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Temp dropped to 33 and accumulating nicely now.

Just flipped here, right on schedule. Gonna have a tough time accumulating until we get the colder surface temps though.

Snowing at river on their webcam

It's one of the last freestone rivers too. Allagash would be the same way if not for the dams, although it's headwaters hold substantially more water than the St. John ponds.

lmao at the donut hole over central and southwestern Maine on the GFS. I'm now having a full blown melt. Let's get this POS winter out of here and hope that one of these years we can actually get a coastal that blows up in the Gulf. Enough of these gradient storms and endless warm sectors. The last three plus years here have just been brutal. We're badly overdue.

Appreciate the advice. I’ve spent a lot of time in that country but never paddled the whole extent of the river from Baker down to the village. We’ve paddled the Allagash many times but the upper St. John country just has a different feel to it.

Further. St Agatha ft Kent Allagash latitude I would think

love it. Keep the photos coming. Nothing better than deep snow and deep winter in the big woods.

Someone in Vermont is going to get just that. I like your area as well. This has Mahoosucs mauler look to it as well. Long range is pretty meh but with that trough sliding east there may be another window in in the 3/17 time period, but lots of potential to continue to get warm sectored as well. Quebec is just gonna keep getting nuked it looks like. What a winter for our north of the border friends. I was supposed to enjoy a week of what will undoubtedly be incredible high water paddling conditions on the Bonaventure River in Gaspe in June but it looks like COVID has disrupted the outfitter and our plans are canceled. At this rate I'm thinking a late April/early May St. John River trip might be a suitable alternative.

I'm about ready to close the shades on this season but this weekend might rope me back in. Good (ish) trends from 0z to 12z. Looks really good for the VT crew. My area is going to be the battleground. Ensembles were spread way out at 0z but (grasping at straws) the 12z GEFS has a little cluster to the S. Hopefully that shows up on the 12z EPS. The ski areas from SVT up into the Mahoosucs look to grab a much needed, high QPF paste bomb while I enjoy 3" of slop. Hell of way to run a "winter month" in southern Maine.

My advice: don’t come home, it’s ugly around here.

Ya it’s great for the mtb trails on the west slope cause it dries quick all spring and summer but cranmore melts out fast. It’s not one of those spots that has feet of snow left on closing day.

Lol. What a giant torch snow hole the valley has been over the past few years. To be fair the west facing side of the valley just bakes all day. In the spring you can usually count on mountain biking there weeks before anywhere else is in.

And GFS went north. You know how this will end up....70 pages for a whole bunch of disappointed weenies.

Had to leave saddleback earlier than expected this morning but enjoyed the 3” they got Tuesday night. Last night delivered an additional 2”. Like dryslot I was surprised to arrive home this morning in Bridgton to about 5” of fluff. Combined with an inch earlier this week and the SWFE that delivered 8” that’s 15” since last Friday. A nice stretch for sure.

Headed up to saddleback tomorrow and Thursday. Looks like there’s a shot at 4-6” there over the next 48 hours. My experience with that place is that it has the best upslope potential of anywhere in Maine really.

Really good trail riding in Nash stream and millsfield area today. Snowing all day probably picked up 2-3 so far. Deep pack and deep winter still in that area. .

Coldest air in New England seems to be right over my dome, weird. 3 degrees when I left Bridgton 30 min ago. Up to 25 in Gilead Maine. .

That's awesome and couldn't come at a more critical time for Rangeley. The sledders and skiers will be happy. I'll be up at Saddleback next week and conditions should be great I would think.

5” radar looks good for another few inches. I may have to eat my earlier comments about GYX busting.

We're at 3" right now and rates are picking back up. 6" might still be possible but we'll see.

They've been pretty bad this winter. And with all due respect to GYX they have busted pretty hard as a result. I have no idea where they were seeing the 8-12 with this. Few models spit out more than .5" qpf for this.

looking at radar it's hard to imagine 6" totals out of this.

It’s really the below normal snowfall in the whites the last two seasons that does it for me. The valleys and coastal plain are certainly running below average but the higher elevations in the eastern whites and some of the mountain valleys are having a historically bad stretch going back to last year. I gave up steep skiing on march 12 last year once the sherb was basically cooked past my liking. Im lazy and refuse to hike down. Once the sherb is done it’s time to think about whitewater paddling anyway. I have a feeling this season still has some surprises in store but I’m not expecting alpine garden to car skiing in late April at this point.

You're gonna worry your way to a 40" march with a few stat padders in April.