Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

June 19 66 60 .46

June 20 68 59 .03

June 21 73 60 Trace

June 22 64 57 .02

June 23 60 57 .19

June 24 63 57 .11

June 25 67 60 .01

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 67º F.

By MARK ALAN LOVEWELL

Fishing boats are back out in Vineyard Sound, after what has been a long stretch of really bad weather, not just on the land, on the water.

The Menemsha fleet returned to fishing for fluke on Wednesday, after being kept shoreside since last weekend because of the wind.

“I haven’t fished for three days,” said Capt. Craig Coutinho of the Menemsha dragger Viking on Tuesday night. “The fluke fishing was going pretty good, before we got this.”

Friday, June 19: Overcast, gray day. High humidity. Downtown Water street Vineyard Haven is bustling with pedestrian traffic in the afternoon. Clouds lighten. Brief sunshine. Clouds thicken late.

It is absolutely not true that I am not a dog lover. 

My favorite dogs in the woods, though, are the dogwoods, those flowering beauties whose bark is worse than their bite. And, contrary to canines, you can teach an old dogwood a new trick: that of fantastic flowering each year, and pollen dispersion far and wide.

The Vineyard weather has been the pits, so I hear. I flew to Florida to join Flip to bring our boat back to the Vineyard. While you have been under gray skies and drizzle, we have been running in hot and humid weather. The temperatures inside the boat have hovered around 93 degrees. The water temperatures have been 82 degrees in the Intracoastal Waterway and 76 degrees offshore. The nights have been cooler bringing the boat’s interior temperature down in the 80’s.

By LYNNE IRONS