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If you can find the info, it would be worth knowing whether the obs site has stayed at the same place throughout. I've spent many hours dissecting the data of the Farmington co-op, records back thru Jan 1893, and there was a significant change when the site was moved in Sept 1966 from the fully built-up section of the small (5k) town to a site 1.5 miles to the north, where houses are spaced apart and nearly all on the same road. The biggest change was summertime maxima - for instance, the co-op has recorded 14 days reaching 100+, but only one since the move: 101 on "Hot Saturday" in August 1975. The average temps have risen significantly during the current century but there is still a disproportional amount of warmth records, especially warm minima, set prior to that move to the north.

What a fir-fracturer that would be. Just the weekend snow put lots of the weaker fir onto the local snomo trails.

At last word, 88% of folks in Fryeburg are still w/o power - lots of trees on wires being cleared but it's slow going. Folks there must be a bit relieved that nights are in the 20s rather than near zero.

Up to 3" RA atop the current pack? Maybe "bigger boat" was the appropriate thread title after all.

Depends on location (Of course). Most Maine sites get more in December.

Pinkham Notch Edit: WV had 31" also - just checked GYX listing

Probably Feb 3-4, 1961. I call in 24" but with the howling wind who knows. That storm, plus the 20" on Jan 19-20 and a string of very cold days, brought the pack into the mid 40s - Canistear Reservoir reached 52". We also had 24" on Mar 18-19, 1956 and Mar 20-21, 1958.

Highest I found since 12/2003 was 30", in the 5-day slopfest in late Feb 2010 - with 6.49" LE! (I had 10.7" from 2.68" LE, with no IP nor ZR but 1.14" of 33-35° RA - while NYC was getting their 20.9" 'Snowicane' ) Final tally (assuming no more): 21.5" from 2.37" LE, 3rd biggest snowstorm since moving here in May 1998. #1 is 24.5" on 2/22-23/2009 and 2nd is 24.0" (with blizzard criteria) on 12/6-7/2003.

IIRC, that ZYZYGY (spelling optional) storm was Jan 2-3, 1987. It was odd in that snow reached PWM about 4 AM but didn't get to AUG until after noon. Then it went from 1st flakes to white wall - 1/8 mi vis - in less than 60 seconds. 2nd biggest snowfall in our 13 winters in Gardiner and first of 5 storms that month, for 49" total.

Nice. Looks like the view out my window.

It's a bit bigger than my new Husky.

Yup. We've had 3 storms of 21" in our 24 winters here but only 2 that were bigger, so this one might reach 3rd place - only needs another inch+ since the 11:30 measure. A 3rd Farmington site, farthest north of the bunch, reporting 20". So far, all the top depths in Maine are Franklin-Oxford Counties. Edit: That Farmington 20" was a 9 AM report - no wonder it was the highest.

3" more by 11:30 to reach 20, and it's still accumulating. Power came on just before 10, so 5 hours on the genny. New blower was out straight trying to move this sticky stuff; more work to do but the machine ran out of gas about the same time I did. Shovel work was nasty - unless I banged on the handle as I threw, half of the load would stay on the blade.

It would take another 12/25/2020 to do that, and there would be a lot more snowmelt to increase flooding this time.

Finally, a report from northern Oxford - 20.0" of 9:1 at Andover. Top 5 atm: 20.0" Andover 17.5" Farmington 4.2NW 17.0" MBY 6.8" Palmyra (one town west from Skowhegan) 6.1" Abbot (3 towns south from Greenville) Strange distribution. Edit: New #5 - 6.5" in North Berwick, western York County. If there's an observer in Parsonsfield (NW-most town of York) we'd likely see a 12"+.

Latitude too (along with miles from saltwater) as I'm not that much higher than your place - couple hundred feet? Biggest storm since 19.9" on 3/7-9/2018, and we may get past that one as well.

Not far from that here at 390' - had 17.0" at 7 AM (1.83" LE) with light-mod SN continuing. Last check of cocorahs had the observer from the NW part of Farmington at 17.5" and 3rd place was only 6.8". No reports from Temple (at 1220') nor northern Oxford (Bethel, et al) but it looks like that county and Franklin got the real stuff. Genny kicked on at 4:56 this morning and 30 minutes ago CMP was at 40k outages. Will be a worthy debut for the new snowblower.

I should've known. GYX jinxed itself by dropping their 10-16 forecast for here down to 8-12 yesterday afternoon, though they would've busted low even withe earlier number. Had 17.0" of 9:1 sticky snow (1.83" LE) at 7 AM with light-mod snow continuing - biggest snowfall since 3/7-9/2018 and 3 more inches would top that one. Trees are extra loaded, and we went to generator just before 5 AM. My first check of Maine cocorahs totals had our 17" with 2nd highest a mere 6.8", which seemed very odd. Recheck a few minutes later showed an observer from the NW part of Farmington with 17.5". Places like Temple, Bethel, Bridgton haven't sent in their reports yet.

GYX just chopped our 10-16 forecast to around 8-12. Not surprised, given how long the snow took to get here. Even 8" would be very nice.

Maybe 1/4" here.

Light SN arrived about 2:30. Some nice parachutes but not many at present.

Still waiting. There's been echoes overhead since late morning but nothing has reached the ground since some tiny mood flakes about 11 AM.

Tops here isn't much higher - 16" in 2018 thanks to that day's 8" of pow. Only 2 other years had more than 10" - 13" in 2012 and 14" the next year. Tallest anywhere was 30" in Fort Kent, 12/25/83.

It's into York County - had a few 1"+ reports, 7 AM cocorahs. Just a dusting here, with a few tiny flakes drifting by as dry air is eating the rest.

Temp never went down during the overnight, makes me wonder if the current 12-18 forecast is an overreach. Dusting has slightly lightened the color of the ground, though I don't see anything coming down atm.