tamarack

The anthracnose browning on maple is the worst I've seen here. That plus the huge seed crop yet to fall (before today) from sugar maples makes for a dull appearance. However, the wet site red maples are looking normally bright for mid-Sept. Having a June with the most days with rain and the least percentage of possible sun did no favors to the trees; most of the 10 that I measure biweekly have shown slower than usual diameter increment. Hoping to avoid another 2005. That fall the colors were late, mostly dull yellow - zero reds - and 80% were gone after the 5.7" northeast storm on Oct 8-9.

Probably waiting for some interesting wx. Light rain, maybe 0.02", and gusts about 30 - trees are getting their exercise but no more than that so far.

23 of 25 Septembers have had frosts, all but 2011 and 2021. Those Septembers only reached 33 and 34. IDK about this year - 12 straight AN days, have not gotten below 42 yet.

Eastport is on the north side of Cobscook Bay and will get wind but probably not the big waves. Lubec isn't much farther, and West Quoddy Head will be wild. Or if you want to rough it, a mile-plus hike on the Cutler bold coast trail (trailhead parking off Rt 191 about 4 miles past the town) might be even wilder, getting splashed while atop a 60' bluff facing Grand Manan. Edit: Ninja'd by Powderbeard. 2nd edit: Schoodic Point might be open, and it's closer than the above sites.

Northern Maine had 2-6" on Sept 30, 1991. Ironically, on that same date in 1986 a supercell flattened 600 acres 10-12 miles south of Fort Kent. I've never seen any evaluation from CAR, but the straight-line damage suggested 90-100 mph - perfectly sound sugar maples were snapped off before they could be uprooted. The swath was 4 miles long and up to 1/2 mile wide, ending as it blew trees into the north end of Square Lake.

Probably some road damage in Farmington last evening - 2 hours of blinding rain 6-8 PM, had to go 15 mph while going thru the UMF campus about 6:20 and at 8 waded at 5 mph thru the huge pond in front of Giffords. Some cocorahs numbers for my site (NS), Temple, and the average of 2 Farmington sites north of town center: NS Temple Farmington 9/13 0.26" 1.26" 0.48" 9/14 0.33" 1.71" 3.34"

Seems like every TC encounter I've had was followed by CoC the day after. Got sprinkles from the west edge of the patch now pounding Dover-Foxcroft, looks like the bigger bunch will slide by to my west. If it's going to be cloudy all day, I'd prefer that something happens.

Jay Maine, 10-15 miles to my SW, had 5-6" in 2 hours on June 29. (We had 0.43".) State highway 133 just reopened this past weekend and some back roads are still in bad shape. There was a cautionary note with the 133 reopen: "Drive as if you've never been on this road before." There are unpaved patches, low (or no) shoulders, steep drop-offs next to the road, those sorts of things. We've had 15 calendar days with 3"+ precip since moving here in May 1998. Three came in the first 26 months, then only 8 over the next 22 years. The most recent 4 fell in just the past 12 months, Oct 14, Dec 23 (Grinch!), May 1 and August 8. During the nearly 6 years previous, Nov 16 thru Sept 22, the biggest event was 2.54" on 12/25/20, less RA than last Dec but a bigger Grinch, with record warmth (28° AN, 1° higher than 3/22/12) that wiped out every trace of snow. Today's cocorahs report was 1.22", 2-day total a comparatively modest 1.53".

Consumer Reports puts USAA head-and-shoulders above the rest of insurers. Unfortunately, my brothers being vets doesn't qualify me, but our carrier has used us well, though our rates have (unsurprisingly) gone up. Our Forester got hit in Nov 2021 and again the following April, and we were technically at fault - in both cases we're confident the other drivers were going too fast for conditions, but it's not provable. Each accident did about $6k to our car and the insurance company approved the repair costs and cut the check in timely fashion. We highly doubt that our insurance will be an issue due to Lee.

Maybe. More likely it's what white pine does, and though it seems a bit early, so do leaves on most of the other trees around here - more tired-looking than colored. Needles on white pine grow in year 1 then are dropped at the end of the 2nd summer, usually around the end of September. Needle cast (there are several fungal species involved) generally takes out the overwintered needles while the new ones are partially grown, with the infected needles falling mainly in June. I would be a lot more concerned if the brown was at the branch tips instead of on the 2nd-year foliage that's about run its course anyway. (Trivia note: Some needles on the main stem hang on into a 3rd summer.)

Well said. Where I live has tiny earthquakes, small (or no) tornados, modest tropical storms and (occasional) big snowstorms. My preferred mix, though any extra snow is appreciated.

Some distant thunder yesterday afternoon then watching echoes passing north and south. Month total is 0.06" though water table remains high - Sandy River is at 75th percentile. Five consecutive 80+ days for the only time this year, Sept running +7. Today may make it 6 but that will be the end.

Doria might be the most memorable after Belle. During Belle we spent the evening diverting flood waters (from a swollen brook that was normally only 3' wide) to save the neighbor's apartment house. Doria came ja bit over 2 months after our marriage. The racket woke me about 2 AM at the height of the storm. I turned on the patio light (we then lived in garden apts in Lake Hiawatha) and noted the cheap wedge gauge almost to the 4" line with only another inch of freeboard, so I donned my poncho and went out to empty the gauge. I tried to be quiet, but merely opening the door tripled the decibel level, awakening my wife and confirming for her that I was more than a bit crazy.

