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Clouds hung tough yesterday, damping the max to only 40, ten degrees under the forecast. March numbers: Avg max: 39.8 +1.0 Mildest: 54 on the 22nd Avg min: 20.6 +3.6 Coldest: -13 on the 3rd Mean: 30.2 +2.3 Precip: 4.50" +0.71" Wettest day: 0.99" on the 6th Snow: 9.6" -7.5" Snowiest: 4.0" on the 24th Deepest: 19" on the month's 1st 4 days. Avg depth: 9.4" -7.8" March 2025 came and went, if not a lion maybe a bobcat, with temps like a lamb in the middle. 1-4: -5.9° 5-22: +7.1° 23-31: -3.2°

Normal highs but 5-10° BN lows. BDL norm for next Monday is 46°, probably something like 57/35. Mount Tolland would be more like 53/33.

Sounds like January 10, 1998, when 95% of the ice cascaded to the ground. My wife was at the AUG Civic Center with an elderly woman suffering Parkinson's, and our drive home at 10 PM was one of the most eerie trips in memory. Zero lights, super dense fog, and all kinds of stuff littering the roads. Couldn't see the trees/branches/wires until almost on top of them.

PWM numbers: 11/26/1921 30 23 0.49" 1.5" 11/27/1921 25 20 1.11" 6.3" 11/28/1921 29 22 1.15" 7.6" Seems too cold for much ZR, more like an SN/IP mix. Farmington had 10" on 0.87" LE, likely all snow. Maine trees escape the catastrophe.

Maybe. I was utterly fascinated by the NNJ ice storm in January 1953; it planted seeds of both meteorology and forestry which are still growing. Of course, I was only 6 and people at that general age look at things differently than grown-ups. My reaction to 1998, which was precisely 45 years later (both accretions came Jan 8,9) was vastly different, as I was then responsible for 160k acres of forest in Western Maine. Because you need an ideal combination of cold air drain, moisture and lift which usually only occurs over a relatively small area. edit: a stalled front is also helpful. It's one of the more elusive weather events. That's one reason that 1998 was such a unicorn, causing catastrophic damage from Montreal to Moncton. And that NB pic several posts up-thread reminded me of the state lot in Hebron (10 miles NW from LEW) in 1998. I found a one-year twig of ash - perhaps 0.15" diameter - that had ice 3.0" x 2.2", about the size of a Pringles can. Blades of grass had ice the size of soda cans.

Trace of ZR and maybe 0.3" IP. Total 2-day QPF is <0.4". Roads were nasty this morning.

Dry overnight but the sleet should arrive within minutes. Temp ~25.

Yankees have 9 hr, struck out 5 times and made 5 errors. Their starter got pulled with a 10-run lead and 2 outs in the 5th, one out from getting the win. Just before 4 we have a patch of blue-ish sky as the sun attempts to peek.

3" here, all flakes. 1.9" from 0.16" LE at 7 then 1.1" from 0.06" LE feathers thru 11:30. Since then only countable flakes, none in the past hour as the band has moved south.

Guess we won't notice the partial solar eclipse - max coverage (~60% here) is about 6:30 AM and GYX had us possibly at 1"/hr snow then.

April 2007 redux?

I think it's only the 3rd time this cold season - Thanksgiving night, Feb 16, and almost April. Only 2015-16 has had fewer since we moved here in 1998. (Though the 120 days between 1st and 3rd are respectable.)

Saturday update: Here, 2-4" and max 31. SNJ is sunny and 80. The weird gets weirder. March to date is +3.5, thanks to 5th-22nd being +7.1.

Forecast max here for Saturday is 34, with snow. Grandkids in SNJ - sunny and 77.

This time of year, anything under 6", the snowblower remains under its tarp (unless we have freaky cold - April 6-9, 1982 averaged 23/10 at Farmington).

Late March has had some wild contrasts. On 3/31/98 I was working at Public Lands' Scraggly Lake tract, just NE from Baxter Park. WX there was occasional light RA/IP and mid 30s. At BGR, 100 miles south, it was 78. Another 100 south, PWM hit 88, their hottest March day.

Only for the 2-legged ones.

4/1/97 was a better example of rate-beats-warm-ground. 4/6-7/82 is probably the Northeast's coldest April blizzard in the past 150+ years. Temps for the much lesser storm in 4/2016 were also well below 32.

That would be a 'Dack destroyer. Uff Da

Some years back, a young cougar made it all the way from SD (IIRC) to SNE, only to get nailed on a CT highway.

Likewise here - missed the better bands, lousy dendrite growth, expected a better ratio than 8.7 to 1 with temps low 20s. Our 4" looks quite nice, however, and it brings the total to within 1/10" of the break point between awful and merely BN. Yep, not snowblowing Same here, but packed enough of the driveway so that the crummy-traction USPS van can deliver.

Moderate snow, tiny flakes, 25°, not quite 1".

March was on an 'F' track, with temp 4-5 AN (but BN for available sunshine) and no snows bigger than 0.9". Maybe this event and attendant cold can pull the month into D-land.

Flakes arrived 10:25, light-moderate. Temp still in the 20s.