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In part because the 2nd half of 1988 was about 12° cooler than the 1st. That first 15 days vies with any similar-length period for heat and buries it for dews. 2nd half was mainly low-dew CoC.

My Boston data, from UCC, goes back only thru 1920. Probably I should check on Climod - doing so for NYC allowed me to add 1869-75 to that site's records. (Another wish-list item is NY-Battery Place back into the 19th century. I can understand closing that station when the official NYC site was moved to Central Park, but tossing the data would seem very unscientific, so it's probably around somewhere.)

That phrase nails 2002-03 up here, way BN temps and way BN snowfall, as all but one (Jan 4) of the good storms were suppressed. DJFM that season were all BN for temps, with only 2013-14 doing the same since 1998-99, our 1st winter here. ENSO ranging from weak nino thru neutral to moderate nina have been good for Maine snow, using CAR, PWM and Farmington as representative. Strong nino is actually the best, but sample size is only 3 and both moderate and very strong nino show significantly BN snow for their 9 winters combined.

Temp at my cool-pocket location stayed at 78 from 8 to 11 last evening, so I was surprised to see it at 68 this AM - still a warm morning here (warmest in 20+ years here: 71 on 7/19/05, with 2 at 69 - day before that 71 and 9/8/99) but about 5° cooler than I expected given the lack of evening cool-down. Yea, when a neighborhood safety watcher, cop wannabe, can chase down an unarmed teenage boy and shoot him to death....and get away with it. Ya know, ‘stand your ground’, whack gun laws. IMO, the reason he got away with that, in addition to the SYG law, was prosecutorial overreach. Evidence was ambiguous and insufficient to prove murder beyond a reasonable doubt, but it seemed plenty sufficient to prove manslaughter and get that violent idiot off the streets for 10 years or so.

Before the multi-million$$ reno, the brick and stone building where I work had no AC, though some off-the-shelf units were installed within a plastic bubble after the computers running data generated due to the 1989 Forest Practices Act started crashing from the heat. State policy said that indoor temps over 86 would close the building, but in 1988, 93, 95 temps 88-90 were frequent and one day reached 92 (though we did get released that day.) Logan low of 83 so far. Might be warmest ever? My data says "tie", with 8/2/75. (102/83) Only 8 minima 80+, 4 with 80 and 3 with 81. Only one prior to Hot Saturday was 6/6/25. Others came 1977, 1991, 1999, 2002, 2011, 2012. Also 6 with 79, half of them in July 2013. Edit: Thanks, Don. Looks like a 9th day with minimum 80+, unless there's a cheap sub-80 at 11:59 PM. (Very doubtful)

A/Z and Z/A. May have to get them onto the visible toolbar if they're not already there. (Maybe that's not news...)

Same at my school, then they used none in 61-62 as we never got a storm over 6". 60-61 was a bit different: 2 days from the Dec 12-13 blizzard, a dumb half day the following Fri (quick 2" but sun was coming out as we boarded the buses), 1 day for the JFK inaugural storm, thanks to its arriving on a Thursday evening, one in early Feb, on Monday after a Fri-Sat storm (NYC canceled that whole week), and another half day in late March when a forecast of 1-3 sloppy inches morphed into a dense 6-12, most coming 9-noon. Only time I walked the 5+ miles from HS, as our bus never showed. That doesn't include Monday 1/16, when 1/3" ZR on Sunday turned to 6" SN overnight. Maybe they knew what was soon to come and gutted that one out. That winter convinced dad to buy a snowblower (antiquated single stage with metal wheels), which didn't encounter a real snowstorm until Jan 1964.

That tall spike in the middle reminds me of my 1st time going out for football. Sept 1-2, 1961, 2-a-day practices in a 95/70 cloud-free blaze.

68-69 here included Boston's 100-hour storm, which dumped 43" at the nearby long term co-op, and brought snow depth to 84". 79-80 (and the following winter) are the two least snowy of 125 winters at that co-op. Weak ninos have averaged AN for snow here, but also show the greatest variability of any ENSO condition.

2014, up here.

I did it backwards. My first coffee experience was at age 10 while visiting grandparents one summer, and it was iced coffee. Never had hot coffee until after my 21st b'day, regular (cream & sugar) at break time with the carpenters for whom I was working. Within a couple months I went to black, and 50+ years later that's still the way. Tried latte once - hot milk with some coffee flavor, no thanks. I do like espresso, however. Also like DD's frozen coffee - coolatta was a better name, IMO - though even with skim milk it's a high-calorie indulgence. For my age 19 and 20 summers I worked at Curtiss-Wright's company lake resort in NNJ, flipping burgers and brewing coffee by the gallon. Iced tea consumption there went up and down with the wx, but coffee varied directly with the head count at the gate. As a non-drinker of coffee, that puzzled me. By far the most we ever sold came on the busiest day of those 2 summers, July 3, 1966 when NYC hit 103 nd EWR 105, with most NNJ sites in the 100-103 range. Our wall thermometer, one of those cheap coil critters, was about 140-150 ("about", because the needle had gone a fair distance beyond the 120 mark, the end of the scale.) What it was where I worked, 3 feet from the griddle, it was better not to know.

