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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.

Saw the sun trying to break thru over north Augusta this morning, but that was it - no precip beyond some dz but continuing gray. No matter as I'm working inside today.

Try Flagstaff? That's close to their July average and they get almost 100" snow. Pack retention probably stinks, however.

As one of my college professors would say (usually in a driving rain storm), "There's no such thing as inclement weather, just improper clothing." I also recently read a book about Scandinavian views on kids and going outdoors, title was "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." (Not by a college prof. )

About 2.8" BN for the year, less whatever lands in the gauge between 7A and 9P today. The 2.26" storm total thru this AM is almost 3.5 times more than what fell (0.65") in the previous 6 weeks. Head of Maine USGS stated last Thursday that while much of the state had moderate drought, water tables remained in the normal range, albeit near the low end of that range.

Barely and briefly reached moderate rates, but 1.08" by 4 PM, perfect erosion-free soaker. If it can reach 1.3" by 9 PM we'll have tripled the total over the past 44 days.

That stuff stayed just to my west until about 4 AM. Had 0.23" thru 7 AM while a few miles west Farmington and Temple cocorahs reported over an inch. Now up to 5 rumbles of thunder for the year, 3 more about 5:45 PM yesterday as RA+ dodged to the NW - almost got the ground wet here. Steady RA- at present is perfect for the garden; may it continue for 2 days.

The Kennebunk fire jumped not only Rt 1 but more than a half mile of ocean to torch a small island off the coast of Kennebunkport. In the 1963 Jersey pine barrens fire, a firebreak was set up on the Garden State Parkway - 4 lanes, shoulders and a grassy median. It worked for 4-5 miles of highway but jumped a mile long section. All that blackened woods was impressive a couple months later when my dad took us down to Tuckerton to fish on Great Bay. Updrafts of a hot fire can carry burning bits of wood a long way.

And October's 0.26" came on the 29th, after the fires were pretty much under control. Most of the fire damage came during the week Oct. 21-27 and the temps are shown below: 21 69 48 22 70 37 23 83 35 I think that's the latest that PWM has reached 83, though they hit 84 on 10/17. 24 59 26 25 65 20 26 65 37 27 73 39 The worst came on 23-24 when strong SW winds abruptly veered to NW as a dry CF passed thru, with gusts 50+ reported. Don't know the RH but the diurnal ranges give some indication. Forest firefighters know they cannot attack the head of a crown fire and only work in front of it from a distance when setting up fire lines and/or burnouts, but rather attack the flanks and clean up the rear (pun intended.) That wind shift turned the right flank into the head in a few minutes, putting a lot of folks in instant danger though I think the fatalities occurred elsewhere.

Our CAD kingdom is also a downslope dandy. If we get a moderate snow and the storm then sits and spins over Anticosti, Jackman snows for the next 3 days while I see partly cloudy. And the RA deficit is a bit more than 2" here. Cherrypicking the period May 17 thru today, our average is 6.35" and we've had 0.65". GFS op shows 2.5" over the next 8 days, most I've seen on that model since April - would be nice but I'm not holding my breath. Tomorrow we do the 7-10 and most of the rest of the qpf is out past 72 hr.

Nine years ago while we were visiting family in DEC, a storm like that passed 6-8 miles to our south. At least 100 strikes/minute and the thunder was like a drum roll - could rarely distinguish individual booms. Far beyond anything in my 99.9% Northeast experience, and next day even the locals were still in awe.

Maybe you should subscribe to the insect and disease report from the Maine Forest Service. They include reminders and procedures for pre-emptive control of browntail several times fall thru spring. (Among many other things)

The birch-beech-maple forest, aka Northern hardwoods, is also called the "asbestos forest". However, a similar forest but with more oak burned for over a month during October (but mainly before much leaf drop) in NNJ back in 1963. Much of the ground was a glaciated boulder field with tree and mt laurel roots and duff down within the rocks. Fire would follow the fuel and a firefighter spraying a blaze would sometimes have another pop out of the rocks behind him (all guys back then.) Good view from our HS, could see by smoke intensity (and smell) how the fire had progressed during the overnight. (NJ also had about 200,000 acres burn in one day that April, but the Pine Barrens are a fire type ecosystem.) For NNE outside that "asbestos forest", one should read "1947 - The Week Maine Burned" before getting overconfident. And perhaps check PWM temps/precip for that October. But even in the spruce-fir country it's extremely rare to have a crown fire in mid summer.

Haven't spent much time with the ticks in recent weeks, though I got one within a few yards of our lawn earlier this month. Mosquitos ae abundant, worse than average, but the next generation should be much reduced - current swarms grew up in snowmelt puddles.