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Video wouldn't stream on my PC but the stills are impressive. Even worse is when a tree like that merely smolders, with little smoke, then bursts into flame a few days later when fanned by stiff CAA. Some significant forest fires have started that way.

Cleared off quickly after yesterday's TS and dropped the low here to mid 50s - the dews are just now rolling in. First "real" TS of the year, though the fairly frequent lightning never got closer than 2 miles. Probably half of the 0.47" RA came 5:10-5:15 PM, by far the highest rate I've seen for a while. My wife was driving home from Farmington during the heaviest and our Forester briefly hydroplaned, which was scary and led to her pulling over into the nearest safe place to wait out the RA++.

Just heard a strike that might have been within 3 miles, closest of the year, and unless the line suddenly parts like the Red Sea we should get a good show. Unplugging again...

Well, that "arm" dislocated at the elbow and we had 0.03", and a half hour of near-constant thunde0 (now fading to the SE), most to the south but some from the small piece that broke away and passed to the north. No strikes close enough to see the flash in daylight so I could count off the miles, so probably all 4+ miles distant. We'll see if our 2020 lightning shield can withstand the much bigger bunch coming from the NW. Edit: The warning area will probably extend to cover MBY, but right now there's a teeny bit of Franklin County in the "bird's mouth" between and outside of the now-connected warned areas, and our place is right in the middle of those 3 square miles.

That cell is growing a northerly arm - think it's time to shut down/unplug the computers. Would not like having to explain why I allowed the State laptop to get fried.

And I'm about 2 miles north of the smaller area's NE corner - BAU (though we'll probably get something from the north edge of that cell.)

Haven't seen that much purple on a radar scan since the August 2007 Rome defoliator. Just some rumbles here from a small but intense-looking cell, but the real action is up near the border country.

That "weakening line" died on our doorstep - not a drop, just the clouds to lower the chances of much RA later.

Weakening line of showers should go thru here in the next half hour, and trailing cloud debris won't help with destabilizing afterwards.

105 in Maine (Bridgton) and Vermont, for their hottest on record as well. That 1911 furnace had the benefit of modest (low 60s?) dews in NNE, judging by minima in the 60s and diurnal ranges 35+, except at ASH which had minima to mid-70s. Farmington co-op has touched triples just twice since 1911, reaching 100 in June 1944 and 101 on Hot Saturday in 1975. Has not topped 95 since 1995. (And I hope it doesn't this year, either.)

No sneaky qpf here for the late Feb event in 2010 - models were showing 3-4" several days prior to the first flakes/stuff, the only question was P-type. Verified at 3.81" here for the total event, 2.67" in 10.7" mush and 1.14" in cold RA. Maybe 5F away from duplicating what occurred on the same dates 41 years before. (Capping the winter's frustration.)

That Christmas night + storm is CAR's biggest at 33" and change. Same at Fort Kent where the co-op recorded 32". Eastern had a member from FK then and he measured 37". Given the one-a-day and seemingly lackadaisical reporting from the co-op, I think the higher number is more accurate.

2005-06 was my only winter in the past 50+ years that failed to produce a storm 6"+. It's a member of my bottom 5 Maine winters, with 1973-74, 1979-80, 2009-10 and 2015-16.

True. The Whites and Greens (and BTV) did a lot better than CAR's 71", their 4th lowest on record and 7" less than BWI.

2009-10! Four KUs and MBY featured 3 total whiffs plus the ugliest 10" snowstorm I ever hope to see, followed by 1.1" of 33-34F RA while NYC had a 21" snowicane. Probably would be worse for one who has just moved from MA to NNE. June had the widest range of temps I've seen in that month, from 27 on the 1st to 90 on the 20th. That 27 was equaled at the Farmington co-op and tied 6/9/1980 for their coldest June morning in their 127-year POR. Ironically, just 3 days earlier they set a new record high minimum for the Month of May. With the wide extremes AN and BN, June finished a bit over +1 for temps. Also, June 1-27 had 0.61" and 28-30 brought 3.58"; the 4.19" total was also about 1.1 BN.

Cold meh up here thanks to suppression. Long period of snow cover but no depth, and nearly 2 feet BN for snowfall.

After MWN got 500"+ in 1968-69, folks were talking about the Tuckerman's glacier. There were estimates that Tucks had about 90' in places. That my have been the thru-the-summer year.

Finally floated the canoe in North Pond (Belgrade Lakes.) Lots of small white perch but I was after what's eating fish that size. Never a bad day on the lake. - saw a fawn bouncing thru the brush next to a shoreline lawn and had a large snapping turtle surface within 5 yards of me, twice. Water is cloudy with algae so couldn't see the whole animal but its head looked like the 40-pounders I caught in NNJ eons ago.

Some of those millions on unemployment plus the $600/week are now finding time for the projects they've been putting off. Most states I've looked at have forest products manufacturing on the essential activity list and while producing PT isn't mentioned specifically, it fits under the broader field. Of course, if half the mill's workforce has tested positive for COVID, that would sure have an impact.

Chris has mentioned "corn-fed dews" from his time at DVN. Dews would peak up to mid 80s, often after dark as the corn was turning the day's solar energy into stalks and ears.

Warned TS looks to pass just to my east while a lesser one misses west. Glad I got the 3.7" earlier in the week.

Sounds a bit like my sister-in-law, who is otherwise a great lady and doing strong in her 70s (same decade as I'm in.) Some years ago she and my brother were staying at our parents' NNJ home, using the spare downstairs bedroom. About 4 AM one night she shook my brother awake, saying, "There's a spider in here! I can hear it!" My brother dutifully got up, turned on the light and proceeded to search all over the room for about 20 minutes, finally discovering a spider about the size of a pinhead. He dispatched it, carefully showed the carcass to his wife, and all slept peacefully the rest of the night.

Exactly my total but that includes the 0.08" overnight. I've done my daily obs at 9 PM since moving to Fort Kent in 1976, and precip also at 7 AM for cocorahs since August 2009. These multi-day events can make my two obs times and reporting intervals a challenge. For this one my obs series is as follows (Note: The AM obs is for 10 hours while the PM covers 14.): 6/28 PM: 0.08" (and some distant thunder before any measurable.) 6/29 AM: 0.15" 6/29 PM: 1.37" 6/30 AM: 0.66" 6/30 PM: 1.32" 7/01 AM: 0.08" And we're still getting occasional showers. High temps 28th/29th were 65/63. Had 0.65" May 17 thru June 27 [43 days], then almost 6X as much in 3 days.)

Sandy River is up near 3300 cfs, from its 130 prior to this RA and still rising. Oddly the Kennebec, 40 miles downstream from its confluence with the Sandy, is showing only 2200, and the impoundments in those 40 miles are small potatoes for holding back freshets. The Carrabassett puts in about 10 miles upstream from the Sandy and it's running near 2000 though its curve looks to be near its peak. The flow at the Sidney gauge will probably look a lot different this time tomorrow. Two-minute shower just ending. Glad I wasn't walking out to the pickup at the time - have a rain jacket but wouldn't have put it on unless it was raining as I headed out the door.

No sooner had I posted this but the sun burnt thru enough cloud to actually create shadows for a few minutes here. Not long afterwards came a 10-minute downpour, heaviest RA I've seen in this event though no toad-strangler. Back to just cloudy now.