dendrite

Let’s break some records.

41° at MVY this morning

Models did the same thing in 1954

You need some new friends

79.3/63 The visibility is improved but there still seems to be some residual haze in the air and aloft.

Just went out to refill the hummingbird feeder and the grape jelly and had a couple of yellow jackets and a bald faced hornet eating out of the jars. I waited until they were done and refilled. No injuries to humans or wasps to report.

The sun has lacked bite over the past week from the smoke. It almost feels like a week long partial solar eclipse.

It’s been a bit of a dirty ridge south of here with some E flow right down into the Mid Atlantic. The smoke has helped keep a lid on max temps as well. CON is -2.5F through 8/7. With the normals I grew up with it would’ve been -0.2F in the 1990s.

GWDLT

Mid level temps are more anomalous up here too. So sure, why not?

I saw BTV was #2 and IZG is #2 (back to 1996). Not a lot of mid level temp gradients or damming up here this summer.

Good shot for CON airport to finish #1 this summer.

That’s not what I said. You said it likely drops position from 13th. It would have to be cold enough to lower the summer average from 73.2 to 72.9. I find that unlikely.

You think it drops? Those 90/70 days will add up. I guess we’ll see how the final 10 days shape out, but it’ll take quite a cool down to balance out the next couple weeks.

It’s up there though. 2024 ran too warm at BDL. That 75.5 probably should’ve been 73-73.5.

Gettin warm up here

Just had time to watch this. I don’t think any are truly resistant. Some just find a way to avoid the spores for a long time. There was an original tree in Farmington, NH that they were hand pollinating with that I believe started succumbing in recent years. There’s another one in Maine that they found when flying over the forests as well. The further north you get the more it seems the blight is less intense. There’s planted trees from the 1800s in Wisocnsin that are finally beginning to get hit by the westward spreading blight as well. There’s high elevation trees in the Appalachians that are mature and producing viable nuts so it has struggled going “upward”. SUNY ESF is going to be distributing their Darling 54 gene edited tree soon. I’ve soured on that project in recent years. I liked what the woman was doing in the video with growing out saplings and injecting them with a dose of blight to test their resistance in a controlled environment.

That’s the best way to do it…upward. Powdery mildew is a biatch.

I will take more yore air masses if we can shut off that damn Labrador current.

I thought marky moregarbage had all pools in PA closed?

Thankfully we don’t get many in the summer anymore.

The great cold front of Mid August 2025 looks impressive.

All pools in Philly metro are closed now. Hate to see it.

I moved a piece of wood near my potted grafted apple and pear trees this evening and found 2 asian jumping worms under it. I'm pretty sure they came over in some Coast of Maine soil. Bummer

Very strong smell of smoke this evening. 70.1/65