Storm front passing through - June 11, 2006 4:38 pm

Tuesday, 9:40 am: Almost clear skies today – almost. It was dry enough yesterday I was able to cut our lawn. This year, spring has certainly been turned upside-down. Now I am wondering what summer has in store for us. It couldn’t be any more peculiar than it has been for the last several weeks.

When we first moved here in May 1998, many people we met here commented that the weather is odd or unusual that year, or some previous year, and we should have been here then, when there was no summer, a wet summer, a dry summer, or some other extreme weather uncharacteristic of the area. We were informed there were two seasons; winter and the Fourth of July. We added an additional season sandwiched in between those two seasons; the mud season.

I think now we are seasoned veterans of northern Maine weather. We’ve survived eight years of artic-like winters. Because we’re from Arizona, surviving the summer months is a piece of cake, although the mosquitoes and black flies can be pesky. I’ve become a poster boy for the chemical industry, because I slather on so much insect repellent when I work outside.

Current values form our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 67° (F.)

Barometer: 29.85 & rising slowly

Humidity: 70%

Wind: WNW at 3 mph

Visibility: > 3 miles
earlier -- morning fog

Skies: Scattered high clouds

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temp: 56.3° (F.) at 1:19 am

High wind: 7 mph at 6:31 am