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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.

Not much wind remained when Belle reached northern Maine, but we got 6" RA, most of which fell 6-10 PM. It nearly took out the apartment building next door when a 3-foot-wide creek became a roaring torrent that put 2 feet of water running across West Main Street (aka Rt 161) in Fort Kent. After we diverted the flow away from that apt and sent most between it and ours, the water dug a trench 8 feet deep and 12 feet wide. The apts were ~200 feet from the St. John and next day that land looked like river bottom, all rocks and gravel plus an old car hood. It blew out 200 feet of Rt 161 in St. Francis along with about 1/3 of all the logging road bridges north of the Realty Road and west of Rt 11. Only by dumping many loads of gravel on the spans saved the 400-foot bridge across the St. John about 50 miles upriver from FK.

From an old song about the Raj in India, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun."

48 here this morning. Maybe a run at 40 tonight?

We thought it would invade our church's Labor Day picnic as it moved almost due north for 2-3 days and was aimed right at us in southern Maine. At nearly the last moment it made the sharp right turn and was gone.

Back in the '60s in NNJ, we went to Sandy Hook in late July, a day or 2 after a storm had passed offshore. Water temp was 57 (usual was low 70s on that date) - might not go in today but young and foolish, we did a lot of swimming, though never in the water more than 15 minutes at a stretch.

Haven't touched 80 yet this month, nor been warmer than 82 since July 7, though that month stayed dewey well past mid-month. We take

Cat 5 at 40° N? Anyway, would be a good time to visit Schoodic Point. (Or Cape Breton)

It's a nice ride on Long Lake. Been on the boat just once, in 1986 a month after a defoliating hailstorm that featured some baseball-size chunks. The canopy had hundreds of duct-tape patches.

Bob was probably a bit offshore by the time it reached Maine's latitude, but it's the only time in Maine (lived in Gardiner then) that I saw the backside NW winds be as strong as the frontside southeasterlies, probably gusting 50s to 60. Some acres had blowdowns pointing in opposite directions. Had 6.41", greatest one-day rain I've measured; about 95% fell before the wind shift. Sounds like away from the S coast is crappy today , thou Some have complained about the summer for the last 20 days Great day for working outside - PC, breezy, upper 60s, a few showers around but even if one hits here, it will be over in a couple minutes.

Floyd must have come close. We had 5.9" RA and gusts to near 40, and we're pretty far inland. That's "only" 24 years back.

For my locale: June Max: -4.1 Min: +2.0 July Max: +1.1 Min: +4.5 Aug 1-18 Max: -4.4 Min: 0.0 79 days Max: -2.1 Min: +2.5 Precip: 16.68" +5.19" Currently in 4th place for JJA. 2009 (23.82") is out of reach - I hope! - but another 2.42" would tie for 2nd.

Temps were a bit upside down that day. High at Central Park was 15 while at my place it was 35. That was a cheap 9:01 PM high - afternoon high was 18, but it's always odd when NY is colder than here. For the years 2020 and 2022, Dec 23-25 has totaled 5.80" precip but only the 1.2" frozen ahead of 3"+ RA on 12/23/22. Can we score another mega-Grinch?

Right on schedule, about 7 weeks ahead of full color. Just had the heaviest shower of the day, though only a few minutes of it. No thunder, however, and only 2 since June 30. Lowest we've had for July-August is 3.

3+ hours of rain and less than 0.15" as all the bright echoes died as they approached Rt 2 (or split E-W with New Sharon in the middle). Don't need the rain but some serious thunder would be fun - except for our dog, still traumatized by the very close strike 2 years ago.

Though it's called a poplar, it's not in the genus Populus, which includes aspens, cottonwood, Lombardy poplars and other similar species. The tulip poplar (also tuliptree) genus is Liriodendron, so it's unrelated to the "real" poplars. As for heights, where I grew up in NNJ there were forest-grown tuliptrees 120 feet tall or more with no branches below 50 feet. However, the one my grandfather planted at their summer place sometime 1935-40 was about 60 feet tall when I last saw it (mid '60s) with 15-20 feet of bare trunk topped by a full ovoid crown. Beautiful specimen.

Yup, cloudy 60s with some dz, just like all day yesterday. Think my area is north of the good stuff.