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Talk about towns and growth. I grew up in Pikesville in the 60's and 70's. Left Baltimore in 79. Reisterstown was a sleepy little town way out Reisterstown Road. Lots of corn fields past the Beltway. They were just starting to clear for the NW expressway. Now Owings Mills and Reisterstown are so built up.

PF, the bear picture you posted was crazy. I stole it and posted it on my fb page saying that a friend took it in Stowe. I have had a lot of comments. I don't think I have ever seen a picture of a New England black bear this big. Was it the biggest one you have ever seen?

Speaking of dews here is something interesting for my location. I just went back and looked at the graph of my dews for 2022. I have only hit 65F dews 6 times this calendar year. I have hit a 70F dew twice, for about an hour each time. Statistically I don't know if this is some type of record for my location but it has sure been a comfortable summer. The uncoming dews will feel like a steam bath. Our electric rates increase 32% on August 1rst so lets get the muggies out of the way so I will be able to keep the AC off by then.

We give up. We have been watering our lawns from our drilled well but can't keep up. An inch or two of rain early next week will bring everything back to life. The Emerald Ash Borer is really starting to hit hard here. Our neighbors across the road have a dozen Ash trees around the house. 4 are now bare and a couple more dying. I went over to a tree and pulled off a bit of bark and right there was a Borer. We have 2 nice Ash trees and so far they are fine. We called Tree Solutions here in Central NH. The owner came out. He was very informative. He said there is an insecticide that is safe for people and animals and has a very high success rate in saving trees. An application is good for 2 years. So we spent $600 to save our Ash. Our neighbors use there house as a getaway place. They live in Boston. I keep telling them about their Ash which will eventually fall on their house. They are not concerned. Now we have the Beech disease heading north and the Spongy Caterpillars too. In past we had the Elm disease and the Chestnut Blight. Seems like tree diversity is going down the tubes.

Okay, locked and ready! What could possibly go wrong? .21" from thunderstorm a couple of days ago. .02" today's total

Severe thunderstorm rolled through here a bit earlier. We have no power but wifi hotspot works great. Only .30" or so of rain but some strong winds. I'm sheltered from the W and NW but peak gust was 38mph. Power is out in the whole area. Lots of trees down.

SPC has expanded the slight risk area into C/NNE for tomorrow.

I'm not a space weather expert but looks like Aurora potential tonight. K index shows a storm is hitting right now

Speaking of deer my neighbor has one of those trail cams. He caught a video of a coyote carrying a small fawn in it's mouth. On the other hand it looks like a doe had 2 fawns in our field very recently. The little guys are running around with Mom. Yes, lots of bear. The good thing is with the thousands of sightings each day in NNE, bear attacks are very, very rare. 72/51 at noon with mostly sunny skies. Another day in paradise. I love this summer, just need more rain (Don't look but starting about now we will begin to rapidly loose daylight on both ends. It will become noticeable in the next week or two)

.57" in the bucket. Lawns and Gardens rejoice

I see one remaining snow patch in Tucks. I remember as a kid, so it had to be around 1970 that a patch of snow made it all the way through summer and lasted until snow season started up again. Either Don Kent mentioned it or I read it in the Boston Globe. Thinking more about this I believe they had a record setting yearly snowfall the winter before?

33 years of owning the house up here. This is much more like the normal NNE summers. The only difference is we usually have more brief intrusions of true heat and humidity followed by cold fronts to bring the weather back in line. We have had less of that this season so far. I will never miss the Baltimore summers of 95/72 but I do miss the crispy towering Cu's that build up into CuB's. The atmosphere is not as thick vertically as you get poleward so it is harder to get 35,000-40,000 towering tstorms which occur so often down there.

Living 600 feet on a hill above Newfound Lake was quite a sight. Most of the houses and cottages that line this 7 mile long lake are owned by Southern New Englanders. Everyone was up this weekend shooting them off over the lake. Although the town of Bristol puts on a great show backyard fireworks went on for 3 nights. Hours of explosions. We put on the AC and keep our 4 cats in a room. I'm sure Newfound Lake is littered with debris this morning. I wonder how pets do in Florida when there is thunder almost every day? Do they get use to it? https://video.nest.com/clip/53bdd3a09ea2434883bb1e02d9c7d537.mp4

What a fantastic day for the Northeast US. Low dews and clear skies and comfortable temps from Caribou Maine all the way down into Virginia. Wonder how many barbecues will be going tonight? Enjoy.

Sun breaking out now. 0.02" in the Stratus. Another fail. Stein flexes his muscles.. Happy 4th to all....

.02" with some sprinkles right now. Don't see much more. All the activity today will be well south of me. Stein continues to grow muscles. (Every model gave me between .20" and .65".

After a brief shower this morning the afternoon was beautiful. Really clear, crisp airmass. I would take this weather all year round. I don't even need 80/60.

Front just past here. Very quick drop in dewpoint. Refreshingly cool with bright sun. Looks like some lucky people in SE New England scoring some training cells.

I noticed it was down this morning when I looked at Radarscope. There is a disclaimer that said Offline. Then it said GYX 88D will be down until at least 10am Monday when a part arrives. That was posted on June 25th 345pm.

Well this front was another fail. 0.22" is not enough to do anything for the water table. I am lucky that I got a localized .55" shower last week.

I beat you. 0,22" and I think that is a wrap. Unless something develops in Vermont, I am done.

The early 80's were bad time for Boston Metro. I lived there and in places it was winter bare. Yesterday we took a 150 mile day trip up the Connecticut River to well north of the Whites and back down. No caterpillars. We came across a few fields of buttercups in full bloom. I had never a field so bright yellow. Right along the Connecticut River in Monroe looking west into Vermont

It's a zoo up there... I guess 60F with a 20mph breeze would feel good on a day like today

We are finally got a garden loving .55" shower last evening. Our lawn mowing crew was not impressed and scattered. Fairly strong and impressive but no lightning with the line. We have had no appreciable rain in a couple of weeks leading up to this. Time lapse below. I had to drive down to Concord today. Gypsy Caterpillars are wiping some places almost bare along Rt 93. I hate these things. So far we have not had them in our area. https://video.nest.com/clip/1774e325d9d94744a6fadb051647a00b.mp4