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Looks close to Morristown/MMU. (Or Parsippany, where we lived between our marriage - 6/71 - and the move to Maine - 1/73.) Not raining atm but still low 60s here.

1.11" overnight, still raining, 60°. Not very tropical so far.

August 2002 here for dry heat - note the modest minima, especially for August heat. Unfortunately, our Subaru Loyale with 204k miles chose that month to have its AC die. 11 87 51 12 88 54 13 90 57 14 90 61 15 91 62 16 88 66 17 87 62 18 89 54

Microsites. We're in the woods so transpiration modifies the heat (while boosting dews). Although I've cut some trees from near the house over the 26+ years here, the forest has become taller and thicker. As a result, 85° is our "90" here and we average a bit over 7 days/year at 85+. We've reached 90+ 20 times and 14 came in our first 8 summers here, only 6 in the next 19 (all 2017 on) and all 6 came in May or June. Once the leaves are fully operational, reaching 90 becomes very difficult; 2002 was the most recent year we've done it after June 28.

About the same low here - average is 76/55. On the 11th the average temp drops (fractionally) below 65, ending the 5-week plateau in which the average is within 1° of the summer's warmest. Now the averages' slide becomes more noticeable. Yesterday's 69/55 was 3.4° BN; by month's end that would be +1. but where's the 90s and dews that some were saying were roaring back last week More like purring.

A few miles north from TTN, where 7"+ fell? Farther south where the grandkids live, less than 1/2". 25 miles north from there, Cinnaminson reported 5.67".

My SIL had about 6", a dozen miles north from Ocala. Said the field and yard "looked like a war zone". One more weak TS yesterday afternoon. 0.36" is better than nothing but the 0.80 to 0.94" just to the west would've been nice.

It's certainly been dewey these last few days, but last weekend we had lows of 51° and 7/22 bottomed out at 45. Mostly sticky but the last 2 weeks of July had some breaks from the swamp.

Can't deny that dews are getting higher, but "all of New England"? I'd leave NNE out of that statement (except for ASH).

Moderate rain to the north, heavy rain to the south, 0.01" here. Less tha 0.4" in the past 8 days, no issues yet but if we miss the current systems the garden may be stressed. On that subject, this coming week we snip the terminals on the tomatoes, to help ensure the growth gets focused on fruit rather than greenery. Even if we have to wait into October for 1st frost (like 2 of the past 3 years after just 1 in the previous 23), the cooler temps and shorter days tend to grow leaves more than food.

7 AM temp is 5 degrees less warm than yesterday at that time. Yesterday's low was the warmest of the summer here, punctuated by a 3-minute 0.08" shower arriving at 5:05 PM - teeny tiny pop-up.

That looks more like 2011. Jan 2012 here was AN and Feb way AN, then came the March furnace on 18-23. Only 2005-06 had fewer snow depth days, though 2015-16 was almost as low - 746 to 742. from Tip: By the way, the attribution studies are consummately informing that some powerful event or departure could not have taken place without the acceleration of the climate change... etc etc While all time records (like the PWM tide on JAN 10) remain somewhat few. near record events are happening far more frequently than just 20 years ago. One example is the nearby Sandy River - 1987 brought easily the greatest flood, but #2 and #5 have occurred in the past 15 months, about one 70th of the gage's POR (1929). July 2024 retrospection: Avg high: 77.5 +1.2 Warmest: 84, on 3 days Avg. low: 58.3 +3.5 Coolest: 45, on the 22nd Avg. mean: 67.9 +2.3 4th warmest of 27 Precip: 5.58" +1.52" Wettest day: 1.48" on the 10th. The 11th had 1.37" but most came from a separate event. 3rd straight AN month and 6th of the last 8. The month had 2 different characteristics. 1st thru 18th averaged 70.5°, which is 2.0° above our warmest July, 2010, and 5.1° above average. With the warmest part of the month still to come, I thought a new champion was all but ensured. Then 19th-31st had 64.3° which was -1.5, bringing the final average to 0.6° below 2010.

