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A chicken weenie, not a weather weenie. (You need to add March/April to your snow sig.)

Chickens asking why the bike came speeding down the road. That said, OUCH!!! But I still like chickens, even after Houdini the SNJ rooster punched a hole in my shin last May. (He thought I was getting too chummy with his hens as I brought out some veggie scrap food for them.) Very hazy sunshine this afternoon after the cloudy morning, temp low 70s.

No spiking but often the trends point strongly in a certain direction and pro mets should say so. Almost all forecasters predicted Sandy's sharp left turn, though not exactly when/where, such that landfall possibilities 7 days out ranged from ORF to CHH. But we're a long way from 4/6/82 when the folks at CAR predicted cold windy flurries for the next day and got 26" instead (best bust ever!) In their defense, everyone else also had the storm slanting east before it could impact N. Maine.

Average here was 0.1° BN, but we're just east from the green/yellow change, so close enough. Also had 3.65" rain during that week. Aug 1-4 was +7.4 and 5th onward was -0.9, which has pulled month-to-date down to +1.3.

1. Show me that kdxken ever said that. 2. Cutting wood for a living tends to make one extra sensitive to TDs. Not much sun today though it's sticky. Struggling to get past 70. Storms are currently circling around our area, but some from the north might come for a visit. Daughter's doodle wants no part of it. In this morning's TS our 9-y.o. yellow Lab mix was panting at over 200 breaths per minute, and she had an awful time the night before with 6 hours of th8under between 6 yesterday and 4:30 this AM.

3 of 4 here, as 05-06 was a full-on ratter at my place, the only winter in which I saw no storms 6"+ since 1967-68 in NNJ. (The other 3 all were waaaay AN.)

After not seeing an actual lightning bolt for 2 years, I saw a dozen beauties in Skowhegan/Norridgewock while driving home from our 2-day forestry trip to northern Maine - Allagash/New Canada/Eagle Lake. My wife was hearing thunder from 6 PM on but the rain didn't arrive until 8:10, about 2 minutes after I'd carted my trip duffel into the house. (It usually doesn't happen that nicely.) Rain and thunder thru 10:30, another bout from 3:15 to 4:30 AM (1.36" total for both) then #3 from8:45-10 this morning for another ~0.4", plus one strike within a mile (4 sec.) that gave us a pop from the service panel - no damage, thankfully. Forecast says more to come this afternoon. The smoke/haze was especially thick in the north on Tuesday and Wednesday, probably today as well if the clouds break.

60s highs in August here are either wet or follow lows in the 40s. 45 would be chilly now, quite mild in January. Aurora + Perseids + full overcast = the usual. We had clear skies in April and May for the 2 best phenomena of all, but we're about 0-for-6 on recent lunar eclipses.

Received 1.87" total from the system. The tropical air arrived 7-9 last night, fogging up our windows as dews climbed about 10°. Some gusts to 30 or so but nothing serious.

Looks close to Morristown/MMU. (Or Parsippany, where we lived between our marriage - 6/71 - and the move to Maine - 1/73.) Not raining atm but still low 60s here.

1.11" overnight, still raining, 60°. Not very tropical so far.

August 2002 here for dry heat - note the modest minima, especially for August heat. Unfortunately, our Subaru Loyale with 204k miles chose that month to have its AC die. 11 87 51 12 88 54 13 90 57 14 90 61 15 91 62 16 88 66 17 87 62 18 89 54

Microsites. We're in the woods so transpiration modifies the heat (while boosting dews). Although I've cut some trees from near the house over the 26+ years here, the forest has become taller and thicker. As a result, 85° is our "90" here and we average a bit over 7 days/year at 85+. We've reached 90+ 20 times and 14 came in our first 8 summers here, only 6 in the next 19 (all 2017 on) and all 6 came in May or June. Once the leaves are fully operational, reaching 90 becomes very difficult; 2002 was the most recent year we've done it after June 28.

About the same low here - average is 76/55. On the 11th the average temp drops (fractionally) below 65, ending the 5-week plateau in which the average is within 1° of the summer's warmest. Now the averages' slide becomes more noticeable. Yesterday's 69/55 was 3.4° BN; by month's end that would be +1. but where's the 90s and dews that some were saying were roaring back last week More like purring.

