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Wow! You have really been dry this year, if that's accurate. I've measured 28.17", 1.03" AN thanks to January's +2.25". Last evening's 0.36" brought July a whisker above 3" (and another 0.07" came after I'd dumped the gauge at 9 PM.) July 2019 Avg. Max: 77.74, 1.35 AN Hottest: 86, 20th. High min: 65, 21st Avg. Min: 54.58, 0.28 AN Coolest: 44, 8th. Low max: 65, 12th, 23rd Mean: 66.16, 0.81 AN Highest mean: 74, 20th,21st Lowest mean: 60, 25th Only 29 HDDs, only 7/2006 (a much warmer month) had fewer, 26. The month featured no really hot days but also very little significantly BN. Precip: 3.01", 0.87" BN Most in a day: 1.02, 12th. 3 days with thunder, avg is 4.5 The month featured 15 days of sunny/mostly sunny and just 3 cloudy/mostly cloudy. Using my sunny+(PC/2), the "sun proportion" was 21.5 days. No other month (any month) has recorded more than 20.

His place sits near the top of a granite hill, and IIRC his rather deep well doesn't put out all that much. Nice tower building south of the office here in Augusta. Will miss here but might be interesting Pittston/Dresden and points east.

Had an 8-week stretch that "summer" (early June-early August) with only 7 days that it didn't rain. Coolest July of 22 here, 2nd coolest June and coolest met summer despite AN August (in which sun and convective precip finally appeared.)

Should see some color there before 8/15, a month before much change in anything else.

Most fall in September here, a few early movers in late August. Interesting. That February is still my coldest month. It just edged out January 1994 which is followed appropriately by December 1989. Every other one is a January month that you would expect. Unlike most NNE spots, coldest at Farmington co-op is Jan. 1982. Top 10: JAN 1982: 3.39 JAN 1994: 4.44 FEB 2015: 5.54 JAN 1981: 6.18 DEC 1989: 6.23 (4.30 below #2. Next largest #1/#2 spread is 1.87 for FEB.) JAN 1971: 6.68 JAN 1976: 7.03 FEB 1993: 7.41 JAN 1912: 7.65 JAN 2004: 8.61 Seven of ten in January (Feb 1962 is 11th) and all but one by the current observer, 1.3 miles north of mid-town while earlier obs were more in the built-up areas.

Thought it would be the same in my hood, but a fairly noisy TS at 10:30 dumped 0.2" in about 5 minutes. Still 1"+ below the July average; maybe today will reduce that deficit.

Very possible, though NYC with records back thru 1869 is one of the last places I'd expect it. And the 33° stayed constant thru the bulk of the daytime snowfall; it could've - probably was - been at the low end of the rounding range. That Sunday when 14" of the full 15.3" fell had temps 36/26, and my recollection is that the high was 12:01 AM and the low 11:59 PM. There was already 2" new at sunrise 45 miles west where our troop spent the weekend at Allamuchy Scout Reservation, with a steady 15-20 mph wind that foreboded an interesting 30-mile drive home. (Piece of cake in my '62 Beetle - 8" OG when we got there.) NYC reported only 1" for 2/9, and I think they check depth at noon, so accumulation probably started a couple hours later than where we were. Forecast had been for heavy RA in the city, and it may have begun that way as the 14" held 1.64" LE.

Maybe it's a city thing. Much of the infamous "Mayor Lindsey" storm in 1969 fell while KNYC was reporting 33°.

At 2.65" here, thanks to the mini-jack Sunday evening. Average for July is 3.92". Warmest here so far this year is 86° on the 20th, and I don't think today will beat it. However, we're well on our way to sunny/m.sunny day #15 this month. Previous best was 11 in 2010 and the average is closer to 5 (plus 20 days of partly cloudy, the default sky condition in our summers.) I'm not a fan of big heat, but this is the nicest AN July I could ask for.

The 1930s were the decade of extremes. Looking at all time state records for hottest/coldest days and wettest/driest years, that decade dominates 3 of the 4. (Note: latest update I've found is 2011, so there may have been changes.) Hottest day: '30s - 24 (next highest decade has 5) Coldest day: '30s - 10 (Next is 6) Wettest year: '30s - 2 WA and ID ('50s and '90s lead with 10.) Driest year: '30s - 19 ('50s and '60s 11 each, with 6 in '65: SNE + PA,NJ,DE)

That's how I'd call it here. Except for 7/20-21, dews have been quite manageable, though we may approach 70 tomorrow. What this month has featured is sunshine. The ratio of sunny to cloudy will be the greatest of the 254 full months we've lived at our present location, unless both tomorrow and Wednesday are cloudy - which isn't happening.

Reminds me of the coldest July 4th weekend I've experienced. We were camping about 30 miles upriver from Ft. Kent on the 3rd and 4th, and both days were alike - lows of 33-34 followed by morning sun pushing temps to 60+. Then came the clouds and showers, dropping temps to the 40s and sending folks running for more blankets. I think that if I'd been at home (970') rather than next to the St. John (615'), I'd have seen some pingers.

'07 was almost tolerable, but '09 was the no-tomatoes year (actually got 3 cherry tomatoes, total, before fungus stopped those vines as they had already done to main crop.) August '09 was actually AN but the near-sunless June-July sealed that summer's fate, for temps and for gardens.

