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I was in Plymouth, NH today which is one town north of where I live. I decided to fly the drone over the Pemigewasset River. The river is basically just stagnant bodies of water. I could not see any flow. The first picture is where the river normally floods. Amazing drought. Finally, things look to change. I'm glad we will get some water into the system before the surface freezes. Also, there has been no real foliage season to speak of.

About .15" from the past storm brings me up to about the same as you. 4.09" since 8/1

Enjoyed my .13" last night. Just windy and raw. Streams are basically dry. Drought continues on and on....

I agree. A couple of days ago I had to drive down to PA. I went west and down I 91. Very little color. Franconia Notch had some good color the weekend before this past one. Meanwhile, your heading to the Outer Banks this weekend. GFS now has a 988mb low sitting just off the coast. Could be some tough going down there with flooding. More houses into the ocean?

83.2F today! Foliage update: We had pretty good color coming on before our big rain event the other day. Now for whatever reason the colors are very muted. We drove up to Franconia Notch and there was not much color until we got into the Lincoln/ North Woodstock area. Once in the notch, it seemed to be around peak. Not vibrant colors but definitely pretty darn good. There was very little traffic and the parking lots at Cannon did have cars but not near full. It was a spectacular day. Of course, by Columbus Day weekend when the crowds arrive there will mostly just be sticks. Here is a picture from my phone without any post-processing.

Another beautiful day. The foliage is weird or maybe it's just me being weird. The colors were coming on strong just before the rain 2 days ago. We did have some leaf fall during the storm but not very much. Now the tree leaves seem more green. I don't think that is possible but perhaps it's just what was turning colors did fall off the trees.

Looks like things are about over here. I'll double check tomorrow but I believe we're at 2.78 in. That's more rain than has fallen in the last 3 months. I wonder if they'll be time for the brown grass to Green up a little bit before the heavy Frosts set in

Rainstorm is over. .08" That brings me to .28" for September after .35" in August. I wonder if I got 1" on Thursday, if that would even get any flow going in the streams?

.21" this event. .56" August and September

Bring on the rain. First picture was June 16th.

Scott, to make it worse June was very dry after the rain on June 6/7th. 1.76" June after the good rain the first week of the month.

.04" overnight .34" August 1.43" July

No flowers this season. I actually have an older Chestnut tree down in our lower field that I planted about 2 years earlier than these. It is supposed to be blight resistant too. It didn't flower this season, but is about 4 feet taller than the one I pictured.

Brian, do you remember? We got these Chestnut tree saplings when they were like 10" tall. How many years ago was that? I have several growing, but I should have planted them closer for pollination when they get bigger.

We scored big. First we got .09" this morning and with a shower last hour another .21". I don't know how far that would get into the soil but now I have the sprinklers on. Maybe with a bit of moisture in the topsoil this will help a bit more. By the way 2 of those chestnut seedlings we planted several years ago are doing great.

I have a question about grass dormancy. I have never had the SW part of my lawn burn out like this. Just crunchy brown grass. Large areas of 0% green. If we don't get any substantial rain soon with little time for green up this season, will my lawn come back next year? If it is 100% brown? I guess I can have it overseeded, it's a large area.

So far in August I have had .007" of rain. In July I had 1.43" but it was all nickels and dimes with no one shower bringing more than .25". For June, I had a bit more than 3" but half of that was in the first week of the month. Our grass is brown and shrubs are wilting. Even lilacs. Lots of early leaf drop too. I'm glad we went into the summer with the water table being okay but the surface is amazingly dry. I think about farmers back in the day without deep wells and no way to irrigate crops. It must have been so scary back then, worrying about having enough food to last the winter.

My July rainfall was 1.43". On August 1 I received .01". Scored big time this morning with .06".

Vis is better but still lots of smoke. I can see the sunrays from the Cu. We had a brief popup shower just west of air but otherwise dry, dry, dry. (Tell Lisa I said hi)

Good day view and this morning but not a cloud to be found

Since buying this house in Central NH in 1989 I can say that this is definitely a new phenomenon over the past several years.

Hey Brian... The cell went between us. I got only around .25". I checked on our Newfound Lake Facebook page since there are quite a few people from Hill to Danbury. No reports of hail but I sure saw the signature on weather scope. How much rain did you get? We definitely need it for the gardens. Getting dry, at least on the surface. Oh, my Chestnut seedlings we got are now 10 foot high trees!

66/64 stratus 250 feet overhead. Only around .10" over the past many days. Can anyone spare an 1"?

87/769F awaiting the cool air... I wanted to give an update about the 81.8F dew that I reported 2 days ago. I have one weather station, my Davis Vantage Pro2. It is on a 2m tripod out in the field. For years, I have used 2 standard consoles in different places of the house. Several months ago I decided to upgrade and bought their new LED monitor. I put one of the standard consoles away to use as a backup in the future. The new console works fine. The temperatures on the new and old console is the same. The new console is located in our sun room where I spend most of my time. It recorded that 81.8F dew. Later in the day I noticed my old console was reporting a dew about 2F lower. Brian explained they ping the station at different times so perhaps that was why. Yesterday I dug out my extra old console and plugged it in. Just like my other old one the dews were about the same and remained that way for the rest of the day while the new console was always about 2F higher. I called Davis and they were stumped. I did figure out to go into the advance settings and lower the outside humidity display to match the other two. So now everything is in sync, but it is weird.

It was me that reported that my Davis Vantage Pro 2 reported a 81.8F dew at 2:45pm. I questioned that because it just intuitively seemed too high. Unless you're in a cornfield out west, you just don't see dews that high. Then I discovered something just now. I have 2 consoles reporting off my 1 station but the new LED console is showing a dew 2F higher than my older Davis console in the other part of the house. So I was watching the new LED console. Why would 2 consoles report different dews off of the same station. All other parameters seem correct? Any ideas? In any event, I'm going to go with the old console. In that case, my max dew would have been 79.8F