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Quite memorable here, though not in a good way. Reported 0.93 to cocorahs this AM, month up to 6.51" thru 7, while Farmington was 1.4" and Temple 1.98", tops for the state. Had a couple rumbles about 5:30 AM; friend 2 towns NW had lots of crash-bangs. Today makes 21 days this month with measurable precip - highest so far for any month so far here is 23. Least available sun was 25% in June 2009; this month will be closer to 20%. (Edited) No big downpours like May - biggest calendar day was 0.94" on the 17th.

Found that place with Google Earth. Nice looking but pretty pricey for a 3-season 1-BR camp that's not on the water. The south end of Black Brook Pond is only 0.3 miles to its east - thru dense woods - and the 2016 GE imagery doesn't show a public boat launch, though a friendly neighbor on the water might allow putting a watercraft on the pond. I highly doubt Bo's Run gets plowed - don't know for sure, of course - and the plowed Indian Pond Road is 1.5 miles away. A "gore" is usually a tract that's left over when full townships were surveyed. Moxie Gore is a rough triangle between Squaretown (a 6-by-6 twp) and the Kennebec Gorge. The small public lot at the west end of Moxie Gore has the trailhead to one of Maine's tallest waterfalls, about a 1/2 mile walk from the tar.

We're well above average for the month, so missing most of the RA isn't an issue yet. Day before forecasts for Sat-thru today called for significant RA each day. Sat brough 0.10", Sun "T" and today we're approaching 1/4" - 3 days of "heavy rain" and 1/2". Can't fault the forecasters, as places nearby had dumpage, but in my experience a run of underproducers - rain or snow -often leads to dry spells. We shall see; at present the garden needs sun a lot more than rain.

Maybe posted before, but W. Maine had some big RA, very localized. From cocorahs, 35 miles from me: Andover 5.95" 12 miles away: Temple 0.98" My place: 0.07" (and spitting showers all day, perhaps another 0.15") Two miles east: 0.05"

Video won't play on my machine, but I'm interested in which snow game was "greatest". Perhaps not a great game, but NYG at Wash on Dec 11, 1960 might've been the snowiest.

Especially since there's already some red maples. A sugar maple turning yellow/orange/red would make a colorful mix with the reds.

That's what was said yesterday - it's a day late but probably not a dewpoint short. 8k is pretty high when you’re spiking straight up from sea level. Or why the Japanese Alps may be the snowiest place on Earth. Siberian cold passing over the Sea of Japan = Tug Hill times [a lot].

Thanks. I usually don't make small mistakes. They're more likely to be off by one or two magnitudes.

Same here, with delayed dews. Late last evening the stars were the brightest I'd seen since last month. Some clouds moving in now, so the moist air is arriving. When communication was lost 1 hr 40 mins in, They were too, A breach of the vessel at those depths are catastrophic. Apparently, there was nothing communicated of possible trouble before the end. At that depth with pressure above 500 psi, it was likely all over in milliseconds.

Oaks seek water (well, all trees do that ) but some oaks tolerate wet soils better than others - swamp white oak, perhaps pin oak (its Latin name, Quercus palustris, means swamp oak), some of the others from the white oak group. Oak wood is strong, and they are generally well rooted. I personally would avoid the Populus genus - aspens, poplars, cottonwood - as they have weak wood, irritating seed fluff (June "snow") and shallow roots. Red maple will grow almost anywhere, and its colors have been called "the flame of the autumn woods". More than you need to know . . .

We've had a few PC days this month but today is the first sunny one.

Almost. July 2020 had a low of 50, the only month here of all 50+ minima, also had one of our only 2 minima 70+. That met summer made up for it, though, as August dropped into the 30s and June began with a 27° freeze. Dumbest time in our history Maybe, but IMO it seems so because people can now broadcast their dumbosity to the millions.

For top maxima, yes. We've had 19 days of 90+, May: 2, June: 8, July: 3, Aug: 4, Sep: 2. Highest is 93, on 7/3/02 and 9/9/02. Peak climo is very flat, with the daily mean staying between 65 and 66 from July 10 thru Aug 10. (Subject to change, as my data adjusts daily as I enter the numbers.) I think the greater atmospheric moisture in high summer prevents that period from peak maxima. That July record above included big dews but most other top heat did not. Aug 2002 featured an 8-day run of highs 87-91 (3 days 90+) but the avg minima in that stretch was 58 - hot but relatively dry. We're surrounded by tall trees which pour water vapor into the air; when the airmass is also humid, that's just too much water to cook. Wow. Not even a 90 on 7/22/2011? 88/67 and probably too humid for big heat.

