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We were about 32 as well, a bit of frost on the vehicles but nothing like yesterday's freeze. The yo-yo... May 29: 84/66; June 1: 56/27 I've never before seen such a radical temp change over 3 days during the warm season.

May here was 0.7F BN, with the max =0.3 and min -1.7. Highest was 88 on 5/27 but the warmest mean/min was 5/29 with 84/66. Coolest was 23 on 5/13. Only 2.45" precip, 60% of average, and only 0.04" in the 2nd half of the month. The 3.2" snowfall on 5/9 increased my 22-year May total by a full order of magnitude, from 0.3" to 3.5". First snow season anywhere, including Fort Kent, that had 7 months with at least 3" snow. This in a season with BN total snowfall and barely 80% of average SDDs.

Frosty 27 here, my coldest June temp since Fort Kent. 3 days ago was my warmest mean and minimum here in May. Slight variability.

That's how snapping turtles mate. I've seen it go on for half an hour. Solid frost this morning and the low of 27 is my coldest in 23 Junes here. Last Friday set my warmest minimum and mean for the month of May; yesterday's mean of 48.5 was 26.5 lower than Friday's. Two-day drops of that magnitude aren't uncommon in mid-winter but it's the first time I've seen it in the warmer seasons.

WCI at -1 thanks to winds 51/56. Had some IP earlier.

Frost advisory for the north half of GYX's CWA. Quite the see-saw, and AN by mid-week though nothing like this past Wed-Fri.

I'll take the under. I suppose we're "due" (not that the term means anything in wx) as the Farmington co-op's last June to reach +3 was in 2006.

Our dug well has just 2 tubs but sits atop a spring. Normally the water rises a foot into the upper tub and since one foot = about 100 gallons, that's a 500-gallon reserve though no more than 450 would be available. In autumn 2001 the level was down 2' from the norm but it's not gone lower than that. As noted above it's groundwater, spring and all, and we just had to update the filtration system. Two weeks after setting out the Stratus for the season, it finally got wet, 0.03" which didn't even settle the dust. Yesterday's 84/66 not only set a new mark for May minima (by 4°) but the mean of 75 also is May's warmest here. About a 50-50 chance it will be the year's warmest as well, going only by past records. Unless we get a surprise today or tomorrow, this will be the 3rd year of 23 in which we reached June w/o hearing thunder. why do people say heavy downpour? Probably for the same reason you posted "light downpour."

Too young to remember the early-mid 1960s? 1965 is the driest year on record for 6 of the 7 coastal states DE to MA, with NY missing out due to the significantly drier climo on the southern tier counties. However, 1965 is NYC's driest in their 151-yr POR (by more than 6"!) while '64 is #2 and '63 at #4. 1966 was close to the 1965 rates until 5.5" fell on 9/21 and was actually worse until that event, due both to drought duration and because met summer '66 was the hottest (now 2nd behind 2010) and driest on record. One of my notable wx trivia memories is that some central/west VA sites got more rain in 5 hours from Camille's remains than NYC got in all of 1965.

Stole? More like climo, and 94% of avg snowfall isn't much of a steal. Also, much of SNE had a bigger snowfall in the early Dec event than any I've had during those two "stolen" winters. IZG is a sneaky torch spot. Not too sneaky. Good radiational coolers like IZG also tend to be downslope dandies for heat. HUL is Aroostook's poster child. My place is the exception due to the heavy deciduous forest all around - allows great rad cold in leaf-off season (good but modified in summer) while limiting leaf-on heat, though we got up to 88 yesterday, warmest since 5/18/17.

This part of your much longer post reminds me of Israel's cyclic behavior in the days of Judges. A guest pastor used the unpronounceable (he tried ) IBRDR as a quick summary: Idolatry Bondage Repentance Deliverance Rest Though the thresholds are always fuzzy, our "rest: was perhaps 1946-early 70s. We're now well into "idolatry" and perhaps sliding toward "bondage". What might it take to produce "repentance"?

18 years ago IZG touched 90 in early May then had about 2" snow a week after. They may approach 32 Monday/Tuesday mornings - what a whipsaw! Places like IZG and BML remind me of Chester, MA before the station's hot and cold records were tossed due to improper siting/recording. Prior to that action, one of my favorite items of wx trivia was that station holding the state record for both hottest and coldest temp, set less than 10 years apart. Cloud free and well into the 80s here while the western Whites have flood warnings. Can we do a 2017 repeat, when the year's 8 warmest days all fell outside of calendar summer? 3 came post-equinox, 4 in pre-solstice June, only one in May but it was the hottest of all by 4F.

Day 11 without a drop of RA. I'm a cheapskate with my washer fluid and it seems we almost always get a dry spell about the time of maximum bug/windshield collisions.

