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It's shrunk down to about 1/3 the thickness of OFA and is free (except for the advertisers). Also, Dublin is a pretty town and a snow-catcher due to its elevation. I'll let you comment on your town.

Just for fun I looked at my 27 winters of snow vis-a-vis ENSO, using the categories I've seen on here. Current average is 88.5". EL NINO Very strong (1): 48.2" 2015-16, my lowest winter Strong (none): n/a Moderate (3): 77.2" 1 AN 99.0"/64.8" Weak (4): 96.0" 3 AN 109.2"/85.1" LA NADA (7): 86.3" 4 AN 112.8"/52.8" LA NINA Weak (4): 109.0" 3 AN 137.1"/68.0" Moderate (8): 85.7" 3 AN 142.3"/52.5" Includes top winter and 2nd worst. Strong (none): n/a Very strong: None noted, 1950-51 on. Probably means little or nothing.

If you can get the NH version of North Woods Law (much more numerous than the Maine ones), every 2-3 episodes you would probably see a warden/rehab contact. Almost all have a happy ending, though one cannot know which contacts get onto the show. The NH Warden Service could likely point you to rehabber locations. A Trace is just snow falling and either melting on contact or less than anything measurable. So yes, you had that, but nothing measurable yet. I've had up to 0.3" of wispy snow that melted out to less than 0.005", thus a trace. Not common and it looks odd, but I've not found a better way to report. Edit: Moved the snowblower out of the shed and set out the snow stake. Hope that doesn't scare off Sunday's event.

Some mood flakes yesterday afternoon, plus about 2 minutes of S+ that whitened the ground (0.1"). Saw 1.0-1.5" in the Augusta and Brunswick regions, also in southern Somerset County to our east.

Only mood flakes here, though nothing at the moment. Overcast is featureless, suggesting that there's flakes between there and here. Very November-y.

I feel your pain - 2025 so far exceeds any other year of memory for meh. --Only one snow event over 4" (8.0" in mid-Feb) --January had only 5.6" with the month's 'biggest' of 2.1". --No 1"+ precip days until Sept 25 --Only 5 days with thunder; previous low was 8 in 2010. --Met summer brought only 2 such days - avg is 10.5 and another record few (5 in 2010). --No significant wind events. Only 2 wx phenomena of note: --The drought, which is about as exciting as watching paint dry (and with my knee replacement in late June, I couldn't do much to help the garden cope). --Only our 3rd heatwave in the 28 summers here, and 4 total days of 90+ - only 2002 (7) had more. (Note: I don't like droughts and I don't like big heat. Things can only get better. )

Our 13kw Generac fully furnishes our needs; it ran for 101 straight hours from the Dec 2023 storm with no issues. (26kw = big house, at least compared with our 960 sq.ft. plus the loft.) The actual unit was about $3k but the total was north of $10k. The electrical work was almost as expensive as the genny itself, and the purchase/installation/filling of two 100-gallon propane tanks came to over $4k. We also tossed ~$750 for a screening fence around the tanks.

My brother and extended family have lived in Leland, just west from Wilmington, for almost 15 years and they love it. (Except when Florence barged in. They "vacationed" in Charlotte for that event. He said their house was engineered to withstand 130 mph, though heavy objects at half that speed might be damaging.)

Only reached 34 here. Had light/very light flakes 7 AM thru 1 PM, with a spate of moderate features shortly after noon that whitened the ground here at 400' (0.1"/0.03" LE). Gone soon after but the ground was still white at 4 PM - maybe 1/4" - on the 750' hills on the way to evening church meeting.

3 little events resulted in 6 consecutive days with measurable rain, for a total of 0.59". Tomorrow night and Monday don't look all that different.

We were in SNJ for the T-Day storm, had cold rain there. Neighbor said, "about 8 inches" but the co-op 3 miles south and 90' higher reported 11". He usually reports less than I do, in part to one-a-day measuring, so I may have underestimated. Ratio was 5.6-to-1, a real branch breaker. The Dec clipper grew up faster than expected - forecast was 3-6 and we had 9.3" from less than half the SWE of T-Day, 0.71" vs, 1.44".

