tamarack

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.

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.

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,

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.

Always good to welcome new members, especially ones offering such a well thought out intro. Hey, Mainiacs! How about some folks from the 85% of the state lying north and east of my location? (Though Pit 2 is slightly east of me.)

Highest I've seen, and that part of eastern Maine was the jack (for the US, might've dumped more in New Brunswick.)

WWA issued for NW Aroostook, 3-5".

Snow pretty much gone, as expected, but windy 40s do not make for a nice day in May - had a couple flakes now and then as well. Yesterday's temp was 15° BN, would've been 17 but for a cheap 41° max at obs time the evening before, as 37 was the tops for the afternoon and it did well to get that high.

About 25 miles to the NE from Lee, Orient reported 14". They're on the border with Canada, right where the squiggly border (East Grand Lake and trib) turns toward the north. Missed all the squalls, as they slid south while the precip that dumped on NE Maine stayed just to my north. However, 3.2" on May 9 warrants no weenie complaints.