Probably by a factor of about 10 every 3 weeks or so. In 2-3 months a solo queen can bring the nest to a thousand or more. When I lived on the farm I torched one and then dug out the mammoth 4 foot by 3 foot nest. Insane What a giant! Fortunately, in the instance noted above, there was no dig needed, only fill as the burnout was total.

Probably true most places but there are exceptions (sort of.) Farmington co-op JJA was 0.50° below 1981-2010 norms in 2017 and also BN (by 0.37°) for 2015. However, 2000-on shows 13 of 19 JJAs above that average, and despite a slightly BN June, this summer will make it 14 of 20.

I'm guessing Dendrite does what I do when flagged that way - check nearby stations with known midnight obs to see if they also have twins, and if not, discount one of the flagged site's minima (for counting sub-50s/zeros/whatever.) Sites with 7 AM obs probably run about 1° cooler than those recording at midnight, just because of doubled minima. Best example for me is the Farmington co-op, where its 2nd coldest morning (-38) was recorded on Jan. 21, 1994, almost certainly at 7:01 as the coldest (-39) came on the 20th and no midnight sites were anywhere near as cold on the 21st as on the 20th. I'm jealous of your rn. I knew we'd get squat last night and I'm not hopeful for much on Weds. Lawn starting to take a beating now. Last Sunday-Tuesday southern Franklin was dead last in precip for Maine, as the north got the Sunday morning MCS remains while the south got some of the LP rains. I thought (and posted yesterday afternoon) that we would see the storms dodge once again, especially after the earlier warned TS slipped away south and another grumbled by to the north. The water in my truck bed at 8 PM suggested 1/4" in Farmington, so I was very pleasantly surprised to see more than thrice that much in the gauge at 9.

Wait for the next sub-60 morning and get them at first light. I'd use one of those long-distance wasp killer sprays, from 4-5 feet away. If none come out in response, plop a rock on the hole big enough to block it, so the chemical is trapped with the insects. The year that paper wasps colonized the rock wall along our driveway (3 stings for me and 5 for my wife), I picked a 50° morning to flip the rock under which they'd nested, and got plenty of juice on them before any became airborne - and none made it more than 2 feet from the nest. My dad used to do the gasoline method at our grandparents' summer place with it's 3/4-acre lawn that averaged 2-3 nests per mowing. He'd go out in late evening, dump the half cup and light it. On one particularly large nest (judged by swarm size when disturbed, there was a washtub-size hole in the ground the next morning.

Too small for yellowjackets. Ginx is probably correct, and there are many such species native to our region.

I'd toss your station for dews, for the same reason I'd toss mine for average high temps. Transpiration effect significantly limits heating while boosting TDs. Finally got some rain last evening after missing out last week. Noisy TS brought 0.82" in 45 minutes, with most coming 6-6:25 PM. (I was in Farmington where the storm was much less interesting.) Another shower arrived 9 PM w/o thunder and brought my total to 0.95". No Farmington report on cocorahs (my guess is about 0.3") while Temple, one town farther west, got the treatment I had last week, 0.04".

Most ground-nesting bees are solitary, with bumblebees an exception and I'm sure you would already know if yours were bumblebees. Another possibility is yellowjackets, especially if there are numerous critters going in and out. Those beasts are the most aggressive of the social wasps, IMO and in my (oft-stung) experience.

If the trees were bigger, the bears might treat them like they do beech, climbing up and pulling branches toward their mouths. They can break branches a couple inches thick, and in a tree full of nuts create a "bear's nest" with their destruction. The one time I was close enough to listen (mama and cub in one tree, cub #2 in another) it was "snap, crack, crunch, chomp" - but for the breaking branches they sounded like pigs at the trough. Edit: Couple distant rumbles from a warned storm a bit to our south, with another smaller one passing by just to the north. We'll see what the line to the west can do, though past performances say not to be optimistic.

Right by a beech tree, waiting for the nuts to ripen. And it's the scruffy fur-shed season.

Put the $ ahead of both row and column indicators and hold it for moves in any direction. However, my favorite Excel moment was learning how to work in 3 "dimensions" - column/row/worksheet - using the ! symbol. I had 30+ years of weather records and collating/analyzing was exceedingly laborious. Being able to access multiple worksheets made things 100X easier. Some scattered cu to the south but I haven't seen the shadows go dim all day - another beauty.

More than one way to skin that cat. What I learned was to enter the correct formula in cell I-4 and hit "enter" to see if it works the way you want, copy it (left click works fine), then holding the shift key, click on I-7 to mark/bound and hit "enter". It's nice when I'm working with tree data including diameters 1" to 40", to enter the formula in the 1" cell and copy it all the way to 40" with just a few clicks. I've not seen the "corner-click and drag" so will try it post-haste. As a wiser person than I once said, "A day I haven't learned something is a day I've wasted." Since I'm working with inventories that include many thousands of data points, Excel is a bff. Edit: Shazam!! That's a cool trick - thanks.

Other than last weekend, dews have been fairly tame this month, considering it's July. Pure sun again today, looks to be #12 this month, the most sunny/m.sunny days of my 22 Julys here. With only 3 cloudy/m.cloudy days so far and likely no more to come, this month could notch a new sunshine high for any month. (My formula is sunny days plus PC/2.) I'm not a fan of big heat, but low dew/high sun AN is eminently tolerable.