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I'm an "Other" as the heat pump installed in November 2020 has been used only for AC since then.

Last month some folks mentioned 2009, the year my garden rotted, and I thought, "no way." The resemblance is certainly there; biggest difference is that the dews are considerably higher this year. Not my cup of (sweat) tea.

1.00" on the piton. First time since putting out the Stratus in 2009 that the inner cylinder was full and the outer still dry on the inside. Yesterday's 71/68 was the first July day here with that small a diurnal range, and the 71 came at my 9 PM obs time the night before. During daylight the temp wiggled between 68 and 69. Highest I saw in Maine was Bethel at 2.77". Two towns to my west in Temple there was 2.05" but in between at Farmington it was closer to 1.2". Glad to see the sun today, a rare treat during the past 6-7 weeks. Would really like some real (smoke-free) Canadian cool air; it's been 3+ weeks with constant dewiness. Month to date is running +4, with highs at +1 and lows at +7.

Except every now and then they pop up with a TD of 32. Never 31 or 34. Then they'll go back to be 2-3° dewier than anyone else.

Maybe. This is Ekster's short term discussion from GYX. SHORT TERM /SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... Flash flooding continues to be the main concern for tomorrow as near record high PWAT values highlight a very moist air mass coinciding with increased dynamics arriving with the low pressure center. High res guidance continues to showcase the training lines of torrential thunderstorms that put down 5-8" of rain in spots, but continue to waiver all over New England as to where the heaviest bands will set up. We know there will be some notably higher totals in some places more than others, but we continue to advise people to plan for 2-3 inches, and understand that some areas will likely see more than double that. Oy!

We crept down to 56 this past Wednesday, but afternoon dews have been 65-70+ every day since June 24. July 2020 had the highest average minimum so far here with 58.7°. This month is running 60.6° with the warmer half yet to come. 2020 was also the only July that failed to drop below 50, though they reached 51. The only such run to compare with this year was late June thru about July 20 in 2013, but this streak is easily dewier.

That model looks just like the last event - 5"+ in VT and maybe 3/4" here. We're in the 0.6-0.7" color.

I thought I would need to do the same, and as we're 500 feet from the nearest house and 'chucks are unprotected in law, no issues. However, the Havahart bagged a half grown critter (released 3/4 mile down the unmaintained road) and the adults departed once I was active in the garden. I was glad, as they were trying to dig down under our foundation and when I'd fill their holes with stones, they would toss them back out. They probably weren't going to burrow down the 7+ feet to get under the footing but their attempts were making a mess in several spots.

If one could put all my 9 together, both rain and thunder, it still wouldn't be much of a thunderstorm.

For sure. We've had 9 days with thunder this year, above average for YTD, but 8 were very weak and the 9th not much better. In 25+ years we've had no severe storms and only 2 that even came close, both in June - 2005 and last year. The average summer has had 4-5 svr-warned TS and a tor watch every 2-3 years, plus the one tor warning about 10 years ago. Nothing here (another weak TS) but significant damage to the east in St. Albans.

Can't see them from north-central CT. Last month had the lowest proportion (20%) of available sunshine of any month since moving here in May 1998, with Dec 2020 2nd at 24%. One look at our veggie garden reflects the cloudiness. Hostas like it, though.

Sounds like a scenic route, in good weather. Many years ago (1972) my wife and I were driving home from skiing at the old Glen Ellen and chose to head south from Newburgh on 9W because I was too cheap to pay the toll on the Thruway. It was well after sunset and snowing moderately as we climbed and climbed, with land visible to our right in the headlights but just darkness to the left. After carefully going down the other side, my wife exclaimed, "I was scared riding over Storm King with my dad in sunlight!" I think it was Emerson (or Hawthorne) who wrote, "If ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

Reminds me of an earlier pic from New York, a blowout on Rt 218 between Cornwall and West Point. It was on a sidehill section, and the hole was about 5 feet deep on the uphill side, 20+ feet on the downhill, and 50-75 feet wide. Looked like a $100k fix (or more). In other news, Soules Hill Road in Jay, Maine remains closed 2 weeks after the 5-6" cloudburst.

