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44 minutes ago, tamarack said:

I've occasionally done the 10 readings for individual storms but doing it for pack depth in a place like Maine with snow atop snow would resemble the physicist's uncertainty principle - all that tromping thru the snow affecting the depth.  I place the stake at the same spot in our garden plot and stay away from it, to avoid that affecting.  I suppose if one could separate the 10 spots by 50+ feet and avoid old tracks during the next measurement . . .   Too complicated for me.

Pack grew to 13" this morning, back to 11 now.

Definitely work and you have to be very strategic.  To be clear, unless it's a wind blown storm, I only take 10 measurements at 12z daily, not every 6-hr new-snow ob.

I also have one of those fancy 40" sticks with a handle, plus an 8' wingspan, so I can space far from my feet.  Helps great deal.

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Last night was a perfect example of #1....right on cue.

 

 

 

I used to think our locations were simpatico on being the relative BN screw-holes.  Basically from you up the coast to PWM.  

I'm curious how you stand relative to your climo over the same stretch?  

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Snowpack starts getting weird this time of year depending on shading and angle to the sun.

That is a wild map.

My depth is an average of a huge area, always 10 readings.  And even then I don't feel fully confident.  I straight up tossed the stake as a data point after the blizzard.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

I just mean I was higher than you, cooler than you during the warmup, and we ended up tied at 8” the other day. Not calling you out. Just surprised I was losing snow faster than you.

The worst part about losing my pack  before this event is having another round of mud. 

3.0" new @ PWM.

20 minutes ago, NW_of_GYX said:

I’m at 62.5”. Difference is the December norlun and a couple other events where you outperformed. Wonder when the last time klew was ahead of the southern foothills/interior Cumberland county.

Or last time PWM (59.7") was basically even (Spring will widen that gap, presumably).

4 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

0.01 is the numerical indicator for “trace” on the spreadsheet. You can’t enter trace on a spreadsheet without it breaking the auto-sum functionality…

Ah, OK.

Didn't know people were tracking T events.  

On 3/7/2026 at 12:12 PM, Brewbeer said:

that you are, mine are two stories above a concrete patio, I'd need a pole 30 feet long, I'm not going up there on a ladder.  It's doesn't really matter much in December or January, there is a big pine tree to my south and it's shadow crosses the array midday, but by early-mid February the sun is above the tree and sunny day production really takes off.  Typical winter consumption for my family is about 19-20 kwh/day, summer it's 16-18/day if AC isn't needed. 

For heat, a typical 30F day the house uses ~10k BTUs/hr on average, on a 0F design day it's about 30k BTU.  I'm curious what a water heat pump in that output range looks like from a cost and equipment footprint perspective, gas boilers don't last for ever.      

Those are pretty damn good numbers. I've been fortunate I only lose a day or two at a time to snow cover, at most.  Must have a good pitch/angle combo.  Or I just don't snow.

All last year I ran about 20-40 KWh/day avg.  Great production, Finished with 16.6 MWh produced over 11.8 consumed (+4.8 MW/h)

Then, In December, we started running grow lights 16 hours a day for our new business and we're popping 60-80 KWh a day (during peak heating season.  Already coming down to 40-60).  Current delta is -2.0 MWh.  Hoping to stop the bleeding there this month and build up a surplus.  Lights should be off starting in late May, we'll before cooling season.

20 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

HTF did Portland jump from 25 at the 7:00 obs to 40 at the 9:00 obs

Looks like other nearby ASOS (Sanford, Brunswick) did too.

Fake cold->full sun?

5.4" last night puts PWM at 58.0" for the season.  Current depth of 16" is deepest this season.

This morning will be the last skate/shoot around of the season, most likely.  What a great run for it.

5.4"/0.54" final 

12z depth 16"

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I didn’t want to snowblow, but that’ll be a pain to remove by hand.

It's just over the line, I agree.  Leaving it to melt ia not quite an option just yet, especially if the areas you need to clear are shaded or north-facing.

