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Unfortunately, not much if any of that has trickled back to forest landowners and loggers. Markets are tight and prices modest and not moving much.

If "going to renewables" means total elimination of fossil fuel use by 2035, IMO that would be a bridge too far - 70-80% seems more doable for this non-expert. The transportation nut will be a hard one to crack. I see moving to renewables for electricity generation as doable but creating the necessary technology and distribution system seems a bigger hurdle. For one thing, we'd want/need batteries in vehicles that charge a lot faster than today - it's moving in the right direction and I'm confident there's lots of research but wonder how far (and soon) it can go. We might need a nationwide effort in the same general manner as creating the interstate highway system.

It seems to be. The US Senate is a tight race as well, so money is pouring into Maine to pollute the airwaves. As of a couple days ago, $98 million had had been thrown at that race with the Ds tossing a bit more than half. I've heard that it's the most costly non-presidential contest in the country. After about 100 of the Collins/Gideon ads, one for Jean Shaheen sneaks thru. Getting back to wx, September stats. The month started warm, had a very cool middle (1st time here I've had 4 straight mornings in the 20s) and finished with dewey warmth - 27-29 averaged +15 and wiped out the last of the BN margin. Avg. High: 69.0 - 0.95 AN, warmest was 79 on the 10th Avg. Low: 45.0 - 0.39 BN, coldest was 25 on 20,21. The 64 on 9/28 was warmest by far for so late in the season. Month avg: 57.0 - 0.27 AN, 2nd consecutive month within <0.5F of average, both AN. Precip: 1.29" - 2.26" BN and 2nd consec month >2" BN. Aug/Sep total 3.08", avg. 7.52". Had 1.14" on the 30th, preventing this month from being the driest I've recorded since October 1963 in NNJ. 10th of 23 Septembers with no thunder.

Hope it chooses to wander west about 3 AM when Rt 1 and the Pike are almost empty.

3 hours ago, powderfreak said: Yeah that was some impressive state wide rain in VT. Just heavy rain all night ripping straight up the length of the state. Any drought done. September rainfall went from record low to probably within 1 SD of normal lol. Still some work to do here. Thru July 2020 was almost exactly on the average, but August's 1.79" was 44% of avg and 2.3" low. If my 0.79" at 7 AM grew to 1.5" this morning then September will look a lot like August, 1.65" total, 45%, 2.1" BN. October has been my wettest month, averaging 5.68". If we meet that, Stein is in the grave.

My preference goes to the Fay Hyland Arboretum spread throughout and nearby to the U. Maine campus.

The CBB trio. Anyone looking to attend one of those excellent schools should be diligent in seeking scholarship money. Like many well-regarded liberal arts colleges, full ticket (room/board/tuition) is frighteningly costly but there's a lot of financial help available. (I have no dog in the fight but my sentiment would be with Bowdoin, if only because the Bowdoin Pines east of the campus make up one of the most magnificent pine stands I've seen.)

10-15% of pedestrians were wearing masks when we visited our son/D-I-L in Japan (southern Honshu) in March 2016. Between that and Japanese culture, I highly doubt there was much anti-mask unrest there.

Finally found some pike at North Pond (Belgrades) after not seeing one this year. After 3 hours with just a single yellow perch, was drifting and casting my way back toward the landing when a 20-inch fish nailed the spinner 3 feet from the canoe. Dropped anchor there and tossed out the spinner a few times, then decided to try the much bigger (1 oz.) faux-Dardevle. Shortly thereafter got a 25" fish, probably about 4 lb. Fish stew upcoming.

He's north of much of the town as well. IIRC, he's less than a mile downriver from the Chops, the exit from Merrymeeting Bay.

Noted that someone evidently is still reporting snowfall (129.3") from Clayton Lake even though the co-op obs disappeared in 2011.

Back to back 25s here. Had two tarps over the peppers (tops portions killed, lower leaves and fruit protected) and abandoned the other warm-season veggies, with predictable results - annihilation. Another lesser frost/freeze tonight.

29 this morning, might be cooler tonight. Time to check on the garden carnage.

After a mediocre winter and the day before another 10-12"?

Most unexpected stat from 09-10: BWI 78", CAR 71".