22-23: 114% of avg 23-24: 112% 24-25: 85% Note: The average is "live", such that a 50" winter would push up those percentages by 2% and a 115" winter would decrease it by 1%.

Lots of SNE colder than here this morning. Clouds held the temp at 27.

We'll hope 24-25 isn't repeated - early peak followed by meh. On 12/5/24 we had 15" OG, the most for that date in our 27 winters. We finished with well below snowfall and well below SDDs. That's what happens when the winter's 2 biggest snowstorms occur on 11/28-29 and 12/4-5.

Downeast was best.

Just PC and breezy here, so far. One of the passing clouds might yet toss a handful. Forecast 1/4" to 1/2" came in at 0.14" (which included the <0.1" progged for the daytime.)

DCA average is 13.7". I hope your last 5 were a bit better than that, even if way below the average there.

We bagged 22" dumps in both 22-23 and 23-24. PWM got only 4.2" from the 1st one (Dec 16-17) and 5.3" from #2 (3/24), so maybe not. Just counting on a better 2nd half than last winter, which had but one event over 4" after Christmas. None of the previous 26 winters here had that kind of fail.

My choices were merely our averages: Watches, did not track Warnings, 5.6 (Median 6.0) Biggest event, 14.8" (Median 13.5") Checked all but CT/RI for pre-Dec 1.

Pictures indicate that one engine tore out its innards and fell off the wing before the actual crash.

Maybe an isolated gust here and there, but only once have I experienced hours and hours of >55kt blasts. That was on New Years Day of 1962, a bitter (5/-8, chilly for NNJ) day with gusts that had to approach 70 mph as some large leafless oaks were uprooted from the semi-frozen ground - only 2" snow OG. Meanwhile a strong LP was doing a loop in the GOM and burying the Penobscot area from BGR (29.5") to Ripogenus (46") with 60+ mph gusts there.

Wonderful - wish you had caught that on the cellphone. I've only encountered that once, on the south slopes of Bigelow Mt when heading up to audit some forest inventory plots in late October. It was windy but the leafnado came on doubled force with dozens of leaves bouncing off all sides of me. Further up was even windier and the tall spruces were leaning alarmingly with each gust. When I heard a gust coming, I would find a large sugar maple or yellow birch and lean on its lee side, in case one of the nearby spruces decided to give up. I gave up in moderate SN with 1"+ OG. Went down from about 2200' to 1200 and there it was only sprinkling with modest wind. Co-worker was on the north slope and had nothing notable for wind or snow.

Bright moon, no wind, low of 21, coldest of the season by 4°. 0.3" ice on the washtub.

Hophornbeam, hickory, white oak are up there with black locust, but Osage orange is tops, also the premier wood for bow construction and perhaps the weirdest fruit of any American tree. Power blinked last evening, now gusting 30+ which is decent here in the woods. October numbers: Avg max: 58.8 +3.1 Highest: 82 on the 6th. That eclipses the 80 on 10/9/11 for October's warmest. Avg min: 35.4 +0.4 Lowest: 25 on the 10th. The mildest min was 50 on the 20th. Precip: 3.69" -1.70" Wettest: 1.16" on the 8th. Also had 1.14" on the 31st. No flakes were observed. 10 of the first 11 days were sunny and the average diurnal range was 31.4°. The rest of the month had 4 sunny, 6 partly cloudy and 10 cloudy days, with the diurnal range 18.9°.

Good explanations, if a bit pedantic. ("I shouldn't have to explain this . . ." and ". . . if you're paying attention, . . .") I don't count the number of sticks I put into the Jotul, but looking at 2 average temp days a month apart - 9/24 (avg 55°) with near full foliage and 10/24 (avg 43°) with 95% leaf drop - I know it took considerably more wood to hold the desirable temp on the latter day. Part of the reason the car comparison may not be totally relevant is because our house is far more greatly insulated and has double-pane windows. The lower sun angle works both ways - it hits windows more directly but also has to pass thru more atmosphere and filter thru more sticks.