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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.

Last time I recall so many Pats off-season FA signings was after going 5-11 in 2000, and we know what happened after that. Of course, back then BB was raiding the bargain bin; this time it's the luxury aisle.

This morning's 11° is the month's lowest by 6F, making 11/21 only the 2nd November since 2010 that didn't drop below 10°. The other one was in 2016 and we had about 140% of average snow in 16-17.

"Slime dart"? Pickerel? (My initial thought was snakehead, but they're not that far north - yet - I hope.)

11° here, order is restored.

Less so in my memory - nice events 3-4-5 in 1989 and 2007 but 6-7/03 is easily tops for 1st week Dec. NNJ memories of big Dec snowstorms begin with 11-12/1960, 18" at low teens for the deer season opener - learned to field dress on dad's 5-pointer. Nearest to serious hypothermia came on 12/4/1965 at my uncle's N. PA hunting camp. 4° at sunrise, but it was the day's final hours that did it, plus inadequate clothing. Temp never topped 15 and I sat for 2+ hours facing NW into strong winds and some light LES before heading back to camp. Was okay for dinner but the instant I stepped outside afterwards the heavy shivering resumed, and continued throughout the 4-hour drive home, while dad and uncle C roasted in the front seat. Only the warm bath at home stopped it.

Or 12 hours for CAR. Go for the northern Greens.

Not common for your place to be less cold than mine - 17 was yesterday's low, also the season's lowest, though I expect near 10° tomorrow morning. November will finish about +0.5°, without a single day with more than 7° departure. That's more like July departures - never had a Novie without 10+ departure days, max AN is 22.9° on 11/11/02, tallest BN is Thanksgiving 2018 with -26.7°.

Nothing here (as expected), though the clouds held the temp above 20 overnight. Clouds disappeared about sunrise, another sunny day. We've now had 50% more sunny/mostly sunny days this month than in any of the 23 previous Novembers. Friday's wet dusting (0.2") is amazingly persistent, most still in place. In March with the same temps, all would've been gone before Saturday noon.

We would always see that phenomenon in a good Aroostook winter, one without a major midwinter thaw. Large windthrown tees would have 3'+ stacked, with visible strata from multiple snowfalls. Coolest were the small fir that would have snow piled up until it would bend the top as if the snow was taffy, the snowcone top now pointing sideways or even somewhat downwards. I'd refer to that as a "snownose". Somewhere in my slides from the NW Maine woods there are some showing that effect.

Almost enough for decent tracking and more than here. RA changed to snow about 1:30 yesterday afternoon and continued thru 8 PM but only 0.2" accum. Was a drippy late afternoon in the woods. Saw 4"+ in Waldo County but even Temple at 1220' had only 0.9". East (or mountains, or north) was best.

Switched to mainly wet flakes here about 1:30, though precip has been light since arriving about noon. Flakes melting on contact in mid-30s temps, but first time this season I've seen them in the air, rather than on windshields from overnight. Baby steps

Looks like from Jayhawk to MBY.

GYX a bit less enthusiastic. Glad it's for a small and early event, but seeing the higher forecast to the west, north and east fits with last winter, when central/southern Maine fared worse compared to climo than almost anywhere else in the Northeast. Expected Snowfall - Official NWS Forecast Point Range

13" in the 2014 event - finally saw a 10"+ snowfall on my 42nd November in Maine. Nine Novembers in Fort Kent produced nothing above 8", then a year after we move south, Nov 1986 brings a 21" dump. While we lived in the north, all the places we had or would live in Maine (BGR, Gardiner, Farmington) had 10'+ storms. Farmington had more during our 13 years in Gardiner. The 2011 storm was close - 9.7" - and was the biggest snowfall of that snow season. Looks like some of us will see more in the next 24 hrs or so then Monday right now. Maybe 1-2 tomorrow night, little or nothing Sun-Mon?

Morning AFD from GYX has snow in the mountains and the more significant precip east of the mts in the Capitol and Midcoast areas. Seems to skip over a part of Maine I think to be significant. (P&C looks somewhat more logical.) At this juncture I think south & coast with the better odds for Monday, with plenty of cold air available, lots of upslope.

Picky, picky (even when it's right). Newsies are always looking for eyeballs/clicks.