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A lot of our top heat days start in the 60s. Like we’ve been saying, the lower the dews the higher the heating potential. I don’t worry a lot about the launching pad stuff. As long as we have sun the atmosphere will warm to its potential. We had quite a few midmorning clouds up here in July 95, but once we cleared we still shot up to 100+.

Dews right off the deck aren’t that high. When we lose the mixing, the southerly flow and evapotranspiration start to overwhelm the boundary layer. A puff of wind mixes the lower dews right back down. Monday you guys get some deeper layer humidity. Lots of low 60s in NH this morning. 62.5° here.

Nice. Looks like you could almost have turned the AC off and opened the windows there. What was your high there? Based on the time you posted that you were a little cooler than the Stafford station at 900ft. Their high was only 87F, but they report hourly. ORH peaked at 87F too. So I assume you were in that ballpark.

FWIW...top 18z MAV highs for New England ASH 99 CON 98 MHT 98 FIT 98 LWM 98 OWD 98 BAF 98 BOS 97 CEF 97 BED 97 SFM 97 BDL 97

Oops

Maybe some need a break?

I think my 8 y/o nephew understands all of this more.

Glad we don't live there I guess.

Maybe Monday ends up being the worst heat indices? Looks like the front lags a bit on the euro.

I assume 900ft in Stafford is more representative of your location? Up to 86.4F there. https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=A3484&time=GMT

#struggling

I have a bunch of pawpaw seedlings started as well. They can handle zone 5 temps and are native to S MI and W NY...we'll see how they do in C NH this winter. They produce the largest fruit from any tree native to the US. They tend to grow as an understory in river and stream bottoms and can handle the occasional wet feet flooding. It's about as close to a tropical fruit tree as we get near this latitude of North America. I can't wait to get fruit from mine. omnomnom

Oops...was thinking black gum as the native. The trees at Lowes were definitely sweetgum though. As for the bald cypress, apparently there's a healthy one all the way up in Jefferson, NH. https://extension.unh.edu/fwt/bigtrees/admin/reports/report_docs/bigtree_rep_champ.cfm A vertical height of 21ft isn't exactly "big" though. If anyone wants some northern catalpa come on over and get some. They need to be transplanted from one of my big fabric pots. It's cost Legro a NWS weighing gauge though.

July thread.

The first blip was around 15z, but it recovered temporarily.

The CON sensor has been failing today. Can't truss it.

Our Lowes actually had some american sweetgum trees this spring. They're native to our area. I'm trying some dawn redwoods in pots from seed...they're another zone 5 tweener that can handle some wetter periods. Everything I've seen on bald cypress is zone 4 or higher, but I'll defer to tamarack on that for real world verification. I like the red maple idea. You could just get some basic native red maple from arbor day... https://shop.arborday.org/shade-trees ...or just check the 1/2 off sales at the box stores in the coming weeks. Or find one you like this fall somewhere and try to dig it up and transplant it when it goes dormant. I've had trouble transplanting trees into wet areas in the cold season though. You'd need to support it well.

Can’t use BDL temps and Lesco dews...sry.

Do you have the fan on your vp2? I forget. What’s the manufacturing code on your davis? I asked you the other day. If it’s new enough you should consider upgrading to a newer sensor. $45 on scaled instruments iirc.

Highest dews of our lives.

BDL 86/61 at the top of the hour.

Are you okay? I’m concerned about you lately.

Most of the newer stations with fans seem to run cooler than ASOS now. They receive proper aspiration and they’re in rural countrysides with more ET. Some of the airport ASOS sites look like barren wastelands in the summer now and we know how well most of them mix out.

84/63 at BDL right now. lol