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Only tried once, Jan 2008 at Randolph, a half-dozen miles downstream from AUG. The 4 of us caught a few tommycod but nothing else. A kid about 10-y.o. was showing everyone a nice smelt. Might've been the only one caught among the 20+ occupied shacks.

Only a tenth of graupel, but it made the porch steps accessible without sprinkling ashes. Put most of the 5-gallons of the stuff on the driveway as water was oozing from the mess as the frozen precip landed. (Otherwise the mail carrier might not hazard to try.) Had 10" pack at 7 yesterday but 0.2" ZR and 0.5" of 32 (plus a tiny fraction) RA left us at the pre-storm 8". But it's a more bulletproof 8" now. Total precip 1.08". Family on the way south, roads are decent. I hope my son-in-law can send some videos of the Saturday sledding party. The audio is hilarious.

Our 0.8-acre houselot in Gardiner probably had more large branches on the ground than the 60 acres of forest on our current woodlot, as the Farmington area had mostly pingers. Elevation was often the key. On the state lot in Hebron, 10 miles NW from LEW, ice at the top of Greenwood Hill was almost the size of a Pringles can. I brought 2 pieces home to show family, each centered with a first-year twig. One was 3.0x2.2 inches diameter, the other 2.5x2.5 inches, about 2 lb per linear foot of branch. Some large white pines had a near-continuous sheet of ice on their NE exposure and others had cascading breakage on that side as top branches landed on the lower ones. OT: Sad your Cavalier was a lemon. Our 1983 wagon (1st year they had fuel injection, also our last new car) was wonderful except for its unibody frame. Just under 150k, 33 mph on average, engine never missed a beat, but the frame was rusted such as we might end up like Herbie in the Love Bug. Also the finest 2-WD vehicle in snow and mud that I've driven. With aggressive tread snows and spike, it would go thru almost anything.

2.0" snow then light freezing rain. Probably cold rain this afternoon, as the CAD underperformed the forecast. Yesterday's temp was 30/-11, the rare winter 40+ range day without a strong CF/WF.

Hoping for more IP, less ZR. Impressive diurnal range today, 30/-11.

Decent, though no blockbusters. Same here, proportionally to climo snow - now 20.3" for the month (no flakes from yesterday, as forecast). Tomorrow night/Monday looks to be mostly IP/ZR here.

Excellent winter capped by a cold and snowy March that brought the pack to 43". Surprise 0.9" on the board this morning, total now 24.0".

Up to a surprising 8.5". The overnight 5.5" ratio was 10.5:1. The 3.0" since 7 AM had ratio 43:1. Still watching mood flakes.

Actually across the bridge in Topsham. Added another inch+, high ratio feathers. Some decent echoes overhead but leaving, should pass 7". Getting a breeze, temp still upper teens. Loving it when friends getting jacked, especially when we have a decent amount here.

5.5" and 0.52" LE at 7 AM, currently light SN, might reach 6". That death band extended to within about 5 miles of here, but the 8" at the stake will be plenty for the grandkids. Rooting for 20"+ in south LEW!

I grew up in Kinnelon, the next town south, but I went to Butler HS. If I'd been a year younger, I'd have been in the first graduating class of Kinnelon HS. Most of Butler is 200-400 feet lower than where we lived, and that difference occasionally was dramatic. The ice storm of Jan 8-9, 1953 ripped trees apart near home and took out our power for 6 days. Most of Butler had cold RA. In late March 1961 we had a paste bomb to cap our 100"+ winter, 5-6 sloppy inches outside the HS, most coming in 4 hours. School closed at noon but no buses heading south so a bunch of us walked the 5 miles, finding 12" at home. Cut the Christmas tree, now waiting for the water in the stand to freeze before I try to do anything else with it.

Looks like 2.1" (NNJ along Rt 23) near where I grew up. Cloudy with an occasional flake and low 20s. One noon news station has us at 5-9. Might reach the low end.

That's a new one for me. The single full day's closing in FK was due to a busted forecast. Folks went to bed that February evening expecting the 1-3" that was forecast and they wouldn't even bother running the plows for that. Then we got 18" in 9 hours and by the time roads and especially parking lots were cleared, the day would be shot anyway. The half day came 6 week later, March 14-15, 1984. Forecast was 6-12", the 6" new had fallen by sunrise with moderate snow - no cancelling for that. By late morning the new snow was 14" with 3"/hr rate, so the buses loaded up at noon and all of them made their runs with little problem. You've probably been on Rt 11 between Portage and FK so you're familiar with the hills. CAR recorded 29.0", I had 26.5" (Biggest I've seen) and FK 24", but they measure 1/day at 7 AM, 6-8 hours after accum ended.

Back in the stone age (50s-60s) NNJ schools would schedule a few "snow days" to avoid early summer classes. (No schools had AC then.) I think only 60-61 required the extended days, as we lost 6 days to snow. Fortunately, the Feb 3-4 bomb was Fri-Sat. If mid-week it would've closed 3 days instead of one. I'm sure that Fort Kent has been lawyered away from the 70s-80s when our 9.7 years there included only 1.5 days of closes, all in 1984. Based on the 12z runs, I'd bump Jeff's hood up. He's close to the Pike, so already in the 8-12 color.

Between the increasing snow forecasts for our area and the kids running thru norovirus (some at peak, some all better), the trip will be on Wednesday. Dealing with Christmas Eve traffic seemed the better choice. GYX afternoon added an inch to the above 3-5. Hoping for nice dendrites and 12-15:1 ratios rather than crummy flakes and 8-9:1.