tamarack

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.

That 4th-week heat is only matched/topped by the record highs of 9/21-23/1895. Sprinkles just began here at 9:30.

March 2012 skews all our memories of that month's warmth. In the 130+ years of the Farmington co-op, 3/12 holds the top 3 days and #5. In my much shorter (25 yr) POR, there have been 6 March days warmer than a modest 64°. 3/31/2006 reached 70 and the other 5 came in 2012. The climate is indeed warming but faux summer in March is a one-time phenomenon (so far). Feels like March gets closer to summery temps than September to winter temps. I would hope so, as March here averages nearly 30° colder than September.

Looks like this will be our 3rd August w/o touching 80, with 2008 & 2019 the others. Came close (79) on the 10th. Reached 89 in both June and July. 80s in May (2), June (2), July (13). Unless we get thunder before Friday, this will be the first July-August with just 2 thunder days, though 3 other years had only 3. I remember lots of September heatwaves when I was in school. Miserable in corduroys and long sleeve shirts. Absolutely no AC back then (We're talking 60's and early 70's) and that was back in the day when school started after Labor Day. My first football experience in pads came in my sophomore year of HS in 1961. September's first 2 days were double sessions and highs were 94/95 at NYC and about the same in NNJ, with high dews. (Knew little about dewpoints back then. ) Had no measurable RA from 8/28 thru 9/13, so the practice field's sparse grass was long gone, leaving us to run around in a dustbowl. Four years later on the same dates at Johns Hopkins, low 90s with TDs up to 81. At least it wasn't the first time in pads, though running a mile (no pads!) immediately after the 9/1 morning practice was tortuous.

CAD is great for hanging tough in marginal-temp events, but upslope? Fuggetaboudit.

August is currently -2.1 though today will be about +4. Maxima at -4.0, minima -0.2; the shrinking diurnal ranges continue. Edit: Average diurnal range here for Jan-Aug is 22.5°. 2001 was the greatest at 25.5° and 2013 the least with 21.2°. Thru 8/24 this year it's 19.7°. 1.17" from the recent event. If we can match than next Tues/Wed we would be tied for 2nd wettest JJA. 2009 remains nearly 6" above this year - would take an unexpected left turn by Franklin to threaten that.

0.92" as of 5 PM but another shower of moderate rain has gone thru and one more patch is heading in. (About the 4th "one more" this afternoon.)

2nd sunniest here but well below September, which has less afternoon Cu and is 'usually' over before the fall storms arrive. Nov/Dec swap back and forth for least sunny, Dec atm. RA is hanging on here. Each time radar shows the back end near our back yard, some more echoes pop up. Still <1", however.

Unlike some West Pac TCs, Atlantic hurricanes seldom remain at Cat 5 for more than 1-2 days, so the intensification has to be perfectly timed for a Cat 5 landfall. Also, unlike the much of the West Pac region, the GOM and southern US Atlantic coasts have relatively shallow depths extending significant distances offshore, which may decrease intensity before landfall here.

54.80" here, going into today's event (about 0.4" so far). That puts this water year 5th of 25 with a month-plus remaining with about 7" needed to top 07-08 for top water year. We've also had 4 events of 3.25" to 4.45" in this water year, coming in Oct/Dec/May and earlier this month.

Somehow most of our apple blossoms survived the 25° morning. Having totally lost blossoms (more than once) from late frosts in the past, I was cheered greatly when we returned 5 days later from a family reunion in Lancaster, PA.

About the same here, milding up from yesterday's 42.

If it's just a 5-foot whip, that's grossly overpriced. If it's 2" caliper, that's quite reasonable, even in late August.

Not much wind remained when Belle reached northern Maine, but we got 6" RA, most of which fell 6-10 PM. It nearly took out the apartment building next door when a 3-foot-wide creek became a roaring torrent that put 2 feet of water running across West Main Street (aka Rt 161) in Fort Kent. After we diverted the flow away from that apt and sent most between it and ours, the water dug a trench 8 feet deep and 12 feet wide. The apts were ~200 feet from the St. John and next day that land looked like river bottom, all rocks and gravel plus an old car hood. It blew out 200 feet of Rt 161 in St. Francis along with about 1/3 of all the logging road bridges north of the Realty Road and west of Rt 11. Only by dumping many loads of gravel on the spans saved the 400-foot bridge across the St. John about 50 miles upriver from FK.

From an old song about the Raj in India, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun."

48 here this morning. Maybe a run at 40 tonight?

We thought it would invade our church's Labor Day picnic as it moved almost due north for 2-3 days and was aimed right at us in southern Maine. At nearly the last moment it made the sharp right turn and was gone.

Back in the '60s in NNJ, we went to Sandy Hook in late July, a day or 2 after a storm had passed offshore. Water temp was 57 (usual was low 70s on that date) - might not go in today but young and foolish, we did a lot of swimming, though never in the water more than 15 minutes at a stretch.

Haven't touched 80 yet this month, nor been warmer than 82 since July 7, though that month stayed dewey well past mid-month. We take

Cat 5 at 40° N? Anyway, would be a good time to visit Schoodic Point. (Or Cape Breton)

It's a nice ride on Long Lake. Been on the boat just once, in 1986 a month after a defoliating hailstorm that featured some baseball-size chunks. The canopy had hundreds of duct-tape patches.

Bob was probably a bit offshore by the time it reached Maine's latitude, but it's the only time in Maine (lived in Gardiner then) that I saw the backside NW winds be as strong as the frontside southeasterlies, probably gusting 50s to 60. Some acres had blowdowns pointing in opposite directions. Had 6.41", greatest one-day rain I've measured; about 95% fell before the wind shift. Sounds like away from the S coast is crappy today , thou Some have complained about the summer for the last 20 days Great day for working outside - PC, breezy, upper 60s, a few showers around but even if one hits here, it will be over in a couple minutes.