Augdewst 2026: Summer's Last Stand

[dendrite]

2 hours ago, BrianW said:

Pretty soon you will be as well.  The updated USDA climate zones from 2023 has 7b right on Weymouths doorstep. 

 

 

 

A is colder than B. So that would be 7a creeping in down there. (0 to +5)

Still a 5b here which makes sense. My average extreme min is probably around -11 or -12 here…cooler in the valley. But growing zones are kinda dumb because it only takes one cold shot to go well below your zone and kill plants that you’re potentially zone pushing with.

Feb 2023 is a good example with -10 and wind at BOS. 

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Summer's over.

 

Read it.   Learn it.  Live it.

Is that your version of Live Laugh Love?

[moneypitmike]

17 hours ago, tunafish said:

3.77" here in PWM for Jul/Aug total.

Unfortunately, that includes the 1" I recorded in only 10 minutes on the 13th (1.19" event total).

I had not mowed my lawn since July 13th until last week---and that was just to make the brown a little more uniform.

[Damage In Tolland]

22 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Summer's over.

 

Read it.   Learn it.  Live it.

With no winter this year .. and living in the worst climate in the lower 48 like you do.. why do you want summer to end ? A winter there of 40’s and 50’s and no snow will not be fun 

[dendrite]

61 years ago right now we were advecting in, arguably, our coldest August airmass in recorded history. 

[moneypitmike]

21 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Is that your version of Live Laugh Love?

 

[moneypitmike]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

With no winter this year .. and living in the worst climate in the lower 48 like you do.. why do you want summer to end ? A winter there of 40’s and 50’s and no snow will not be fun 

Are you talking about Pit1 or Pit2?   My winter expectations for Pit1 are limited to the fantasty pipe-dream storms of James' lore.

Last year's Mattapoisett winter will just be the topic of 'remember whens' when the oldies are talking in future decades.

 

[dendrite]

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

61 years ago right now we were advecting in, arguably, our coldest August airmass in recorded history. 

Imagine 850 temps like this the morning of 8/30. 0C ALB, -3C PWM, -4C CAR

[CoastalWx]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Imagine 850 temps like this the morning of 8/30. 0C ALB, -3C PWM, -4C CAR

Glad we don’t live then

[Damage In Tolland]

20 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Are you talking about Pit1 or Pit2?   My winter expectations for Pit1 are limited to the fantasty pipe-dream storms of James' lore.

Last year's Mattapoisett winter will just be the topic of 'remember whens' when the oldies are talking in future decades.

 

The Maine coast. It’s a horrific climate for warmth and summer lovers ..and now rain 

[Snowedin]

1 hour ago, moneypitmike said:

Summer's over.

 

Learn it.   Know it.  Live it.

Now we embrace six months of cool rain, mist and fog with occasional breaks of torch..fun times lay ahead!

[kdxken]

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

61 years ago right now we were advecting in, arguably, our coldest August airmass in recorded history. 

Yeah but, we already had elevated normals compared to 1645-1715. Run of the mill cold. Two can play this game...

 

[powderfreak]

I bet everything about life was harsh in the 1690s too.

[dendrite]

25 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Yeah but, we already had elevated normals compared to 1645-1715. Run of the mill cold. Two can play this game...

 

Lots of witches back then…can’t trust the data.

[dendrite]

20 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I bet everything about life was harsh in the 1690s too.

At least they had Lake Ontario then

[moneypitmike]

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

The Maine coast. It’s a horrific climate for warmth and summer lovers ..and now rain 

You know not of what you speak.I get more snow than ORH and have better retention.  .

[BrianW]

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

A is colder than B. So that would be 7a creeping in down there. (0 to +5)

Still a 5b here which makes sense. My average extreme min is probably around -11 or -12 here…cooler in the valley. But growing zones are kinda dumb because it only takes one cold shot to go well below your zone and kill plants that you’re potentially zone pushing with.

Feb 2023 is a good example with -10 and wind at BOS. 

I think the last legit subzero cold shot here was back in Feb 23. I think it dropped to -5 here. 

I have been using heat pumps since 2016 and went out and took this infrared picture of my heat pump still pulling heat out of the air at -5.