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Great storm, 0.67" total with 0.2" SN to start, most precip at 32-34°. Again

Especially WCI.

Much better retention than 20-21 though still below average. We're at 76% of my average for total snowfall, while last year finished just under 60%. My worst 3-year period for snow was 01-02 thru 03-04 with 213.0". Winter 19-20 thru now totals 204.3". Average snow after 3/25 is 7.1" though it's extremely variable, ranging from zero (twice) to 37.2" in 2007. SDDs: 20-21: 1,166 21-22: 1,457 thru yesterday Average: 1,771 Median: 1,444 Highest: 3,835 in 07-08 Lowest: 557 in 05-06

Winter 21-22: "Not as horrible as 20-21, as D+ beats F."

Had some huge aggregates and IP at the same time between 9 and 10 this AM, always light, then RA-/dz since about 10:15. 0.2" frozen, mostly gone now. Two years ago on this date I was looking at 10" new, snow season's biggest event. ((2nd biggest would come 16 days later.)

After 90 minutes of here-and-there flakes, it's still S- but with the occasional silver-dollar aggregates mixed in. P-type change coming soon? Maybe 0.1" dusting so far.

One of the few storms to pound CHI, NYC and CAR. 2 out of 3 is common but hitting all 3 much less so. It was the strongest blizzard of my experience with gusts well into the 50s in Fort Kent, and by far the most wintry April storm in NYC's 150+ years of record.

Weird in many ways. However, during the past 10 years SNE has done better in April, 120% of long-term April average, than my area (plus PWM) with 69% of the April L-T. Still clearly recall the final kick in the gut of 2015-16 when SNE was getting 5-10" of April powder while we rotted in useless cloudy cold.

That's about your average low for the date, maybe even 1-2° AN. We've gotten used to milder mornings after a week of 10-15° AN minima. Be glad it's not a 3/2014 repeat; on 24-25 that month I had lows of -15/-17. Farmington co-op hit -12 on the 25th, tied with 3/24/1906 for coldest they've recorded after the equinox.

Turn MWN into Katahdin southwest?

Mid teens here with all the wind, but milded up quickly the next day. Places like Jackman barely made it out of the singles.

The 1998 event was elevational in that part of NH. While Gorham had mostly rain and MWN had rainy 40s (at the time their mildest Jan temp), forests between 1500 and 2500 got crushed. In Maine that 1500-2500' area got mainly IP; the real damage was in central Maine/Downeast under 1000'. Meanwhile Aroostook had temps mostly in the teens with ~20-25" of 8:1 snow over a 5-day period.

Then went home had changed their undies.

Here it was 2010. Jan 1 thru May 5 averaged +6.2, capped by those first 5 May days with highs averaging 78°. Leaf out was at least 3 weeks ahead of usual, then May 11-13 had lows of 22/26/25. I'd not planted anything yet, so the garden was safe, but new growth on ash, oak, apple and some maples was fried - trees had to set new buds and start over. It was the 2nd year in 3 that we had about zero from our 3 apple trees. (In 2008 a cedar harvest across the road had attracted dozens of deer. When that cafeteria closed in late Feb, all the critters came to my place and with 40"+ of solid pack to elevate them, they trimmed essentially every bud.)

I count exactly one from New England at present, the fellow from Monson (Maine) who occasionally chips in on snowmobile discussions. Northern NNE may bag a foot of paste between now and Monday, but I anticipate mostly cold rain with catpaws for here.

Probably the latter at my locale. Yay

There's some gravel roads in town that look like that. Fortunately the 2000' of gravel between pavement and home is good material and just slimes the top inch or two until the frost is melted out of the top 6". Fit for light traffic only - a loaded log truck would quickly make a our road look like PF's pics.

Or 2016. Our pack went to "T" on 3/17 that year, 2 days earlier than in 2012. (And 3 days later than 2006, our earliest melt-off.)

Ones I've had in the past recommended April thru June for fertilizing woody shrubs/trees. Gives the boost in the early season and allows plants to set buds well before frost.

A bit behind here, though the 12" at the stake is 5" below my 3/21 average. Need some mild and dry to extinguish the pack so I can dig the overwintered carrots - Bolero variety gets sweeter when stored in the ground until spring.

You might get a few inches of white at the start and finish of the Wed-into-weekend mess. Maybe enough RA here to move the ice jam in Farmington.

Sizable ice jam on the Sandy in Farmington, right under Center Bridge (Rt 2). Stretches out of sight both up and downriver, so at least 2,000'. Not tall enough to flood much, but as the flow from the thaw/rain has peaked, the ice is settling onto the river bottom to await the next extended torch or big rain. Probably won't amount to much in the end but could get interesting if the late week storm brings a pile of rain. Pack down to 12" with some wet spots in the woods down to leaves, and most fields are bare or patches.

Had read that he had passed but none of the details. Went from throwing the Maz gopher ball to the 1-0 shutout of the Giants 2 years later. Another Yankee steal from their KC "farm team".

61 and eating snow yesterday, upper 30s with dz today. Hope your cataract surgery goes great. Had both eyes done - 2 months apart - in 2018, and my distance vision improved to 20/20. Eschewed the near-vision laser option, as I've been using reading glasses since the early 1990s. Also because, unlike the fully-covered basic operations, I'd have had $2.5k per eye out of pocket.

88% of our snow comes in the 4 months DJFM. The cumulative percentages below are probably similar to others here, though the farther south the more dominant Jan-Feb tends to be. Since I'm only on winter # 24, my numbers are "live" and adjust with each month's entry.) Month Snow Cum SN Cum % OCT 0.63" 0.63" 0.7% NOV 4.72" 5.35" 6.0% DEC 18.75" 34.10" 27.2% JAN 19.62" 43.72" 49.4% FEB 22.87" 66.59" 75.2% MAR 16.70" 83.29" 94.1% (Last year's 0.1": total didn't help.) APR 5.10" 88.39" 99.8% MAY 0.15" 88.54"