards to the spot we wanted to discuss. One of the buggers followed and hit me a third time. (No one else was bothered. )

DeLorme has Long Pond (aka Beaver Mountain Pond) at 1,729' so that lot might be 1800+. View looking south across the pond includes Public Lands' Four Ponds Unit, the lot is handy to Rangeley, 3 miles or so from the AT crossing of Route 4, maybe 5 from Smalls Falls and if it's readily buildable that seems a good price.

Many years ago my dad did the evening gas-and-match to maybe the most populous yellowjacket nest I've seen, judging by the width of the swarm earlier in the day. (How we mower pushers avoided getting stung I'll never know.) Next morning there was a hole bigger than a bushel basket, caused by the burnout of all the underground nest structure.

Rangeley might be getting even pricier than it has always been, what with nearly $40 million being pumped into Saddleback, with plans to open for the first time in 5-6 years. Great mountain, and while Maine can't match the northern Greens for upslope, Saddleback's NW exposure probably gives it the best in the state.

Maybe. I'd note the 2007-08 snow season, with nothing approaching a KU but loads of low-end warning criteria, perhaps analogous to Cat 1&2 events rather than TCs peaking at 45 to 60, and my snowiest winter since Fort Kent. This hurricane season is more like 2004-05, when I had a bunch of small events through early Feb but none even reaching 4". Maybe our TCs could be like that winter, which broke the meh with 21" (and thunder) on Feb 10-11 and 40" more thru March 12.

I'd guess 2020 ACE is less than half of 2005's to date.

Since June 17, only 10 BN days out of 59 (and today will make 10 of 60.) Despite that proportion, temps have run only +2.9 - lots of meh with occasional real heat. Only one day, June 20, was more than 10° AN.

One 1st-order station and one long-term co-op: CAR 81-10 91-20* Diff. % diff Temp 39.87 41.03 +1.16 2.9% Precip 38.79 40.36 +1.57 4.0% Snow 112.36 119.20 +6.84 6.1% Farm. 81-10 91-20* Diff. % diff Temp 42.28 42.96 +0.68 1.6% Precip 48.37 49.34 +0.97 2.0% Snow 86.51 92.14 +5.63 6.5% * 2020 to date. Rest of year might alter 91-20 by a tenth or two if wx is really anomalous. Shedding the low-snow 1980s in exchange for 2011-20 is huge.

That's a great illustration of the Northeast's vulnerability to even a modest (for a hurricane) storm but doesn't alter my opinion of the West Atlantic season being a long parade of weaklings (so far.) And up here the forecast of 1-2" barely made it to 0.7", though even that was welcomed. And we've not had a drop since.

Most of that snow came with temps about 10, with some wind, though we didn't get the good dendrites of farther west - 15.5" from 1.80" LE. Ratio of 8.6-to-1 from tiny flakes. Farmington co-op reported 23.0" but I'd been in town at the height of the storm and later, and their snowfall looked no different than mine. (Not as egregious as 12/6-7/2003 - measured 24" at my place, 40" reported at the co-op. We got to church - 1.5 miles SE from the co-op and 100' higher - during the final flakes and the parking lot had about 2 feet. I'd believe 30, maybe. I had 6" by 9 PM with SN+ and 18" after. Co-op had 14" by midnight - 8" in 3 hr was reasonable - but 26" after midnight was not. With a midnight measure my snow probably would've been 12" in each day. Lots of drifting in that one. )

I should've checked before posting. Hanna (80) and Isaias (85) are the only ones with winds above 65 mph, and the current pair aren't likely to join those two. Meh. In fact, other than the post-equinocal snows, the past 12 months have been one long meh.

Two more in a bunch of dwarf TCs. How many of the 11 so far this year have exceeded 50 mph sustained?

Morning GFS now less than 0.1" and GYX AFD says "sporadic showers." And another day-5 RA event goes away.

Most abrupt and amazing flip I can recall. Nov and Dec each my mildest here, though 2015 eclipsed Dec. Then Jan was +11 thru the 13th and season total snowfall thru that date was 11". The rest of Jan and all of Feb was -7 with 3 advisory events plus V-Day. 1st 9 days of March were 12° BN with -2 aft max on the 6th and daily mean 32° BN on the 8th (my greatest departure here) plus a warning-criteria snowfall. Had 37" in April to cap the comeback - 11" thru Jan 13 and 84" afterwards. Farmington's snowiest April in its 128-yr POR, 50% more than #2.

20+ years a go a group of elderly ladies used the darts method, and their results over a couple years outperformed the Dow and most of the big houses like Merrill-Lynch.

From the article: The policy would be in full force inside any sheriff buildings and civilians coming into that office would be barred from wearing a mask. If that civilian doesn't want to go mask-less, he or she will be asked to exit the building and leave a cell phone number so they could be called and invited back inside when a sheriff's employee is free to meet with them. The sheriff may be free to direct his department's policy, but telling his employers (the citizens) they cannot come into the building wearing a mask seems like dereliction of duty and makes second-class citizens of all who wish to be masked, especially those with comorbidities that make them high risk. Who gets to tell their boss how to behave? I suspect he added the barring of mask-wearing citizens to make a political statement and I hope it backfires before anyone gets sick due to his idiotic policy.

Late June - the 38° low on 6/16 brought the month down to 1.7 BN. Shortly thereafter we had a week of +9 (+6 to +13 and 2nd 90+ since 2005) that ensured the month would finish AN. August is currently +2.9 after the past 3 days of +6, +8, +10.

AN temps, AN dews, one lightning strike closer than 2 miles and 7 of our 8 TS consisted of distant rumbles, though some had good RA. Have yet to observe a lightning bolt this year. For one like me who dislikes heat and loves noisy TS, it's a lose-lose.

GFS op had 1.4" yesterday afternoon for Mon-Tues at Augusta, 0.9" this AM and less than 0.6" for 12z. Final answer tenth to a quarter? (if that?)

Glad you got the real answer, as my guess was way off. I should've asked about the size - with no visual reference I assumed they were up to 2" long instead of being way smaller.

Less than 40 days to my median date for 1st frost. Clipped the tops off the 'maters and did final planting of greens.

Pretty much on schedule. The wetland red maples seem to turn according to the calendar, while their upland relatives (and other species) react to both photoperiod and temperature. Some 3/4-size acorns under the large (22" by 85') red oak behind the house.