Unless we're too far north - nice 2-3" RA event, little wind. However, despite no bullseyes, I've experienced a lot of 'cane action. 1954, the year of "relative" canes: Carol (cousin) - non-event in NNJ Edna (aunt) - little RA, brisk wind; brother, dad and I flew kites Hazel (great aunt) - gusts ~60, plastered the house with leaf salad. (In my "2nd echelon" of strong winds, with Bob and April 1982. 1st echelon: Nov 1950, NY Eve 1962) 1955, the floods Connie - 6-8", moderate flooding here Diane - 2-3", missed the big rains by <20 miles, where 6"+ got dumped. 1960, Donna, not quite in the 2nd group, half day at school, friend broke his sailboat's mast while being foolish. 1971, Doria, winds like Donna, 5.1" RA most in a 2-hr period. With 3.8" from PRE, 8.9" in <24 hr. Minor flooding as it had been dry. 1976, Belle - little wind, major flooding rains in N. Maine 1985, Gloria - nice fall storm in Ft. Kent, major infrastructure damage midcoast to AUG. 1991, Bob - Gusts 60+, 6.41" RA, trees felled in opposite direction after the wind shift 1999, Floyd - 5.88", low-end trop-force wind 2010, Earl - much needed 2.27" after dry August, no wind 2011, Irene - 4.37" RA here and no flooding, 8"+ Sugarloaf region, Carrabassett's 3rd greatest peak flow, 1926 on. Had some modest rains from leftovers since 2011 but none worth individual noting.

It's 67 years ago but still crystal clear. At (YMCA) Camp Morris in NNJ, we'd had our tent-camping overnight canceled by an oncoming storm, and about 10 PM I was on the stairs that lead from pavement to the gentle slope up toward the cabins. A pole was right next to the stairs. Then lightning struck the next pole downhill, perhaps 150 feet distant, and the crash was followed by 3-4 more huge flash-bangs as the transformers feeding the lodge and staff HQ blew up . . . followed by pitch dark and screaming kids running thru the pouring rain.

Looks like Phillips, where we saw the light show last evening, is about to be clobbered again. It's moving NE so won't do anything here but maybe spook the pup with distant rumbles.

1999 and 2002 had early heat here, as did 2010 but only for 3 days. In 1999 the first 9 days were in the 80s, topped by 89, and the 7th-8th had TDs 70+ and minima 68,69, easily the mildest Sept minima here - 3rd place is 65. Sept 8-10, 2002 had highs 87/93/92, that middle day tied with 7/3/02 for the hottest I've had, here in the thick woods. However, dews were closer to 60 for that heat. Edit: I've posted this before, but the Sept heat discussion makes it relevant - my first experience of football practice in pads came my HS sophomore year on Sept 1-2, 1961. Double sessions both days, temps mid 90s, dews >70. Most sweat I've ever yielded, challenged only by 2-session days at Johns Hopkins 4 years later with dews approaching 80. But I was well used to pads by then. Yes. I think (and Tamarack will correct me) that's due to the secondary leaf growth that happened after the May freeze that killed off some of the primary leaves. I have a young Maple that dropped those secondary leaves two weeks ago, and have noticed it on several other oaks and maples around here. I don't think it has anything to do with Stein or recent temps. I posted about surprising leaf drop yesterday on the L&G forum and have no solid reason for the leaf curl and drop. It's occurring mostly on maple, birch and basswood, trees unaffected by the May freeze. Does foliage in a given climate have a somewhat set duration, such that early leaf out causes early leaf drop? I doubt it, as we've had earlier leaf-out seasons, and this is the most leaf falling in early Sept I can recall, including my years in Fort Kent.

Depends on whether one looks at highs or lows. JJA max was 2.2° BN, 2nd lowest of 26 summers here, while min was 2.4° AN and a mere 0.03° from being our mildest. Average was less than 0.1° AN and the median was almost exactly average. It was the dews that made summer feel solidly AN. Was in Phillips last evening, about 20 miles NW of home, and took in the most spectacular light show I'd seen since 2011 in DEC, at least 50 flashes per minute though nothing closer than 2 miles - high proportion of CC strikes? (Though looking north while in Farmington, I saw a jagged CG, only bolt I've seen this year.) We couldn't go much over 30 driving toward Farmington due to RA++, then hit dry road about 2/3 the way south, and not a drop at home until 0.05" came in the wee hours.

JJA here was 0.08° AN thanks to July (and minima) but a whisker (0.01°) below the median. POR 5/17/1998 onward. Edit: Temp won't reach the 89s of early June/early July, but today might have the year's highest mean temp and the >70 TD is as tall as any, with only the mid-July soupfest as challenger.

Whether it's leaves "tiring" due to an early leaf-out or the current heat, leaves on maple, basswood, birch branch tips are curling with some coloring, and today they're falling as if it were October first. Something new every season. After my mildest of 25 winters here but also being the first AN for snow in 4 years, who knows what's next.

5.95" at LEW.

Far from being a local, but I would think that by late Sept, Cape Cod Bay would be warmer than most inland lakes in New England.

Again, it's expectations. Way inland (Fort Kent) it was just a fall storm, but there were massive outages from the midcoast west to AUG, some losing power for about 2 weeks. Probably had some high-end TC or low-end Cat 1 gusts there. Of course, Maine hasn't had a Cat 2+ in 150-200 years, at least.

6:30 AM temp here was 5° higher than on Tues-Wed, and first foggy morning of these dewy days. Sun just finished burning off the fog/cloud about 9:30. Delayed sun/taller sunrise temp probably will work out to a draw.

Not meh here. During our 50 years in Maine, the only winds gusting to 60 (estimated by effects) came from the April 1982 blizzard at Fort Kent and Bob at Gardiner. The latter also holds my greatest calendar-day RA with 6.41" and also set a new daily record at PWM with 8.1" (crushed by the oddball hybrid storm in Oct 1996, with 12.4"). Bob is also the only TC of memory that had backside NW winds as strong as frontside SE, toppling trees in opposite directions.