15 minutes ago, dendrite said:

24.8° -SN

5.9”/0.60”

Lol, let's get warning criteria.  I think people around here are unaware they'll  wake up to snow to deal with.

05z PWM - With a few more hours to go, this will be a bigger event here than the blizzard (4.5") and deepest pack of the season.  

2.5" new (0.27 SWE)

4.3" total ( 0.47 SWE)

Depth - 15"

1 hour ago, bristolri_wx said:

I don't remember saying anything, but according to my table I'm at 64.9 for the season in Bristol, RI

https://newenglandsnowfallrecords.blogspot.com/

Sup with the hundredths values?  

Aliens

29 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

We built a new insulated coop with a solar door leading to a hoop coop that is covered during the winter. So far so good 

Nice.  Those solar doors are a game changer. 

14 minutes ago, dendrite said:

It’s hard this time of year for me letting them out. Snow melts near their run entrance and water puddles up but by 3 it’s in the 20s and refreezing. I don’t need them freezing their feet all night. 

I remember reading somewhere that was the biggest threat to their temp - moisture - amd I thought specifically feet.

My oldest hen is 5, the buff, and at her old age she won't step on ice or snow, unless she absolutely has to, lol.

My biggest concern this time of year is Hawks.  The ermine I had slinking around their run a month or so back has moved on.  Had it's fill of meadow voles, couldn't get into their run, and thankfully took off.

18 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

The snow was literally balls deep with this storm. 

Well, see, there's the issue.  It took several pages but we finally figured it out.

Cory is 4'11". 

36" would literally eat him. 

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

They definitely prefer their paths hand crafted

Sure do!

33 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That’s great but we all have some kind of accolades in our life. Should we all sit here and put out everything that we’ve done and all the accomplishments that we’ve made on a weather forum? What relevance does that have?
 

Yes, and I'll start with what Cory sent me privately:

Oh, I’m a real snow measurer. And I’ve also really done all of the following things:

• Personally corrected multiple National Weather Service totals

• Measured snow in non-public drift zones the “pros” don’t even know about

• Had my ruler featured in three separate viral weather videos

• Been DM’d by meteorologists asking for my methodology

• Calibrated my yardstick to within 1/32″ precision using aerospace standards

• Sat in a folding chair during peak banding to observe flake density transitions

• Received a personal pocket ruler from a sitting U.S. Senator who “respects precision”

• Serenaded a highly respected female TV meteorologist with an original winter ballad about dendritic growth zones

• Had private correspondence with at least one other TV meteorologist

• Measured in the President’s Day Blizzard of ’03

• Had drinks with a local plow operator while discussing compaction bias

• Been told off-record snowfall doubts by a state official and two town officials.

• Sought out as a source by at least one YouTube commenter with over 10K subscribers

And all of that was before the age of 35 when I officially began my independent oversight of SE-SNE Big Snow.

Erika about slid off her chair after he dropped the GFS getting pulled in the 8th analogy.  "As someone said". Good one.

24 minutes ago, ScituateMA said:

That youtube video was a joke...in more ways than one. 

I would have liked to have seen the constitution he carries in his car.  At least that would have been a consolation payoff.  But we know he doesn't actually have one.

5 hours ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

You misunderstood what I said. You should read my posts again. I said nothing about people trying to make the storm live up to the hype after the rug pull. Actually the opposite. I think that people are trying to "downgrade" the storm after the rug pull and convince themselves and other people that the totals down south were erroneous and inflated, because it makes them feel better like they didn't miss out on a generational event.

My bad.  Appreciate you clarifying.  I agree with what you're saying now that I understand.

1 hour ago, Cold Miser said:

Interesting.  Why is Cory not seeing this depth on his grand tour?   He is claiming so much less at the spots in Providence that he measured.  
 

Since he is so invested in this is there some way for him to contact the person who measured the 31 and go to that spot and see for himself?
 

He needs this ultimate proof to set his mind at ease. 

 

He's cherry-picking to fit his narrative.  Notice how all but one of his shots show only the yardstick and about a square foot around it?