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From GYX this afternoon: .SYNOPSIS... Gradually increasing humidity will continue into tonight as moisture from the remnants of Florence approach New England. Eventually rainfall will move in from the southwest after midnight and continue into Tuesday for the southern parts of the forecast area. Near the Massachusetts border rain may be heavy at times, while in the foothills it may struggle to rain at all. So the distance between haves and have nots may not be that large. We got 2/3" from Gordon's remains, while points south and east got 2-4 times that amount. Ratio might be infinite for this one.

06z gfs gives my area a whopping 0.05-0.10". Sandy River flow should drop below 25th percentile by tomorrow, and nothing significant (barring a northward yank of ex-Flo) before Friday at the earliest. That run offers very little thru the end of the month. Met summer precip was a bit AN but that was countered by significantly AN temps, increasing the water deficit created by my driest of 21 Mays here.

Frozen dew on the pickup roof last Sunday and 32 on the max-min but no garden damage. That plus the 33 the next morning kick-started the color a bit. Though I'm more than tired of AN temps and especially dews, that's just personal preference. When it comes to the lead-up to winter, AN is no concern to me unless/until it extends into November.

Quite a bit of color - 20% or so - on the foothills, much less in my <400' site. Peak here is usually Oct. 5-10. When I lived up north, it was last week of Sept. Ex-Florence qpf draining away from here on the models. Would be nice to get a quick 2" to start filling up the swamps, but I expect that type of RA to stay south.

My niece's kids, age 6 and 4, are having such a good time at the CLT hotel where they're waiting out the storm (they live one town inland from ILM) that she's a bit concerned that they will root for more hurricanes so they can get another fun vacation.

Thanks. Distilling some data, here are the 10 highest scoring trees (points based on inches of circumference, feet of height, and 1/4 of crown spread in feet): 406 Northern Red Oak 402 Silver maple (biggest circumference by 25", comes to 92" diameter) 401 Eastern Cottonwood (Midwest species, not native to NH) 392 Silver maple 388 Silver maple 373 Silver maple 363 Silver maple 357 Northern red oak 356 Sugar maple 350 Northern red oak

The Carolina piedmont is a billiard table compared to the mountains in Japan. That said, I recall floodwaters from Floyd creating an inland lake that seemed to take forever to drain off, so 10-20" in that part of the Carolinas could resemble that, or Harvey. (And if the RA++ holds together until the remnants reach the Apps, watch out.)

I was 6 months shy of my 40th when Gloria went through, and was then commuting weekly between Fort Kent and Augusta. Governor Brennan closed the state offices at noon that Friday, giving me a head start to keep in front of the storm, which was a 1"+ garden variety fall storm in N. Maine. Though S. Maine had less rain, generally in the 0.5" vicinity, they had lots more wind. The following Monday I called a place 20 miles east of Augusta about a Jotul 618 woodstove they had for sale, and it was nearly 2 weeks before they responded, as power outages and damage had them living elsewhere immediately post-'cane. (We enjoyed heat from that stove for our 13 years in Gardiner.)

Then don't live at 2000+ in the Greens.

Then maybe you should stay away from the woods north of Greenville and MLT, because that's the fate of many fir, even without help from budworm. Short lived, shallow rooted, but they make a decent 2-by-4. (Sap drained from fir bark "blisters" used to be collected as the best cover-slip fixer for microscope slides. Probably use some petrochemical for that today.)

Should've been an emoji with HfH's post. Anyway, your age for Gloria is within a few months of mine for the Jan. 1953 ice storm in the hills west of NYC, an event I remember well, and which I "blame" for my interest in both weather and trees. No surprise you would recall lots about Gloria.

Might be silver maple - shaggy light gray bark, leaves are deeply notched, moreso than red, sugar, Norway maples. Fall color is a weak yellow-green. Many silver maples have major forks at 10,20,30' above ground. In nature they do well in moist areas, especially along/near watercourses, but they're also frequently planted along streets - fast growing, resistant (for a maple) to salt/gunk, but vulnerable to ice/snow due to weak and somewhat brittle wood. Biggest tree in Maine (not yet officially measured) - assuming it's not been broken apart since last measured in 1996 - is a silver maple on the floodplain along the East Branch of the Penobscot. It was 98" in diameter at that 1996 taping, and when I saw it in 1990 it was 96" diameter, about 100' tall and 100' crown width.

Even if the house is built to withstand those wind speeds, can it survive 50-100 lb debris moving nearly as fast?

Sounds like tar spot fungus. It's been common in southern Maine in wet/high humidity wx. Doesn't seem to hurt the tree much as it generally starts after most of the food production is the can, but it looks awful. Seeing some early color in the Norway Maples as I drive my daughter to school. Norway maple has fall color? Those I've seen produce mediocre shades at best. About 15% change along the side of Mile Hill, elev. 750-800. At my place, 380 or so, even the ash hasn't done much yet.

Only exception to that rule that comes to mind was Andrew - IIRC, it came ashore at/near low tide and kept moving, though an hour of 100-150 wind is pretty good at trashing things. Edit: Family with homes one town behind ILM and at 25'+ elev (don't have their street address - might be 50+) have headed for Charlotte, one hopes to a place on high ground. Their house is engineered to withstand 130 mph, but this language from MYR - Damage greatly enhanced by large projectiles - might make that engineering worthless when some 500-lb object comes crashing thru the walls at 75 mph.

Rotten fir. Saw millions of them (and climbed over thousands) back in the early 1980s when spruce budworm was "managing" the Maine woods.

0.45" thru 7 AM, and I doubt we got another tenth. Forecast discussion pointed toward mts/foothills getting the most, but as seems usual in broad-scale RA events, S. Maine and midcoast get the dousing - lots of 1.5-2.5" totals. (And one weird 5.25" at Rockport; I wonder if a neighbor poured some into the gauge as a prank.)

That's about what I had in Fort Kent. 1978 fouled up my system with a frost on July 31. Was the growing season before then or after? ('Before' gave me 44 days, 'after' only 27.)

For sure. Day 10-12 H8s at 16C for AUG one run and -2 the next.

Yesterday's 32 ended the growing season here at 112 days - May 19 had last 32 or below. 21-year mean is 115, median 113. The May frost was 5 days ahead of average, Sept. 8 days ahead. Last year 1st frost was Sept. 2 then we didn't get another until the 29th. There's a chance that this morning might be the last one this month.

60/32 at my place, fairly chilly max for a mostly sunny day. Average was 13° BN though the month is still AN (until today's numbers get added.) Today's low was similar, and the increasing clouds might stop temps in the 50s,

Frozen dew on vehicle roof, not on grass, so at/near 32.

Frozen dew on the pickup roof. Haven't peeked at the max-min, but low probably 31-33, no enough to hurt the somewhat sheltered garden.

WCI in the teens on the Rockpile.

Especially at KHAT - 42" RA and 2 days of sustained Cat 1 (or 2) winds as the storm churns in place just offshore tickling the outer banks with its eyewall.