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That storm was the end of significant snow here, and thru Feb 9 we had not seen even a 4" event. Then Feb 10-March 12 featured 4 major storms and some littl'uns for a 60" period total and 94" (105% of avg) for the snow season. Only 9" OG on 2/9 but up to 35" on 3/12. The board included a member from Fort Kent then and he posted pics showing snow halfway up ground floor windows.

I've only seen one November blizzard, 11/21/89 in Gardiner to set the stage for the frigid December, but if 11/13-26 runs -6 to -10 here, we'll likely see some highs <30.

We're at +10.2 thru yesterday here. Continuing at +10 the rest of November is a reach (gross understatement).

I'd limit that to the past 4 years, as 16-17 had 3 of 12"+, tied with 2000-01 (And all 6 of those storms were at least 15.5") while 17-18 had 2, 19.9" and 16,5". Biggest since 17-18 is 12.4" last February. Season's biggest snowfall averaged 15.1" for our first 20 winters here (includes the pitiful 5.9" of 05-06), only 11.0" for the most recent 4.

My dream is a winter with 07-08's snowstorm frequency, seasoned with big dogs like 16-17.

Almost 100% deer ticks around our place, and sufficiently abundant that I expect to have ticks aboard when I come in from outside. (Unless it's August, when the mini-monsters seem to go inactive, or when there's snow cover.)

Only down to 23 at our fake cold kingdom - that's just 4° lower than the average for Nov 9 and we reached the same temp 4 weeks ago. Meh

yup, 1.1" more than here. That was the first season for the Snow Table, and over its 11 season LEW has done a lot better compared to climo than here. Same goes for Lava Rock. I'm waiting for climo to reassert itself.

I've read elsewhere that leaving 'some' leaves can be good for the lawn but leaving all the leaves can smother it. Not said in that (forgotten by me) source is that trying to rake the packed-down leaves once the snow is gone would be difficult to do without tearing up the soft-at-that-season turf. A layer of leaves might be good for the little invertebrates but that would include ticks.

Because we consistently had modest storms while others nearby got pounded, snowfall was almost exactly on the average thru March 31. Then the 15" April Fools joke kicked the total to 100". A fine winter but with lots of "what could've beens". (Though tiny in that respect compared to 12-13 and especially 14-15.)

Wind didn't quit until too late to allow 20° or colder. Low was 23, tied with Oct 11 and 29 for season's coldest so far. Since the average low today is 27, that's rather modest for low-to-date. (Though it's 35° below the minimum 3 days ago.)

Drove up the hill near the house at 5:30 before chasing the wily whitetail, looked to W/SW, saw clouds near the horizon while 95% of the sky was clear. IIRC, this makes 5 straight lunar eclipses spoiled by clouds. If that happens on April 8, 2024, I'll really be unhappy. No deer, several fir snags toppled by last night's wind, some blocking the snomo trail thru our woodlot.

Trivia: They hit 98 on 6/27/66. NYC reached triples 4 times that summer, tying 1953 for the most.

Did they get a cooling sea breeze on Nov. 2, 1950, when NYC/BOS/BDL/PVD had 84/83/83/81 respectively?

Breezy upper 60s, but dews 25-30° lower than yesterday. After 4 consecutive total lunar eclipses spoiled here by clouds, much of tomorrow morning's will be spoiled by sunrise.

The 0.35" overnight helped pull the temp all the way to mid 50s. Yesterday's 69/58 was +26, with the high +22 and the low +30. That 58 is 6° milder than in any of our previous 24 Novembers here and just 1° below our mildest October low. Highest daily minimum in November at the Farmington co-op is 59. Their minima tend to be a couple degrees higher than mine, so they may have notched their first 60+ in 130 Novies.

58 for the low. Average temps here for 11/6 are 47/28 - not often having a low temp 10+ degrees higher than the average high.

The bolded should be true for New England and points north. For the MA the warming climate may change SN with 1.5" LE at 30° to RA/Mix with 2" LE at 34. Also, I've read consistently that wx will be more variable, so we get a frigid February in 2015 and SNE temps approaching in February just 3 years later.

NYC hit 83 and 84 in that 1950 early Novie "summer".

CON touched 80 on 11/2/50. 3 of the SNE big 4 were low 80s, ORH 79. Upper 30s this morn here, temp rocketing upward, sun is warm rather than mild. HIE reached 31, might get to 75.

Could be worse (better?) When the kids/grandkids lived in central IL (DEC), one of our visits included New Year's Day 2012, and they were still harvesting greens from their cold frame on Jan 3. (And the front yard sycamore still had some leaves.)

In SNE. It was mostly a suppression session here (snowfall nearly 2 feet BN) though the consistent cold made for decent retention - along with killing my peach tree.

During Thanksgiving week in 1996 we visited my SIL and family who then lived near Olympia, and drove into Rainier National Forest. At Longmire, ~2700' elev, there was mix, mostly SN, and 3-6" OG. We headed toward Paradise at 5500' but couldn't get past 4000 (at Going to the Sky Bridge, IIRC) because our minivan had neither 4WD nor chains. We drove back about 1/2 mile and maybe 200' elev, found a wide place to park and got out for a snowball fight - snow there was 3+ deep, made me wonder what was at Paradise.

Forecast for Paradise Lodge on Rainier: Today Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. High near 39. Wind chill values between 23 and 28. Windy, with a west wind 31 to 36 mph, with gusts as high as 55 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts in excess of 4 inches possible. Tonight Rain and snow before 2am, then a chance of snow. The rain and snow could be heavy at times. Snow level 7900 feet lowering to 5200 feet after midnight . Low around 23. Wind chill values between 8 and 18. Windy, with a west wind 33 to 40 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible. Saturday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 25. Wind chill values between 5 and 10. Breezy, with a west wind 24 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible. Saturday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 23. Wind chill values between 9 and 16. Breezy, with a southwest wind 23 to 28 mph decreasing to 11 to 16 mph in the evening. Winds could gust as high as 34 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible. Sunday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 26. South wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. Sunday Night Snow likely, mainly before 11pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 19. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Forecast for farther up the mountain was 45-51" today and 30-36" for tonight, etc.

'Fraid so. Temp was 3.6° BN, precip 120% of average, and the 5.1" snow was 26% of average. Thru Jan 14th there had been 2.1" snow, 3,29" precip (and another 0.17" RA on the 15th but that day's +18 temp dragged the month average to just 4.6° BN), and temp running 6.2° BN. Those are near-impossible trifectas. Farmington co-op was even worse for snow, with just 4.3", ranking 129th of 130 Januarys there and only 0.3" more than the "champion", 1992.