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

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

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

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

23 hours ago, dendrite said:

One of mine has bad blight at the base. I need to mudpack it or cut it down. I posted some pics in this thread.

Have you had flowers yet? 

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.

40 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Hopefully the quarter inch+ gives it a little life back.

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".  

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

79.3/63

The visibility is improved but there still seems to be some residual haze in the air and aloft. 

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

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

It has been ongoing for several years now.  I don’t remember anything like it either in terms of multi-year persistence.

Can see any time there’s a NW flow or trough in our area it’s a straight conveyor belt of smoke from the Canadian fires out in the prairies.

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

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Tree down across I93 north in Sanbornton. 1.5-1.75” hail from Belmont to south of Gilford. Glad we missed that.

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. 

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

PWS dews are typically higher for local reasons like vegetation and not necessarily representing a well mixed atmosphere. But I’m pretty sure that’s the highest I’ve ever had. Maybe tied.

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

Guys, I'm curious if you think my obs could be accurate.  I don't trust what I am seeing. My Davis Vantage Pro is 2m high in my field on grass not near any manmade structure with scattered smaller fruit trees around. Remember I'm at 1100 feet in Central NH

Currently at 3:10pm  93.3/79.3  but....

At 2:44pm the temperature was 93F and the dew point was 81.8F giving me a heat index of 115.2F according to my Davis display.  Could that be real?  It seems overdone?

2pm  KLEB  97/77F    Do you think this is real?   Maybe because I'm 35 miles due east and higher and I'm at my highest heat index ever.  92.6/79.5

88.1F  Dewpoint 80.1F   I have never seen an 80F dew in my 35 years of living up here at 1100 feet. Wow!  Also with it being solstice and mostly clear I am running all 3 AC's on max and with the solar roof generating enough electricity to power the house and even sending some back to the grid for $ back.

Keeps getting more special.  87.5/78

Hum,  at 11:55am my Davis at 2m in my field is showing 86.5F  dew 77.3F.    Maybe the highest dew ever?  Probably the sun just baking the ground after yesterday's morning thunderstorm.

A supercell thunderstorm passed just south of me a couple of hours ago.  Lots of reports of hail, trees down and 5K without power in Bristol NH.  I saw a great picture of it's structure on FB but can't find it now.  Anyhow...

Webcam time-lapse as it went by.  It's that first storm that spins and starts dropping rain just as it passes by

https://video.nest.com/clip/652199733d7d4bccb5f59fd747e887c6.mp4

83/75F  Ouch!

Hi Guys

I have not been posting much or checking in but I want to say hi.  I just saw that Trump fired the entire staff at climate.gov

and the site is being closed down.  That is big news.  I used that site quite a bit for historical data and any climate trends. Here is a link to the article that was posted on NPR. I bet that will be closed down eventually too.

  https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5431660/climate-us-government-website-changes