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6 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

The red maples are bright this year.. so those will not disappoint. The fungus seeks to have avoided them. But the Oaks, Birch , orange maples all basically brown or rust 

I was working on a house in Tolland last week off 140 near Lake Shenipsit. What a weenie spot up there for elevation. Some great colors on the swamp maples around there but noticed all the brown. 

What a year for mushrooms. My 81 year old aunt who is a vegetarian said she's never seen a better harvest.. 

13 hours ago, Torch Tiger said:

Nice to see lots of wasps and yellowjackets crying for their respective mamas today. looked drunk

Lots of angry yellow jackets out in full force here today getting drunk and angry off fermenting apples... 

NBC Connecticut’s map. 

From donsuntherland1 in the NYC forum.

The ECMWF weeklies had forecast temperatures to average above to much above normal across the region for the September 4-11 period. That forecast is verifying with the ongoing heatwave. September has increasingly become an extension of summer in parts of the Northeast. Since 2000, almost half of all years (48%) have had a monthly mean temperature of 70° or above in New York City. Prior to 2000, just 20% of Septembers had mean temperatures of 70° or above.

The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +3.2°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was +1.6°C for the week centered around August 30. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +3.22°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged +1.32°C. El Niño conditions will likely continue to strengthen into the fall with the current East-based event transitioning to a basinwide El Niño for the upcoming winter.

The SOI was -19.67 today.

The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +0.527 today.

On September 7 the MJO was in Phase 3 at an amplitude of 2.665 (RMM). The September 6-djusted amplitude was 2.560 (RMM).

Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied 76% probability that New York City will have a warmer than normal September (1991-2020 normal). September will likely finish with a mean temperature near 71.6° (2.4° above normal).

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

This is what you want. Here’s just 9/1-9/9. There were a couple of real dewy Seps back in the boomer years.

Thanks for the clarification. You got a link for that graph/data?

While this week won't rival the dews of yore in 59 and 73. It's still been a pretty historical first week of dews in September.

What a historic week of dews for September. 

Some really special dews down here today. 88/74 with a heat index of 97.

What a furnace it's been on the CT shoreline with the overnight lows.

5 am and HVN is 79, BDR 76, GON 75. 

77 for my low. 

9 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

61 The warmest start in Sept ever

I think this year has 61 beat. BDL is +6.2 and in 1st for September with an average temperature of 75.1. 

9 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

Any good historical temp sites to look back at the first two weeks of Sept say from 78-90 to see how it compares to this weeks heat? Just curious; I think so many are acclimated to AC in our cars and houses now vs then….

I like this site. Click view monthly charts

Here is BDL Sept 79

https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/sites/monthlysum.php?station=BDL&network=CT_ASOS

Today's highs for CT.

For GON and HVN to rank in the top 10 for CDD I would call that a warm summer. 

Both HVN and GON have put up positive temperature departures every month ytd as well. 

GON

HVN

14 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

So bring some data to the discussion, show us.  Come with some numbers for June/July/August.  BDL… go.

BDL ranked 24th for CDD JJA. 

It was though a pretty warm JJA here though with GON ranking 5th for CDD and HVN 8th. 

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

These are dog days of July. Thoughts and prayers for the uninstalled.

Nice sultry Miami style night down here on the shoreline.  HVN's high was 93 yesterday. It was 77-78 here most of the night. 

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Raise your hand if you’re out tanning today !

@tamarack

I'm at my lake cabin in NJ enjoying some jersey fresh peaches. The jersey fresh corn has been amazing as well.

What a great mid summer week coming up...

11 hours ago, powderfreak said:

SE MA radiating nicely through 10pm tonight.

 

 

What a night on the shore to kick off labor day weekend. BDR 67, HVN 69, and GON 65 at 10 pm.  Low of 59 here. 

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

70 for the high so far. We pave.

Nice day down here on the water.

BDR 79

HVN 79

GON 78

BDL's top 5 warmest September's.

1961 68.7 +3.9

2015 68.5 +3.7

1971 67.7 +2.9

2017 67.6 +2.8

2011 67.5 +2.7

Here is Sept 1961 and 2015

12 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

essentially unlivable without environmentally controlled option -

You should see the amount of electricity/energy being used in the south central region. AC's running 24/7 and its still in the 80's inside is a common theme there. 

I read in TX the average kwh consumption for some has been like 2500-3000 kwh a month this summer. The US average is around 750 kwh/month. 

