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Our area got 4"+, less toward Augusta, but the Carrabassett drainage (Sugarloaf area) had 8+, with that river's peak flow topping 30,000 cfs, 2nd highest in 100 years record. (Since topped by May 1 this year at 35k, but 1987 stands alone at over 50k.) The 'Loaf was isolated as bridges on Rt 27 north and south of the access road were washed away.

No, West Fayson Lake in northern Morris County. Round Valley is 35 miles SW and about 30 times larger. That 3-4” in one hour on radar estimates near Killington with legit mudslides really f*cked up RT 4 it sounds like. Pics looked similar to Jay Maine after 5-6" in <3 hours on June 29. The last homeowners to regain access to their homes (or to leave) was provided only yesterday. State highway Rt 133 is still local access only for 6-7 miles, with no thru traffic. Last weekend a pickup driver went past cones/signs and ended up on the driver's side in a washout. No injuries. Strong storms just north last evening. Quick 3/4" in Farmington with minor flooding near McDonalds, 0.11" here.

Blecchh! Back in the late 50s/early 60s, our small (50 acres) lake in NNJ would reach temps like that in the upper 4-5 feet. I'd swim behind the diving dock, take a couple deep breaths and head for bottom, only 11-12 feet away but where the water was upper 70s. Might get a minute or so of nice cooling before needing air. (There was a reason my sometimes nickname was "turtle".) Some impressive echoes heading our way - or heading just to the north.

Similar here, adjusted for transpiration - 89 with TD 67-68 yesterday; 86 today, TD 70-72, HX prob same. The other difference is today's 10-15 mph breeze while yesterday barely moved the leaves.

87/75 at PQI, tall dew for the County. HX 96. 85° here in the woods, TD low 70s, HX ~90, a bit lower than yesterday's 89 with TD 67-68. Breezy today as well. Don't know whether the boomers move this far southeast. We've yet to have a significant TS his year; nearest strike ~5 miles away. Also, have not had a nighttime light show in a decade or more, though we had a near-severe daytime TS on 6/14/22 - 0.85" in 10 minutes, with the 2nd 5 minutes much heavier than the 1st with a few dime-size bouncers and gusts ~40. Big time, for here.

Had a normal (bad) black fly season in May but very few paper wasps - maybe because 2 were apparently mating on the porch steps in late May, enabling me to fatally interrupt the action. Deer flies are out but few - I draw solo attacks when the usual would be a half dozen. (Which pales compared to my years in the Allagash-St.John forests: dozens of deer flies plus even more similar-size but non-carnivorous flies in the swarm - "sweat-lickers" I called them, as that's what they would do upon landing on me. Trouble was, with hundreds circling and bouncing off, I could not discern which were carrying knives until I got stabbed.)

We don't need rain at present, but it was interesting watching some serious echoes dying on our doorstep then reform to our east. There's more to the west, including some flash flood warnings, so we'll see if they make it here. So far, today resembles Sunday June 25 - high POP forecast turns to clouds and filtered sun, and muggy.

Minima during that streak were even lower at Farmington: 7/3/1911 99 67 7/4/1911 102 68 7/5/1911 98 61 7/6/1911 102 63 7/7/1911 88 63 7/8/1911 90 48 7/9/1911 96 55 7/10/1911 104 65 7/11/1911 102 68 7/12/1911 96 61 However, I think the dews reached ASH, especially July 3-6: 7/3/1911 105 72 0 7/4/1911 106 76 0 7/5/1911 105 72 0 7/6/1911 103 78 2.14 7/7/1911 87 72 0 7/8/1911 90 57 0 7/9/1911 96 62 0 7/10/1911 103 70 0 7/11/1911 102 74 0 7/12/1911 99 72 0 2"+ with a low of 78, ugh! Even after the 2-day "warm-down", their minima remained high.

