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I'm at the Augusta office, and would guess it's upper 80s on the instrument at home, next to the big lilac bush.

P&C forecast tomorrow for CAR is 97, which would be their hottest on record. Same P&C forecast, same story for Fort Kent. Dry spell is affecting non-irrigated crops but it likely will be a while before wells and reservoirs have serious issues.

Young crops cooking in the field, like the other gray/brown spot around CAR/PQI.

89/61 noontime at CAR - should be in HI numbers next hour. Need 7° to tie their all-time high. Also 89 at MLT but dews still in the 50s.

True. We moved from NNJ to BGR in January 1973 right after their snowiest December on record, and immediately had 40s when the normal is 20s. Got a moderate snow in late month, quickly extirpated in a torch/deluge, and that was it for real winter. The next winter began with the snow-to-downpour event in mid-Dec that had us with RA+ and 56° while my parents in NNJ were at 15 with IP (and western SNE was hammered by ZR), and 1973-74 was only saved from being BGR's least snowy by post-equinoctal storms. Mid-90s in July 1974 then 102 on Hot Saturday the following summer - never had a real "Maine winter" month until Dec 1975, our last in BGR. The effect didn't carry over to our Jan 1 move to Ft. Kent - the minima for 9th-13th were -33, -36 ,-24, -41, -37.

Berlin co-op (AP doesn't record snowfall, at least as found on Climod2) average for 1981-2010 was 81" ,and 1991-2020 is up to 87", pending OND this year (though it would take a large anomaly to move the 30-yr even 1/2".) Low-snow '80s, will be good to see them off the 30-yr, for snow anyway. 91-20 temps probably a full degree or more above 81-10.

In part because the dews are often lower, northern Maine gets some awesome diurnal ranges. Greatest I've seen without a frontal passage was 86/30 on 5/21/77, the day before CAR hit 96 to tie its all time hottest. (We were a modest 93/60 that day.)

Just missed here: 77/38. Will need mid 80s to make a 40 today and I think we miss by 2-3 degrees.

I'll take the under (by 5°+ at my transpirationally-cooled site.) Farmington co-op hasn't reached upper 90s since 1995 and only that once since Hot Saturday in 1975. I don't expect them to do it this week. You know he loves it.

In NNE about 90% of social distancing was already in place before the term entered our vocabulary.

CAR has reached 96 twice, once in May and once in June. Other than the historic NNE heatwave of July 1911, the big heat there often comes at or before the solstice.

Given your lower (but still decent) elevation, I'd expect 80-90% of the Randolph observer's total at your place. Not too shabby.

That cocorahs observer is up at about 1750'. And the past 2 winters illustrate what mreaves posted - not just that 60 vs 39 max depth, but some 5150 SDDs in 18-19 vs 2815 this past winter. Takes some crummy retention to have 10" less snow but 2500 fewer SDDs.

We began to wonder if the birds were being directed by the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock.

Our hummingbird feeder has had a lot of activity, including one bird that comes close to sunset, which we found surprisingly late in the day. Thought the little critters were midday feeders. 3 years ago a partridge killed itself on our picture window, a year after we had replaced the 40+ year old one, which probably would've been broken by the impact. No damage to the new one, and our first partridge dinner in years.

Downy and hairy woodpeckers, various thrushes and finches. So far the blue jays have not participated.

Looks like it. Sandy River at 190 cfs, 25th percentile 310, record low 131 so it's probably about 10th percentile. 22 years ago the flow was 22,900. Odd question - anyone else having an abnormally high number of bird strikes on their windows? It's probably 5X the usual this month, a lot on the north side of the house where we're still putting out suet for the woodpeckers (and the hogging blue jays) but also on east and south sides. Haven't had any that failed to fly away, yet.

Hope they hadn't set out their tomatoes yet. Glad the air kept moving a little overnight here, keeping temps 40+. 2 June frosts are more than enough.

Another little impulse after early sun. Nice cool breeze though it's not affecting the swarms of mosquitos. Makes the house a bit chilly and we don't want to close everything up as our dog met with a skunk last evening - critter only fired a warning shot rather than the whole load but it doesn't take much to remain quite redolent. Kinda hope the clouds hang around overnight (as currently forecast.) With today's max in the low 60s, clear skies and calm air would bring us well down into the 30s even with the short night.

Agree. Water table is still fine, even though the nearby Sandy River is running well below 25th percentile. It's the top layer of soil that's dry, and that's a pain for gardeners like me who began planting in mid-late May, so the tiny plants haven't reached far below that dusty top 2". (And given the 27 here on June 1, very glad I delayed.) Seems like it's often dry when the garden is started here, just like it always turned cold and windy when I started the garden in Fort Kent. The one year I held off putting out tomatoes and peppers until June's 2nd weekend it snowed on 6/9. Always an adventure.

Temp slowly crawling to the low-mid 60s after staying upper 50s all day. At 4 it was 60 here and 84 in BML. No sign of sun yet, and not much upstream to add to the day's 0.14".

Said the fellow with 32,000 more posts. Bit of moderate RA just after noon, but 90 minutes of showers brought only 0.10", to go with the overnight 0.04" deluge. We're still in the maritime mank at 60F, doubt there will be much excitement here from the CF.

Long ago, paddlers would portage around falls and heavy rapids, little difference from portaging around the dams. "End to end" doesn't necessarily mean the canoe is floating 100% of the trip, then or now.

In 2010 he made the best - and worst - forecast I've seen here (sort of.) As the New Year's retro-bomb was pouring maritime air into Maine (CAR had RA with temps 25F AN), Scott wondered if that system would wreck winter. "Best" forecast because it was spot on as that low sat there for weeks and messed up the flow for months, "worst" because the result was the most frustrating 2nd half of winter in my 47 years in Maine. Our last true wintry event was the Jan. 28 WINDEX (a good one) though we had two snow events afterward. The late Feb slopfest dumped 10" of 4:1 mashed potatoes seasoned by 1.1" of 34F RA (on the same NE winds that dumped a 21" snowicane on NYC.) The other was 3.5" in April that lasted but a few hours.

Nah. Either greenish yellow or yellowish green works for me. (And different trees spew somewhat different colors.)