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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.

And the folks rushing to install - sometimes the same people.

Most of our leaves had fallen by mid-October when the average temp is 56/35. By mid-November it's 42/24. Unless the sun moves about 10 million miles closer, losing the shade won't come close to compensate for that magnitude of temp drop, especially when November vies with December as our cloudiest month. (During my year in urban forestry, I learned that the sticks catch 25-40% of the sun - not the 90%+ of full foliage but still significant.) 1.18" thru 8 AM with light rain/DZ since. Not a drought breaker but useful. Had some strong gusts about 5 AM but light wind after that, but it has picked up again about 10:15.

Never seen that double notch before. Demos I've watched had the single notch, wrap, and paraffin paint.

My one ride into there was in March 2006, late season but that winter only the St. John area had real snow. We didn't have to break trail on the ungroomed 6-8 miles into Deboullie Pond; the real challenge was riding across to see Gardner, with temp about 30 and 1-2" new over slushy mess from the previous day's RA. Only 2 of the 7-8 sleds had to be dug out of the slush. With Gardner hidden in the light snow, we wisely chose not to attempt that pond.

Go all the way to Fort Kent - Northern Door Motel, Breakfast at Rocks Cafe then head west. If you don't mind some ungroomed trails, Deboullie is spectacular. Then stop at Two Rivers Lunch in Allagash, maybe motor up to Estcourt Station (unless you've already been to that northernmost tip of the state). Temp was 28 at 11 last evening but the clouds were beginning to sift in, and it was 30 at 7 this morning. Otherwise we would've been down near 20.

Wouldn't that require storing the scions safely for months? Or am I missing something? I've done very little grafting - none recently - but I'd recommend cutting the scions in the spring.

Same obs site? Low of 27 this morning, 12th sub-32 this month plus yesterday's 32. Coolest low is 25 on the 10th, and mildest minimum is 50 on the 20th, timing is kinda backwards.

True. The far longer lead time allows for 'cane chasers to find a safer spot. Josh picked the most solid-looking building at the north end of Great Abaco Island for Dorian and caught some amazing video of the front end. That "solid" building was badly damaged, and he (and others in that building) relocated during the eye. Tornado chasers are usually in vehicles and have minutes, or even seconds, to choose their spots.

Melissa is dealing with some terrain almost 2000' asl. It's not like Katrina crossing the Everglades without losing steam.

Not many places having equipment able to survive and report winds like this. One would need a setup like MWN.

That's impressive. Maybe they would survive at our 4B zone - median for winter's coldest is -24. We were told that Reliance peach would make it here, and as that's my favorite fruit we planted a whip shortly after we moved here in mid-May of 1998. Summers 1998 and 1999 saw great growth but the following winters killed back most of the increase. 2001-02 never got below -12 and the following summer we had 100+ sweet tennis-ball-size fruit. Then Jan-Mar 2003 brought 12 mornings at -20 to -29 and the tree was dead, other than a weak below-graft sprout that showed up in June 2003 and died before first frost.