tamarack

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.

That all-the-time-wet month not only lacked sun, but also inhibited weeding (I've read that doing so when plants are wet spreads disease) such that low plants like carrots and beets hardly stood a chance. This will be the first year in 20+ with too few carrots to be worth overwintering under mulch. No fresh carrots next April. Only the cherry tomato "trees" have done well. Cucumbers this late above 40 N is unheard of Will probably pick our first cuke today, at 44.67 N. Edit: Actually found 2! (And another 15-20 cherrytoms)

Broadwing. The barred tailfeathers diagnostic.

1938 but moving only half as fast?

Heat pump - no mucking about with AC units. Yesterday's 81 was our 1st 80+ September day since 2018. We've had some real Sept heat in the past and it was inevitable we'd have some in the future. Hottest day since moving here in May 1998 is a tie - 7/3/02 and 9/9/02. We had Sept dews into the low-mid 70s in 1999 and humid mid-80s on 9/24-26/2017 with some Maine points touching 90.

Late crop and looking delicious. My memory puts mid-August as peak for the Pequannock orchards, only about 5 miles from home, and remembering polishing off a peck in a few days (with maybe 25% eaten by others).

Looks like it. We've only had 4 days warmer than 83 this year (2 at 86, 2 at 89), one each for May and June, then a pair in July. Might string 3 to 5 next week.

4th wettest JJA, close to 2nd but way short of the 23.76" in 2009. Pattern was opposite of yours. June: 7.89" +2.77" July: 3.85" -0.16" August: 6.53" +2.50" Total: 18.27" +5.11" August numbers: Avg max: 71.06 -3.82 Highest, 79 on the 10th Avg min: 53.68 +0.60 Lowest, 42 on the 2nd Mean: 62.37 -1.61 The average diurnal range of 17.39 is the lowest of 26 Augusts. This month joins January and June for that distinction, and March missed by only 0.3°. Precip: 6.53" Wettest day, 3.42" on the 8th.

A bit surprised that 1999 isn't on the list. We're a long way from LGA, of course, but Sept '99 was 1.4° warmer here than our #2, 2015. Skies cleared for the supermoon last evening, ending a multi-year streak of astronomical phenomena blocked by clouds here.

Needs some marinara and parmesan.

Closer to 0.2" here. And given the Franklin-driven waves and astronomical max tides, you may be right about Commercial St.

GYX folks have been tearing their hair out for days trying to figure how Franklin will affect today's rain, but I think dropping our area to the 1/4-1/2" bracket was the right call. All the bright colors are fading to green and blue as they approach our locale.