Done raining. Just 6 minutes of rain.
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Front came thru, dropped the temps and over 2" rain. Still muggy humid.
Chicago set heat record. Hope that was the last of those for the summer.
Hot, sticky, wet. Better than 2 weeks ago when it was hot, sticky and dry. Assuming it rains here today; we missed it yesterday but had a downpour of a couple inches Monday. Afternoon rains are the difference between mid 90s and high 80s.
Dewpoints by Monday.
Even by Sat they should be back into the 50Fs here making it much more comfortable. Looking forward to cooler weather. Wish we had a couple of months of hi temps in the 50Fs/60Fs//but knowing this area itāll be 80F and then snow the next day.
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Feels like fall today. I had to throw a light long sleeved shirt on when I walked this a.m.
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100 degrees on my back porch thermometerā¦ still bone dry.
We need cooler temps and a good all night rain.
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Hasnāt moved thru here yet. Still hot and humid. I see Duluth is 64F with a strong brisk lake wind.
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was 63 and windy today. felt good with the sun out. 43 tonight. my melons wont like that.
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I was watching some youtubers that live near Tok, AK which sits south of Fairbanks near the AK/Canada border and theyāve had 2 hard frosts since late July. Probably not abnormal for that area, but some of their garden was zapped. I know they are putting up a large greenhouse which i would think is a must have up there if you want to grow warm season crops.
Rain falling apart as it approaches this area. Still warm/humid this morning. Waiting on dryer air. Could use rain locally.
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Dew points back in the mid to upper 60s this a.m. Supposed to be a big front push thru later today. Dew points in the 40s and low 50s for the forseeablw future after that. I think archery deer season starts in a couple weeksā¦
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lots of 60ās in the highs in the 7 day. 61 for a high on Labor Day.
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My older brothers all hunt a lot and one of them mentioned this year he has seen a lot of single fawns. Seems odd with how mild winter was. Also mentioned the other day that the red oaks hardly have any acorns. My white oaks in my yard are loaded yet the red oak has nothing, so maybe itās just an off year for the reds.
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The deer herd here is as large as I personally have seen. That said, its nothing like the deer herds in much of WI.
There are very few white oaks here, but plenty of burr, red, and pin oaks. It seems there are decent numbers of acorns on each, but certainly not a bumper crop. Iāve seen burr oaks drop acorns so thick that it is literally like walking on marbles.
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Heat index over 100 all week. Miserable even in the shade. And this rain chance Iāve been keeping an eye on this weekend keeps going down and downā¦
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its amazes me you guys have oaks yet there arenāt any here in our woods. got to go about 150 mi. south before you start to see them. a bunch of us have been planting some up on a ridge of 50 acre park used for hiking and snowshoeing. some are up to 20ft tall. maybe in the future these trees will help bring back our deer populations. the only mast tree that used to feed game. the beech, has been decimated by a fungus. its rare to see one survive to 20ft. now. 40 yrs ago there used to be whole ridges of huge beech. we used to lay down tarps and shake the limbs to collect the nuts in sept.
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There are oaks growing in southern Ontario, 5+ hours pretty much due north of me.
I have seen maybe a half dozen beech trees in my life, all of them in far eastern WI along/ near Lake MI.
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Here in southern TNā¦ my land has a lots of oak and hickory (several varieties of each)ā¦
White oaks, chestnut oaks, post oaks, red oaks, black oaksā¦ red hickory, pignut hickory, mockernut hickory, shag bark hickory.
Flowering / fruiting treesā¦ serviceberry, red buds, sourwood, dogwoods, persimmons, black cherry.
In lesser qtyā¦ beech, maple, pine, ash, elm.
TNHunter
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why you have a great population of deer. in this part of Maine they eat tips of young deciduous trees and bushes for 90% of their diet esp. through winter. as these logging companies cut all the hardwood and replant with softwood, that makes less for the deer to eat. this has been going on here commercially since 1980. hardwood stands are few and far in between nowadays. why i stopped hunting deer as i felt like i was hunting a endangered species.
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Iām guessing the pre-hunt deer per square mile here is right around 30-35.
Parts of WI are over 100
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n. Aroostook county here, last i heard about 4 yrs. ago, was 2 per acre. s. Maines has about the same numbers as you. no logging company lands down there.
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