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Those shorter PORs would also miss out on all the heat records of the 1930s. Nearly half (24) of state's all time hottest days came in that decade; no other decade notched more than 5. (My numbers are dated somewhat, so any state records since about 2012 aren't included.)

Looks more like a basswood. Aspen blossoms/flowers are long gone, generally before the leaves are fully formed. Basswoods near our house are full of flowers.

Yesterday's high launchpad was neutered by 2 hours of mostly cloudy centered on noon, with a teeny shower mixed in. Things re-warmed afterwards but dews were sliding down thru the 60s so the comfort level was improving and temps dropped to upper 50s this morning. Saturday's 86 was about 3° below what I'd anticipated, much like other Maine sites - saw 92s and 96s where forecasts had been 95s and 99s. Too much dew? My garden was sad that all that PWAT left the building with just 0.01" RA. Hoping tonight's event doesn't slide away south.

Upper 60s this morning, so no 70+ minima - only one in 21 y3ars so no surprise. Rock'n'roll in N. Maine this AM as convection stays north. Mon-Tues RA looks mainly S. Maine. Would be sad if all this humidity failed to put any water on the garden.

Topped out at 86 yesterday, a bit less hot than I'd anticipated. Dropped into the upper 60s this morning.

And none in the past 60 years. For the 60s onward, maybe look for -5 instead. It's like NYC - minus 15 in 1934 and minus 8 in 1943, but nothing colder than minus 2 since then.

AN October portends AN snow here, on average, though only 21 years of record and the relationship is modest.

Gotta do it when you can. That's how I found myself insulating the attic in our 1st little house in Ft. Kent while CAR was matching its hottest temp on record. (A modest 96 - attic was a bit warmer.)

Trying to make weight for a wrestling match? Guessing we'll top out 88-90 n the transpirationally-cooled woods. The only 90+ reading here since 2005 was mid-May 2 years ago, before the leaves were fully operational. Pretty oppressive even so. Morning low was about 63, probably about midnight as it was warmer in the pre-dawn. Only one 70+ minimum here, 7/19/2005; tomorrow's chances may hinge on when the CF comes thru and maybe brings the low late in the day.

If the wind blows a big enough hole in the woods, it ought to be visible. 33 years ago (9/30/86, meaning significant leaf drop) straight line winds began their damage a half mile north of Eagle Lake (just south of Fort Kent) and 4 miles/600 acres later blew trees into the west end of Square Lake. I'm sure that would've been visible from a long way off. At its height, the wind snapped 12-14" diameter sugar maple a dozen feet from the ground, hitting them too suddenly to uproot. I have no idea whether folks at CAR did a ground check to estimate wind speed, but my guess is 90-100 mph.

Whether it's transpirationally-fed dews or fake frost-pocket cold, the readings are real but are not an accurate reflection of the overall airmass. Those readings do vary proportionally with the airmass - DIT's dews will be higher when those at BDL are 70 than when the AP is at 65. And the sensations of dewiness or cold in each of those microclimates are just as real. IIRC, any "arguments" were based on some folks claiming their readings were correct and inferring that others' differing readings had to be wrong, when in fact both were accurate..

I've read the same. The Vikings began to settle in Greenland during the 10th century and it was the 14th before things began to get really bad there, with folks heading back to Europe or starving and the last of them gone by early in the 15th. Humid air had overspread all of NH by noontime along with SW Maine as far as LEW.

Not only lived there, but raised field crops, not just subsisting on sheep plus fishing. Of course, I've read that the medieval warm period was limited in its extent, thus not all that significant from a global climate standpoint.

13" at my place, only 10"+ Novie event I've seen.

Or bitternut - leaflets look sufficiently narrow. In CT there are probably 4-5 different native hickories; in Maine there are 2 (shagbark and bitternut) and I've never seen any non-planted ones other than shagbark. And probably most of the hickories native to the US could survive that climate once established.

It's a personal preference thing. Whether comfy or not, I take pleasure in high-anomaly weather events, but recall them differently. On Hot Saturday we were picking blueberries until about noon and the heat was absolutely awful. Then we drove to Acadia and found some 70° water just south of otter Cliffs, by far the warmest salt water I've encountered in Maine. 41 months later I was snowshoeing in NW Maine near the Canadian border on a -40 morning - got up nearly to -20 by noontime - and it also was memorable, but I found it far more bearable than the big heat. YMMV (As a nod to safety that chilly morning, we went out in pairs rather than all 4 of us going solo. My much lighter chum wanted to do all the trailbreaking as he couldn't stay warm while walking in my tracks.)

The 4:30 AM coyote alarm has been repeated several times over the past 2 weeks - they set up just beyond our informal pet cemetery perhaps 100 yards from the house and have a songfest. One evening they were much closer, probably within 20 yards, could hear their feet on the leaves. Sometimes it sounds as if there are 2 families instead of the usual one. Since losing a cat for the 3rd time (fisher or coyote, though to the cat it makes no difference) we keep the felines inside.

