I had to dig a hole out in the woods today for one of the birds and under the decomposed leaf/wood litter it's still moist. The forest floor has an ability to withstand these occasional dry years. It's always lush and green out there...no fertilizer or water required.
Man made lawns are another story...
Yeah that’s not a bad thing. Let the valleys keep that -30° garbage. That’ll keep you safe from any possible summer frosts as well. Alex is always at risk at his location.
We haven’t had many mid September airmasses like this in the MOS record. When you get something anomalous you usually have to go a little more aggressive than the machine values. I think the rad pits radiated more than MOS expected. The wind numbers were in that 3-5 range for 6-9z, yet the pits went calm.
@Damage In Tolland
I went into the raw 1-min obs for BDL on that 99F day in July and they actually hit 100F in there. But with the 5-min running mean it only averaged out to 99F. Does anyone have the time the official 99F temp occurred? I assume it was 1919Z or 3:19pm EDT. The raw 100F was 1917Z.
14740KBDL BDL2020071914151915 NP 0000 0.00 29.680 29.682 29.683 98 60
14740KBDL BDL2020071914161916 NP 0000 0.00 29.681 29.683 29.684 99 59
14740KBDL BDL2020071914171917 NP 0000 0.00 29.680 29.683 29.683 100 60
14740KBDL BDL2020071914181918 NP 0000 0.00 29.679 29.681 29.682 98 59
14740KBDL BDL2020071914191919 NP 0000 0.00 29.677 29.680 29.681 98 59
I wonder if Stein contributed to this? There’s basically no sfc moisture in S NH right now. That sfc can just keep losing heat without dew quickly forming.
New record low for CON with 28° or 29°. The previous was 30° in multiple previous years.
Kept a bit of wind all night so only hit 35.9°...hard frost on the truck though.