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The final kick in the nads on the day.

Max 88.5°. Another big fail on the rain while everyone around me gets a drink.

63.5° this morning. Perfect temp for window fan usage.

Looks like another one near you now.

I have a lot of sapsucker damage on my larger fruit trees and willow. The willow has some yellowing leaves and the crabapple is suffering crown dieback. Any tips on how to deter them with responsible methods? Does the cd hanging from a branch trick really work? I’ve never noticed them on the suet (just the cother common peckers), but should I take the suet down? I know Gene has some kind of product on one of his trees that seals the wounds of the tree. It didn’t appear to be sticky either like the products I see listed on Amazon. I really don’t want to put something on the trees that will stick to their feet. There’s so much of the trees affected that wrapping them in hardware cloth or burlap isnkt feasible either. Any recommendations?

I would think never fertilize a stressed plant...even grass. But you probably know more than me wrt lawns.

Have been taunted to the east, north, west, and now south today. Frustrating.

Ditto Winnisquam

Big hail in that storm west of plymouth...almost 70dbz.

Lighting up north of Plymouth now. Should be a lot of terrain enhanced convection today.

Still 72.5 here while it’s 85 in Plymouth and 88 at MHT.

Looks like it’s collapsing now. Still a lot of pulse action to my east so hopefully that subtle boundary migrates westward. At least the clouds are keeping it cooler. 72/68

Loud thunder to my NE now. Some of those spots are going to get a lot of rain. We jelly.

Ugh...lol. 0.73” in the last 36 days now. Congrats to my NE.

Unfortunately it started collapsing as it reached here and blew back up to my NE. We had a brief downpour and now it’s spitting again. Maybe it can refire to my SE. There must be some boundary in the area because there’s a lot of cell generation from here over toward Pittsfield and nada across the rest of the state.

It’s happening.

So close yet so far.

Looks like the smoke was from burning at the dump and it’s trapped along the hill and valley. Nice rain shower just to our east moving west...hope it makes it this way before completely collapsing. 74/64

65.7° up here in Torchville. Even looks like a brownish sky on cam. Maybe it’s someone locally burning.

It smells like smoke in here. Anyone have an updated GOES smoke/aerosol product?

IIRC the ASOS reports in degF. However it's all distributed in the hourly METARs, special obs, and 5-min obs in degC. The problem is there is a different between the coded obs sent out in the hourly METARs and the ones for the 5min obs. The hourly METARs have a "T" grouping in the remarks that reports the temperature in tenths of a degC so that the precise conversion to whole degF can be made. Hence, 35.6C (96F) and 36.1C (97F). Basically take any reasonable whole number temp in degF and convert it to degC and round it to the nearest tenth to see what the opssible values are in the remarks section. For example... 93F = 33.9C 94F = 34.4C 95F = 35.0C 96F = 35.6C 97F = 36.1C You won't see 34.1C or 35.1C or 35.7C, etc in the remarks because it doesn't convert to a whole number in degF. As for the 5min obs, all they report is the body of the coded observation and no remarks. So all you're left with is the rounded value. So you could see the :50 5-min ob be 36C (96.8F), the hourly :52 METAR 35.6C (96F), and then the :55 5-min 36C (96.8F), but in actuality they may just all be 96F. That's basically what happened with CAR today. So take 5 1-min raw observations... :01 93F :02 95F :03 94F :04 94F :05 93F The official ob for :05 would be 94F since it's a 5-min running mean. If it was an hourly METAR it would get reported in the remarks as 34.4C which convert to the nice, easy rounded value of 94F. If it was a 5-min ob, only the body gets reported so the temperature gets disseminated as 34C. Websites convert that to degF which would be 93.2F even though the real actual temperature is 94F. What we need is for the NWS/NOAA to just give us the T remarks in all observations to avoid this issue. It's not 1996 anymore...we don't need to worry about bandwidth and writing AFDs in abbreviations anymore.

Similar here. 73/63 now after a high of 87.4°

Only 96° at CAR today. Buzzkill.

Rounding. A 36C ob can either be 96F (35.6C) or 97F (36.1C). But when you convert it directly from 36C you get 96.8F...which isn’t really the precise temperature. And yes, ASOS uses a running 5 minute mean. Multiple obs are averaged for a raw 1 minute value and then those minute values are part of the running 5 min mean. However only measurements in whole degrees F are reported. So there really is no 96.8F observation. It’s just a rounding limitation.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/raws_ca_monitor.cgi?state=ME&rawsflag=3&timeobs=3&orderby=e&type=0&refrsh=4&stnorder=0