Chances for hitting 90 are all but gone, as we've not reached that mark in July/August/Sept here since 2002. The 5 days of 90+ from 2017 on include our only 2 in May and 3 in June.

"Finger blight"

And the beat goes on . . . Least sunny month I've recorded here, June 2009, had 25% available sunshine. Thru yesterday it's been exactly half that much. Sun finally burned off the fog at 9:30.

Another mostly cloudy day, now 15 of 20 days this month with the other 5 PC. Afternoon showers missing us so far. Took a walk down the club snomo trail on our woodlot, and the ground is wetter/squishier than after the fall rains. Beaucoup ferns that I batted away so I could find the driest footing - now I'm waiting for the ticks to crawl out. I checked what I could w/o a full strip and saw none but even when I do that, usually one or two will show up. Still a nice cool day for a walk, though dews are 50s rather than your 40s.

60s for lows, ~80 for highs, running the fan will suffice and its quieter and lots cheaper.

Only the 2nd dry day here, and the one-day dry "streak" ended with 0.05" overnight. However, it's the 2nd consecutive Monday w/o precip - maybe a pattern? After lots of CoC wx in April and May, essentially none (maybe last Monday) this month. Five PC days and 14 cloudy, zero sunny. Today is PC at best. The late week upper 80s have faded to a couple days at 83 but given the month's avg max of 64 thru yesterday, low 80s will be plenty warm. Also have not seen a TD above 60, and that's set to change, too, with likely boomers over the weekend.

Most of the 160-acre public lot on Merrymeeting Bay in Topsham lies about 5 feet above mean high water, with bogs/swamps in abundance, and the tiger-striped mosquitos there are huge. When we heard something coming toward us, we'd check the engines. If it had four, we were safe - it was an Orion from the former Brunswick Naval Air Base.

Plenty of mosquitos here, but May is the black fly month around our area. In N. Maine the critters peak in June, usually 1st half. That's for the blood-licking species; there are other species that appear thru Sept (Oct if it's especially mild) that don't bite though they are good at flying into ears/eyes. Exception is north-central Maine, Medway/Mattawamkeag area, where there's species of biting black flies thru most of the summer.

In March 2021 we had a 75-foot-tall fir destroyed by a strike just 55 yards from the house, with a 4-foot splinter blown halfway to our place and smaller pieces (plus one 30-footer) scattered around. Ruined the genny-to-panel connection, which we only found out a month later when the lights went out, the generator started as usual but no juice to the house. The strike also cooked the DirecTV cable. Our poor Lab mix was still quivering 45 minutes later despite my near-constant affection and now gets scared by the first distant rumble. It was cloudy and cool today but I thought we might escape without rain I thought wrong. Quick shower while I was in the grocery store. Only .03 but still enough to annoy. The high temp was a summery 57.5°. 58/48 yesterday after 59/53 on Saturday, 7th sub-60 this month, tied with 2015 for most in June. We're 2.3 BN thru yesterday. June '15 at -4.0 is our coolest of 25 and followed our mildest May - only year with June cooler (by 0.3°) than May.

1.21" reported to cocorahs, month up to 5.36", 12.87" from April 30 on. Yesterday's rainy 59/53 was ugly, but not as bad as the windy 50/44 last year on Fathers' Day.

Temps so far this month: 80s 2 70s 3 (Highest: 73) 60s 4 50s 6 40s 1 Today will be 50s, maybe low 60s. Precip: Zero 1 0.01-0.09: 6 0.10-0.19: 2 0.20-0.29: 0 0.30-0.39: 1 0.40-0.49 2 0.50-0.59 2 0.60-0.69 1 0.70-0.79 1 Month thru 7 this morning: 4.15"

Stein. June rain 4.15" thru 7 this morning, year total 24.12", and the all-day rain has begun. Had no rain last Monday, the one and only so far this month. Had to replant about 2/3 of the garden.