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AN October and BN November has led to AN snowfall on average in this region.

Never did a faceplant but several times got top-of-head rammed into the sand. Fortunately my head is hard; was tested at age 5 when I fell backwards 5+ feet on a rocky slope and landed head-first (right side of forehead) on one of the rocks. Friend said I bled "like the Red Sea." And I'd chicken out on 15-footers, even when I was 18. Six was about my speed.

Blecchh! As I've whined before, that brought the ugliest 10"+ storm I ever hope to see, 4:1 mush that splattered off branches rather than loading the trees, and followed by 1"+ RA at 34-35, with the same strong NE winds that brought NYC's 20.9" snowicane. That event was only 5°F from a repeat of what had occurred exactly 41 years earlier, when Farmington got 43". This time they had less than 10", while 6 mile west and 750' higher, Temple had 26.4".

Sure beats my 0.58" here. Biggest 2-day rain for me was actually in 24 hours, in NNJ. 8/27/71 had a PRE dump 3.80" between 8 AM and 5 PM. Then Doria ripped thru that night, with 5.10" between midnight and 5 AM, with tropical storm winds, gusts 60+. (Cheap wedge gauge, with 1/2" gradations above the 1" mark, made more precise measurement impossible.) Because the antecedent was quite dry, flooding was surprisingly minor, though I did stall our Chevy Nova splashing thru Rockaway River overflow in Denville - water was only an inch from coming over the doorsill as I pushed the car out of the flooded part of the road.

To days of constant cool rain, 0.58" total. Getting late enough in the garden season that the low amount may not matter.

It's been close to that here. Annual precip is 48.75" and I'd guess that Dracut is a bit higher. In our 24 years here, we've had 21 such discrete "couplets", with 14 years having at least one (2008 had 3 and there's been no Dec-Jan pairs), though only one occurrence since 2014. By discrete I mean no overlaps - if 4 consecutive months had 6,8,7,6 inches, only 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th would count, not 2nd/3rd. Totals for pairs have ranged from 12.01" to 22.18", this latter Oct-Nov 2005.

Gentle slope doesn't help when it's (mostly) paved.

0.55" thru 7 this morning. Despite no echoes this far north, still have RA/DZ keeping everything wet while adding maybe 0.01" per hour or 2. Nice slow garden rain, except the mid 50s probably shut down growth on tomatoes and cukes. I wanted to finish cutting and dragging out some firewood, related to another project, but I've no appetite for wet, slippery woods work. 40 years ago, it would've been different. Tomorrow for the woods. Aroostook is too far north and Washington too far east, but among the other 14 counties, southern Franklin with 0.47"-0.55" has the least, on average, with more (often much more) in all the surrounding counties. Not quite a hole in the donut, but similar.

Looks like about 0.15" in the gauge and upstream radar is meh. GYX has a flood watch for all Maine zones south of here. Meanwhile, 60 miles north the Jackman area is under a flood advisory with 1-2" down and another inch plus in the works. Rt 2 corridor east of RUM getting the scraps, with October temps (mid 50s).

Up to 0.01" here. 50 miles SW, Bridgton had 2.2" by 7 AM. 20 miles NE, Solon reported 0.49". Some better echoes approaching, so still some hope. Otherwise, it's the worst-case scenario - clammy 50s, just enough RA to keep everything wet but not enough to help the garden. Only a few weeks until 1st frost, unless it's like last year when the veggies just stopped growing a month before the Oct 24 1st frost.

Nest populations increase all thru the warmer seasons, and when cool temps arrive, the yellowjackets get slow and dumb - stings hurt just as much but the nasty critters are much easier to avoid, also easier to whack.

That storm spent about 3 days heading almost due north, holding its strength well, and seemed likely to stay on course until landfall in RI/EMA. Then it pulled a sharp right just before its significant effects reached the shores.

Southern Maine, maybe. P&C from GYX tops out at high chance for Sunday-Tuesday, and we're inside 72 hr.

Less effective here, thanks to a healthy coyote population and a fair number of fishers. Inside cats live longer.

Might not be far off. Our shortest frost-free season in Fort Kent was only 44 days in 1978, as parts of ours and our neighbors' garden got singed on July 31. The late August added a hard freeze, with mornings at 28 and 29.

I'd agree if the kids were a bit older, but the younger ones will probably like the Cape's beaches better than the cool water at Sand Beach. And the 1-to-11 crew probably won't even notice the fall colors on the rocky hills of Acadia.

Impressive. Only got to low-mid 40s here as there were thin clouds well into the evening. Saw 39 for IZG, 36 for HIE. September comes in beautifully.

Probably the only time I'll ever be in the 1%.

I have Friday/Monday off, too. Of course, it's because I retired 13 months ago.

Frost at Estcourt Station? Doing chainsaw work, could not ask for better wx.

August 2022 data: Avg max: 76.3 +1.3 Hottest: 88 on the 7th Avg min: 56.7 +3.6 Coolest: 48 on the 13th. Weakest August minimum in 25 years here; other August minima range 36 to 45. Avg mean: 66.5 +2.4 3rd warmest. Highest daily mean: 77.5 on the 7th, 2nd hottest August day (8/1/99 was 78.5) Only 31 HDDs, lowest of any August. Warmest August, last year, had 10 more HDDs but also 25 more CDDs. Precip: 3.80" -0.13" Wettest day: 0.87" on the 31st. One TS day, tied with 2 other Augusts for lowest. Kind of a meh month, higher than usual dews but nothing spectacular in any parameter.

I remember the forecast perhaps more than the storm: "1-3 feet with life-threatening conditions." At our Gardiner home it was 10.3" of heavily rimed 6:1 stuff with temps near 20. Not many places in New England with less snow from that one. Also recall that Monday morning seeing BGR with calm winds while Mt. Desert Rock, about 60 miles SE, had 56 kt winds gusting into the 60s. Farmington recorded 18" from the storm, and had 97" total for Feb (51) and Mar (46), and snow cover went from a trace on Jan 31 to 56" on 3/15.

Raccoons are more nocturnal than most of the canids, but I've had normal-acting coons around here in daytime. The dark feet are diagnostic for red fox. As the 2 pics show, much different than coyotes. Also, the fox's tail is much longer/larger in relation to its body than the coyote's and has a distinct white/light-colored tip. Edit: Quick shower 3-3:10 this afternoon added another 0.15", so now August is at 97% of average, or barely distinguished from normal. However, BN is BN, and this makes 11 BN months in the last 13 and 13 in 16.

If it's hanging around the house and/or looking kind of tame, I agree. But I've often seen foxes looking totally normal during the daylight hours, as many of their small rodent meals, especially squirrels and chipmunks, are in their nests at night.

Their fur makes foxes and coyotes look twice as big as they actually are.