No rain yet today, but thru yesterday we've had 9.07" June 1 forward and 16.68" since April 30. Continued precip at that rate would be a 93"/year pace. 112 years ago today was the hottest day in recorded history for much of CNE. And no one was installed. 112 years ago today was the hottest day in recorded history for much of CNE. And no one was installed. All 3 NNE states set their all time hottest on 7/4/1911. Bridgton Maine did theirs twice: 7/3/1911 102 69 7/4/1911 105 72 7/5/1911 99 67 7/6/1911 102 69 7/7/1911 90 66 7/8/1911 86 60 7/9/1911 97 63 7/10/1911 105 66 7/11/1911 103 74 7/12/1911 97 70

Water snakes I saw in NNJ eons ago had red makings that slightly resembled the pattern on copperheads, especially if the water snake had just shed its skin. I lost count of the "copperhead" sightings I checked out during my teens/early 20s. A few were bull snakes or even garter snakes but 90% were water snakes. Only in the hot dry summer of 1966 did I see actual copperheads (all having been dispatched before I viewed them) and the color was not even close, with the viper having an alternating light/medium rust color while water snakes had red alternating with black or dark brown. Biggest water snake I encountered was closer to 4 feet than 5, and the only one that was aggressive was half that long. I'd thrown a rock on/near it, doing little harm (it was in 2 feet of water) but as I picked it up it bit me, leaving a little tooth in my finger. Can't blame the snake for that. Rain stopped by 9 this morning, had ~10 minutes of sun a bit after 2 PM and it's trying to come out at present.

I'm not familiar with that insect. I'd recommend a search to find out how they overwinter, and if that might be a time to control, or at least have a guess for populations the next growing season.

Same 5 dry days here but only one day with a trace. The 24 days with measurable precip is the most I've recorded here for any month. Also had 16 days with 0.10"+, 2 more than any other month. Somehow, we managed to have nearly 8" RA without ever having a calendar day with 1"+. (Missed 4-6" in 1-2 hr by <10 miles Thursday, fortunately.) June 2023 numbers: Avg max: 67.27 4.05 BN Avg min: 51.30 1.94 AN The avg diurnal range is the least for any month March-September. Only the short day/low sun angle months have had less. Avg mean: 59.28 1.05 BN Month's max was 89 on the 1st, min 41 on the 4th, only the 2nd of 26 Junes that failed to get below 40. Max on the 4th was 47, only the 4th sub-50 max in June. (The 3rd had an afternoon max of 47 spoiled by the 57 at my obs time late on the 2nd. Precip: 7.89" top day, 0.94" on the 17th June had 20 cloudy days and only 2 sunny. That 20-day mark trails only the 21 in Dec 2020, home of the Mega-Grinch, but 2/20 had 5 sunny days. Last month only had 20% available sunshine, 4 less than 12/20. Those are the only months under 25%. Total rain was nearly 2" less than June 2009 but the deleterious effect on our garden has been very similar, maybe worse due to the lack of sun.

Very flat peak here. Warmest daily mean is late July but from July 10 thru August 10 the average is within 1° of that peak.

Entirely due to winners/losers on March 14. Top 5 in SNE (All in Mass.) with total and 3/14 report: Dave 87.25" 29.5" Subdude 82.25" 27.0" White Rain 75.2" 26.5" Winging_it 62.5" 18.0" You 41.8" 5.0"

Have not seen it yet and we're way inland. It will be a lot tougher for the sun to burn thru in Bath. Had enough dz overnight to put 0.01" in the gauge, for the 24th day this month with measurable precip, a new high. Same for cloudy days - yesterday was #20. We've had a couple months with 19 in the past.

At one point last evening, it was impossible to drive thru Jay. Route 4 is now open, but many secondary roads remain closed. The crossroads of 133/156 (Bean's Corner) looked like several loads of rocks had been strewn about. Saw some pics of back roads with 100s of yards pretty much gone. We were at our church in Farmington setting up a dinner for a guest singing group, and about 4:30 there was a great double rainbow to the south, and near-constant thunder coming from the southwest where the action was going on.

Most of those square/rectangular townships were surveyed before many/any people lived there. Of interest (to me, as I worked there 10 years) are the WELS towns (west of the easterly line of the state) which, unlike more southerly towns, were laid out at true north rather than magnetic. Many have no names beyond the township/range numbers. My favorite trout town, Deboullie (25 miles SW from Fort Kent), is also labeled T15R9.

Up to 7.88" here. 10-12 miles to my southwest (Jay/Wilton), storms dumped 4-6" in 2 hours or less late yesterday afternoon. Main road (Rt 4) is now open but lots of secondary roads are blocked; some have stretches destroyed.

