tamarack

"Never assume malice for what is easily explained as stupidity."

That warning is in GYX' CWA. The heat criteria in Maine may be lower than for Massachusetts.

The record broken by the 1984 storm was April 7-8, 1982, the most glorious bust I've enjoyed. Late on April 6, CAR still thought OTS, forecasting 20s, windy, flurries. That blizzard left our black Chevette (a small car, but still . . .) with only a palm-size patch visible. My guesstimate in Fort Kent was 17", while the wind left the snow stake 2" lower than pre-storm, with mounds 5-6 feet tall within 20 feet on either side. March 1984 is now 2nd, behind the 33.1" from an odd stationary storm Dec 25-27, 2005, the bright spot in a down winter. In mid-February a guy from Corpus Cristi, TX called the manager of Aroostook State Park (near PQI) about sledding. The response was that it was very poor, plus a recommendation to head north, to the St. John Valley and points west.

Agree about the softening, also for folks playing the blame game if they are inconvenienced in any way. However, the bolded seems counterintuitive. at least from a practical standpoint. Those out in the wx would seem to be more affected than those sitting in their LRs poking their cellphones. Wonder if we’ll all go 10 straight days with no rain ? That arrives today; most recent precip was 0.16" on June 28. The temps running 5° AN during that period exacerbates the drying.

Biggest snowfall of my experience (26.5" on 3/14-15, 1984, CAR had 29.0") arrived at about 1030 mb and didn't quite get down to 1015 by storm's end. Temp was +/- 10° for most of the event, with 15-25 mph SE breeze. 22" fell 6 AM-8 PM. The numbers: 13 10 -18 0 0 46" 14 12 2 2.08" 25.0" 65 " Deepest ever at my snow stake. 15 28 10 0.10" 1.5" 64" Snow ended before dawn, with some ZR.

Mostly cloudy 70s here, not a drop since June 28. Water table is fine (5.53" in June) but the upper 6" is pretty dry.

Did that "attic-furnace" insulating in Fort Kent on the day (5/22/77) CAR hit 96, but I was young and foolish back then. I'm no longer young. When I worked with carpenters in NNJ, 1967-73, we generally stayed off roofing if the temp was much over 80, especially in full sun, unless the roof pitch was low enough for us to work from above. Otherwise, we'd mess up the softened shingles already installed.

Sun thru some very thin clouds, forecast says nada from the current system, maybe some TS late week. (Though that was the forecast for last Wed-Sat and nothing happened.) The Sandy River was above 75th percentile last Monday and probably will drop below 25% by Wednesday, as the trees are working and the temps have been very AN this month.

40 years ago in Northern Maine, straight line winds flattened about 600 acres, a swath 4 miles long running SW to NE. It started a bit north of (Aroostook) Eagle Lake and ended by blowing spruce trees into Square Lake. I've no idea whether the folks from CAR came out to look and report, but from what I heard and saw the wind probably reached 90-100 mph. (That storm was late in season for that area - Sept 30. Ironically, 5 years later to the day they had 3-5" snow.)

About the same 2 towns to the east, with a nice breeze. Low 60s dew still sticky but much more tolerable than Thursday's 70+.

Didn't take long to increase from 65 mph to 145.

Many years ago (1960?) I was with a group of kids on a trip to Sandy Hook, NJ. Expecting the mid-July ocean to be 70-72, we were a bit dismayed to find it at 57. Went swimming anyway but not for as long. Of course, some years earlier (1952) on our vacation at Spruce Head, part of Boothbay Harbor, I swam most every day in water that might've been even colder. Of course, 6-year-olds don't feel the cold water until mom or dad sees the blue lips and pulls us out.

If that 87 is EWR it's their new record. 7/22/2011 was 108/86. (A Phoenix day, but with humidity.) Storms slid to my south, 3-for-3 the past 3 nights. Didn't even see any "heat lightning" (a term I've used since the 1950s for flashes from too far away to be heard. Sorry, LR). The SFD from GYX talked about storms/rain/troughs but their forecast for 04955 doesn't include a single drop thru next Thursday.

Possibly a TD error - once dews get into mid-70s and above the HI goes nuts. Some years back I found a couple sites at Iranian oil-handling islands on the Persian Gulf that were reporting 98-100F with TD 88-90 and HI well into the 130s. Those readings were consistent over several days. Maybe each site had data issues, or maybe that's the dewpoint capitol of the world. (Several times the reports included wind 25-30 mph with condition listed as "sand". I can't think of a worse wx experience, outside of strong tor/canes.) Follow-up to CAR minima: They were reporting 73 at midnight, warmer at 10 and 11 PM, down to 71 by 1 AM. Looks like their warmest minimum breaks the record, but by 2° rather than 3°.

No surprise at EWR, while Central Park gets surrounded by ever taler trees. From 2000 on, NYC has reached 100 six times, the most recent in July of 2012. EWR has notched 40 triples during the same 26 years (don't have June numbers yet) and 17 of those have occurred in the 2020s. KNYC 100° And 15 minutes later my data becomes outdated.