IMO, lampooning others whose taste in beer differs from one's own seems a bit silly, though it livens up the banter forum. (Stated by a non-drinker, a choice many here would also think silly.)

This month will finish AN here, probably enough to make met summer AN by overcoming June's -2. However, the chances of it being the warmest August in our 21 here have pretty much evaporated, axed by the past 2 weeks being slightly BN. Would need for the last 5-6 days to run +10 to have a chance, and while I expect some heat, it won't be that hot. Edit: That "Tallying up the heat" table suggests that the BOS/PVD 70s minima records are in play. All the other numbers look AN but not all that noteworthy.

After 330 days/year like this, you would probably be bored. Yesterday finished up our annual peer-review field trip, and between the gorgeous wx and the on-site discussions, it was a day for the ages. (Especially compared to day 1, with our final field stop conducted in a downpour, and dews turning non-Gore-Tex raingear - like mine - into steam baths. We were downeast, where the rain ended about the time we headed toward our overnight at Grand Lake Stream.) With temp 54 and dropping at 9 last night, I expected low 40s this AM but was closer to 50, with a thin cloud/smoke combo probably limiting the radiation.

They'd have a hard time competing with the crabgrass. That Oak on Lava Rock is a good looking specimen tree. I'd try some hostas - many different species/colors/patterns available - in the spots that get the most shade, and blueberries probably would do okay in 6-8" soil if fertilized (Miracid or another formula for acid-loving plants), as they're somewhat drought resistant, though a dry season would limit fruit production.

1954 was the year for "family" 'canes - cousin, aunt, great aunt, in that order. (And Hazel is one of only 2 storms I've experienced that plastered leaf pieces on the sides of houses. The other was a June storm near Ellsworth, Maine, but tearing up those tender pre-equinox leaves is lots easier than it is for leathery early October foliage.)

Warm is fine. High 80s with midsummer dews after the equinox, like last year, not so much.

And under that tree, imagine the dews!

If that backfill includes much of the ground around that oak, I fear you can kiss it goodbye, though if you really want to keep it, you could either exclude it from the fill or build a dry well around it. Most trees have the vast majority of their fine roots, the water-nutrient gatherers, within the top 12" of soil, and they have a tough time if those roots are suddenly 2' or more underground. (Not that anybody asked)

I think both storms had gone mainly ET well before reaching 40 North. I can't remember any serious wind from either at my (then) NNJ home, where we got 5" or so from Connie and escaped with about 2" from Diane. Bob retained TC character a lot farther north. We lived a few miles south of Augusta then, and that's the only TC of my experience in which the backside winds were near/at the same speed as front side, though 90%+ of precip came before the wind shift. It was odd seeing blowdowns with trees pointed in opposite directions.

Cocorahs wants reports each day, wet or dry. They can't always tell when a non-report is a no-precip report, or merely observer oversight. That "always" is italicized because the site has some fact checkers. One morning when I awoke to dry grass and never checked the gauge, I got an email questioning my 0.00" while nearby sites reported a tenth or two. Afternoon check (with no precip between) found 0.13" - good catch by the auditors. August 1955 at BDL had 21.30". 2nd place 2011 way back at 11.67". Edit: Ryan's write-up has 21.87". (My numbers came from Utah Climate Center.) Random but do you think it's unreasonable to think that some portions of the Hawaiian Islands could see potential winds gusts of 75-90 mph with Lane? (Assuming something like the GFS pans out). Morning check of Wunderground (even though their hurricane/TS site has become wonky to the point of total frustration since TWC stepped in) showed a northward bend in the day 4-5 track. If that verifies, the Islands might be in play, especially Kauai.

Couple more decent TS and they could threaten to pass 2011 for 2nd rainiest August. I think 1955 is safe. Weekend deluge brought 0.03" here as we got 7-10'ed twice, and that total appears to be the lowest 2-day total (cocorahs obs for 18th-19th) of ay of the =/- 100 Maine observers who reported during that time. No complaints, as my 0.58" ranked 3rd from the top for the 15th.

Forecast here for the Octobomb was 12-16", verified with 4.5" of mush. My chief memory of that event came 2 days later, as our forest inventory contractor and I were check-cruising near Rangelely in a day-long icewater bath as snowmelt dripped off the trees. We've had 1" or more in Oct only 3 times in 20 years. 1st was 6.3" in 2000, followed by a great winter, especially Feb-March. Next was 1.4" in 2005, the winter w/o a single storm 6" or more - only one of those in my 45 years in Maine. Oct 2011 was the 3rd, and that winter was well on the way toward ratter when summer visited during March and confirmed that status.

I think so too. Played at Hopkins 1964 and 65, after which my GPA dropped low enough that I had to make other plans. Freshman team was undefeated in 64, varsity 1-6-1 the next year, and only a major upset against W. Maryland in the final game prevented a winless season. There was a reason the varsity lacrosse coach took frosh FB, and varsity FB coach did the opposite.

Gypsies all done eating, probably pupating. Something else is at work now- any browntail moth over there?