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At least it is not like years gone by when American Chestnut trees dropped their fruit.

A benefit of Global Warming or do I have to be politically correct and say climate change. First winter of me not hitting 0F. Our peach tree is loaded with delicious fruit. So much!

The 18Z setup for 378 hours out looks scary. Trough to the west and high pressure to the east. Major hurricane heading o NNW at this point. Looks like it wants to zip up the coast. Is this a lock?

Ha, all the tourists lined up at the summit of MWN to get their picture at the stake with a light windbreaker on. 37F Wind 42 gusting 54mph

I can't see the earlier forecasts coming to fruition. There will be nothing this week and then we are already into September. How can it bust so bad? I understand if it was just an average season, being off somewhat.

Socked in up here. Smoke layer must be delaying the burnoff. Only 62F at 11am. Models have a high 75-80F. Even last hours HRRR has a high for Plymouth NH of 78F. I don't see that happening.

I live by the lake. Shuusshhh. Don't advertise this lake. It's too good to share.

Reading through the posts. We have had no yellow jackets or honey bees just bumble bees in our garden. Very weird. Also no Japanese beetles the last 2 years. They used to be everywhere. I don't know if it's too early but no monarch butterflies either. I think by now we used to have tons of them. We even planted lots of milkweed but still no butterflies. Something is going on.

It's very smoky up here. At least for the past 2 years it seems there are more big fires in Canada than previously. N and NW flows use to bring deep blue skies in NNE more often. On a totally separate note about hurricanes and PREs. Aren't PRE's in advance of the direction the hurricane is moving or can they be on the left side of the track too? For instance, Ernie will move NNE off the coast but could SNE still get a PRE as it sideswipes us?

Here we go. Days and days and days of watching. Then Ernie will make the big loop around the Bermuda high and look like he's coming but out then just giving us a night or two of great sunsets.

Main line is through. We do not have any power. About 1.25 in the stratus in the past hour. That brings me to 1.75 ish so far today

72/71 Moderate rain. Winds sustained mostly near 20mph but gusting to 35. I tried to make a video but missed the big gusts. Definitely stormy eve. You can hear the roar through the glass and Tessie our cat was not impressed.

Perfect day up here. 72/57 few Cu. A couple of days ago I made a time-lapse of a thunderstorm that hit our area. The storm came in very quickly and it was fun to see the shelf cloud just overhead.

Congrats to me. First real thunderstorm of the season. Lots of lightning no wind .70" and still going 66/63 feels nice and cool

Steined in Dendriteland. Our 8-foot pond is now bone dry. It is man-made so has happened a few times at the end of the summer but not this early. I was able to mow the whole bowl this weekend. Grass is getting crisp.

Yesterday, Brian posted something to the effect that he was glad it's not the 1960s or 70s in regard to having an interest in weather. I agree! I was born in 1956 and grew up in these decades. Other than Don Kent or waiting for the National Weather Service phone update, there was not much weather info in the 1960s. I know Don Kent relied on Ham radio. He also knew New England weather. One of his rules was if it is over 25F on MWN and a storm was coming up the coast then Boston would have mostly rain. It seemed like there were many more Miller A's back then?? Things started to change slightly in the 1970s with crude satellite pictures on TV. My folks were divorced, so I spent much of this period between Metro Boston and Metro Baltimore. In the very early 70s I was very friendly with Bob Turk who was on WJZ TV in Baltimore. Since I lived NW of the city before he went on air he would sometimes call me and ask me to scan the skies. I would stand on my hilltop and scan the horizon for thunderstorms. I would also scan my AM radio to hear lightning static. I called that SPM (statics per minute) and I could tell by volume or frequency if storms were approaching. Of course, no one knew exactly where they were until they hit. Dialing a number more than 25 miles away was usually long distance and expensive for small talk. In the mid 70s I was in collage at the University of Maryland. I hated high math and physics, so ended with a degree in Physical Geography. I took some Met. Courses and intern shipped 6 months at the NWS at BWI. I remember in 1978 getting the first crude radar scans on facsimile type machines. Lots of hanging charts. Was it the LFM model? Part of my internship was making the hourly broadcast on NOAA weather radio which was the newest big way to get info. We called it the Balt/Washington now cast. I was down there for the Blizzard of 78. I remember days ahead, they knew it was going to be a strong storm. Fast-forward to moving back to Boston full-time after school. By 1979 TV forecasts like Bruce and Barry, Harvey were stating to show crude radar. That helped in the short term as you could see where the precip was. So really up until the internet the only information I can remember getting was TV, radio or the newspapers. Big change in the Mid 90s with the internet. Very slow bandwidth and downloading graphics tied up your phone line forever if you wanted to view a graphic, but it changed everything. Todd Gross was the first Boston Met to use the internet. He started the Boston weather net. Local enthusiasts could post obs, but not many people had computers. Computer Cafe were becoming popular. Pay by the minute to get on the net. I went to Harvard Square to see what it was all about. I was blown away! A couple dozen weather sites on Web crawler and Netscape, some of the first search engines. I was hooked! The next day I went out and spent a ton of money on my first PC. Nowadays, anyone with a deep passion for Meteorology can learn so much. Definitely the info age.

75/59F few Cu but smoke layer above is keeping the sky a bit murky looking

Fantastic afternoon. 76/59 nice dry breeze and some Cu and Cirrus. For what it's worth the 12Z Euro has quite a lot of rain for me next week. Over 4". It's like looking at the clown maps in winter. I see people are talking about living in the 60s and 70s and weather stuff. I was born in 1956 and I was interested in weather as a kid. I'll have to post what it was like pre internet, satellite and radar.

Scored another .30" last night. This brings the event total to 1.5".

Finally rain. Over the last 30 days my total rainfall had been .95". We received .80" today. Congrats to earth. Sunday was the warmest day in recorded history. Speaking of that, I just finished a great book called "A tree grows in Brooklyn". It was written in 1943 about the life in Brooklyn around 1910. There were numerous mentions of sleds being used in winter to get around. The book also talks about how the stars lit up the night sky over NYC. I just found that all interesting. What will the climate be like in New England in another 100 years?

77/60F feels so cool!

Another miss today. .12" it brings me to a little over .50" for the month. Long wait for the next chance unless we get a few more light showers tonight. For everyone else, enjoy your rain and storms

....and just like that, the line starts splitting and I'm going through the weakest part. Let's see how much rain falls!

Ha, thanks Scott. Good catch. I changed it. It should have said this month!

Going to be interesting. Only .37" so far this month here. We have not had one bona fide thunderstorm this season. Looking forward to a good storm.