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July here is 5.1° warmer than June, thanks to the long plateau from 7/6 thru 8/10 in which the average temp varies only 1.1°. I don't have June 1-3, other than the 84 max on the 3rd, warmest on the max-min while we traveled. Though 6/4-22 had 9 BN days and 10 AN, the average is 2.8 AN thanks to the heat of 10-13. When I derive 1-3 (from nearby sites), it's probably about +3 for 1-22. If it finishes there, 6/26 would rank 4th or 5th warmest of 29.

York/Cumberland Counties with 2-2.5", gauge here had 0.25", ranking 83rd of 92 cocorahs reports. The bottom 9 were many miles NE from here, mostly Aroostook. June average total is a bit over 5" - still in play but probably won't reach it. On average we get 3 months/year with 5"+; most recent fiver was May 2025.

Brief moderate shower while I was driving home from Farmington. Usually these showers die before leaving the mountains.

Call the ACO - maybe that official will trap out the dam builders.

Next town to the north (Carrabassett Valley) reported 3.04", and the eponymous river rose 7 feet at the North Anson gauge. Had 1.27" in our Stratus, 3.51" for June.

We are in the 3rd flash flood watch since last Friday. The first 2 provided 1.43" but flow on the local 4th-order watercourse (Sandy River) has barely stayed above the 25th percentile. The initial watch verified in a small area around Conway NH with reports of 3-5" and quick flooding, while 99%+ of the watch areas had a nice drink.

That 34" dump came at Oak Ridge Reservoir, about 10 miles west from where I grew up. In January that site's pack reached 41", the only time I've seen for NJ pack >36" except for Feb 1961 when Oak Ridge had 50" and 15 miles farther NW, Canistear Reservoir topped out at 52". We probably had 45" after the 3-4 blizzard that year. A friend and I decided to wade thru the pack and it was navel-deep on me (was 5'7 or 8" at the time) and my boots likely didn't get within 6" of the ground. The 35" record was set at the state's least snowy site, Cape May, in the Feb 1899 cold blast and storm. Even Tallahassee had 2". Initial reporting from Mt. Arlington (western Morris County) had 35.5" from the 2021 Jan-Feb dump, but QC follow-up lowered that to under 30".

My guess was 24" at our NNJ home, but only a guess due to the wind. Coming 15 cold days after the "JFK inaugural" storm, Feb 3-4 brought the deepest pack in NJ records, reaching 50"+ at 2 locations. The storm arrived on Friday evening and even with the weekend we had no school that Monday. NYC schools were closed the entire week. Closures that winter meant extended days in hot no-AC June.

All true, and the newsies seem always focused on the worst-case scenarios. ("If it bleeds, it leads.")

Though it's now #3, that 1947 storm might've been Central Park's biggest, exceeded due to measurement changes. My opinion is based on snow depth. The 12/47 event pushed the pack from 2" to 26" (NYC's tallest on record), while #2 - Feb 2006 - only reached 17" and #1 - Jan 2016 - brought the depth from zero to 22". I think that Central Park records depth at noon, or why the 26th only reported 4" despite nearly all the snow fell before midnight, and that 26" pack was measured about 10 hours after accumulation had stopped. The numbers: 12/25 33 19 0 0 2" 12/26 31 25 2.36" 26.1" 4" 12/27 35 29 0.04" 0.3" 26" We'll never know for sure.

Two TS last evening totaling 0.88". First one (7-8 PM) began with a few giant drops - sounded like hail hitting the car - then 0.10" in 2 minutes followed by less intense rain. 2nd one came 10:30-11 PM and added 0.33".

June, and especially July and August, probably have never finished at +9 in our part of the country; even +5 is extreme. Winter is far different - December 1989 and Feb 2015 were 12-14° BN over much of the Northeast, and Feb 1981 at CAR was nearly +15. Small warned TS passed just to our north, close enough to terrorize our dog but giving us only a sprinkle. Radar had some echoes of 60+ dbz - maybe some hail in the towns to our east and northeast.

Beats my 0.07". June has brought rain on 6-7 days but we're still under 1". Last year we had only 5 days with thunder, about 1/3 of the average and only the 2nd (of 28 years) that failed to get at least 10 - 2010 had only 8.

Morning low of 65 here, first 60+ minima of the season. First TD near/at 70 as well.

Two notable storms in Feb 1969. The late month "100-hour" storm was a New England event; we had 4" of mush at our NNJ home. The storm of 9-10 was the "Mayor Lindsey" snow. The NYC forecast had been heavy cold rain, but the 15.3" of heavy wet snow that paralyzed the city as the sanitation crews (plows on garbage trucks) were not alerted. The head of the sanitation union said of Lindsey, "He played it by ear but was stone deaf!" Our scout troop was at Allamuchy Scout Camp in NW NJ that weekend, but my 1962 Beetle had no problems even though there was 8-9" new by the time we got home that Sunday.