DATE...HI/LOW...DEPARTURE...PRECIP...(COMMENTS)
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2012 PRECIPITATION--
JAN: 1.95"...Average: 2.89"...SNOW: 9.9"...Average: 19.2"
FEB: 1.55"...Average: 2.52"...SNOW: 7.0"...Average: 14.7"
MAR: 1.40"...Average: 3.38"...SNOW: 7.6"...Average: 11.7"
APR: 3.99"...Average: 3.62"...SNOW: 0.0"...Average: 4.5"
MAY: 5.12"...Average: 3.64"
JUN: 7.06"...Average: 3.76"
JUL: 0.59"...Average: 3.46"
AUG: 2.60"...Average: 2.98"
SEP: 6.33"...Average: 3.83"
YTD thru 8-31: 24.26"...Average: 26.25"
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2012 TEMP DEPARTURE FROM AVERAGE MEAN--
JAN: 6.12 Degrees above average(+190)
FEB: 5.17 Degrees above average(+150)
MAR: 7.67 Degrees above average(+238)
APR: 3.43 Degrees above average(+103)
MAY: 3.32 Degrees above average(+103)
JUN: 0.60 Degrees below average(-18)
JUL: 1.86 Degrees above average(+58)
AUG: 2.61 Degrees above average(+88)
YTD thru 8-31: 3.74 Degrees above average(244 days,+912)
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2012 RECORDS--
RECORD HIGH TEMPS--
March 8: 59
March 9: 54
March 12: 62
March 18: 76
March 19: 68
March 20: 78
March 21: 83
March 22: 84
April 15: 74 (Tie)
April 17: 83
RECORD LOW TEMPS--
RECORD RAIN--
April 23: 2.32"
May 10: 1.34"
June 3: 2.38"
June 26: 1.67"
September 5: 2.63"
RECORD SNOW--Maybe sometime in the Fall
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The 12 Seasons of Maine--
Dead of Winter--High temp below 30(Average from 12-29 thru 2-09
19 Days between January 4-March 1
Late Winter--High temp 30-39(Average from 2-10 thru 3-14)
38 Days between January 3-March 29
Early Spring--High temp 40-49(Average from 3-15 thru 4-08)
30 Days between January 1-May 2
Mid Spring--High temp 50-59(Average from 4-09 thru 5-01)
28 Days between March 8-June 4
Late Spring--High temp 60-69(Average from 5-02 thru 5-27)
27 Days between March 12-June 27
Early Summer--High temp 70-79(Average from 5-28 thru 7-10)
31 Days between March 18-July 9
Mid Summer--High temp 80+(Average from 7-11 thru 8-09)
53 Days between March 21-September ??
Late Summer--High temp 70-79(Average from 8-10 thru 9-14)
30 Days between July 17-October ??
Early Fall--High temp 60-69(Average from 9-15 thru 10-11)
11 Days between August 16-November ??
Mid Fall--High temp 50-59(Average from 10-12 thru 11-04)
Late Fall--High temp 40-49(Average from 11-05 thru 11-28)
Early Winter--High temp 30-39(Average from 11-29 thru 12-28)
WINTER--(High temp below 40): 57 Days between January 3-March 29;November ??-December ??
SPRING--(High temp 40-69): 85 Days between January 1-June 27
SUMMER--(High temp 70+): 114 Days between March 18-October ??
FALL--(High temp 40-69): 11 Days between August 16-December ??
HIGH TEMPS--
90's: 3
80's: 50
70's: 61
60's: 38
50's: 28
40's: 30
30's: 38
20's: 15
10's: 3
01's: 1
LOW TEMPS--
60's: 38
50's: 66
40's: 41
30's: 44
20's: 37
10's: 25
One's: 12
Below zero 01-10: 3
Below zero 11-20: 1
Early in the morning on September 13, visibility about 200 feet...
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A nice day to mow my lawn and pick up any loose brush and branches for burning in my outside woodstove tonight. All lawn furniture put away, except for 2 chairs that I will put away Saturday. I will enjoy a day off Saturday, the calm before the storm...
Have a Great and SAFE weekend all!!!
Was thinking about you and Irene this morning. Enjoy your day outside I know how much you would rather be there then stuck inside. Will be watching from afar.
Be safe my friend.
