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All joking aside, it’s nice to see the kids back outside. There’s a large daycare about a third of a mile down the road and the poor kids were huddled inside the A/C all week... finally was able to hear them on the playgrounds again today. They take big group walks on the Rec Path and such, so good to finally see them back outside enjoying the weather.

Just a fukkin’ sufferfest up here for those poor kids. You just hate to see those partly sunny days with low dews and 75-80F. I never would’ve gone outside to play whiffleball or ride mountain bike trails in this stuff.

75/52 This does feel good and as fun as it was, this is much better for being outside doing literally anything but swimming than the big heat was. Don’t hear any children crying either because they are cold .

Ha, not in a the way you hope. I'm laughing thinking about that memory. Got him a golf ball that he put under his sack to scratch the itch and then our Earth Science teacher caught him sitting on it in the middle of class... I picture HubbDave finding a student rolling a golf ball under his nut sack in the final weeks of the school year. "Get out, I don't care why. Just leave."

One of my best friends in high school got poison ivy when we were playing a round of golf. He must’ve gone home and took the weenie for a walk because he had such a bad ivy outbreak on his nuts that he had to leave school early for several days in a row. Sitting on the hard school chairs was so rough on his sack that it was getting inappropriate for him to sit in class scratching his nuts all day, lol.

Even if it didn't rain for a year I'm not sure I would fear a forest fire burning my house down in New England. Not saying it couldn't happen but that would be pretty far down on the list of worries.

3km NAM just rolls a bowling ball of moisture through. I naturally like it as it's further north than the 12km NAM, ha.

49.1F at closest PWS and 48-50F at MVL depending on the actual min.... feels great.

57F at 10:45pm is some much needed relief. Need to close windows back up as it’s almost chilly inside now.

Have had precipitation on 15 of 24 days this month. However the total during that time is only 1.17”.... an average of about 0.08” per day of rain, ha. Just like in winter, we are prone to plenty of days with precip but it doesn’t always add up big. Nickles and dimes.

We are going to be like folks in Florida after this past week, bundling up for highs in the 70s with no humidity.

I always thought it was because they coalesce by colliding with each other making larger drops from small drops and figured it had something to do with the weight of the rain drop and the strength of the updraft (it needs to get big/heavy enough to actually fall to the ground). This high speed camera sequence of a rain drop falling and breaking apart into various sized drops is also interesting. Fragmentation of a 5 millimeters in diameter drop falling by its own weight relative to an ascending stream of air. The overall sequence lasts for 60 milliseconds. This process is responsible for the formation of the raindrops which wet the ground. (Image: © Emmanuel Villermaux)

75/54 What an afternoon of Chamber weather after all that heat.

You gonna root for hot and dry or cool and wet? Going to be hard to pick heat over water.

That refreshing air is on its way... SLK is 68/49, yesterday they were 87/60 at this time. A nice 20 degree drop from yesterday.

Could’ve sworn I read his answer.

Ahh true. It’s tough to do at 1500ft, I forget Alex is even a bit higher up than Phin. Anyway, 75/55 is absolutely glorious this afternoon. We earned it this time, ha.

Colder than the picnic tables high up on mountains.

That would get you a 90F at an ASOS, ha, but I know what you mean. 88-89F for a week at 1,500ft is crazy hot.

One third of the days so far this month have set daily maximum records on Mansfield, ha! 8 of 23 days, including the last 6 in a row. Today will buck that as it's only 60F up there now.

Looks like we grabbed 0.34" this morning... sort of nickle and diming our way to near an inch this week.

Looks like today ends the 6 days of 90+ at spots like BTV and BML.

Almost midnight, already nodding off... get awoken by the sound of something hitting the trash can and eventually opening it on the back porch. The dog goes absolutely ape-shit with the wide screen door being the only thing between it and the house. I got there just as the bear scampered off the deck, fled into the night. Paws were soaked like it just crossed the river.

BTV posted this to social media, great loop showing the FROPA that should end the heat wave. This has been high end summer. After a high end summer shot in late May. It has wanted to swing wildly above normal at times, yet punctuated with times of highs in the 50s here in June. This has been a heatwave worthy of the nomenclature.

Some max temps from this anomalous times... another good torch with highest anomalies certainly in NNE. Thunderstorms held temps a little lower in some spots compared to recent days, but places that remained sunny the longest torched the best away from marine influence. BTV... 96F CON... 94F HIE... 92F IZG... 92F LEB... 92F BDL... 91F BML... 90F DDH... 90F LCI... 90F MVL... 89F MPV... 88F BOS... 88F SLK... 87F TAN... 87F ORH... 86F IJD... 86F LEW... 77F PWM... 75F