The issue with white pine is that it's often much taller than the surrounding trees and its wood is fairly weak. In summer, aspen is vulnerable, as its wood is no stronger than pine and often has decay, plus all the sail is at the top of the mast. In winter, fir is the target due to shallow roots and they commonly have interior rot at the base when mature. Spruce roots aren't much better, but the wood tends to be a bit stronger and usually more sound. Left the Farmington hospital in a 2:30 PM downpour after my 3rd and final gel injection to my left knee and got fairly wet on a slo-mo 50 yard "dash" to the pickup. Traffic was going about 30 for the next 4 miles before the rain began to let up and 2 miles later the road was dry. The rain caught up (in lesser abundance) about a half mile from the house. Maybe a tenth here, but the 10 minutes of Farmington rain probably dropped 1/3" just while I drove thru. Sizable flash flood warning to our SW.

It's happened in the past (CAR had 6.4" in less than 3 hours in August 1981) but it's far more common now. 13 months back, southern Franklin County here had 4-6" in 2 hours, probably just as catastrophic as St. Johnsbury for the smaller streams, but the larger ones had no issues like those in VT.

That's like Jay Maine 13 months ago. In Farmington we heard near-constant thunder but not much rain, while that nearby town got hit with 4-6" in 2 hours. Several main roads and many feeder roads were impassible for weeks, even months, and IIRC there's still one bridge not yet repaired, though folks there have another route of access. The VT floods are more widespread but otherwise the same catastrophe.

The Edouard that tracked due north for 2-3 days then made one of the sharpest ever right turns just before impacting the Northeast?

They're probably chowing down on the green heads. Many years ago (1974) at forestry camp, we were building a bridge at Huntley Brook (eastern Maine) and the black flies were horrible. A couple hundred dragonflies appeared and within 10 minutes there was not a black fly to be found.

And that day, 40/36, was 19° BN - it can happen; the 31st was 48/25, for 20° BN. Average for Oct. 29 is 57, about 67/47 for max/min. They've probably touched 90 sometime in early November.

Not that much wx info then, but those decades offered some of the best events of my experience. 1960-72 NNJ, 73-75 BGR 76-79 Fort Kent 1960-61: March blizzard, 3 big storms DJF with 62" total, near 4-foot pack, 12" paste 3/23, a few IP on 5/27 12/31/62: Temp 5/-8, gusts to 70, bare-limbed oaks ripped from frozen ground, plate glass windows smashed. 1966-67: 2 15" storms, 12/24 with thunder (did not believe until the 2nd boom) and 2/7 with S+ at 5°. 3" surprise on 4/27 1969: Mayor Lindsey storm 2/9, 18" - much fell while we drove 30 miles to home from scout camp. Dec 1970: 2nd biggest ice storm of my NJ years (but 100 times less damaging than Jan 1953) Dec 1973: 56 with RA+ at BGR, at same time ZR and 25 at NYC and 15 with IP at the NNJ place. Aug. 2, 1975: Hot Saturday - 100 at BHB next to the cold sea 1976: Jan 12: -41, welcome to Fort Kent Feb 2: Heavy rain, CAR bar. 957, 115 mph gust Stonington (Pen. Bay) and the south wind floods downtown BGR, 15 ft rise 15 minutes. temp at home 44 to -6 in 5 hours. Mar. 19-20: From -25 to 50 in 32 hr. May 7: 1.5" in 45 minutes, as I tilled the garden. Aug. 10: Remains of Belle, 6" RA, mostly 6-10 PM, major road/bridge damage, especially logging roads. Dec 26-30: Two storms total 36", burying our blue Beetle. We drove thru S+ from Kennebunk to Fort Kent, midnight to 8 AM on 29-30. Jan. 10, 1978: 40° at 10:30 PM, TS/hail and 24° at 10:45, 17° with SN by 11:30. 1979, Jan had 5 minima of 33-35, only >32s in our 10 Januarys. That month also had lows of -39, -42 and -47, 3 of our 5 coldest mornings. Feb. 10-17, 8 straight days with subzero maxima, with winds 20-35 and one day up to 25-50+ Oct. 23: Avg temp warmer than mid-July norm.