That area has also consumed a record amount of natural gas reserves and the south central gas reserve is close to the lowest on record. 

What a summer for lawns.

8 hours ago, dendrite said:

This is insane

PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)

                                          STATION:   SHREVEPORT
                                          MONTH:     AUGUST
                                          YEAR:      2023
                                          LATITUDE:   32 28 N      
                                          LONGITUDE:  93 49 W    

  TEMPERATURE IN F:       :PCPN:    SNOW:  WIND      :SUNSHINE: SKY     :PK WND 
================================================================================
1   2   3   4   5  6A  6B    7    8   9   10  11  12  13   14  15   16   17  18
                                     12Z  AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD  WTR  SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX    SPD DR
================================================================================

 1 102  76  89   4   0  24 0.00  0.0    0  5.0 13 130   M    M   5        20  60
 2 106  80  93   8   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  6.3 16 160   M    M   1        21 250
 3 104  82  93   8   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  6.2 14 260   M    M   1        20 180
 4 103  81  92   7   0  27 0.00  0.0    0  6.8 14 240   M    M   1        19 250
 5 104  81  93   8   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  6.1 17 240   M    M   1        23 240
 6 101  80  91   6   0  26 0.00  0.0    0  4.9 16 320   M    M   4        20 310
 7  99  81  90   5   0  25 0.00  0.0    0  7.9 16 150   M    M   3        28 270
 8  92  75  84  -1   0  19 0.00  0.0    0  7.2 26  20   M    M   5        36 360
 9 104  78  91   6   0  26 0.00  0.0    0 11.4 21 210   M    M   4        32 200
10 105  83  94  10   0  29    T  0.0    0  9.8 23 200   M    M   4        35 190
11 105  83  94  10   0  29 0.00  0.0    0 10.2 20 240   M    M   4        28 230
12 105  81  93   9   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  7.5 18 240   M    M   2        26 240
13 106  80  93   9   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  5.9 17 240   M    M   0        26 260
14 106  81  94  10   0  29 0.00  0.0    0  8.4 20 360   M    M   1        27  10
15  95  72  84   0   0  19 0.00  0.0    0  8.5 16  20   M    M   2        25  70
16  94  68  81  -3   0  16 0.00  0.0    0  6.3 14 110   M    M   1        17 110
17 105  67  86   2   0  21 0.00  0.0    0  4.4 12 360   M    M   0        16 140
18 109  74  92   8   0  27 0.00  0.0    0  4.4 13 270   M    M   0        19 260
19 109  81  95  11   0  30 0.00  0.0    0  6.7 14 270   M    M   1        18  10
20 107  80  94  10   0  29 0.00  0.0    0  8.6 21  30   M    M   1        29  20
21 107  78  93   9   0  28 0.00  0.0    0  6.2 15  50   M    M   1        24 110
22 107  81  94  10   0  29 0.00  0.0    0  6.7 16 120   M    M   2        23 100
23 106  78  92   8   0  27 0.00  0.0    0  5.7 13  50   M    M   2        20  10
24 109  81  95  12   0  30 0.00  0.0    0  5.5 15  20   M    M   4        19  20
25 110  79  95  12   0  30 0.00  0.0    0  4.3 15 170   M    M   3 8      23 150
================================================================================
SM 2600 1961         0 660     T  0.0    170.9          M       53              
================================================================================
AV104.0 78.4                               6.8 FASTST   M    M   2    MAX(MPH)  
                                 MISC ---->    26  20                 36 360   
================================================================================

 

And a 70.8 avg dew for August...

15 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

Meteorological summer is about over.   Our lawns enjoyed the rain.  We have had to do very little watering.  This picture is of the back of the house.  We are trying to save our Ash tree from the Ash Borer and have had it treated the past couple of years.  I'm sure it is a loosing battle after we are dead and gone.  In the meantime we planted a Eastern Redbud ( I think) that is on the left of this picture.  We also planted a oak tree (not in picture) that is just off to the right.  That will be the shade tree in future years if the Ash does not survive.  That Ash is now getting so big that it may interfere a bit with my anemometer during NW wind events.

Nice to see another old ash being saved. Any idea on the age? 

I've been treating my 125+ year old green ash since the borer arrived around 8-10 years ago. It might be even older than that. It shows up on the 1934 Fairchild aerial survey of Connecticut as a good sized tree. I also used my neighbors ash tree that was smaller and removed and I counted 119 rings to try and compare to get a rough age. 

This picture was from the spring when it first leafed out.