We’re just going in circles. Your area has been pretty wet the last couple months. July was bone dry in this region. I did get lucky with a 3” event to start August, but it was a narrow stripe and most of it ran down the hill into the river valley.
We just need one of those 2 week stretches where we rack up 3-5 days with at least a half inch.
SLK is another site that didn’t have official early 90s obs pre-96 (ASOS era) so like MHT, I’m not sure what they’re doing statistically to derive the normals.
edit…looks like SLK ASOS went online summer of 1998.
Kidding aside, there’s a shallow CAD look here at times next week so we’re probably primed for some synoptic shat on the temp gradient. ‘Tis the season.
I will say, even with not much of a change in airmasses you can just feel the weight of the changing season each day…that sun taking longer to climb the horizon, not feeling as intense midday, getting dark earlier, foggy mornings, etc.
Looks like the government deregulated the transgenic american chestnut. I initially supported the original Darling 58 trees, but the whole thing became a fiasco with a mix up. These are Darling 54 trees now and they don’t have the vigor the D58 or regular trees had.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program-update/usda-deregulates-american-chestnut-engineered-enhanced-blight-tolerance