Category: Local Observations

Posted on

Hot enuf for ya?

Concord broke an all-time record for this date by an enormous margin of 5°F:

Concord, NH high temperature for 6-Nov-2024 is 5 degree Fahrenheit over the previous record.

Posted on

Wicked Dry September

We have received around one-sixth of an inch of rain in the first 19 days of September and temperatures have been pretty consistently peaking in the 80s. My area in New Hampshire averages around 4 inches a month every month of the year and the climate depends on it. Three weeks without rain is far from a disaster, but it puts a strain on the fall season. Lawns go brown and dormant when they should be growing in a cool, wet season. Fall foliage is turning brown and falling a little earlier than usual.

U.S. Drought Monitor shows a band through NH has now reached the D0, Abnormally Dry, phase. Source: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/data/png/current/current_nh_trd.png
The CoCoRaHS data explorer Climatology page for my station, NH-MR-68, shows we’ve received only 7% of the normal rain we should expect at this point in the month. Source: https://dex.cocorahs.org/stations/NH-MR-68/climatology

Fortunately, the forecast predicts we won’t see another day in the 80s this month, and we should see some rain next week. Hopefully, the foliage will recover and give us a good year, and a little rain will get the lawns back in shape.