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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.

Still have 17" at the stake and will likely have a foot or more remaining when/if the snow arrives late week. Walked the dog thru our woodlot on the sled trail and she was only sinking an inch or 2 when wandering outside the groomer path. I sampled the snow off trail, got about 20' while sinking 3-4" then dropped past mid-calf, requiring a retreat. My weight has dropped 25 lb over the past 3 years - eating less - but I'm still well above 200, so our pack is really solid.

Or in a CAD kingdom. Thanks to the early month snow/QPF, February's SDDs should finish close to our average, unless Friday's event either runs away south or overperforms here.

The Maine peaks look more like the Greens than like the Dacks/Whites. (Except for Katahdin which looks like nothing else in the East.)

If we can grab 7" or more by month's end, February will have AN snow and at least 5° AN temp. A bit harder to have March with AN snow and way AN temp, but not impossible.

Would be nice if that were US Rt 2.

Love the little blue scoop for central/midcoast Maine, so LEW/Pit 2/MBY shows less than points S/W/N/E. Of course, it won't verify quite like that, but it makes me wonder what computer gymnastics can produce a snow hole for SR compared to all around it.

Brings back long-ago memories of my 1971 ski week at the old Glen Ellen. Super deal for January, half-price just $22.50 bought 5 days of skiing, 5 lessons and 2 apres-ski parties with a movie and gluwein. Got my skis latched on about an hour before the class level sorting was scheduled, so I rode the mountain lift and took the long traverse to the west slopes, intending to ski the advanced beginner trail. Missed it and ended on an advanced intermediate trail named Hoot Mon, a Scottish exclamation, and I said that and worse as I crashed over and over again. The trail was steep icy moguls with wind-slab powder in the hollows, far beyond my skill. The remaining $80 in traveler's checks parted company somewhere on that hill, and being dressed like a Jerseyite on one's first visit to VT I was sweating profusely by the time I climbed back to the base. However, it worked out for the good. I was initially put in advanced stem but there were too many in that class, so they asked if any of us had gone up the mountain lift and 2 of us thusly got bumped to beginning parallel, which was a blessing. Sled trail thru the fields in Farmington Falls looks deadly, uncontrollable without picks. Some roads look the same as runoff froze overnight.

Only dropped from 22" to 18" here, but we've had some pack-settling thaws that Jackman probably avoided.

I'd nominate February 1981. My Fort Kent home, then in town at about 550' elev, had 21" on 2/1 and then dropped to zero on 2/22. CAR's February max from 1939 thru 1980 was 49. In 1981 they tied that record twice and exceeded it 7 times, with the month finishing 14.7° AN. They had 11 days with departures of +21 to +29, quite a change from the 33° BN temp and -16 max on January 4. Their 28" pack on 2/1 went to zero on the 23rd. The ice ran on both the Allagash and the St. John, the latter tipping Priestly Bridge into the water, cutting off the St.-Pamphile sawmills from much of their resource area. None of the older folks from the area had ever seen the rivers run before late March. Sharp frontal passage here about 7:45. Winds abruptly backed to NW with brief gusts to mid 30s - 15-25 otherwise. Temp dropped 8° from 7:30 to 8 and by 8:30 skies were PC. Only 0.17" when I emptied the bucket at 8 and no more than a couple cents after that. Lost only 4" pack thanks to the less than expected RA. now at 18". Will need lots of wood ashes on the driveway, though I'll wait a bit for the wind to settle before trying to spread the stuff without it all blowing away.

That's true on the state highways here, but most of the smaller towns depend on sand - actually a 16:1 mix with salt.

Max depth there in 68-69 was 32", not quite 20% of Pinkham's pack. MWN has only reached 40" on 6 days, 3 each for 1956 and 1970 with 42" the tallest in '70. Even that is remarkable given the site.

For cold, yes, with 3 months between a mini-Grinch on Dec 20-21 until the warm rain at the equinox. However, we had only 76% of avg snow, which disqualifies it in my mind. Suppression city, with only the mid-Nov and early Jan events showing up here in good form.

Between N. Conway and Phin there's Pinkham Notch, where the late Feb storm dumped 77" and brought the pack to 164", almost certainly the greatest recorded depth east of the Rockies. They also had 3 storms of 29-31", one each for Dec, Feb and March, for a winter total of 323" and 10,545 SDDs. MWN had 97.8" in the big dump and 559" for the season but only 2,951 SDDs, as nearly all their snow landed in Tucks.

Their P&C had my area with all snow Tues-Tues night, 70% PoP, then mix on Wednesday. AFD had the battle front working to the south after that. Would be nice. Low 50s here but barely an ich loss of pack; it's quite solid. Also more cloud than sun plus some shade on the stake site. Mildest New England site in GYX 1 PM obs was PSM at 63. SFM/IZG headed for 60+ as well.