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Wind went to NNE last hour, so the front has apparently gone by. Neither temp nor p-type has recognized that fact.

If that were to verify precisely as drawn, I'd be mere yards east of it. Guess I'll take my 2" of slop that turns to rock by tomorrow morning.

May not get any snow worth clearing here.

Probably a 3-peat here, unless something really good happens after the equinox. Current forecast for this Saturday thing is about 3", which given next week's forecast would leave me about 2 feet shy of average entering spring. Currently mid 30s with steady light RA, pack hanging tough at 17".

P&C has 3-7 for Rangeley (plus more overnight), Saddleback base is 600' higher so should do somewhat better. Temp trend suggests paste in the AM to powder PM.

I read it as being "considered" for 2023. They should try it in some of the minors first, to see what effect (if any) the change would make. It's been about 75 years since the "Boudreau Shift" was implemented when Ted Williams was at bat, and baseball has survived.

A forecasting nightmare for my general area - within 30 miles east or west of here. The potential for bust, in either direction, is immense.

Lots of memories in that first pic. My first Maine deer, a mini-basket 8-pointer, was dragged (uphill 1/2 mile) to the Hafey Road in 1976. it was the stockiest, short-bodied critter I've taken, weighed 175 after hanging a week. Brought several other to that road before finding the real honey-hole in the Big Brook country.

Thanks - the 75+ crowd is pretty slim. My early birthday present.

Another map with a no/low snow arrowhead extending from IZG to southern NB while points N, S, W get more. It's an odd dynamic, and almost never works out that way.

Without looking, I think the proportion is higher in New England, especially in Maine. Switching from fossil fuels has the obvious catch -22, encouraging heat pumps and EVs while shutting down fossil-fueled generating facilities. The solutions are apt to be lengthy and expensive at first, though prices should become more reasonable as green power is a bigger share of the grid.

It's probably the only Eastern river with an Arctic flow regime - huge ice-out and spring runoff followed by mostly very low flows during summer and early fall. At those times it's a little river in a big channel.

I'd recommend doing this carefully, with a sunset provision perhaps tied to prices drop below a set threshold. Roads/bridge are bad enough now and an extended spell of drying up their finances won't help. Also, the sunset provision would eliminate the need to vote for a tax hike, with its political fallout. Totally different subject: Came thru my ablation process quite well yesterday. The Electrophysiologist (a discipline I'd never heard of before last October) spent 25 minutes treating over 130 separate rogue impulse sites in pulmonary veins during the 4-hours it took for anesthesia/insertion of tools into femoral veins and up to-through the heart/ablation/removal and cleanup, followed by 3-4 hours on my back in recovery and then another 2 hours stopping the skin-layer capillary bleeds. In Hospital at 6:15 AM, out at 6:30 PM, totally professional job all around. My throat is scratchy thanks to the tube and my chest is sore - things were done inside there - especially if I take a deep breath. A week of no lifting more than 10 lb and other sensible cautions.

This is surprising, though I'm not questioning your experience. Are the Cape Cod folks Gen-X and older? I'm far more familiar with inland Maine, where the work ethic is generally great, though all places here and there have exceptions.

For the St. John, keep an eye on the gauge at Dickey. I've heard that if it drops below 3,000 cfs you may have to drag in some places, especially with a canoe full of camping gear. It can go the other way at that time of year, and can change surprisingly quickly as the watershed has relatively small area in lakes. On April 30, 2008 the river hit 183,000 cfs, breaking the existing peak flow of 151,000 on 4/30/1979 and causing serious flooding in Fort Kent. A mere 16-17 days after that 1979 peak, 6 of us from Seven Islands Land Company launched our canoes at the old Priestly Bridge site on T13R14, about a mile downriver from the current span. We overnighted at the mouth of Big Black and at the Bishop farm, above Big Rapids, and we were scratching bottom in the wide spot just above the start of that 3-mile whitewater - Dickey must've been at/below 3k by then. (Once the Allagash joins, there's almost always plenty of water - a fast run to our take-out at St. Francis.) Then the last week of May 1979 had 3" rain and the river came up 6'+. The most experienced of the mid-May canoeists tried to run Big Rapids right after the RA and not only swamped his canoe but had his outboard ripped off. The Allagash folks say "keep left" on the St. John rapids. We ended up on the right for the lower half of Big Black rapids and survived, barely, but stayed left for Big Rapids.

Thanks. Looks like a bit above $5 US - I based the earlier attempt on $6.67 US.

$2.20/L CA?

Sun trying to peek thru the clouds, temp barely above 40. May be too late for the torch here in CAD-land. Only 0.08" RA after the early snow.

How do you like the Maverick? It looks like it's closer in size to the old Ranger than to the new. Having driven Rangers/Mazdas since 1994, I've been disappointed at the lack of non-monster pickups.

Never too late. My experience may not be applicable because I'd just turned 24 in March of 1970, but my first ski area visit (NNJ's Great Gorge) was late that month, at night. Staff had to keep bringing snow to the unload area so skiers could reach the trail without walking on dirt, and the trail was noisy manmade though soft enough to turn. Took a lesson (More edge!) and skied all evening. Then we had 11" of powder on 3/29, Easter Sunday, and I went up the next evening to a totally different scene - and was hooked. Bought equipment that spring then an under-the-lights season pass at GG in the fall.

Like the prolific author who "hates writing but loves having written", I'm looking forward to having undergone the procedure.

Missed the good band here but 1.5" hit the forecast bullseye - no complaints.

Check your arithmetic. IIRC, amwx came into being late in 2010, so it's more like 35-40 per day. On another topic, IowaStorm should add Dave Foreman (founder of EarthFirst!) to the credits. He said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) "Humanity is a cancer on the planet and I'm the antidote."

NNE will probably get slammed Monday into Tuesday. I have to be at Maine Med at 6:30 Tuesday (ablation procedure, to address my a-fib) and we're overnighting a mile away rather than doing the 2-hour drive that morning. Two clippers, 4.5", thanks to 1.5" overnight. Surprised that LEW got so much, as cocorahs showed 6-8" in midcoast locales (Lincoln/Knox Counties) but mostly 4" or less elsewhere.

Agreed. Our 3.0" of 16:1 fluff was about twice what I expected. 8-9 hours of steady light snow.