Augdewst 2026: Summer's Last Stand

[dendrite]

19 minutes ago, tamarack said:

PWM touched 33 on August 31.  Next coldest August temp is 38.  MWN had a couple inches of snow.

CON’s earliest freeze on record was 32° at midnight. It fell to 29° by morning for their all-time August record. 7+ hours at or below freezing in August…brutal.

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, BrianW said:

Anyone else dealing with lantern flies in CT? Full on invasion here around New Haven. All the kids in the neighborhood are killing them with salt guns. 

They are everywhere here and have been for a couple of years now.

[powderfreak]

8 minutes ago, dendrite said:

CON’s earliest freeze on record was 32° at midnight. It fell to 29° by morning for their all-time August record. 7+ hours at or below freezing in August…brutal.

Now we are like “it got into the 40s for 7 hours!”

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

Now we are like “it got into the 40s for 7 hours!”

Low of 54F. Back broken!

[BrianW]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

They’re in S NH now.

Not sure why there’s such a push to have the public kill them. It’s like gypsies, japanese beetles, EAB, etc…once they arrive they’re there for good.

A lot of reports from further south are that they go wild for a few years and then the numbers drop off quite a bit. Not sure if that’s a case of other insects and animals learning that they’re tasty or if there’s some other factor at play.

The continents will all be back together again in 250M years so we may as well mix all of the insects around the planet together now. 

I don't go out of my way to kill them but I just probably mowed over dozens of them cutting the grass. I have battled many invasive insects but the shear number of these fuckers is astounding.

I have also been reading they are drastically changing the taste of the local honey. 

[BrianW]

22 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

They are everywhere here and have been for a couple of years now.

They must have just crossed over the Quinnipiac River/New Haven. Only saw them out your way in Milford, Orange, West Haven prior to seeing them here this summer. 

[Damage In Tolland]

30 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Pit2 is about 33 miles NE from PWM and 15 miles up the Kennebec estuary, which is mostly fresh water that far up - only when all the rivers feeding Merrymeeting Bay are very low does muc salt gets there.  PWM is 2 miles from Casco Bay, and its 1991-2020 norm is 69".  2001-30 so far is 65", both close to ORH.  Pit2 probably gets 5-10" more than the Jetport, though I'm not sure it beats ORH for retention.

That spring and summer climate is generally brutal . Ocean temps prohibit swimming and now it’s a huge drought area 

[Brian5671]

21 minutes ago, BrianW said:

They must have just crossed over the Quinnipiac River/New Haven. Only saw them out your way in Milford, Orange, West Haven prior to seeing them here this summer. 

I'd say they've been here 3 years.   It's not quite as bad this year as the first real year but I don't bother killing them anymore.   The bats eat them which is maybe why the #'s seem a bit less this year.