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In Jeff's hood too, but I've not seen anything bigger than 1/4" here. However, we're 16 hours since the changeover and counting, with about 10.5" of 8-9 to 1 stuff, nice and dry except for the bottom inch, which needed to be bounced off the shovel occasionally when I was measuring at 7.

7.5" at 7 this morning with 0.90" LE and 2.5-3" since. RA changed to snow about 7 last evening and it's been constant moderate snow since then. Temp is mid-teens so the snow is dry, but I've not seen anything bigger than 1/4" coming down and the ratio is 8.3. Most of the snowiest reports on cocorahs show similar ratios. Farmington 4.8 NW reported 10.5" on 1.96" LE; the total looks reasonable as it was a 9 AM measurement but the LE is off the wall - 0.78" more than any other Maine report and 0.88" above any of the snowy places. Just had a short period with the rate almost to S+ but it's back to the usual, which is fine when it continues for 15+ hours. Back end looks to be just this side of the CT River so probably several more inches to come. May make 12"+ for the first time since March 2018. Trees are full of snow, but the later dry stuff isn't adding much weight so no danger, just beauty.

March 1936 brought the Sandy River to its 2nd greatest flood flow, trailing only 1987. Some Kennebec sites below Augusta had 1936 peaks higher than 1987 despite a lesser flow, due to an ice jam at the Richmond bridge and Swan Island. In the 1987 flood the ice had already run on most streams 4th order or bigger.

Though a very different setup, this event has a faint aroma of Dec 7-9, 2014. That storm was forecast at 10-16" here, basically our current forecast for tonight/tomorrow. The 2014 thing brought 1.3" snow and 2"+ of 33-35° RA. Meanwhile, western Maine mountains above about 1800' had 18-30" of tree-wrecking paste. (It was the 2nd of that season's mega-busts, storms that brought only 1/8 the snow needed for the forecast to verify.) I remain optimistic about this one, for now.

34 and breezy, first day above 31 since Jan 6. Five deer cleaned up the drops under the most prolific of our 3 apple trees this morning, so I knocked down the last 30-40 hangers-on. Looked like 3 adult deer and 2 fawns from last spring. Dog nibbled at some deer poop.

Needs more salsa - a lot more.

Just looking at central IL, that 3-number cluster of 13.4" to 15.1", if that verified it would be the #2 storm at DEC (where grandkids lived 2009-14) with POR since 1/1/1901. Serious for sure, life-threatening seems hype.

Still a watch from GYX as we're maybe 36 hr until accumulation begins. Their current low/expected/high for Farmington is 4/9/12, with 52% chance of >8". Rain to snow with rapidly falling temps sounds like a real challenge for road crews and maybe for the trees.

NOV, DEC each D+, JAN B-. So far snow is 75% of average, D+, while last month's -4.3° brings total temp to C/C-. Net: a weak C-.

-17 here. After just one subzero morning in December, a modest -3, last month had 15 with 8 at -10 or lower.

Same here - last 40+ was 12/17 and it's not gotten milder than 36 since then. Only 2 mornings -20 or colder but they were -29 and -30, and both are top 10 here for cold mornings - 6 minima -30 or colder and 4 more at -29. January numbers: Mean: 10.4 4.3 BN and the 5th coldest of 24 Avg high: 21.9 3.6 BN Month's max was 36 on the 6th, and only 2 other days above 32, with 33s on 1,2 Avg low: -1.0 4.8 BN Min -30 on the 27th Precip: 2.29" 0.85" BN Greatest day 1.02" on the 17th Snow: 20.5" 0." AN Greatest day 8.0" on the 29th First AN "snow month" (DJFM) since Feb 2019, after 10 straight BN snow months.

43" bring the pack to 84", both tops at Farmington. 0.01% chance of even being close to that.

Working on #2 here w/o a 10"+ and 19-20 topped out with 10.3" - after the equinox. On the other hand, it looks lovely outside, the pack reached 20" and deer have been in our yard chomping on apples. (And on the apple trees, not so good.)

Bridgton/Fryeburg are nice places and probably run about 80"/year for snow and an hour or less from the Portland amenities, could be pricey near the lakes or Shawnee Peak. Denmark, on the back (west) side of that mountain might also be an option. For a longer move and further from pop centers, Rangeley would be my choice - 120"/year with lots of snow-season opportunities and growing 4-season infrastructure. Can be pricey, especially near water or the newly re-opened Saddleback.

I'd be more comfortable if we had the 1998 version of Central Maine Power - they were absolute champions in that winter's ice storm. However, they've now become a dumpster fire, with the flames ignited by the practices of their over-the-ocean owners.

TX last year?

Nice 9.5" event with 15:1 ratio to bring the pack up to 21". Also dropped my standing of Kev/MA's snow table from 7th to 14th.

My data is slightly different on #1 total - no guarantees. Here's my top 6 for Boston, all the 2'+: 27.6" 2/17-18/2003 27.1" 2/6-7/1978 26.3" 2/24-27/1969 25.4" 3/31-4/1/1997 24.9" 2/8-9/2013 24.6" 1/26-28/2015 Moderate snow and 4°, maybe 1.2" new with accum starting about 9:30. Teeny-tiny flakes in the wind.

Mod snow by visibility, light snow by accum - 1/4" in 2.5 hours. (Some EMA sites getting more than that in 5 minutes.) Tiny windblown flakes, temp 4°.

Reached -30 this morning, only the 6th time in my 24 winters here. Lowest was -36 on 1/16/09, the day that Big Black River reached -50 to claim Maine's coldest temp on record.

The GYX least/expected/most snow list this AM has the widest spreads I've seen. Farmington's 0"/6"/13" is eye opening, but pales compared to ASH's 0"/9"/21" and PSM's 1"/1"/23". Pretty wild for 2 days before first flakes. Tickled -30 here this morning, only the 6th such minima in 24 years. Others were in January 2005, 2009 (twice), 2014 and December 2017.

Several past "How old are you" surveys here showed very few who were born 1946-64, but I guess "boomer" is a convenient pejorative. (Note: I've not read the posts which led to the above message and don't intend to do so. I'm sorry you got flamed for whatever you posted, as the board should be better than that.)

Jacks for any particular spot are very uncommon (unless one is on MWN) but the LEW total from late Feb 1969 is still 10" greater than any storm I've experienced, even though it was 7" shy of Farmington. Haven't had a 12"+ storm since March 2018, by far the longest such stretch in my 23.5 winters here.

Without using the alphabet and without dates and maps, I have a strong impression that secondaries forming north of Chesapeake are more dependable snowmakers for NNE than those that redevelop farther south. Nothing to do with storm strength, only that the southerly ones seem to have more opportunity to be shoved OTS.

Finished with 1.7", 4th biggest storm of the season. Started about 1 AM (0.1" by 2:15) and probably ended about 10 - we left for BGR before 8 and it was still snowing there at 1 PM though their total looked a bit less than ours. Some south/mid coastal sites had 3"+.