Hope so. Our 26-year average for August TS is 3.1, but we've had only a total of 5 in the past 4 years. September (avg 1.0) has had the same number.

Many years ago (1982) we spent the July 4th weekend at Allagash Bible Camp, next to the St. John River. We'd had a strong CF come thru on the 2nd (Friday) and both the 3rd and 4th would see temps climb to the 60s, then the cold aloft would trigger afternoon showers that chopped the temps into the 40s. Everyone was looking for extra blankets. At home, 350' higher elevation, the 4th had 65/33 for temps, and had we been there, I wouldn't have been surprised by some IP/slush in those showers. (We did see slush that summer, on August 28.)

The boletes are pretty distinctive. I've yet to find Boletus edulis, the best of that genus, but used to pick birch boletes when we lived up north. Haven't seen any on our woodlot. The one who told me about the boletes had a thick book on mushrooms, edible species, poisonous, non-poisonous (probably not tasty but non-toxic). His mushroom test (tongue firmly in cheek) was to take a bite, wait 20 minutes and if one feels dizzy, don't eat any more. He then noted that some of the most toxic ones don't produce symptoms for several hours, and the effects are irreversible.

The mid-60s drought was huge in SNE/MA. At Central Park, only a very wet November prevented 1963 being the driest since records began there in 1869, pushing it back to 3rd place (temporarily). 1964 did break the record and 1965 had 6" less than '64. 1966 was tracking very close to '65 thru August - it's still NYC's driest met summer and 2nd only to 2010 for hottest. Then 4-6" fell on 9/21/66; one storm doesn't end a multi-year drought, of course, but from then on, we had normal to AN precip. The city's water managers breathed sighs of relief, as their massive reservoir system was down to a couple weeks' supply. In 1965, six states recorded their driest year, the 3 SNE states plus NJ, PA, DE. NY missed, as its Southern Tier counties' climo is considerably drier than the rest of the state, and its driest is in that region.

Even when they don't spring. While gathering firewood west of Allagash Village, I encountered a horizontal sapling springpole (1-1.5" dia.) that blocked my access to a nice pole-size beech that had been bulldozed over during road building. I carefully cut the sapling from above (wrong way, but Game of Logging was yet to be developed) but it only "sprang" a couple inches and would swing like a turnstile. I bucked the tree and began tossing 4-foot pieces over the sapling and toward the pickup. The last piece was 5 feet, and at the but end, probably near 100 lb. As I tossed it forward, the far end caught the sapling, and at the end of my throw the strongly deflected "turnstile" slipped over the log and caught me squarely on the forehead. When the stars finally stopped circling, I realized how fortunate I had been - a hit that powerful anywhere on my head but where it struck would've been very destructive, possibly fatal. We actually had some sun, first in 3 days. Some storms in the area, though they look to slide by to the north. Rain isn't needed right now, but I like a noisy TS. Other than Feb 10 (when I was trying to protect food platters we were loading into the car for a church supper, so distracted from enjoying the storm), we've not had even a moderate TS since June 2022.

Absolutely. Our landlord when we first moved to Fort Kent had a firewood business, among other interests, and some years after we'd moved to our first house, he was out alone working on wood. He had no memory of what happened, just that he awakened in great pain, while sitting on a stump. After walking out to his truck and driving to the hospital (needless to say, he was tough), doctors found 7 ribs broken, right close to the spine, along with some other trauma. Springpole to the back? He was unable to cut wood for a month or so, but I'm sure he continued shearing his Christmas trees!