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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.

At my foothills location I feel put upon if more than 2 deerflies are circling. When I worked in the Allagash-St. John woods, there would be dozens. I don't like wearing a hat in the woods when it's hot, and those tiny T-Rexes would home in on the whorl and it's low hair density. Squash one there and 10 more would come to the funeral, expecting a meal. My un-favoritest experience with greenheads came at Tuckerton, NJ, about 15 miles north from ACY. We'd fish on great Bay and come in about when the sea breeze died, and the greenheads would swarm. Since we were elbow-deep in slime and guts while cleaning our catch, swatting the attacking beasts had unpleasant consequences. Cloudy and humid 70s in Augusta, and should be raining an hour from now.

Most welcome BD of my memory. As of that Saturday evening, BGR forecast for Sunday was for near 100. Waking up to 70° with sprinkles was a joy. P&C has 100 at ASH on Saturday.

I wonder if some mets who busted low on Harvey overcompensated on this one. Of course, a ragged Cat 1 that crawls is different from a Cat 4 that parks. Either way, I'm very happy that the effects are as modest (so far) as we've seen.

After playing with Google Earth, those above locations confirm my suspicions that, prior to the current observer's move to 1.3 miles N of the PO, all locations were in the built-up part of town. The 19898-to-1942 site would be among houses that, for the most part, are still there. It and 1944-45 are on SW-facing sidehills, while the others prior to 1966 are pretty much flat. The original at/near PO location has been built up for well over a century, though in the 1890s the streets were likely unpaved. The current location lies north of the built-up area, on a west-facing sidehill, a considerably different type of site from all previous ones. The info you found can explain a number of facets of the co-op's data, and looking for signs of 7 AM obs time (typically, "twin" winter minima during a cold snap when nearby sites only show one) can offer additional clarity. I've found no signs of mid-afternoon (typically 4 PM) obs, most easily noted by twin maximums in hot weather. The 6/1/1948 date is one I've noted as start-up for many other co-ops. It's like NWS got some post-war funds to establish dozens to hundreds of new sites, and perhaps some relocations of existing ones.

We attended an outdoor wedding on July 3, 2002, which had the highest mean temp I've recorded at my place since moving there in May 1998. The wedding was early afternoon in South Gardiner at elevation 30' asl, totally in the sun and without the slightest breeze. Everyone survived, but it must've been a near thing.

Boston mean on Hot Saturday was 92.5 (102/83), only 0.5° above 7/22/2011 (103/81) but 2.5° above 3rd place. Their 8/2 mean probably isn't far from that for yesterday. In January, a day that's 20° AN qualifies as a torch but happens every few years.. In July/August it would set all time heat records.

And didn't ask about the climate (or chose to ignore it.) Mr. Knight was in his encampment the morning that Big Black River set a new state record at -50. At my place, 9 miles NW from his camp, it was -36 that morning. Outside his shelter in the woods it was probably about 10° less cold, but that's -32 C, not -20. Knight lit no open fires but had a huge stash of 20-lb propane cylinders, though he apparently used them more for cooking than for heat as he could never steal enough to provide heat all winter. "Stranger in the Woods" is a fascinating - but strange - read.

That could work if it was like 2/2/76, when BGR temps hit 57 with RA then dropped to 1. (As the downtown parking lots flooded from water blown up the Penobscot estuary)

So is my oven. I recall some old records for that spot that featured days with temps like 126/102. (low, not TD) Cannot imagine walking out of the 75° AC at 3 AM and getting hit with 100+.

Agree. ALB is not only shiny, but has much more distinct white dots. Native longhorned beetle, aka sawyer, or powder-post.

Well, duh! Thanks again. PO there is 100 yards south of the center of town (stoplight at Main/Broadway), so now I have info to track obs sites. 0.13" in shower last night. Left windows open in car and portable Bluetooth speaker probably ruined. Had some wind there to blow water inside? None here, but added 0.15" last evening, over nearly 2 hours. Given the narrow echoes a couple hours earlier, I expected maybe 10-15 minutes at most. System total 1.05". Bright sun with temps shooting up thru the 60s, a bit stuffy but dews are supposed to settle back into the 50s.

Frost for Estcourt Station. (After a heat wave the previous week)

Too much nitrogen compared to other nutrients can favor vegetative growth over blossoms. Offhand I don't recall whether it's phosphorus or potassium (the other 2 macronutrients) that fosters flowering. Search engine should easily supply that info. Still cloudy but thin enough so there are fuzzy shadows - 71/66.

Nice hedge. And though they are the same species as what you ride by in the wintertime swamps, sometimes the selecting for special traits like columnar growth can have some unexpected effects on other plant characteristics. Maybe the nursery folks also selected for those trees that really really loved well-drained loams.