Rays
Looking to read your full report, when you get back online.
Hi, Rays!
Irene was a non-event up here. I got a steady light rain when I woke up at 7AM. A few heavy bands on the outer edge with distant thunder between 9AM-2PM. Got a few breaks in the rain this afternoon with nothing but T.S. winds 30 to 50MPH. Hopefully good photos that I will post tomorrow. I went out walking on the golf course LOL. The sun broke through at 4PM! I'm getting the back side of the rains now at 7:30PM. I plan to go downtown and see if I can get photos of the 11PM High Tide possible flooding...all is well...UPDATE: No flooding downtown at high tide
Thanks for stopping by :-)
I heard the same thing from a friend in CT - a little more wind than you, and plenty of water, but nothing that's going to need more than some gentle chain-sawing and branch-gathering. Good to hear. I'll look forward to the pics!
It was 81 here yesterday and it's almost 10am and it's already 70! Soooo...where's that Fall weather??? lol
My current wordpress post is titled "A Gunkholer at Heart". Turns out a whole lot of folks never have heard the term, including a photographer from Austin who's also a bit of a word nerd.
He went snooping, and came up with this in my comments section:
Like your first commenter, I was intrigued by the word gunkhole, which is new to me, so I did some delving. According to J.E. Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang, gunkhole is attested as far back as 1908; the book was George S. Wasson's Home from Sea, and the citation is: "Only a two-cent little dead-and-alive gunk-hole of a place". Most dictionaries that I've looked at claim that gunk is a common-noun-ization of the capitalized trademark Gunk, but according to Lighter the first product in that line of liquid soaps and degreasing solvents wasn't patented until 1932, so there's a chronology problem.
Of course words can float around in spoken form for a long time before appearing in print. The 1914 book The Rudder notes that "Among the old timers in Maine a gunk, or a gunk-hole, may mean up a tidal creek.The fact that the usage was attributed to old-timers implies that the term was probably in use well before 1908.
I first learned the word as a kid, c.1952-3, from an old guy at a Minnesota lake. I have no idea if he was native to Minnesota.
In any event, I thought you might have something to add. Do you know the word? Hear people use it? Do you remember hearing it as a kid? I'm just curious as can be. I'm really convinced it's an old word that's just escaped the dictionaries!
Did winter come a little too soon for you too???
I may be busy tomorrow and tomorrow night so wanted to get by a few WU friends tonight while I can.
Happy Halloween!!!'
Happy Halloween my WU Friends!!!
Enjoy your evening!!!
Thanks for the note re: gunkholing. The word's turned into a bit of a mystery, but someone else is going to have to figure it out. Maybe I'll run across more info in the future....
That is really early to have a setting sun.. and I am sure it gets even earlier and the nights even longer until end of Dec...
Just saw your blog and decided to pop in and say Hello!
have a good weekend.
-Dan
Coffee tips
63 F
Overcast
Humidity: 90%
Dew Point: 60 F
Wind: 13 mph from the NNW
Wind Gust: 29.0 mph
Pressure: 29.61 in
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 0 out of 16
Pollen: .10 out of 12
Pollen Forecast new!
Clouds:
Overcast 1100 ft
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 49 ft
Current time: 6:30am, Wednesday morning, Nov. 30, '11
News report said were the warmest place in the country (other than Hawaii)! WEEEEE!!! Warm & no snow here. Enjoy!
Happy Holidays BANGOR...Thanks for all you do during the year.
From our Home to Yours
Merry Christmas and a Healthy & Happy New Year 2012!
"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled, till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more."
- Dr. Seuss
Best wishes for the coming year!
Happy St Patti's Day!
St Patricks Day Graphics
Our azaleas peaked last weekend. Prime azalea season is usually in mid April.
We've been hitting low to mid 80's for the past couple of weeks. Lows at night are around 60.
The Green Blizzard is in full swing and I'm in
full blown allergy mode right now. I feel like rot, too.
Oh, the joys of spring, early or not.
Hope your area gets some rain soon. The NE has really had a mild winter and early spring..
that had to be a nice change!
Have a Blessed and Happy Easter Weekend!
Easter Christian Graphics
It seems no one or nothing uses their turn signals these days!
How's things going up your way?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
~Author Unknown
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
~ Ellen Goodman
Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, Walker!
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