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Goldenrod?

69/46 yesterday, down to 42 at 5:30. After no sub-50 mornings in July, August starts with 2 or 3.

Worked for us when we were cutting 3/4 acre at my grandparents' place, though I earned several stings there. Dad would wait until dark, then pour in a half cup and toss in a match. Torching one particularly large colony, the biggest yellowjacket swarm cloud I've seen, resulted in a bushel basket size hole in the ground after the fire had consumed all the critters' infrastructure.

July numbers: Avg. max: 77.4 +1.1 Warmest: 89, on the 6th Avg. min: 59.2 +4.5 Coolest: 50 on the 30th and 31st. 2nd July that failed to get below 50, mildest avg minima, 0.5° above 2010. Avg. mean: 68.3 +2.8 2nd warmest behind 2010 and barely above 1999. Precip: 3.85" 0.16" BN 1.02" on 7/2 the biggest day. One day with thunder, tied with 2010 for least in July.

Not even close. 5° BN feels very nice, with the low 50s dews, but daily record minima at this time are low 40s, not low 50s.

Correct. I'm not sure how passable getting to the main trailhead is, at least without a high-clearance machine. Franklin County and BPL are working out a split for funding repairs, but there are other roads with higher priority. Rt 133 is still not a through road from Livermore Falls to Jay.

Jeff's area has the bigger mountains, 4,000-footers with up to 3,000 feet altitude gain. If you would rather not walk up a Sugarloaf ski trail, the Caribou Pond Road west of the 'Loaf is crossed by the AT, offering a more natural route up to Maine's 2nd tallest mountain. Tumbledown has very heavy use though midweek would likely be okay, gain is 1500-1800 feet, depending on which summit one takes. One route is very steep, almost cliff-like (so I've been told). Shorter hikes include 2 different Bald Mountains. Perkins Bald is on Rt 156 only 7-8 miles from Wilton. Signage is iffy and parking quite limited. Altitude gain is a bit over 1,000 feet. The other Bald, in Oquossoc (part of Rangeley) is an hour's drive, though a quite pretty one with a better chance of seeing moose. That Bald is reached by Bald Mountain Road, off Rt 4 about 500 feet from that highway dumping into Mooselook Lake. I've not been up the Perkins Bald but love the one in Oquossuc. That mountain lies between Mooselook and Rangeley Lakes, has good parking and a big sign (and a vault toilet), and offers 3/4 mile of uphill thru forest followed by 1/2 mile+ of rock scramble. Some pitches look daunting but 3 years ago my then-5-year-old grandson had no trouble. Perkins Bald has open rock at the summit, Oquossuc has a 30-foot observation tower made for the lower section of an old firetower. You can learn more about Bigelow, Tumbledown and Oquossuc Bald at Maine.gov/agencies/Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Searching for Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands might get you there more quickly. We've had wonderful lobster rolls at the seafood place on Rt 2 just east from the center of Farmington, but you might get an even better one at the coast.

50° here, coolest of the month by 3°. Can we reach the 40s tomorrow morning? (IZG 49 today) Yesterday's 0.26" leaves the July total at 3.78", 94% of average after 2 months of very AN rain.

Light rain arrived about 5, some bright echoes upstream but seem to be sliding to our south. Forecast is a modest 0.1-0.25" except in TS, which are very unlikely here. I do like the significantly cooler air coming in the window, however.

I preferred the old one, so I could brag up the -101 at our Fort Kent home on Jan 18, 1982. The -72 from the new one lacks cachet. Nice peak of summer day here, mid-upper 60s dews and mid 80s, nothing spectacular.

BDL has had lousy snowfall totals the most recent 5 winters. The previous 5 averaged AN despite having 2015-16 in its midst. However, most recent 10 were only 89% of average while those winters ran a couple inches AN here.

I'd nominate August 1988 as a contender.

Well, less worry than at your locale, but prior to last winter the previous 3 had lots of taint. (Including "Give it up. 'Taint gonna snow.)

Thru yesterday, the month was running 0.3° above July 2010, as of now the record holder (POR 26 years). The average max is only +1.3 and 9th highest while the 60.0° average min is +5.5 and 1.3° above 2020, currently tops. MInima for the "win"

As I've said before, little 'quakes, little 'canes, little tornados, big snowstorms - a combo I can live with.

Works great for our Vacation Bible School, too. Last year we sweltered in HHH. This month has included a half dozen or more flood/flash flood watches, some warnings, but unless we get >1/2" before Tuesday, July will finish BN for rain. May/June had fewer watches/warnings but a far greater dowsing.

Two period forecast was 1-1.5" (3/4-1 day, 1/4-1/2 evening), verifies at 0.11". Sun peeking thru some holes in the clouds. Since July 2 that's been the trend here. After 16.5" in 64 days, we're now busily dodging anything that looks like serious wx. Maybe we cash in on Saturday; if not, looks like low PWATs next week. At least we get some real CAA for the first time in many weeks.

I can count on my thumbs the severe TS I've experienced since moving to Maine in 1973, though a 3rd one hit our Fort Kent home while I was in the woods 35 miles to the west, where we had a sprinkle with the gust front. Neither of the two were at our place - one was in the woods about 20 miles south of MLT and the other was at the Farmington office. Lots of close ones, though, especially 8/30/2007 when several thousand acres were defoliated - some partially debarked - by hail 6-8 miles SE from our current home.

That FF-warned storm crossing the NH/Maine border may hit Jeff for some fun, while the north-south split gets this area for the 3rd time today. Maybe we reach 1/4"?

BGR had dews near 80 in August 1988. Only got to 77 at PWM but I think that's still their tallest dew on record. Not up to 0.1" yet after 4.5 hours of showers, getting a bit darker but cloudy and 70 isn't a prescription for real convection. Our zone is barely in the flood watch, barely out of the severe watch. The strongest echoes stayed south this morning and are just north this afternoon. Sometimes I hate it when my guesses verify.

Cloudy with low 70s says little/no severe here. Light RA began about 10:45, has barely gotten the ground wet. Brightest echoes look to be starting the north-south split that leaves Rt 2 in between. Back end of precip maybe 2-3 hours away, after which the swamp arrives - forecast high is 10° above the current temp. Soon enough to gin up something interesting?

There's a calculus in colder climes between increased precip and higher temps, and which will have the stronger effect on snowfall. Places like DCA are probably south of the "flex point", which I'd guess is currently in the NYC/BDR region (and edging northward). Farther north the greater precip wins more often than it loses, as seen by 21st-century snow totals in many New England sites. Winters like 2022-23 might be a preview of the situation 20+ years from now.

Might be less expensive than fixing it the usual way. It’s 3-4 days lol. A pattern change it’s not I thought that day 8 thru day 14 was a full week. I'll never understand the New Math.

3.41" here. After today that will be exactly on the average for July 1-26.

We got more rain yesterday than the Jay-Dixfield drowner the day before - 0.04" vs. 0.03". Since the all-day rain on July 2, every precip forecast here has underperformed. Dare I say that the garden needs water?