Maine weather thread (Aurora: relocating, mailbox, baseball)

[kellysmith]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

Fox news just showed a piece with a guy ice skating on the beach at Ogunquit. That's salt water ice.

A saturated salt solution feezes at 0 degrees F. Ocean water that's around 2 1/2 percent salt is nowhere near a saturated solution, so it would freeze at a temp above zero. Salt water hitting the beach would get cold enough to freeze for sure the past week or so.

[NortheasternBound]

Originally Posted by 399083453

Anti-plow mailbox. LINK

Love the visual! Thanks!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Northern NH is experiencing very heavy rain and it's headed our way. It is 47 degrees here at the moment and last week on Sunday it was 26 below. That is a 73 degree warm-up. Don't panic. This is not global warming. It is weather and it can happen at any time of the year. It has snowed on the 4th of July in Maine. It snowed at the Springfield Fair a couple of decades ago and the band from Nashville freaked out about it.

OK, Heads up folks. Got a working sump pump? The ground is frozen all this water will first be absorbed by this nice dry snow, but on cleared surfaces all this water will run off. People will have flooded cellars, garages and patios that are shoveled off. Water will run into your house under your sliding glass doors. If you seal the bottoms of your sliding glass doors you may be able to stop or reduce flooding.

January thaws are a good time to wash your car, but otherwise they are a nuisance.

[Maineac]

True. Global warming and climate change are merely fantasies created by the environmental industry to make the big bucks. Pollution and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doesn't exist. We can keep on polluting air and water forever and there won't be a problem. Wait . . . exactly whom is making those big bucks? Oh yeah, the college professors that teach kids the lies that make them want to help other people and live in a more just world. Certainly not the corporations like Exxon who want to be able to pollute unimpeded for profit. Just ask the sovereign citizens. It's so nice to have an atmospheric expert onboard that has no political axe to grind.

[maineguy8888]

I can remember January thaws happening in Maine almost every year, for the last 50 years.

[Cambium]

To find the freezing level above northern Maine tonight you have to go above 10,000 feet!

Enjoy the thaw guys. I been watching this front and its tanking temps 20-30 degrees in matter of hours. Snowing in northern Alabama and Tennessee right now

https://twitter.com/NWSCaribou/statu...69780302524416

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Carbon dioxide is plant food. All plants depend on carbon dioxide. More carbon dioxide means better plants that grow faster. The tomato factory in Madison adds CO2 to the chambers to grow better tomatoes faster.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

I just went out to look at a land parcel coming up for sale. There are many large puddles on town roads and state roads that cannot drain through the snowbanks. Temp is 19 degrees. These puddles are freezing over. If you hit a large puddle at your normal driving speed you could spin out of control and maybe roll your vehicle. It will be a good night to stay in.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

The Androscoggin at Rumford is nearly double its all time high for this date. Many other rivers are high, but their gauges are frozen, so no readings.

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/me/nwis/uv?site_no=01054500

[Northern Maine Land Man]

There were hundreds of washouts on Maine roads yesterday and last night. Hundreds of people posted amazing videos and photos on their sites. One little brook in Lincoln needed over 40 truckloads of gravel to bridge the washout and make the road passable.

I think the drought is over.