A few miles north from TTN, where 7"+ fell? Farther south where the grandkids live, less than 1/2". 25 miles north from there, Cinnaminson reported 5.67".

My SIL had about 6", a dozen miles north from Ocala. Said the field and yard "looked like a war zone". One more weak TS yesterday afternoon. 0.36" is better than nothing but the 0.80 to 0.94" just to the west would've been nice.

It's certainly been dewey these last few days, but last weekend we had lows of 51° and 7/22 bottomed out at 45. Mostly sticky but the last 2 weeks of July had some breaks from the swamp.

Can't deny that dews are getting higher, but "all of New England"? I'd leave NNE out of that statement (except for ASH).

Moderate rain to the north, heavy rain to the south, 0.01" here. Less tha 0.4" in the past 8 days, no issues yet but if we miss the current systems the garden may be stressed. On that subject, this coming week we snip the terminals on the tomatoes, to help ensure the growth gets focused on fruit rather than greenery. Even if we have to wait into October for 1st frost (like 2 of the past 3 years after just 1 in the previous 23), the cooler temps and shorter days tend to grow leaves more than food.

7 AM temp is 5 degrees less warm than yesterday at that time. Yesterday's low was the warmest of the summer here, punctuated by a 3-minute 0.08" shower arriving at 5:05 PM - teeny tiny pop-up.

That looks more like 2011. Jan 2012 here was AN and Feb way AN, then came the March furnace on 18-23. Only 2005-06 had fewer snow depth days, though 2015-16 was almost as low - 746 to 742. from Tip: By the way, the attribution studies are consummately informing that some powerful event or departure could not have taken place without the acceleration of the climate change... etc etc While all time records (like the PWM tide on JAN 10) remain somewhat few. near record events are happening far more frequently than just 20 years ago. One example is the nearby Sandy River - 1987 brought easily the greatest flood, but #2 and #5 have occurred in the past 15 months, about one 70th of the gage's POR (1929). July 2024 retrospection: Avg high: 77.5 +1.2 Warmest: 84, on 3 days Avg. low: 58.3 +3.5 Coolest: 45, on the 22nd Avg. mean: 67.9 +2.3 4th warmest of 27 Precip: 5.58" +1.52" Wettest day: 1.48" on the 10th. The 11th had 1.37" but most came from a separate event. 3rd straight AN month and 6th of the last 8. The month had 2 different characteristics. 1st thru 18th averaged 70.5°, which is 2.0° above our warmest July, 2010, and 5.1° above average. With the warmest part of the month still to come, I thought a new champion was all but ensured. Then 19th-31st had 64.3° which was -1.5, bringing the final average to 0.6° below 2010.

The issue with white pine is that it's often much taller than the surrounding trees and its wood is fairly weak. In summer, aspen is vulnerable, as its wood is no stronger than pine and often has decay, plus all the sail is at the top of the mast. In winter, fir is the target due to shallow roots and they commonly have interior rot at the base when mature. Spruce roots aren't much better, but the wood tends to be a bit stronger and usually more sound. Left the Farmington hospital in a 2:30 PM downpour after my 3rd and final gel injection to my left knee and got fairly wet on a slo-mo 50 yard "dash" to the pickup. Traffic was going about 30 for the next 4 miles before the rain began to let up and 2 miles later the road was dry. The rain caught up (in lesser abundance) about a half mile from the house. Maybe a tenth here, but the 10 minutes of Farmington rain probably dropped 1/3" just while I drove thru. Sizable flash flood warning to our SW.

It's happened in the past (CAR had 6.4" in less than 3 hours in August 1981) but it's far more common now. 13 months back, southern Franklin County here had 4-6" in 2 hours, probably just as catastrophic as St. Johnsbury for the smaller streams, but the larger ones had no issues like those in VT.

That's like Jay Maine 13 months ago. In Farmington we heard near-constant thunder but not much rain, while that nearby town got hit with 4-6" in 2 hours. Several main roads and many feeder roads were impassible for weeks, even months, and IIRC there's still one bridge not yet repaired, though folks there have another route of access. The VT floods are more widespread but otherwise the same catastrophe.

The Edouard that tracked due north for 2-3 days then made one of the sharpest ever right turns just before impacting the Northeast?