CapturedNature

Hang in there and keep in touch with your contacts. Use the opportunity to assess your current path and see if there's a different route you want to take.

I love weenie spots like that. I always seem to seek places like that out, not just temperature but snowfall wise as well. Even as a kid I put a thermometer down the hill from our house in the woods when I learned that cold air sank...lol

Impressive. I'm sure people were burning fake oil and kWh's at that time. Good thing it was was fake...

yeah, it does look like that. I'd like some snow but I'll also take seasonable temps for my maple season. Taps are all in and ready for runs! I'll buy it when it's here.

It looks like right at the end of the month. We've been here before so let's hope Lucy (the planet) doesn't pull the ball like it did in January.

If you like that sort of thing I post a video every month on what I pickup in my woods on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXpoSRvXm_A&list=PLisuzvJIODKZqOCRXBDOtILq8KM-vVxnS I usually get bobcat's and coyote's along with deer and a lot of other small critters. This month a fisher showed up as well. It's pretty neat what shows up when people aren't around.

If you're gonna use letters, whats your criteria for each one? Are we only talking about met winter or the entire snow season? Could we use the AWSSI which uses actual numbers and puts different locations into their respective percentiles? At least you could compare different sites, it's not subjective and it includes all the different criteria of winter weather like temperatures, snowfall and snow depth.

I didn't look at 2007 but thanks for pointing that out. I had 9.7" during that period here.

If we're only looking at the 12/20-2/20 period (which we haven't reached yet) and the past 20 years, this year's 7.8" is the lowest. 2012 had 9.7" and 2002 had 9.0" of snow during that period. However, it's not the lowest I have during that period. That record goes to winter 1989 with only 4.7" of the snow. I don't have any records before winter 1986 but that's what the data says.

I had to look it up...it's a weather channel name for the storm in the Atlantic.

I agree and if you look at it objectively, '02 and '12 were much worse in terms of snow, temperatures, etc. I'd take this winter over those any day, especially '12 with the warmth that it had. Going back though, we've had other worse winters but people have short term memories so I'll stick with the last 20 years.

It's the northern tip of New England. I like going to geographical places like that. This fall we went to the southern most tip of Connecticut so it was kind of neat going to the northern and southern most points so close like that. Everything is relative I guess.

Actually it only dropped to 1 here. If we don't drop below zero next weekend, we might go the whole winter without dipping below zero. Wouldn't be the first time but just shows how mild it's been.

The airport I saw that was -40 this morning was about 75-100 miles north of the Maine border. I think it's in the Gaspe but not specifically sure. I was just trying to give geographically challenged folks an indicator of where it was. I've actually traveled to that area many times so I'm familiar with it. This past summer I was in Estcourt Station and iEdmunston. I know Edmunston is in New Brunswick but the area northeast of there is Quebec and I thought the Gaspe. Either way, it's outside of Maine but I thought close enough and an impressively low temp to mention.

How so? You cross the border of northern Maine and you're in the Gaspe region of Quebec. Either way it north of the border and out of the U.S. Not sure why you're splitting hairs.

I missed that one. -30s being handed out like candy up there..lol Not that it matters but I also saw a -40 just north of the border in Quebec at Causapscal Airport in the Gaspe.

One year I tapped when it was pretty cold (single digits/teens) and I don't know if I was putting the taps in too hard or the fact that I put the tap in while it was cold and I had a few trees develop vertical cracks. Just want to avoid that again! We might have a shot next weekend with that cold shot for a colder reading but you might be right...this morning might have been our coldest, that's for sure.

First Connecticut Lake was also -35

Only got to down to 1 here. Just might go the entire winter without a below zero reading. Meanwhile, I noticed some -35's in NNH & NME. I have more tapping to do today but will wait a bit for things to warm up a bit. Tapping in the cold risks splitting the tree and I don't want that!

That's where I am, at least cold wise.

Sure...I guess sweet maple syrup doesn't count as a reward from nature.

I'm not sure what baseball's spring training has to do with the weather but met winter ends in 16 days and then it's spring. It still snows in spring. Yeah I don't think deep winter is coming but I don't think we're done for cold and snowy days. It gets more difficult after mid-March (a month from now) but March's have produced before and no one can say with certainty that this one will or won't. The pessimists will say no while people like myself will look at the empirical data when it's all said and done and see if it did.

It wasn't gloppy at 3a..nice snow before the change over.

Woke up at 3:30 just in time for the turn over to snow. Had 1" at the time for a solid ground cover. Nice to see the white stuff again! I thought we were done though?