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Finished with 3.0" of 16:1 fluff in 8-9 hours of accumulation, with the 1.8" by 9 PM being 20:1. Modest event but exceeded some forecasts.

Must've been a lot different there from what we had here. The 1st was cool and dry, then the next 8 days averaged 82/56 (11° AN here) with only 0.06" RA. Of course, much of SNE was drowning while we were in moderate drought by then.

Explorer Roald Amundsen once said, "An adventure is just another name for a poorly planned expedition."

February stats for my locale: Avg temp: 19.6 +1.9 The final 5 days ran -10, dragging the month 2.6° closer to average. Avg. high: 31.1 +1.9 Max was 56 on the crazy 23rd, and it topped the 55 in Feb 2018 for that month's mildest. Avg. low: 8.0 +1.9 Two mornings at -18, 6th and 26th. Precip: 3.72" +0.62 Had 1.23" on 2/4 Snow: 22.5" -0.4" but still our snowiest month since Feb 2019. The 4th had 11.3" and that event totaled 12.4", first 12"+ since March 2018. Pack: Peaked at 26" on 2/4 and the average depth of 20.8" was 1.4" AN. Solid C grade. The AN temp was balanced by the entertaining rollercoaster changes.

Barely made 0.2" here, where snow squalls (and svr TS) go to die. Two squalls in 8 days, 0.3" total. February temp will finish about +2. It was running +4.7 thru last Wednesday.

Same in Maine. We had to pause during choir rehearsal and shut off phones, and my wife scrambled to have flashlights at the ready. Pretty low-key result at our place, 0.2" and modest gusts. Squalls tend to die in our valley location.

Maybe use the bottom 10% as a threshold, or 15%. CAR, working on their 83rd winter, has never had a one with <50% of average - average is 115 and their lowest was 59.6. 10% for CAR would be at 70% of average and 15% would be 75%. Farmington's in year 130 with a 90" average and only 79-80 and 80-81 were <50%; #3 had 46.8" (0.1" less than 2015-16). The 10% threshold would be at 67% of average and 15% would at 71%.

I'd go for another March 2001, 55.5" and closing with a 19" dump on 30-31 that brought the pack to 48". The big dog on 3/5-6 was only the 3rd biggest storm that month.

"Warfare is nothing more than armed robbery writ large." Tom Clancy

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.