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Absolutely. However, when it's -20 some January mornings, I haven't been able to convince the pickup's battery that the cold is fake. No fake cold here as the clouds slid in from the east overnight.

Four more days for things to change, but right now the cone is centered on Bradenton. Hope that the eastern Gulf is still a bit cooled from Helene's passage.

Might not hold for a 'cane coming in on a course perpendicular to the coastline.

0.24" by 7 AM with very light RA, and the morning low of 54 is 15° above the average (though we may be a bit lower by my 9 PM obs.) Yesterday topped out at 66 as the early fog (<1/8-mile vis) and clouds blocked the sun almost to noon.

Hope it's less than last time. We had 24.45" Dec-Mar despite only 0.95" in Feb. That 4-month period was about 5.5" more than any other DJFM here, back thru 98-99.

Only rain in Gardiner where we then were living. In 12 Octobers the only measurable events were 1.8" on 8-9, 1988 and 0.5" on 31, 1993. I do recall seeing 1987 tree damage in Dutchess County NY as we drove south for Thanksgiving with family.

Near peak here, maybe a week early. A bit of reds, too, as the trees near the house usually are all yellows. Despite last month being way BN for rain, the year is still 6.5" AN. Edit: Looks like we finally get a frost next week, about 3 weeks later than average.

DJF was slightly BN here in 21-22 thanks only to a very cold January. Both 17-18 (coldest Dec here 1998-on) and 18-19 (all 3 months BN) were several degrees BN. The 2 mildest DJFs here were 22-23 and 23-24, and that's what stands out in our memories. Edit: If my site had 1991-2020 norms, which include the cold Pinatubo years, 21-22 might've come in AN but not the other 2.

Too far north for most of them, though we did get 15" on April 1. The 12-16 forecast for the Octobomb verified at 4.5". On the bright side, we lost power for only a few hours; 12-16 would've meant days.

For my records, first/last frosts are minima 32 or lower. Freeze is 28 or lower. Frost (more likely frozen dew) on car roofs with the max/min bottoming out at 34 doesn't count. Enjoy that extra month of growing season if you're in northern New England I guess. Good for fattening the carrots but the warm-wx crops (tomatoes and cukes here) look exhausted and are not producing much if any.

Low 60s here as clouds hung tough. We've had the same number of cloudy days this month as in the first 20 days of September.

40 trillion gallons. That's about 1.5 times the annual precip in Maine and it fell in 48 hours.

Absolutely. 22-23 snow was latitudinal, with much of NNE getting AN. 23-24 was more of a unicorn, with the spring storms focused on the NNE foothills. We had 11" more than CAR that winter despite their average being 32" greater during the 26 winters here.

Sept 1 was +8 and today will be closer to +4. Progress? September numbers - Avg max: 69.1 +0.8 Warmest, 80 on the 17th Avg min: 46.6 +1.1 Coolest, 37 on the 23rd. Mildest for Sept's lowest, topping last year's 35. Mean: 58.3 +0.9 The month's average diurnal range was 22.5° which is 0.3° AN, a small departure but it's the first month with AN range since May 2023. Had 15 straight months with BN ranges. Precip: 1.51" -2.10" The 1.39" on 9/26 was the only day with more than 0.05".

14 of September's first 19 days were sunny or mostly sunny and 2 of the final 3 days of August were also sunny. I can't recall another 3+ week period with that much sun. Sept 20-29 had 3 cloudy days and 7 PC with today closing out the month with another mostly sunny. We had just one day with more than 0.05" RA.

Helene's rain covered at least 10x the area of Camille's Apps flooding, but the earlier storm dumped up to 26" in 5 hours on some central/west spots in Virginia. (That's about what NYC recorded for all of 1965!) In that more limited area, the damages/casualties (~115) were equal or worse than Helene - though the total of fatalities from Helene will be, sadly, almost certain to be higher.

Nice tender yearling. Hope you get that kind of view in daylight.

Kinda like deer hunting. Once brown is down, the work begins. Nice dried-on-the-stump red oak - finest kind. Bluebird day with a bit of breeze.

Like many things, it depends. The hard pines ("Southern yellow pine", several species) are stronger than the soft pines (Eastern white). The damage to our white pines last Dec occurred where they were 50-60 feet taller than the other trees, mainly hardwoods 50-60 feet tall, and about 90% of those 100'+ trees were undamaged. A small (~1/3 acre) plantation of red pine - one of the hard pines - was destroyed by the 4 hours of gusts ~50+, 2/3 broken or tipped over. That stand faced upwind across a long field, with nothing to break the wind. Red pines elsewhere suffered much less damage. White pines 50-foot-tall or greater, out in the open, are likely to fall before sustained 50+ and probably near 100% breakage/uprooting in 60+. The Southern pines have a taproot and are less likely to uproot. Maybe add 10 mph to their resistance, but that's a guess as I've never lived south of Baltimore nor seen wind effects south of NJ.

Nice. (Like the pine seedlings too.) If we get some 70+ warmth after yesterday's rain, I'll check around the white birches by the old stock pond to see if any Boletus betulas (birch boletes) pop up.

Lowest so far here is 37, which will probably stand as the month's coolest. It's our least cool for Sept's lowest, beating last year's 35. 3 of the past 4 Septembers have failed to have a frost. That happened only once (2011) in the previous 23 years.

Finished with 1.41" from 19-20 hours of continuous RA, light to occasionally moderate. Still need a bunch more before the swamps get filled.

Guessing ~400-450 tons in our 47 years (77-78 thru 23-24) as we averaged 5+ cords/year and using 3,500 lb/cord for (mostly) air dried wood. We moved to the back settlement of Fort Kent in Sept 1981 and shoved 9 cords of mostly green wood thru an inefficient stove during a very cold winter. Better stove/system/firewood lowered that to 6 cd/yr the following 3 winters before we moved south.

0.61" thru 7 AM, septupling (not a real word?) my September rain, now up to 0.71". (Not counting the ~2/10" since, and the echoes to our west promise a good bit more.)

Last Dec 18 we had 4 hours of gusts that I guesstimated as ~50 mph. At least half of the larger fir on our 80-acre woodlot were toppled, along with some aspen and a defective large basswood. Also, 2 of our 120-foot-tall pines had their tops blown off. The basswood and 3 of the fir fell across our road and our Generac had a 101-hour workout. I'm confident that an anemometer at 10 meters would've topped out below 40 but the 75-foot fir and those scattered big pines were catching a lot faster wind. Three months earlier we had 3 hours of ~40 mph gusts from Lee (and 0.02" RA compared to 4.21" in Dec), and the only tree damage was breaking off the 2nd fork from one of the tall pines and dumping a couple of defective fir, along with 2 hours of genny. 50 is a lot more real than 40. Hours of gusts 60 would wreck the woodlot - mine and many others'.