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56.8" where I grew up in NNJ? We had 50" there from Jan 19 thru Feb 4 in 1961, but the above shows 7" more and a week shorter. Can always go up from there.

Our 4 winters in the back settlement in Fort Kent averaged 141". We lived on the north side of the road and the end of plowing. Plow drivers had to plow our side first, but they didn't have to clear 3/4 of the final width on that first pass. Banks would climb to 7-8 feet on our side, 3-4 feet on the other side. Worst time was in Dec 1983, 10" SN followed by 1"+ RA, followed by another 1.5" and plunging temp. I faced a wet mess 3 feet high and 5 feet wide - lots of work for the snow scoop. While I was in the woods west of Allagash, my neighbor plowed the driveway, very helpful but had to leave 30" vertical banks on both sides and back, which were frozen solid by the time I got home. Short of using dynamite, all scoop dumping had to be into the road rest of winter, including the 18.5" storm in early Feb and 26.5" mid-March.

Yikes! The trees that withstood Helene in the NC/TN mountains would be torn apart if that were to verify.

My favorite bust, April 1982, is one that didn't fit the weak pressure - don't know the mb but something produced the gusts to near 60 in northern Maine. We heard about the blizzard conditions in NYC at game time at Yankee Stadium on 4/6, but the storm was progged for OTS. Afternoon forecast from CAR was cloudy, windy 20s. The evening revision added "flurries". At 9 PM when I went out to reset the max/min I noted the prominent ring around the moon and thought "I wonder . . ." Woke up about 2 AM and the view outside had that 'thick' gray texture of middle-of-night S+. CAR recorded 26.3" from that storm. My guess at our place was 17" but with the gales, who knows. High temp on 4/7 was 17 but the stake level actually dropped from 27" to 26" - it was in a wind-scoured valley between drifts about 4 feet taller. Our little black Chevette was almost totally buried; only a palm-sized patch was visible.

Or cornmeal. Jan 27-28, 2015 dumped 20" at our place, all at single-digit temps, and with 2.17" LE - a nice 9:1 ratio. Stuff was nasty to walk thru, like deep soft sand.

Biggest snowfall I've experienced, March 14-15, 1984 (26.5") began at about 1030 mb and over its near-24h hour dumping, drifted down to about 1017. To the north there was a very strong cold HP, don't have its mb but the afternoon high on 3/12 was 1°. CAR 29.0", BGR 22.2". From up here we'll be watching at a distance while feeding the woodstove. -20s Sunday morning?

On Jan 18, 1982 it was -34 at our back settlement home in Fort Kent, accompanied by gusts 35+ and 2-mile vis. in teeny-grain SN. Old WCI chart showed -101 that morning, new chart about -70. Got up to -14 that Monday afternoon. The day before we took half of a Bible college men's quartet to our church as temps plummeted thru the minus teens in howling gales. As they lifted their jackets from our car, the dry-cleaner's thin plastic covers were shattered by wind and cold. I'm getting a 2002-03 vibe this winter. That snow season was our 2nd coldest DJF of 27 (behind 2014-15), but also the driest. Total snow was 21" BN as we watched the big dogs from afar.

3.0 Saturday and 0.5 last night. Dry snow but with almost no wind the trees are still loaded. Some occasional mood flakes this afternoon.

I don't know how familiar you are with southern Franklin County. We're several miles NW from Hampshire Hill in the Muddy Brook watershed, between Weeks Mills and Industry Roads. (Muddy Brook flows under Rt 2 about 1/2 mile west of the Sandy River bridge.) Hampshire Hill is on the Rome-New Sharon border.

Be nice to get something even close to "massive" here. The Christmas Eve 8.5" brought the total to nearly 4" above my average thru 12/24. In the 26 days since we've had 9 events with accumulating snow. Despite all that activity, we're now an inch below YTD average. Those 9 events totaled 12.2" with none greater than 3.0", another march of the midgets like last winter post-Christmas. Trees do look lovely, however, and the 13" pack is right on the average.

This past weekend brought the first audible sled noise I've heard this winter, but no use yet on the club trail thru our woodlot. Our new neighbors (probably will build this coming warm season) plowed the road past our place last week, including about 1/2 mile of that club trail. Once the new crew is living on the lot, the club might need to either relocate that half mile or abandon a large segment of their trails.

Fresh dry snow atop glare ice is the nearest thing to a frictionless surface outside of a HS/college physics lab. Falls are exciting. Landings are painful.

Would be great - 4 huge storms that month. Would've been nice to have gotten all 4 but the 2 that reached here totaled 36.4".