Another 0.41" overnight though we were just east of the big stuff. June now at 7:45" and for April 30 thru this morning it's 15.06". CMP is having trouble with trees tipping from oversaturated soil and onto the lines. We learned that when my wife reported the medium-size white ash on the lines 1/4 mile from the house. We went dark and she saw the lines dancing a bit, so I went for a walk and saw the cause. Running on the genny for the past half hour, CMP says another couple.

When we lived in Gardiner and our parents in Woodsville, NH, our westbound route passed Lost River Gorge, probably 50 times over 10 years, and never stopped. We had some interesting winter trips but our '83 Cavalier wagon with studs and good snows on the front took us over the Kanc when others had to turn around. Nastiest pitch was the multiple steep S-turns heading west from Kinsman Notch. If one is into looking for gold, the Wild Ammonoosuc that runs west from K.Notch is a frequently panned river. I don't know whether Loon runs its lift for summer tourists but they do (or did) spin for leaf peepers. The most benign 2-hour traffic jam of our lives came on the 2nd weekend of October about 35 years ago. We had no set schedule, temps were 75-80 with hazy sun and prime colors, so we merely put the 5-speed Cav in neutral and coasted, enjoying the view. Took 26 minutes for the 1st mile as we leapfrogged with 3 college-age ladies on foot, and 7 miles between about 4:30 and 6:30 PM. We're convinced that the jam was triggered by Loon stopping the lift, dumping loads of cars into an already over-trafficked Lincoln. (Had to type this twice. Was about 30 seconds from sending when the power cut out, now on the genny. Quarter mile down the road a medium-size white ash tipped onto the lines. Little/no wind but CMP said all the rain has so soaked the soil that they're answering a number of tree-on-line situations.)

Thanks! It's an "art" I've cultivated for a long time. At age 9 (in 1955) I was at a YMCA summer camp in NNJ and won the Tall Tale contest. And due to your comment, I may be "forced" to describe whiteout #2, on the Trans Canada, in April no less. But not right now . . . Back on topic, we had about 0.4" from 10A thru just after noon, no rumbles except on the roof during the heavier showers. Power was off from 1-1:45 PM, local website said a pole was down on Starks Road (aka Rt 134) but 45 minutes seems too short to fix that. Hopefully winter is a furnace If I get snow like in the 2022-23 furnace, bring it on. (Except that it shouldn't be a mega-ratter for most of SNE/MA.)

At my place, the 1st eight days of June 2009 brought nary a trace. From June 9 thru August 3, eight weeks, we had only 7 days without rain with >17" total. The rest of August was AN for rain, but it came in bunches with considerable dry days in between. Met summer that year had just over 2 feet of rain.

Which holiday, Labor Day? The upcoming weekend here has chance showers Sat, categorical rain Sun, likely showers Mon, high chance showers for the 4th. Beyond that, we'll see.

I've been in 2 complete whiteouts (will note only the 1st), both ground blizzards on sunny days. On a late January Saturday in 1971, I was headed home from a ski week at the old Glen Ellen. We'd had about 4" pow overnight and a strong north wind was blowing down Champlain as I crossed the bridge to Crown Point, NY. There had been a head-on crash just past the NY end of the bridge with a 3rd, less damaged, car just departing on the tow truck. I followed the blinking yellow light until it got too far ahead - the driver was 5-6 feet higher than me in my Nova, might've given him a bit better view - mine was maybe 15 feet at best. After that I had 3 miles of white-knuckle driving at 10 mph or less. Met only one vehicle and only saw its headlights when it was <10 yards distant, but at our crawl speed we managed to avoid each other. Fortunately, the snowbanks were low so the snow was blowing across the road more than piling up - my major fear was getting stuck in a drift. I then worked off the adrenaline by maxing out the little straight 6 cyl Nova, going 85-90 down the interstate, which was educational - filled up after that run and saw the car had gotten 14 mpg rather than its usual 22.

Certainly true in recent years, though June has consistently notched the most 90+ days. Combo of tall dews plus busy forest all around makes big heat a tough sell. The mid-August hot spell (8 days with maxima 87+ and 3 90+) of 2002 had modest dews - avg temp for that streak was 89/58, and IIRC, TD never got above 60. Farther north, CAR has touched their hottest, 96, thrice, once in May and twice in June. Not a coincidence.