I don't know if the site was actually changed, but there has been discussions that the ever taller and broader trees nearby might be having too much impact on temp/dew readings there.

True. Average temps peak at 76/56 in late month.

We live in those few yards of transpirationally enhanced air next to the ground and feel its effects. Forecasters need to look at the miles of air above that, and for dews those ASOS reading probably better reflect the airmass. Yesterday and today were both supposed to clear in late morning. Yesterday never did clear and today the clouds were gone by 8 :30 and except for some teeny puffs have stayed away. Average the two and the forecast was dead on in MBY. Currently 80/60 (dew extrapolated from nearby station) - we take in mid July, a bit sticky right now because we hadn't seen dews in the 50s yet this season.

After a good start in November - AN snow and coldest Novie of 22 here - met winter was a solid and uninspiring D, no significant storms, no sustained cold (2-3 days at most, usually with day-1 max spoiled by cheap high from the evening before) and despite the AN length of continuous snow cover, SDDs and max depth were well below average. The 3 spring storms, 10.3" in March, 8.5" in April and 3.2" in May, dragged a D/D+ up to a C- as final snow totaled 94% of average. Until the equinox it was the most meh winter in memory, not memorably awful enough to rank with 15-16 or 05-06 and with little of interest,

Mostly cloudy here today with showers of black flies. Sun popped out about 11:30 and we figured the clouds were on the way out but was not to be. Sun has tried about a dozen times since but never more than 2-3 minutes. Low-mid 60s so nice working conditions despite the blood donations.

Surprised by clouds this morning after 6 sunny days in a row - can't recall last time we went 6-for-6. For the 33 days 4/15 thru 5/17, 31 were BN with only 5/2-3 breaking the streak. Yesterday's 65/29 was -8 and May to date is -3.2. P&C has Wed-Thurs 15-20 AN which would cut that -3.2 in half, but our minima will likely undercut that forecast significantly.

Woodstove had 2 days rest but needed a fire this AM, 30-31 outside and 64 inside. Might frost again tomorrow morning but that should be it for the season. Also not impossible that we go from frost to 90 in 2 days.

Blue lip special. When kids are having fun they don't feel the cold. (or heat) Fed the black flies while in the garden. They were tolerable while I ran the tiller but as soon as the motor stopped the flies dove in. Only planted carrots and arugula as we'll probably be well down in the 30s tomorrow and Monday mornings.

Dews low 20s N. Maine (19 at FVE) and temps stalled near 60 statewide. After 81/35 and 84/39 last 2 days, maybe light frost tomorrow morning if we decouple soon enough, and another frost shot Monday. GFS has AUG touching 90 next Wednesday - unlikely but not impossible.

Looks like SDDs at the stake will finish pretty close to the average. Here SDDs were 20% below avg, makes up a bit for 18-19 which had 91% AN. Leaf out here is near 100% on aspen, 80% on beech-birch-maple, 20% or less on oak and ash. Typical species sequence and probably near the average dates thanks to huge catch-up wx.

Black flies' biting season lasts 2-3 weeks where I live and probably in Randolph, though when I was in N. Maine it was 4-5 weeks. Mosquitos rule the shade and evenings until frost and deerflies rule in the sun. The skeeters are dainty, sipping blood thru a straw, while black flies scrape enough to get some blood to lap up. Deerfly bites feel as though they've carved off a steak and flown away with it. I've seen deerflies pacing vehicles going 20 mph, waiting for me to get out. However, I've found that if one stands still he deerflies lose interest. Maybe they key on movement, like T-Rex in Jurassic Park. Some resemblance in the dental equipment as well. Was surprised to see the "angry hornets" comment, as I grew up in the mid-Atlantic (NNJ) and seemed to find some yellowjackets (the most aggressive of the native social wasps) every summer, usually with some pain involved. Pretty big mosquitos in the NNJ woods, too, but no blackflies and few deerflies - especially when compared to the many dozen I would attract while working in the St. John/Allagash forests. Those beasts would be accompanied by flies similar to slightly downsized houseflies - non-biting critters I called sweat-lickers. Couple hundred insects buzzing around and banging into me as I walked thru the woods, and I couldn't tell which ones were carrying switchblades. The deerflies loved to dive for the whorl in one's hair, and as soon as I smacked one there all his friends come for the funeral, and of course wanted a meal while they were there. Had 81/35 yesterday and back down to low 40s this morning before another 40+ leap. That was my 1st 80+ since July 30, as August topped out at only 79 and Sept in the mid 70s. Went 296 days w/o seeing an 80-degree max.

At 4 PM, MHT 82/19 and CON 81/18, both with RH 9%. Bloody nose wx.