Even more in Jackman and when we were having winter harvests at Holeb, about 10 miles to the west, the snow there was a lot deeper than in town.

And Jackman, and The County, maybe Calais/Danforth to get the late bloomers. Moosehead area - my wish list is long. Back to Pinkham: Out of curiosity I looked up Diamond Pond. It's 57 miles N from Pinkham and about 200' higher and an obvious snow-catcher. In its 13 full winters (98-99 thru 10-11) it's average was 230.0". In those same winters Pinkham ran 126.7". Even adding 10" for the "M" in early Jan 2010 and another 10 for 4/1/11 only brings them to 128.2", still 100+ less than Diamond. Doesn't seem logical to this non-met.

65" near the end of the 26.5" storm of March 14-15, 1984 is tops - measured 80" on Big Twenty Twp. We'd reached 61" the morning after the 18.5" surprise* in early Feb but was settled to 59" at obs time. Then the 2nd half of Feb ran 15-20 AN and the pack dropped to 35". Without that thaw, just imagine. *The forecast had been 1-3, so the parking lot plowers weren't alerted until it was too late - Fort Kent's only full day lost to snow in our 10 years there. They lost a half day to the March event - 6" that morning with 6+ expected, by noon another 8 had fallen and it was coming 3"/hr so they sent the kids home, and everyone made it without serious issue, some living 30 miles and many hills from the high school. 2nd place is 54" in March 1977 - that winter's 186.5" in the most I've measured. Next are the 49 (09) and 48 (01 and 08) where I now live. Have topped 40 in 6 of 22 winters here.

Just peeked at some Pinkham numbers and found an early January event in 2010 with about 1.5" and M for snow at teens/mid 20s and only a 3" gain in depth. The 4/1/11 storm gave them 1.2" LE with 1" snow recorded, temps upper 20s. Low elev places generally got 10-15. That said, I wonder if they get shadowed by Wildcat for synoptic events and by MWN when winds turn NW. And while the pack additions in 1969 look suspicious (how does one even measure a depth that's 7 FEET greater than any other on record at one's location), a 77" dump is impressive.

Sounds like fun. When I was up north, one of the Jackson clan from Allagash was hauling a load of tree-length spruce toward St.-Pamphile and was approaching the crest of a short but steep hill when the driveshaft broke and one end whipped around and cut his air hose. With no go and no brakes, he attempted to keep everything in the narrow and slightly curved road as he rolled backwards. Almost inevitably, that didn't happen and he was rolling so fast when he jackknifed that the trailer fortunately* ripped off the 5th wheel as it was tipping over and the once-forward butts of the spruce ended up pointed back from where they had come from. *Repairing the 5th wheel assembly wasn't cheap but far less than fixing a cab that had gone tail over teakettle, not to mention what might've happened to the driver.

Had my chance when a friend dislocated his shoulder and couldn't drive his very hard steering tractor - 1940s vintage, red so maybe a Case. Pushing that April windslab - the place was at 1200' with a west aspect in Frenchville - was a challenge. Also helped the apartment neighbor who got his little backhoe too close to the embankment and dropped the smaller wheels over the edge. He pulled with the hoe while I did clutch/gas and flipped snow with the bucket and we finally got it back on the level.

The co-op in Fort Kent is a prime example. Folks from that area know well that FK usually has more snow and deeper pack than CAR but the records show the opposite. From 1989-90 thru 2019-20 (without 2-02-03 and 03-04 as FK has missing months), CAR's average is 120.3" while FK's is 98.1". In the 5 winters that we lived in town within a mile or 2 and 20' elevation, 76-77 thru 80-81, my average was 126.2", FK 102.3", CAR 117.7". When we moved to the back settlement at 970', about 450 above our former home, my average was 144.0", FK 92.9", CAR 118.7".

Protocols were intentionally not followed at the York County lockup, "Don't wear masks, it might spook the inmates." Those 6 fatalities at the Madison long-term care facility are almost all those in Maine during the past month.

Saturday morning should have colder temps than today. Couple of white patches near the lodge to get folks ramped up?

If there have been no fatwahs proclaimed, it would seem that Islam isn't too concerned.