I've been amazed at how much sapsucker damage a tree can sustain and yet survive with a full crown. Those pics are high end damage for sure, but I've seen basswood and yellow birch nearly as bad - the birch usually stitched with much straighter rows. I'd leave it alone and watch the crown to see if there's dieback. Any control/repellant is apt to be costly and probably would require frequent repeats.

And they both pre-date the records I've been able to dig up from UCC and/or Climod. I'll still take the under. Might have found Dendrite’s trigger lol. I think the Farmington observer is well into his 80s and will probably need to pass the torch fairly soon. If there's no one there to pass it to, that might be a trigger here. (More likely just deep sadness - the longer the solid data set, the sorrier it is to see it die.)

If by "Saturday night" you mean through 11:59 PM, there's a good chance. If that means Sunday's minima, I'll take the under for BDL/ORH, especially if it includes a Sunday evening minimum. Warmest minima I see in my records is 78 at BDL and 77 at ORH. Boston's low on Hot Saturday was 83 and they've had 4 minima each at 81 and 80, so a much better chance there.

This is true, but the local long-term co-op is doing it all with minima, and not even super-high minima. Using only the data gathered since July 1966 by the current observer, who is 1.3 miles north of town center while all obs 1893-1966 were taken in town, annual frequency of 90+ days is shown below: 1960s 3.4 1970s 3.5 1980s 3.1 1990s 3.0 2000s 3.8 2010s 2.6 (Does not include 2019 to date. I don't think they've touched 90 yet, but don't have July temps to prove it. June max was 85.) Not much trend there. And the highest temp 2011-on is 93, in May 2017. Last time they got above 95 was in 1995. They've recorded just 38 minima of 70+, with 10 coming 1966-on. Smaller sample size is 72+, with only 11 and just one (7/22/1977) in the past 69 years. However, the co-op has notched 229 minima 67-69, including 61 since 7/66 (thus 71 at 67+), and there's a real trend for those, average annual by decades: 1960s 0.9 1970s 1.3 1980s 0.6 1990s 0.6 2000s 1.7 2010s 2.9 Could probably extend the data to 65+, or even 60+, and see the same trend, only with a much bigger sample thus lots more work given some quirks in my Excel performance.

My wife was taking her sister to Boston yesterday afternoon to catch a 6:10 flight south. While on an elevated roadway a couple miles from Logan, they got hit by one of the warned storms - RA++ and CG snapping all around. ("Why do we have to be on the upper level now?") Everyone survived, but it certainly reinforced my wife's hatred of city driving. Had 0.32" yesterday, most 10-noon and then 0.02" at 6:30 PM preceding entry of the nicer air.

Echoes looked a bit juicier to the N - maybe 1/4" at my place?

Hottest I've ever been was during that heat wave, Sat-Mon, July 2-4. NYC had 100/103/98 those days and LGA touched 107 on Sunday. I was doing short-order cooking at Curtiss-Wright's employee lake resort in NNJ, and it was stifling hot behind the counter that Sunday. Cheap coil thermometer on the side of the counter opening only had scale to 120° and the needle was way past there - at least 140 and that was as far from the gas griddle that we could get. Had to stop toasting rolls under the griddle, as they bypassed brown and went straight to black. Must've been well above 150 where we'd stand to flip burgers. However, with a temp/dew of 160/70, RH would be under 10% so the sweat dried almost instantly. One sweaty customer asked how we looked so "fresh" and sweatless; my response was something like "oven-dried." We set records that Sunday for attendance, ice tea sales (natch) and coffee sales (hot coffee only.) At that time I'd never had even one cup of hot coffee, and was puzzled that, while ice tea demand varied by the wx, coffee varied by the number of people thru the gate. Import some dragon flies and you won't see any of them, When we have the dragon flies at the golf course, The horse/deer flies are no where to be found, They pick them off right in mid air. At forestry summer camp in 1974, we were building a two-span timber bridge for an eastern Washington County logging road. Height of black fly season and the work site was right in their spawning zone - clouds of them so thick that one needed to breathe thru one's teeth. About 2 PM a couple hundred dragonflies appeared and 10 minutes later there wasn't a black fly to be seen. I've read that the larger species can take in 100 bugs/hour, and their (aquatic) nymphs can catch and eat small fish.

Works for some; I may be the exception. I tolerated HHH better while working at the beach in NNJ back in the '60s. Cold doesn't bother me any more than it did back then. I no longer go ice fishing at subzero temps, but that's mainly due to the cold mandating near-constant tending of my topwater traps, and even re-drilling holes (hand auger) as the sides close in.