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About 2 years ago his son posted on some off-topic thread and I asked about his dad. Response was "That's a long story." Did not sound good but there was no need to pry. Scott and I shared many interests, beginning with trees (my forum nom de plume is/was his favorite species) and he is still missed.

Certainly helps show the wind direction.

3 PM obs HUL to FVE show PC to sunny, not a hint of what those echoes might be. Long narrow persistent and fairly straight lines don't look like any phenomenon I can think of, except maybe contrails if 20 jetliners were flying in formation.

A childhood friend from my NNJ days reported (with pics) light accumulating snow where he lives in Ola, ID. Seems like the Rockies, including some valley sites, are having an interesting early June.

2nd weak TS of the day after none since last Oct 1. The 11:15 version dropped 0.15" but this one maybe half as much. Still will triple precip since May 16. Much better echoes a few miles to our east - what else is new, other than the direction.

Brief one-rumble TS here, tapering to RA- at present but might've gotten a tenth or so - biggest event in 3 weeks.

Houses - report said 8 were destroyed, though only the one fellow had to run for his life. Wonder if that slide was due to similar conditions to the one in Smuggs - melting snow and quick warmth turning loose the hillside. I'd read that Norway had AN snowfall this winter, saw a pic of equipment opening a road thru the high country that looked like the oft-posted one from the Japanese Alps, though the sides of the "canyon" looked more like excavator work than auger.

Can add CAR to that list - not often they touch 90 earlier than BDL (but see May 1977 and 1978.)

Old, old maxim: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Not working for Mr. Zuckerberg, however.

It's incredible how much little cuts around the head can bleed. Couple years ago in SNJ we were minding the 6 kids while mom and dad had a day/date to unwind. (We try to do this whenever we're all together, SNJ or Maine.) My wife had warned the older girls several times about leaving a dresser drawer open and, sure enough, 6-yo Benjamin stood up under a corner and came bawling out to the kitchen (girls were yelling too) with head all bloody with lots dripping on the floor. I carried him outside and poured water onto his once-blond-now-red hair to see what the wound looked like. (Water was chilly, not appreciated by the victim.) While the blood looked like he'd been half scalped, the cut was perhaps 3/16" and had stopped bleeding a minute or two after his dowsing.

Most of the grandkids enjoy a good crackling TS and they probably had a beauty at their place about 25 miles SSE from PHL.

0.06" here. After 5 straight days with some rain recorded, we're struggling with the floods caused by the total of 0.10" from those days. 66/31 yesterday - after no June frosts since 2007, we get a pair this month.

We were about 32 as well, a bit of frost on the vehicles but nothing like yesterday's freeze. The yo-yo... May 29: 84/66; June 1: 56/27 I've never before seen such a radical temp change over 3 days during the warm season.

May here was 0.7F BN, with the max =0.3 and min -1.7. Highest was 88 on 5/27 but the warmest mean/min was 5/29 with 84/66. Coolest was 23 on 5/13. Only 2.45" precip, 60% of average, and only 0.04" in the 2nd half of the month. The 3.2" snowfall on 5/9 increased my 22-year May total by a full order of magnitude, from 0.3" to 3.5". First snow season anywhere, including Fort Kent, that had 7 months with at least 3" snow. This in a season with BN total snowfall and barely 80% of average SDDs.

Frosty 27 here, my coldest June temp since Fort Kent. 3 days ago was my warmest mean and minimum here in May. Slight variability.

That's how snapping turtles mate. I've seen it go on for half an hour. Solid frost this morning and the low of 27 is my coldest in 23 Junes here. Last Friday set my warmest minimum and mean for the month of May; yesterday's mean of 48.5 was 26.5 lower than Friday's. Two-day drops of that magnitude aren't uncommon in mid-winter but it's the first time I've seen it in the warmer seasons.

WCI at -1 thanks to winds 51/56. Had some IP earlier.

Frost advisory for the north half of GYX's CWA. Quite the see-saw, and AN by mid-week though nothing like this past Wed-Fri.

I'll take the under. I suppose we're "due" (not that the term means anything in wx) as the Farmington co-op's last June to reach +3 was in 2006.

Our dug well has just 2 tubs but sits atop a spring. Normally the water rises a foot into the upper tub and since one foot = about 100 gallons, that's a 500-gallon reserve though no more than 450 would be available. In autumn 2001 the level was down 2' from the norm but it's not gone lower than that. As noted above it's groundwater, spring and all, and we just had to update the filtration system. Two weeks after setting out the Stratus for the season, it finally got wet, 0.03" which didn't even settle the dust. Yesterday's 84/66 not only set a new mark for May minima (by 4°) but the mean of 75 also is May's warmest here. About a 50-50 chance it will be the year's warmest as well, going only by past records. Unless we get a surprise today or tomorrow, this will be the 3rd year of 23 in which we reached June w/o hearing thunder. why do people say heavy downpour? Probably for the same reason you posted "light downpour."

Too young to remember the early-mid 1960s? 1965 is the driest year on record for 6 of the 7 coastal states DE to MA, with NY missing out due to the significantly drier climo on the southern tier counties. However, 1965 is NYC's driest in their 151-yr POR (by more than 6"!) while '64 is #2 and '63 at #4. 1966 was close to the 1965 rates until 5.5" fell on 9/21 and was actually worse until that event, due both to drought duration and because met summer '66 was the hottest (now 2nd behind 2010) and driest on record. One of my notable wx trivia memories is that some central/west VA sites got more rain in 5 hours from Camille's remains than NYC got in all of 1965.

Stole? More like climo, and 94% of avg snowfall isn't much of a steal. Also, much of SNE had a bigger snowfall in the early Dec event than any I've had during those two "stolen" winters. IZG is a sneaky torch spot. Not too sneaky. Good radiational coolers like IZG also tend to be downslope dandies for heat. HUL is Aroostook's poster child. My place is the exception due to the heavy deciduous forest all around - allows great rad cold in leaf-off season (good but modified in summer) while limiting leaf-on heat, though we got up to 88 yesterday, warmest since 5/18/17.

This part of your much longer post reminds me of Israel's cyclic behavior in the days of Judges. A guest pastor used the unpronounceable (he tried ) IBRDR as a quick summary: Idolatry Bondage Repentance Deliverance Rest Though the thresholds are always fuzzy, our "rest: was perhaps 1946-early 70s. We're now well into "idolatry" and perhaps sliding toward "bondage". What might it take to produce "repentance"?

18 years ago IZG touched 90 in early May then had about 2" snow a week after. They may approach 32 Monday/Tuesday mornings - what a whipsaw! Places like IZG and BML remind me of Chester, MA before the station's hot and cold records were tossed due to improper siting/recording. Prior to that action, one of my favorite items of wx trivia was that station holding the state record for both hottest and coldest temp, set less than 10 years apart. Cloud free and well into the 80s here while the western Whites have flood warnings. Can we do a 2017 repeat, when the year's 8 warmest days all fell outside of calendar summer? 3 came post-equinox, 4 in pre-solstice June, only one in May but it was the hottest of all by 4F.

Day 11 without a drop of RA. I'm a cheapskate with my washer fluid and it seems we almost always get a dry spell about the time of maximum bug/windshield collisions.