Maybe the worst event of that car-drowning sort was Groundhog Day 1976 at Bangor, when storm-force (and stronger) winds blew water up the Penobscot estuary, causing the water in downtown to rise 15 feet in 15 minutes, engulfing 200+ cars. Soon after the water level was back to normal, temps dropped from 57 to 1 and insurance company adjusters totaled every one of those vehicles. (Likely that some of those cars found a home on small used car lots. )

Memories of that Gardiner store in '87. The impulse-buy shelves at the check-out aisles caught stuff like a baleen whale. Probably 90% of the locals were sure Hannaford would find a lot a mile or so south of downtown (and 150 feet higher) and build, but they tossed those millions to re-open (3.5 months later) at the place by the river. Last May the parking lot was flooded but I don't think any went into the store.

In 1987 there was 9 feet of water in the Gardiner Shop'n'Save (now Hannafords) and only the computers from the checkouts were saved. The $2.2 million loss was the single biggest chunk of the nearly $100 million damage from that event. (Perhaps 1/4 billion in 2023 dollars.) Vermont damage will likely be in the same general vicinity, I fear. (On the 1-year anniversary, the manager and crew "celebrated" the repairs, with butcher paper up on the walls with a wavy blue line showing the water level, continuous video of manager and another canoeing up and down the aisles amid the floating tater-chip bags, and a small rowboat hanging from the ceiling with 3 dummies in it holding fishing poles. When all is lost, laugh.) It is also a huge environmental disaster. There will be thousands of tons of waste and refuse that needs to be dealt with plus all of the toxins that were washed into the rivers and waterways and deposited elsewhere. My son and I visited downtown Gardiner in the evening of 4/1/87, walking out on the RR tracks (which went 2-3 feet underwater by the next morning). Everything stunk of gasoline, likely from water entering stations' underground tanks and forcing out the contents. Lots of other garbage turned loose as well. We also saw what looked like the top of a tin-roof camp floating by. It was actually front end of a 40-foot trailer with the rear axles 20 feet under the surface. Folks upriver saw that thing crash into the low bridge in Augusta and get pulled under.

TD hardly ever topped 60 thru June 23. It hasn't gone under that for more than a few hours since then. The dews are here, though not much big heat.

November 1927 is to Vermont what April 1987 is to the Kennebec/Androscoggin watershed.

I think it's in L.I Sound. Meanwhile, we've has just enough rain to keep things wet and moldy. Under 0.10" but light showers every hour or two.

Years ago I was told, by someone with hydrology education/experience, that flow velocity is a 5th-order function. Doubling water flow velocity would thus increase erosive power by a factor of 32.

The 1 PM New England roundup from GYX did not show Montpelier, though it was there an hour earlier. Don't know whether that is significant. Less than 0.05" here, not expecting much until sunset (if then).

Just starting to rain here. We're under a flood watch but I doubt we'll have anywhere near enough for significant issues. Read that West Point, NY had 7.5" in 6 hours, with some serious flooding at the Military Academy. It's perched on a plateau facing the Hudson but must get runoff from the west. In other news, there's at least one road in Jay still closed due to the June 29 downpour.

Pompton/Passaic Rivers go wild. Rt 23 under water for a week?

We stayed in one of the cottages of Bar Harbor Motor Inn on days 4 and 5 of our honeymoon in 1971. On 6/24 we bought 2 cooked lobsters and headed up Cadillac for a Maine luncheon with a view. Plenty of parking places - maybe 10 cars there at most - and the lobsters were delicious, but . . . --Visibility was 50 yards in fog - first reason there were few cars there. --We forgot to grab napkins - anyone who has tackled whole lobsters knows what a disaster that was. --The facilities and fountains had yet to be opened/turned on - 2nd reason for the empty lots. We still laugh about it.

As long as it's not raining or wrapped in fog, Acadia is great. Our last visit was 3 years ago with our 2 oldest grandkids and conditions were what I'm looking at right now - low 70s, humid, cloudy. It was quite windy at Cadillac summit, which actually was fun for the kids. Unfortunately, it was the wrong tide for Thunder Hole; I've seen swimming pools with bigger waves. (Note: One now has to sign up for the drive up Cadillac, to prevent having more cars than can be parked at the top.)