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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.)

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