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Heard on the noon news that the Dixmont Mountain stretch of I-95 (~miles 160-65) has struck again, with multiple accidents, and drivers being advised to exit before reaching that section. For whatever reason it becomes/remains icy while areas closer to Newport of Bangor are just wet. I've seen multiple cars off the road several times while traveling in that area.

Franklin County and IVTs - things that never meet. The 0.6" from today's warm rain may be more snow than falls here Wednesday.

0.6" snow before changing to light ZR about 7 AM - porch stairs were icy death (until I sprinkled wood ash) when I went out at 10. At 11 Rockland was 52 and Augusta 33. The cold will get scoured out but it's hanging tough at present.

Only a dusting here but enough to produce super slickness on the bit of well compacted/icy snow from Thursday.

Fortunately, this rain/wind/mess looks far less catastrophic than 12/25/20, but that mega-Grinch took out my 5" (with 1.8" LE) pack long before the rain had ended. Hope your 1" LE fares better on Monday.

Monday's forecast for Manchester, VT is 56° and 1/4-1/2" RA with strong S/SW wind. Mitch's extra 1500' elevation may not be as much help as usual with that wind direction, and high wind/high dews make for pack-eating. Still, his place probably has the best chance of pack survival of any of the regular posters here. Low teens here this AM. The wind was still strong well into the overnight, preventing a drop into the singles.

Had 11 events in the 5.0-9.5" range that winter, mostly SWFEs and only the 8" event in mid-Feb had any IP/ZR, though it had a lot (1.51" LE). Of course, 07-08 was singular in having scads of snow events - 21 with 3"+ - and comparatively few P-type issues.

Late month 12/07 was a bit nicer up here though we had the obligatory Grinch storm on Christmas eve. 12/27-31 brought 3 small-medium events for 14.4" and 1/1-2/08 added 12.5" (season's biggest snowfall) for a 27" week. If we can score some decent pack next week there's a chance the mild-up won't take it all and we can be in continuous snow cover thru at least met winter.

CAD won out yesterday as the temp never reached freezing, though it may have done so during the overnight as some of the glaze is gone from the bare hardwoods. (May be evaporating in the wind, too.) Not often that my place stays 20°+ cooler than PWM. CAA in full force atm, with the odd flake sailing by.

CNN reported that Denver has remained snow-free into December for the first time. (Don't know the POR.)

PWM's snowiest winter with 141.5", nearly 7" more than CAR though even up there 134.7" is a top 20 winter. Jan 1971 is PWM's coldest month on record and that month's coldest morning of -26 ranks 3rd, behind only the freak blast in Feb 1943.

No problems on the roads though I took a back road to avoid a plow truck with a string of cars behind. However, the lady cutting my hair commutes Auburn-Farmington and she had to stop 3x while getting around accidents this morning and saw several other cars visiting the boonies a bit. Still near 32 here with light RA/ZR. We'll see how much warm air makes it to CAD land ahead of the CF.

Looks right for SR but one needs 2-3 lifts to get there. Top single lift gain looks ~1500' on Google Earth'.

0.7" here before the change to ZR about 9:45. Heading into Farmington about 11, we'll see if drivers in the foothills are as ill prepared as on the coastal plain. At least the snows are mounted and the firewood in the bed.

BIL lives in Haleiwa - Oahu north shore - 20 minutes from Waimea Bay of surfer fame. Only 10' breakers when we were there in March 2016.

0.7" since 7 AM but switched to ZR about 9:45. 1st "snowpack" of the season, though slightly under 1" and probably gone or back down to "T" by tonight.

I'd revise "esp for SE areas" to "not NNE sites" - even at PWM that was the 4th or 5th largest that snow season and farther north it was even less significant.

For sure. Many NE sites show Dec 1989 being 4°+ colder than the 2nd coldest. No other month has such a spread between 1st and 2nd coldest. (For warmest "gaps" see Dec 2015.)

November and December 2006 were exceptionally mild, with Grinch-y storms just before Christmas. Might've been a factor. The 2006-07 winter arrived about Jan 14.

Even up here the average thru 12/10 is only 9.9". By the end of the month it's 24.5".

Yesterday's 7° BN left November at +0.5°. Precip was about 70% of avg (year is at 80%) and snow was 5% of average.

November stats: Avg temp: 33.80 +0.47 Avg max: 43.03 +0.80 Mildest - 60 on the 9th Avg min: 24.57 +0.14 Coldest - 11 on the 3oth Precip: 2.92" -1.34" 1.63" came on the 12th. 2021 to date: 35.48" -8.81" 80% of average Snow: 0.2" on the 26th. Avg is 4.7" Trivia note: This November had midsummer-like variability. Adding the absolute values of departures, 11/21 span was 7.07°. November average is 15.17°, and only Jan/Feb are higher. July is the least variable month with a span of 7.78°. Thus November 2021 variability would've been BN in July.

One troll post to another: Yes, I like cold and snow so that means I want car accidents and COVID outbreaks. Better people want warm and sunny, as those ski and snomo workers and enthusiasts are terrible people who deserve to have their jobs and sport disappear.

Downeast Maine used to have no size or bag limit on pickerel - it's the region of hammer handles. When I was at forestry summer camp (1974), while on our section cruise we encountered an old beaver pond of an acre or so on a trout-y looking brook. On a Sunday day off I hiked in with my fish pole, and a dozen casts yielded 6-7 pickerel in the 10-12" size before I gave up. Trout couldn't compete there, though the bigger waters (like Princeton's Long Lake, right off the summer camp peninsula) had fine smallies - found none bigger than 15" but lots of action.