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I recall reading something like that a month ago. Actual water coming from the sky - first drops since Sept 7. Colors coming on and looking decent, though leaf drop is way ahead of average - 50-75% drop on ash, 30% on white birch, less on other species (except oak, which is still green. Only foliage loss there is squirrel work).

Flowering dogwood consistently produces small fruit that wildlife loves. A cloudy morning - quite unusual in recent months. No rain, but maybe tonight.

36 to 69 here, total sun thru 3:30 with some high clouds sifting in since then. Sandy flow is down to 42 cfs, probably about 5th percentile as the record low (in 1939) is 33 and 25th is 78.

GYX has us with a 50% of >0.25". We'll need a bit more to end the drought, maybe like the 5.54" dumped on Sept. 21, 1966 at NYC that ended the 1960s MA/SNE drought (though it was several wet months later before the end was confirmed). At the time, that deluge was Central Park's 3rd greatest daily precip, also the most for a non-TC event. Another full sun day, though w/o the frost - upper 30s for the low after the 30/29 on Sat/Sun.

29-30 this morning, less frost than yesterday - not enough moisture.

Those nearly round prints make me think raccoon.

"Early Corner" in New Sharon, along US Rt 2 about 1/2 mile west from the Sandy River bridge. The soil there is somewhat poorly drained, almost a forested wetland, which causes the early change. It's about a week earlier than average, probably due to drought, though the 5 mornings in the 30s last week might've helped. This morning's 30 and tomorrow's frost/freeze will push the changes along, though there's an abnormal amount of leaf drop already, in that area and all over, especially ash, birch and red maple.

BDL maxima in the 4th week of September are low 70s. So now +5 is a "furnace"? First (light) frost this morning, low of 30. Our 28-year average for first frost is . . . today. (Though recent years have averaged later.) Will salvage cherry tomatoes and peppers today, as we'll likely dip into the 20s tonight. Covered the peppers last night as they're only 1-2 feet tall. All the remaining 'maters are 4-5 feet off the ground so safe from light frosts.

Not sure it's my most boring year ever (I'm kinda old) but it's certainly a contender. Only one snow event over 4" (average year has 7, so late fall would need to be snowy to get there), no days with 1"+ precip (average year has 12) and only 5 days with thunder. Average days is 15 and only 2010, with 8, had fewer than 10. Average from today thru 12/31 is only 1. I don't think we've had a gust reach 40 mph. The only outstanding event was the August 11-13 heat wave, only the 3rd in 28 summers here. (I don't like big heat, though.)

Haven't had a day with 1"+ since early December; first year to get past June without at least one. Since the light showers on 9/7, not a drop.

Split off the top 1/3 of Maine and the rest would be #133, too. Aroostook has been somewhat BN for precip but not by all that much.

Not for folks old enough to remember the mid-1960s. (But more than enough - time for some rain.)

Same leaf-edge browning here, especially on ash. If it's cicadas, it's a variety that makes no noise. We're actually seeing some non-swamp colors earlier than usual, due to 5 straight mornings in the 30s and/or drought.

Another 1947 for Maine? PWM had only 2.00" total rain for August/September that year, then had no measurable for October 1-28. Bad things happened.

GYX mentioned 20s/low 30s in the north part of their CWA, though they also cautioned that it's 5-6 days away. Yesterday was 4° AN here, first AN day since 9/6. Low of 48 ended a 5-day run of 30s. Month is 1.6 BN so far.

Totally different from the Euro for NNE.

September is the sunniest month here, followed in order by August and July.

About 20 years ago (I'm guessing) an entomologist in Maine researched the critters and found that there was a significant (barely) relationship between the color bands and the subsequent winter. (Probably the above relationship - I don't remember. And I think it compared snow or snow/cold for full winters, without the early/late connection.) Slowly warming minima here - 34 on Tuesday, 36 yesterday, 38 this morning. Forecast suggests tomorrow morning will go the other way.

Nice! I've seen almost no deer sign in our woodlot, though our new neighbors (they plan to build next summer, now doing some road and clearing work) have captured does and a nice buck on their trailcams. Another sunny cool day.

36° with fog this morning, 34° without fog yesterday.

34 this morning, close but the garden still lives (though growth/ripening has slowed considerably).

A bit over 1" from Saturday's event, including some Sunday leftovers. Raised the Sandy River by 0.15 feet, still under the 25th percentile and headed back down. First fire in the stove in nearly 3 months this morning - low of 41 after yesterday's cloudy drippy high of 59.

Had 0.92" yesterday afternoon, with about 0.6" in 45 minutes, 3:30-4:15. Biggest precip day since March. Light rain this morning, another 0.04", but after today it's dry, dry, dry.

Had nearly an hour of mod/hvy RA, barely enough thunder to call it a TS - 1st one since July 20. Not close to severe (near zero wind) but we take.

We moved to Fort Kent on Jan 1, 1976 and moved back south (Gardiner) on Oct 25, 1985, so I missed the big Novie dump, though we waded thru it a week later on Public Land (Scraggly Lake) just NE from Baxter Park. The day we moved to FK was relatively mild, low 20s. Then Jan 9-13 had minima -33/-36/-24/-41/-37. 1976 was probably the most weather-eventful year of my lifetime, though the 12 months March 1960-Feb 1961 was close.