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We had 43" depth on Feb 29, 2008 with 10-14" forecast ("Manitoba Mauler") for March 1; I figured 50+ was in the bag. Got only 6" which pushed the pack to 48", tops for that season, and there was still 35" on 3/31. Somewhere (not in the spreadsheet) I have a core measurement from March 2008, probably 13-14" as we totaled 142.3" and most of the snow had meat. DJFM precip totaled 22" and we had no extended thaws, just the one-day torch on Jan 8. Took a core earlier this afternoon, 20" pack held 3.86". We probably had about 2" SWE in year end's 8" pack and we've had 2.59" since then (includes 0.54" from 2 modest Jan RA). Factor in some sublimation and almost 4" seems appropriate.

Here's the coldest for each month, May 1998 on, contrasted with Fort Kent, Jan1, 1976 thru Oct 25, 1985. Month New Sharon Fort Kent Month New Sharon Fort Kent JAN -36 -47 JUL 37 32 FEB -29 -32 AUG 35 28 MAR -25 -32 SEP 23 20 APR 5 -7 OCT 11 7 MAY 21 20 NOV -4 -12 JUN 27 28 DEC -31 -42

March 2018 temps 1-15 were 5.1° AN and 36.4" snow fell. Rest of the month was 4.0° BN (and 3° colder than 1-15) but had only 0.7" snow. 1917-18 included NYC's coldest week. Dec 29-Jan 4 temp avg was 9.3/-44 - that's 32.7 BN. 12/30 had 2/-13, 41 BN. (Dec 1917 and Jan 1918 are NYC's coldest for each month since records began in 1869.)

Our coldest March here. We had -17 on 3/25/14, though the Month's coldest was -21 on the 6th. Had 30.8" and the pack reached 43". Ah I see said the blind man The way I heard it: "I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."

High of 34 ended a 20-day run of maxima 32 or colder. Longest run was Jan-Feb 2015 with 33. Jan-Feb 2007 had 31 and only the 33 on Jan 24 broke a 42-day run. (Dwarfed by Fort Kent, no surprise. Dec 16, 1976 thru Feb 27, 1977 for 74 days, and only 5 of them had no flakes. That period brought 117.2" snowfall.)

4.7" with 0.35" LE, right in the forecast range. Pack back up to 22". Most probably fell 11 PM-2 AM.

Coldest DJM here, 1998-99 and forward, was 14-15 with 13.1°- no surprise. Both 02-03 and 13-14 had 13.5°, 02-03 fractionally colder. Adding March puts 13-14 in first place with 14.7° thanks to a very cold March. 14-15 is 2nd at 15.3°. In Gardiner, 85-86 thru 97-98, coldest for DJM and DJFM was 93-94, with 16.1° and 19.8°, respectively. 95-96 was BN but 92-93 was a bit colder. Day 18 of consecutive subzero minima, tying with Fort Kent in 1982, with -9. No chance to extend the streak.

That is correct. The other -7 came on Dec 31, 1917, the day after the -13 minimum. My records show 6 days of -6 at NYC and one of them was 12/29/1917, likely an 11:59 reading. Dec 29, 1917-Jan 4, 1918 stands alone as Central Park's coldest week.

I'd choose NYC. Five coldest mornings: BOS NYC -18 1934 -15 1934 -17 1933 -13 1917 -15 1933 -8 1943 -14 1943 -7 1917 -12 1957 -7 1934 from HV: No crazy stretches of daytime low temperatures but I’ve had 17 mornings at or below zero now. Year of the radiators. Today makes 17 straight subzero mornings. Forecast has #18 tomorrow, which would tie 1982 in Fort Kent for my longest anywhere.

Met spring, true, but here March is 50/50 - 50% of months are transition and 50% are winter.

Or March 21, 1992. Lived in Gardiner then and got a 2.4" overnight surprise. 11.4" at PWM and 2 feet at Goose Rocks Beach (Kennebunkport). Several hours of 6"/hr for the 2-footer. First time I saw the word "Norlun". Some eentsy snow grains sailing by. I wonder if that RI band will crush Cumberland.

Hope it warms up in late May - last year the pollination window for our apples and quinces was 9 days of rainy 40s. Fertilization was terrible.

Hudson Valley horror?

Or a freaky event like Feb 8, 1963. At 11 PM on 2/7 it was 30° and Tex Antoine forecast a low of 20. When the temp dropped to 25 at midnight we wondered. By 6 the next morning Central Park reported 5° and by 7 it had dropped to 2. The low was -2 that morning with a stiff NW breeze, and some forecasters were talking 5-10 below zero for the next morning and were explaining the bust was due to a very cold blob somehow slipped from above to ground level. (I understood none of that.) The cold disappeared as fast as it arrived; after an afternoon high of 16 on 2/8 the temp only got down to 11 on 2/9 and by 2/10 the day's temp was 40/30, with 1.1" RA on 2/11-12. Got down to -2 during the overnight, the 15th straight day with subzero minima. That tops the 14 days on Jan 15-28, 2003 for the longest run here. Checked my Fort Kent records, thinking that place would have much longer runs, but tops (and only one longer than 14 days) was 18 from Jan 16 thru Feb 2, 1982.

Beverly 1.3 ENE cocorahs report at 8:45 was 11.7". Light echoes overhead here, but nothing's making it thru the dry air - pretty much as was forecast.