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6:30 AM temp here was 5° higher than on Tues-Wed, and first foggy morning of these dewy days. Sun just finished burning off the fog/cloud about 9:30. Delayed sun/taller sunrise temp probably will work out to a draw.

Not meh here. During our 50 years in Maine, the only winds gusting to 60 (estimated by effects) came from the April 1982 blizzard at Fort Kent and Bob at Gardiner. The latter also holds my greatest calendar-day RA with 6.41" and also set a new daily record at PWM with 8.1" (crushed by the oddball hybrid storm in Oct 1996, with 12.4"). Bob is also the only TC of memory that had backside NW winds as strong as frontside SE, toppling trees in opposite directions.

That all-the-time-wet month not only lacked sun, but also inhibited weeding (I've read that doing so when plants are wet spreads disease) such that low plants like carrots and beets hardly stood a chance. This will be the first year in 20+ with too few carrots to be worth overwintering under mulch. No fresh carrots next April. Only the cherry tomato "trees" have done well. Cucumbers this late above 40 N is unheard of Will probably pick our first cuke today, at 44.67 N. Edit: Actually found 2! (And another 15-20 cherrytoms)

Broadwing. The barred tailfeathers diagnostic.

1938 but moving only half as fast?

Heat pump - no mucking about with AC units. Yesterday's 81 was our 1st 80+ September day since 2018. We've had some real Sept heat in the past and it was inevitable we'd have some in the future. Hottest day since moving here in May 1998 is a tie - 7/3/02 and 9/9/02. We had Sept dews into the low-mid 70s in 1999 and humid mid-80s on 9/24-26/2017 with some Maine points touching 90.

Late crop and looking delicious. My memory puts mid-August as peak for the Pequannock orchards, only about 5 miles from home, and remembering polishing off a peck in a few days (with maybe 25% eaten by others).

Looks like it. We've only had 4 days warmer than 83 this year (2 at 86, 2 at 89), one each for May and June, then a pair in July. Might string 3 to 5 next week.

4th wettest JJA, close to 2nd but way short of the 23.76" in 2009. Pattern was opposite of yours. June: 7.89" +2.77" July: 3.85" -0.16" August: 6.53" +2.50" Total: 18.27" +5.11" August numbers: Avg max: 71.06 -3.82 Highest, 79 on the 10th Avg min: 53.68 +0.60 Lowest, 42 on the 2nd Mean: 62.37 -1.61 The average diurnal range of 17.39 is the lowest of 26 Augusts. This month joins January and June for that distinction, and March missed by only 0.3°. Precip: 6.53" Wettest day, 3.42" on the 8th.

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.