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Hope they hadn't set out their tomatoes yet. Glad the air kept moving a little overnight here, keeping temps 40+. 2 June frosts are more than enough.

Another little impulse after early sun. Nice cool breeze though it's not affecting the swarms of mosquitos. Makes the house a bit chilly and we don't want to close everything up as our dog met with a skunk last evening - critter only fired a warning shot rather than the whole load but it doesn't take much to remain quite redolent. Kinda hope the clouds hang around overnight (as currently forecast.) With today's max in the low 60s, clear skies and calm air would bring us well down into the 30s even with the short night.

Agree. Water table is still fine, even though the nearby Sandy River is running well below 25th percentile. It's the top layer of soil that's dry, and that's a pain for gardeners like me who began planting in mid-late May, so the tiny plants haven't reached far below that dusty top 2". (And given the 27 here on June 1, very glad I delayed.) Seems like it's often dry when the garden is started here, just like it always turned cold and windy when I started the garden in Fort Kent. The one year I held off putting out tomatoes and peppers until June's 2nd weekend it snowed on 6/9. Always an adventure.

Temp slowly crawling to the low-mid 60s after staying upper 50s all day. At 4 it was 60 here and 84 in BML. No sign of sun yet, and not much upstream to add to the day's 0.14".

Said the fellow with 32,000 more posts. Bit of moderate RA just after noon, but 90 minutes of showers brought only 0.10", to go with the overnight 0.04" deluge. We're still in the maritime mank at 60F, doubt there will be much excitement here from the CF.

Long ago, paddlers would portage around falls and heavy rapids, little difference from portaging around the dams. "End to end" doesn't necessarily mean the canoe is floating 100% of the trip, then or now.

In 2010 he made the best - and worst - forecast I've seen here (sort of.) As the New Year's retro-bomb was pouring maritime air into Maine (CAR had RA with temps 25F AN), Scott wondered if that system would wreck winter. "Best" forecast because it was spot on as that low sat there for weeks and messed up the flow for months, "worst" because the result was the most frustrating 2nd half of winter in my 47 years in Maine. Our last true wintry event was the Jan. 28 WINDEX (a good one) though we had two snow events afterward. The late Feb slopfest dumped 10" of 4:1 mashed potatoes seasoned by 1.1" of 34F RA (on the same NE winds that dumped a 21" snowicane on NYC.) The other was 3.5" in April that lasted but a few hours.

Nah. Either greenish yellow or yellowish green works for me. (And different trees spew somewhat different colors.)

About 2 years ago his son posted on some off-topic thread and I asked about his dad. Response was "That's a long story." Did not sound good but there was no need to pry. Scott and I shared many interests, beginning with trees (my forum nom de plume is/was his favorite species) and he is still missed.

Certainly helps show the wind direction.

3 PM obs HUL to FVE show PC to sunny, not a hint of what those echoes might be. Long narrow persistent and fairly straight lines don't look like any phenomenon I can think of, except maybe contrails if 20 jetliners were flying in formation.

A childhood friend from my NNJ days reported (with pics) light accumulating snow where he lives in Ola, ID. Seems like the Rockies, including some valley sites, are having an interesting early June.

2nd weak TS of the day after none since last Oct 1. The 11:15 version dropped 0.15" but this one maybe half as much. Still will triple precip since May 16. Much better echoes a few miles to our east - what else is new, other than the direction.

Brief one-rumble TS here, tapering to RA- at present but might've gotten a tenth or so - biggest event in 3 weeks.

Houses - report said 8 were destroyed, though only the one fellow had to run for his life. Wonder if that slide was due to similar conditions to the one in Smuggs - melting snow and quick warmth turning loose the hillside. I'd read that Norway had AN snowfall this winter, saw a pic of equipment opening a road thru the high country that looked like the oft-posted one from the Japanese Alps, though the sides of the "canyon" looked more like excavator work than auger.

Can add CAR to that list - not often they touch 90 earlier than BDL (but see May 1977 and 1978.)

Old, old maxim: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. Not working for Mr. Zuckerberg, however.

It's incredible how much little cuts around the head can bleed. Couple years ago in SNJ we were minding the 6 kids while mom and dad had a day/date to unwind. (We try to do this whenever we're all together, SNJ or Maine.) My wife had warned the older girls several times about leaving a dresser drawer open and, sure enough, 6-yo Benjamin stood up under a corner and came bawling out to the kitchen (girls were yelling too) with head all bloody with lots dripping on the floor. I carried him outside and poured water onto his once-blond-now-red hair to see what the wound looked like. (Water was chilly, not appreciated by the victim.) While the blood looked like he'd been half scalped, the cut was perhaps 3/16" and had stopped bleeding a minute or two after his dowsing.

Most of the grandkids enjoy a good crackling TS and they probably had a beauty at their place about 25 miles SSE from PHL.

0.06" here. After 5 straight days with some rain recorded, we're struggling with the floods caused by the total of 0.10" from those days. 66/31 yesterday - after no June frosts since 2007, we get a pair this month.

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.