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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.

Trees grow and trees decay, resulting in new weaklings being recruited every year. I'm always looking for damage each late spring/summer when the deciduous trees "unfurl the sails". I rather no heat in the winter.. you can always put more cloths on Can't get the plumbing to do the same - split pipes and resulting water damage is a bummer.

Location dependent, of course. First one here was pretty good despite the ratty December - no blockbusters but long snowpack that reached 40" in March. Last winter didn't rate ratter status here, more like meh - not much happened until after the equinox.

I replied in the other thread.

Try to find out if it's a hybrid Oriental/American chestnut, perhaps from the American Chestnut Foundation, or more likely a pure Oriental chestnut. The hybrid's resistance/tolerance would depend on the breeding. I'm not aware of any ACF trees being sold - they usually donate stock so to have more widespread planting and testing. The Oriental would be blight tolerant and would produce nuts but would not get nearly as big as the American.

A station in western VA recorded 26" in 5 hours from the remains of Camille. 30-40% of that 'cane's fatalities came from VA flash floods. For stalled TS in odd places I'd note CAR getting >6.5" in 2.5 hours on 8/17/1981. That was a strange system in many ways. Co-workers at Russell Stream (upper Allagash River) reported heavy RA at 8 AM, the CAR blitz was 10-12:30, another co-worker at the US border with St.-Pamphile, PQ had RA+ 1-4 PM and in Fort Kent we got 2" from 6 to 8 PM. Next morning I drove thru Dickey (western part of the town of Allagash) and up the Hafey Mountain Road, and hit dusty going about 1/4 mile north of the St. John.

We had hundreds of the teeny things appear quite suddenly in June. Put out some ant traps and some borax-sugar mix (our recipe for carpenter ants) and we're now seeing them only rarely.

Winter moth or Bruce spanworm (they're somewhat similar in appearance and phenology, moths flying in late fall) would be my guesses.

lol. Gotta say where - ORH? BOX? Somerville?