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Same situation as Gronk's retirement after SB53 - when Brady headed to TB and Gronk wanted to join him, Pats still owned his contract and got a 4th for him from the Bucs.

Great pic. "Only" 16.5" here, but a tick under 20 the week before, earlier-month version of 2001 when 35" fell 3/22-31. Odd temp trend considering wx and calendar, as 3/1-15 was +5.6° and 16-31 was -3.6°, and was nearly 3° colder than the first half. Would not be surprising in Jan/Feb but even here March snowfall amounts are moving from midwinter qpf-dependent to springlike temp-dependent.

No 10"+ snowstorm is bad, not even late Feb 2010, but the Superstorm was a bit of a disappointment at our (then) Gardiner home, 10.3" of heavily rimed 6:1 flakey things, among the lowest totals in New England. Far more had been forecast and it was supposed to continue well into Sunday, but it tapered to occasional flakes well before dawn. Warm nose then dryslot? One memorable observation was at 8 AM Sunday, when BGR was flat calm while Mt. Desert Rock was gusting near 70 about 50 miles SE.

I've been a fan since the mid 1950s and have read stuff similar to that last paragraph about 4 times since then. The particulars differ but the conclusions remain consistent. Maybe someday it will be accurate but I'm not concerned yet.

Almost up to 2" - will do the steps and clean the cars before they freeze, and the rest gets left to March away. Hope the plow stays away, at least until the temp is way below 32. If it came now the top inch of gravel gets piled next to our place and impedes the letter carrier. Trees are white but far short of limb-threatening load. Only way we'd lose power would be someone sliding into a pole. (Or of we get those 40 kt gusts later.)

Changed to SN here at 12:30 ater .30 RA. The P&C call of 1 PM for the switch was close, especially as I'm 2 miles NNW from town center. No accum until 1:20 but about 3/4" since then in moderate snow, about 3/8 mile vis. Probably an hour or so of this rate then lighter stuff. I'm somewhat glad it's not a big event here, as I'm still on light duty following Tuesday's ablation procedure - even running the blower would be outside recommendations. A couple inches of this every-twig frosting would provide beauty without hazards. (Other than for drivers)

RA now moderate. P&C had me at all SN by 18z (and mixing by now - oops).

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.