Continuous light/very light snow since 6 this morning, maybe 1.5" so far. Hoping that by tomorrow this stuff will have bonded a bit with the underlying ice.

Without that midnight high (actually, my 9 PM obs), temp on the 25th was -16/-23 at our in-town place at Fort Kent, along with gusts approaching 40. 1st CT Lake's 12/26/80 (7 AM obs) temp was -24/-32. Only colder maximums I've found in New England were on MWN. Mt. Mansfield has tied it.

A query about AFD language, at least from GYX. Up until this month, it began with a quick summary, followed by Near Term (~12 hr), Short Term (out to 36) and Long Term (out to 168). This month the AFD begins with What Has Changed, a short paragraph, followed by Key Messages, usually 2 or 3. Then each key message is discussed. Rarely has the AFD offered more than a quick sentence, if that, past Day 3 or 4. Personally, I found more useful info from the old language.

To mirror that game, we'd need to be 25" AN by Jan 31 then nada for the 2nd half of snow season. We're enjoying low 30s RA/fog so far today. GYX forecast for the "legit storm" is 0.5".

First sentence was spot on, though the 7th was halfway between 6th and 8th. Temps here: 1-6: 18 -2 7-12: 35 19 The 7-12 "norms" are 1.4° lower than 1-6, making the mild-up even greater.

A long way from far northern Maine here, but snowfall/pack season-to-date are very close to average. My lament is the continued mega-meh that we've had for the past 20 months. This month's temps have been Jekyll-Hyde so far - first 6 days were 9.7 BN, 7-12 have been 10.3 AN. Today-tomorrow will run +15-20 before things cool down to only 5° AN.

Between 10" and 11" at the stake. 28-year average is 10.30". Not crushing it but thoroughly average despite BN precip Dec and so far Jan. Average total snowfall thru Jan 12 is 31.9"; hard to be much more average than that.

Or as the somewhat urbane silviculture professor at U. Maine put it (in a rich southern accent), "There's no such thing as inclement weather, just improper clothing." I'll admit to no longer going ice fishing when it's well below freezing. Tending my homemade topwater traps becomes a serious chore. In the 18 days since Christmas, we've had 6 snow events that provided a grand total of 7.8", with 2.3" the biggest "storm". Looks like the parade of midgets will continue this week. sit outside in a lawn chair for 3-4 hours (even if dressed like an eskimo) and tell me its enjoyable or tolerable or likable That's a good description of my deer hunting in late November, though I sit on a stump or log and probably move at least once during that time.

Only one -35 or lower, Jan 16, 2009 Same day that Big Black River touched -50, to eclipse Van Buren's -48 for the state's coldest on record. Six lows of -30 or colder, most recent Jan 27, 2022. 73 lows of -20 or colder, most recent on Feb 4, 2023. 2023-24 and 2024-25 marked the first time for consecutive winters w/o a -20, though last Feb had a -19. Dec 9, 2025 got down to -18, earliest by 7 days to reach that cold.

Nice! We had some mood flakes while driving home from Farmington last evening. Snow squalls are admittingly hit or miss, but we get the miss at a high percentage, except when we lived in Fort Kent where they were common.

Ten storms 20"+ is impressive. Our locale averages nearly 90"/season but only 7 events 20+ (plus 19.9" on March 7-9, 2018). Only common events were Dec 2003 and Jan 2015. Even your 15 storms of 16"+ is one more than here (and only adds March 13-15, 2018 as common), though we've had 4 more of 15-15.5". I've noted that big snowstorms are similar whether in NNJ where I grew up and any of the Maine locations where we lived. Even in Fort Kent, which averaged 134"/season in our 9.7 snow seasons there, had only 3 of 20+ and 6 of 16+. They had loads of the more modest events, though, 24 of 10"+ and 63 of 6"+. In our 27 winters here, it's 47 of 10+ and 117 of 6+.

7/3/66 takes (bakes?) the cake. The coil thermometer at the end of the counter, 10-12 feet from the grill, reached about 140 - scale only reached 120 and the needle was well beyond that line. I'm better off NOT knowing how hot it next to the grill. In 1977 I could climb down to the 1st floor in 20 seconds. In 1966 I was behind the counter all day. Closing time was 8 PM but people were still pouring in 15 minutes later, so I went on the loudspeaker to say we were closed but would serve all who were already inside the lodge. (Got a bit of flack from the park supervisor but he soon understood.) At that time, I'd never had a cup of hot coffee despite brewing the stuff in the 50-cup urn. Ice tea demand went up and down with the temp; coffee demand went up and down by how many people came thru the gate. Could not understand then but later learned the joy of hot coffee in all weather.