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8 hours ago, dendrite said:

There goes the well.

First time in 12 years here I’ve gone dry. Hopefully we rain on Friday.

Wow--that sucks!

Good luck.

2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

92/77.   Today is worse than Sunday here in Greenfield.

Not even close temp-wise up the hill.  We're at 87.9, but the air is gross.  Much worse than yesterday.

Heading to Pit2 in a few minutes.  Hopefully it'll be different up there.  It certainly was yesterday.

Lots of rumbles to the east and to the south.  Looks like I'm getting a 7-10 split, ftl.

Up to 83.4* here at the Pit.  Looks like we only had the one oppressive day (Sunday), ftw.

Much more comfortable last night.  Not sure if it was simply the cooler temps (we had only gotten to 88 yesterday, 4* cooler than Sunday) or also lower DP.  Either way, yesterday was not bad at all.  

Heading to Maine later today--hopefully after any storms roll through.  I guess we had some good ones last week while I was away.  My wife reported tons of lightning and I had to lower the pool level when I got back.  Based on AFD, I guess it's been dry for many though the lawn is lush here.

10 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

84/70, still pretty gross out.

Much less gross up here.  nice breeze keeping it fresh.

16 minutes ago, MaineJayhawk said:

That's not taint - it's a feature 

81F in North Windham when I left work, but you could feel the coolness of the breeze.  65.8F refreshing degrees on Munjoy Hill.  Tonight will be a beach dinner night

Haven't had those in years.

1 hour ago, MaineJayhawk said:

MPM keeps a closet full of shawls handy at Pit 2

LOL.

What a difference today is.....we topped out at 88.9, a helluva lot less humidity an a nice breeze.  A one day scorcha.

87.5

Up to 84* at noon.  Hot, but I'm not convinced we'll get to 90*.  Yesterday surprised though, so we'll see.

So far today is feeling much more comfortable than yesterday.  The fresh breeze helps a lot.

9 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This is one we pat each other on the back over, slap hi- fives and tell grandchildren about. An 80 dew is something deeply special 

The only think heat-related I remember is back when I was at Fordham coming out of the bars at 1:00a.m. and the temp was still about 90*.

Other than that, I find heat and humidity utterly forgettable.

Managed 92.5 here.  Awful.

A breeze has kicked in a bit and down to 90.2.

41 minutes ago, dendrite said:

90 on your sensor would be a real torch.

Yup--I think the high I've had in the 10 years (yikes) we've been her has been 93*.

Up to 88.9 at the Pit.  Sticky.

It's feeling really gross here at the Pit.  83.6*

44 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Deer flies are abundant with this weather.  Killed 6 with the zapper yesterday while walking the dog. Only 4 this morning

What's the zapper?

21 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Anyone know what bird makes this call? All sounds are from the same one (I presume). It sounds a little like a crow “glocking”, but then there’s a loud human-like scream. It happened around 6-7am. 

screaming bird call.m4a

Crow.

They sounds even better at 5:00am.

Comfortable night with the fan.  Hopefully that'll continue as fans are all she wrote here at the Pit.

High so far of 85.2.  Currently 84.5.  

Pretty humid.

2 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

Nice! And enjoy

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Nice!

20 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

On Roxbury Pond last night

gorgeous.

30 minutes ago, tamarack said:

So I've read, though they divebomb my gray-white head just as enthusiastically as they did when my hair was still brown.  They also seem to key on movement, which I discovered by accident while in the woods west of Jackman on a mega-deerfly July day.  My co-worker needed a serious comfort stop and headed into the thicker growth while I waited by a bridge over Turner Brook.  The watercourse as full of little trout and I decided that the deerflies would at least provide some entertainment along with torture.  As I waited, ready to slap, drop, and watch the feeding frenzy, the deerflies left me completely alone.  Their attention returned as we continued our walk back to the truck.  I've since found that standing still causes most deerflies to lose interest - maybe they're like T-Rex as portrayed in Jurassic Park.  (And scaled to their body size, their dental equipment feels like it's similar.)

lol.  They really do suck.

On 6/21/2018 at 11:20 PM, wxmanmitch said:

Deer flies are out now. There was virtually no break between the end of the black flies and the start of the deer flies. The latter seems to be much more aggressive on warm humid days with ample sunshine than on the cooler days. They were awful on Sunday and Monday but have been much less of a pest the past couple of days. I only had one come at me while working outdoors today. They are nasty, totally ignorant of deet and they'll bite right through your shirt. 

Can anyone ID this tree? I thought it was a yellow birch at first since the bark isn't that much different from it, but it's clearly not with the pinnate leaves and sawtoothed leaflets. I know it's a little hard to see in the 2nd photo, but it has white flowers higher up. There are several of them on the property and on the roadside. I've only seen them above about 2K elevation.

 

 

Is it an Aspen?  Those trees totally suck.  They've got a huge root system so if you cut it down, it springs up a sh*tload more of them all over the place.

Today can be summed up quite easily.

COC

4 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Low 40s this morning, then another CoC day.

clouds have moved in a bit and may dampen the COC spirits a bit today here.....hopefully those will pass by.