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Think I might've backed a little farther from the river. Reminded me of my first spring (1976) in Ft. Kent, with bedroom-size ice chunks 3-4' thick were thudding against the base of the 3' diameter elm on river's edge. That tree had been debarked 6-7 feet higher on the river side 2 years earlier when a week-long jam 30 miles upriver at Dickey let go. The water rose 20' in 2-3 minutes in Ft. Kent, with ice chunks on Main Street breaking the plate glass storefront windows. Two summers later work began on the dike to protect West Main up to a 32' flood. The 2008 flood reached 30.8 and did lots of damage on the unprotected east side. Finished with 6.2" of 14:1 fluff. The new snow plus clear and calm allowed the temp to radiate down to -17 this morning. Mid -20s in Aroostook.

12+ hours of light/moderate snow (and some graupel at 8°, coldest I've seen that) and finished with 6.2" from 0.45" LE, nearly 14:1. Now only 8.6" BN. Clear and calm last night with new snow, so -17 this morning. Saw -24 from PQI, might've reached -30 in NW Maine.

Up to 4.5", moderate rate at present. I can't recall a snowstorm with more hiccups - borderline S+ to almost nothing and back again, switching from okay flakes to teeny ones and back again - about 4 times, graupel, decent dendrites at present.

Nicest dendrites of this event, though more in the 1/2-3/4" per hour here. At 2:30 we had 4.2" with 0.35" LE for a 12:1 ratio, though the current flakes undoubtedly have a higher fluff factor.

Briefly moderate, now back to light though the flakes are 0.2" instead of 0.1".

2.4" with 0.18" LE at 11. Currently S- with about half the "flakes" being 0.1" graupel, at <10°.

Approaching 2" but flakes have become tiny - birdshot size with a few of BB diameter. Temp dropped to 7°.

Likewise here. Few if any New England sites recorded less from the Superstorm than our 10.3" of well-rimed flakes in Gardiner - 1.70" LE for a nice 6:1 ratio. Biggest snows for 1992-93: 2/22-24: 14.5" 1/31-2/2: 13.9" 2/16-17: 11.0" 3/13-14: 10.3" 3/5-6: 9.0"

Only takes 1-2 decent events to push SNJ above average, as most places there run 20" or less over the long term. NNJ away from Gotham's UHI average 40 or more. (And had 90-100+ in 60-61) 1.5" here with moderate SN. Visibility ~1/4 mile but flakes are falling so slowly that accum is less than the view would suggest. Temp 8° with OK dendrites but high ratios. Haven't taken a core - too little snow for a decent sample - but the slow-falling flakes might be 25:1 in the air, 20:1 after landing and 15:1 after more flakes land atop.

'61 really stands out. Lots of suppression that winter as the MA got hammered. Places in NNJ reached 50" or more following the early Feb blizzard, and Canistear Reservoir still had 22" on 2/23.

I was working in the woods about 50 miles SW from CAR that March 30-31, and our temp never topped 35, with fog, occasional showers and a few IP. We had no clue how warm it was a few dozen miles to the south. I think IZG had the greatest drop overnight, from 62 to 7.

That Tsunan depth is a couple cm north of what Pinkham Notch reached in Feb 1969, but way short of Paradise Ranger Station's tallest at 5500' on Rainier - 376"/955 cm. Crazy pics, thanks.

They have Farmington in the 5-9 range, same as MBY, but hedging - has kept our area in a watch while points south are warned. Yesterday's temp gymnastics were the wildest since 2/2/76 in Ft Kent, when the temp dropped from 44 to -6 in 5 hours with winds gusting to 50+. From foggy and 34° at 9:45 AM to 54 by noon and 56 (mildest in my 24 Februarys here) at 2 PM when the CF roared in, then to 36 by 4 and 18 by 9 PM. My 49° plummet was 6° less than at IZG - same min of 7 but hit 62 yesterday. Would not be surprised if my next stroll on the sled trail thru our woodlot discloses a few more fir lost to the 40 mph gusts as the temp plunged.

The rollercoaster is outdoing itself today - 34 at 10 AM to 53 by noon. 56 at 2 PM to 37 by 3:50. Also 2 computer crashes thanks to blinks in power after the wind kicked up. Gusts 30-35 shouldn't be able to do that.

CF passage began about 2 PM with sudden uptick in wind. Temp has dropped 10° in 45 minutes with a blink in the power - lost a bit of wx data I'd been entering. Pack only lost 1" to 16" - modest dews and only 4 hr in the warm sector helped.

Last year was a total ratter here. Thru today we're 2.2" ahead of that one and 12.5" BN. The way things are trending, there's a chance we don't reach advisory level for Friday.

Those guys probably saw you were okay, at least I hope that's why they seemed to ignore you. Looks like maybe a well-rotted EAB victim met a wind it couldn't stand up to.

Drove thru the WF on the way to Franklin Memorial for the bloodwork needed for my March 8 ablation procedure. It was 34 as I left home at 9:45 with most of last night's ZR still on the trees. 1000' down our road and it was only droplets, 2 miles to Rt 2 and branches were dry, a couple patches of blue in sight. Farmington was PC though the solid cloud bank a mile or 2 north meant that part of town was still cool. Time/temp sign a mile from the hospital read 47 at 10:05 and 58 as I headed home 45 minutes later. Got home about 11:15 and our temp was 47 and climbing. Still only 21 at FVE. 50s today and 5 tomorrow morning? This rollercoaster month remains in character.

We're in the 4-6" color though close to 6-8. Maybe in the latter if we get ratios 15:1 or better, though being on the north fringe generally means crummy flake development and 8:1 sand.

CAD is often a good thing here, but not this morning. Still in the fog here. (Both visually and personally )

Had to carry the ash bucket while resetting the max-min and retrieving the rain bucket last evening. Could not stand, much less walk, on any surface that was not dead level. Still awaiting the warm sector, though the temp is now graduating from low to mid 30s and the 0.1" accretion is beginning to come off the trees. It's weird to be 15-20° colder than most of the surrounding country. Folks at FVE must feel the same - at 9 they had 18 while CAR/PQI were 37-38. No change in the 17" pack, though I expect a 2-3" drop when the warm air finally arrives.

Reported 27" to cocorahs on the morning of 2/8, so down 10" from that. Probably lose 2-3" tomorrow.

3rd place among Maine cocorahs obs: New Sweden has 26" and Caribou 18".

And just south of me.

Our son had a cm or 2 in downtown Nagoya yesterday. They're at 35N but in a coastal city of 2.6 million so plenty of UHI. The Japanese Alps must be getting buried.