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2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Only 20% of all of New England was forested in 1911. Staggering if you think about it. No doubt being farmland had an effect. Anyone who lives in heavily forest areas knows the benefit of natural cooling. 

VT may have been close to that but Maine never got below about 65% forest and NH was somewhere in between.  North of a Rangeley-Greenville-Danforth line Maine retained almost all forest except for the Aroostook potato lands.  I don't know how little forest there was in Bridgton/Fryeburg in 1911, but westerly winds passed over the Whites to get to those towns (downsloping!) and though the operable lands in the mountains had been whacked and hacked by 1911 it was still basically forest, albeit young forest.

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4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Nary a drop here, some places down there got hammered with a Tstorm this AM. Lots of lightning 

Woke me up at 4:40am.  Tons of lightning, thunder and tropical downpours.  Then I remembered I had left my car windows open a bit......sigh..... :poster_oops:

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32 minutes ago, dendrite said:

They were arguing over whether the meniscus was at 109F or 110F. A few thought it was chamber weather because of the low mins, but most agreed it was a torch and that they would install air conditioners if such a thing existed.

One living in ORH was saying Meh.

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5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Looks like warmest 925/850 temps go right through SE MA so once you start cranking good sun you should jump quick. Could certainly see you getting into mid 90’s? What was your high yesterday?

93F, briefly for about 5-10min around 1:30pm.  Was 91F for most of peak though

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1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

It is crazy to think about how with no internet, TV, and other means of communication.... you had to "see to believe".  People starting a rumor about 112 degrees and then folks just starting a migration to see if it's true.

Such a different world.  Like when entire towns would gather around a housefire because well, it was going to be the most interesting thing you'd see if a long time and if you were curious what a housefire looked like, that was how you saw it.  No google image search, lol.

I dunno about that...ever been stuck in a gapers delay when people in your 3Nbo lanes are backed up 5 miles to rubber neck an accident in the slowest Sbo lane.   Longer delay if the accident is in the median.

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