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"Event": 0.07" Week: 0.07" Month: 2.11" Year: 21.82" (79% of average)

Some years back my sister-in-law gave us a gift card for Red Lobster. Unfortunately, the 3-4 RLs in Maine had closed - couldn't compete with the locals. We had to go to northern Mass to use the card; combined it with a Bible conference in Concord, NH so didn't need a special trip. GYX overnight forecast (<0.1") was on target (sadly) - 0.07". Radar isn't very promising, either. NNJ where I grew up got pounded, 3-7". We'd lived in the hills, avoiding flood damage, but the Pompton/Passaic river system flooded frequently. Unfortunately, the Passaic took the lives of two 10-year-olds yesterday.

Shortly after moving to Maine in 1973, I read that more than half the world's people used wood as a heat source, and I thought that to be sort of quaint. At our NNJ home in NNJ, we had a fireplace, but it was more for atmosphere than heat. We moved from a Fort Kent apartment to our first house (tiny 2-story) in mid-May 1977 and couldn't wait to add a woodstove. I'd installed a Jotul 602 the day before the move. We've run woodstoves as a major heat source ever since - no chimney fires (yet).

Still waiting. Looks like we get about 1/4" at best. That 10" event is beyond my experience - tops was 8.90" on 27-28, 1971 at NNJ, PRE dropped 3.8" during daylight on the 27th then Doria 5.1" in the wee hours of 8/28. PWM had 9.62" on 10/21/996, also 2.78" the day before. I'm confident there was a 10/24 in there someplace.

Acclimation can occur without moving a bit. Sometime next month or early September we'll have a morning in the mid-upper 30s and it will feel quite chilly. In January that would be shirtsleeve weather. The early heat this month hit hard due to tall dews and not having had much real heat before that. With several weeks of mostly CoC since then, another big heat next month will take some more acclimation. Could happen - we've had only 2 heat waves here, each 3 straight 90+, and one came last year. In 28 summers, we've had 90+ on 23 days. June leads with 9 and August is 2nd with 7. Only 3 in July and 2 each for May/September. 30 thunder days in AK? That's twice my average here and last year we had a mere 5. Go far NW for SVR?

Tenth to a quarter? (thru Fri) Would like to bust low.

July 1-4: 85/66 +10 (Dews 70+) July 5-27: 76/53 -1 (7 mornings in the 40s)

If you get <1", we're likely to get <1/2". Precip maps only go to Thurs aft - maybe something that evening? Another CoC day here, 5th consecutive mostly sunny day - rare in July/August when most days are PC. Avg temps 23-27: 77/48.

Frost at HIE - cool. We had 40/39 on 27-28 that year. Farther back/north, we lost half our pumpkins on July 31, 1978 in Fort Kent, and the next door neighbor's beans were torched - their garden was 2-3 feet lower than ours, probably had 31 while we only got down to 32.

Yesterday's 76/47 (-4) dragged the monthly departure down to +0.8. My guess is 0.0 to +0.5 as the final figure. Rain thru yesterday is 2.04"; avg for July is 3.98". I think we're too far north/east to catch up.

Maybe, but the 30-year norms of 50 years ago were about 2F lower than the 1991-2020s.

Heat/humidity lasted 4 days, 5th and following has been slightly BN. 78/46 here yesterday.

I lean ACATT by preference (not forecasting) but think we'll finish July AN, thanks to its first 4 days. 7/1-4 was 10.3° AN while the next 19 days have run 0.6° BN and I think the remainder will be close to norms here. Enter August 2, 1975! PWM: 103 BGR: 102 BHB: 100 at water's edge. All 3 all-timers. Since my first swim in Maine salt water (August 1952), Hot Saturday is my only time of swimming in actual warm salt water here, just south of Otter Cliffs in Acadia.

And I thought that seeing lightning in Rangeley while driving on US 1 in Searsport (100 miles apart) was amazing, but it was small potatoes compared to that.