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Yakutsk is an arctic rad pit anyway. They just sit in the dark and rot in their own wood stove smoke all day.

52° The sun is trying.

49° 1/4SM

This dense fog may affect high temps a bit…at least up here.

What a snoozer of a CONUS watch/warning map.

I always found it interesting that tulip poplars are native in S VT and MA, but not NH. It’s like they were just never able to make it over the higher terrain.

Nevermind…I see that the CLI report is using only the airport extremes and not the threaded history.

Yup. Strange. @OceanStWx ?

49.7° Just dipping under 50° for the first time of the night. Just another late summer night with clear skies in late October.

Today’s highs

Awesome Gene. Just an amateur iphone photo here.

In order for BDL to break today’s record low by 4F the low would have to be 15F.

Yeah they’re not technically native for us, but our forests are pretty similar to PA/MI and they behave nicely there. I have a pawpaw variety that I’m growing from someone in Mass that he says is “wild” to him. So there’s wild populations slowly spreading in SNE. Supposedly this one tastes like pineapple so that will be pretty cool.

They’re not native to New England. Long Island and far SW CT is debatable, but i don’t think they are there either. The generally accepted northern range is pretty much what that map depicts…spotty native areas near water in IA/WI near the MS River and then hugging the southern Great Lakes into S MI, S ON, and far W NY. There’s people successfully growing them in MN, VT, NH, and QB now. They’re pretty cold hardy…well down into the -20s. What limits their range is the length of growing season not being conducive for propagation.

Leaves are great here. Like Gene said the oaks rapidly caught up to the maples over the past few days and the non valleys look amazing right now. There was definitely some stronger leaf drop in the areas that I know are rad pits.

The 86° at BDL is their warmest temp on record for so late in the season.

BDL 86R (prev 82) BOS 83R (prev 82) MHT 82R (prev 77) PVD 81R (tied) CON 80 (record 81) ORH 79 (record 80) PWM 78R (prev 75) AUG 75R (tied)

We summah

You did your GREs?

-21 in am to 38 pm.

FIT and ORH 61 while ORE is 39.

43.3° but the hill tops are in the mid 50s.

Going to Aroostook to find snow now. Going to VT in the future to find water.

I’m rooting for an asteroid.

Use your phone with a 3s exposure or so to pinpoint it. It's hard to see with the naked eye...it's like a faint star. The pic was obviously with a longer exposure.