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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.

How do you like the Maverick? It looks like it's closer in size to the old Ranger than to the new. Having driven Rangers/Mazdas since 1994, I've been disappointed at the lack of non-monster pickups.

Never too late. My experience may not be applicable because I'd just turned 24 in March of 1970, but my first ski area visit (NNJ's Great Gorge) was late that month, at night. Staff had to keep bringing snow to the unload area so skiers could reach the trail without walking on dirt, and the trail was noisy manmade though soft enough to turn. Took a lesson (More edge!) and skied all evening. Then we had 11" of powder on 3/29, Easter Sunday, and I went up the next evening to a totally different scene - and was hooked. Bought equipment that spring then an under-the-lights season pass at GG in the fall.

Like the prolific author who "hates writing but loves having written", I'm looking forward to having undergone the procedure.

Missed the good band here but 1.5" hit the forecast bullseye - no complaints.

Check your arithmetic. IIRC, amwx came into being late in 2010, so it's more like 35-40 per day. On another topic, IowaStorm should add Dave Foreman (founder of EarthFirst!) to the credits. He said (and I'm paraphrasing from memory) "Humanity is a cancer on the planet and I'm the antidote."

NNE will probably get slammed Monday into Tuesday. I have to be at Maine Med at 6:30 Tuesday (ablation procedure, to address my a-fib) and we're overnighting a mile away rather than doing the 2-hour drive that morning. Two clippers, 4.5", thanks to 1.5" overnight. Surprised that LEW got so much, as cocorahs showed 6-8" in midcoast locales (Lincoln/Knox Counties) but mostly 4" or less elsewhere.

Agreed. Our 3.0" of 16:1 fluff was about twice what I expected. 8-9 hours of steady light snow.

Finished with 3.0" of 16:1 fluff in 8-9 hours of accumulation, with the 1.8" by 9 PM being 20:1. Modest event but exceeded some forecasts.

Must've been a lot different there from what we had here. The 1st was cool and dry, then the next 8 days averaged 82/56 (11° AN here) with only 0.06" RA. Of course, much of SNE was drowning while we were in moderate drought by then.

Explorer Roald Amundsen once said, "An adventure is just another name for a poorly planned expedition."

February stats for my locale: Avg temp: 19.6 +1.9 The final 5 days ran -10, dragging the month 2.6° closer to average. Avg. high: 31.1 +1.9 Max was 56 on the crazy 23rd, and it topped the 55 in Feb 2018 for that month's mildest. Avg. low: 8.0 +1.9 Two mornings at -18, 6th and 26th. Precip: 3.72" +0.62 Had 1.23" on 2/4 Snow: 22.5" -0.4" but still our snowiest month since Feb 2019. The 4th had 11.3" and that event totaled 12.4", first 12"+ since March 2018. Pack: Peaked at 26" on 2/4 and the average depth of 20.8" was 1.4" AN. Solid C grade. The AN temp was balanced by the entertaining rollercoaster changes.

Barely made 0.2" here, where snow squalls (and svr TS) go to die. Two squalls in 8 days, 0.3" total. February temp will finish about +2. It was running +4.7 thru last Wednesday.

Same in Maine. We had to pause during choir rehearsal and shut off phones, and my wife scrambled to have flashlights at the ready. Pretty low-key result at our place, 0.2" and modest gusts. Squalls tend to die in our valley location.

Maybe use the bottom 10% as a threshold, or 15%. CAR, working on their 83rd winter, has never had a one with <50% of average - average is 115 and their lowest was 59.6. 10% for CAR would be at 70% of average and 15% would be 75%. Farmington's in year 130 with a 90" average and only 79-80 and 80-81 were <50%; #3 had 46.8" (0.1" less than 2015-16). The 10% threshold would be at 67% of average and 15% would at 71%.

I'd go for another March 2001, 55.5" and closing with a 19" dump on 30-31 that brought the pack to 48". The big dog on 3/5-6 was only the 3rd biggest storm that month.

"Warfare is nothing more than armed robbery writ large." Tom Clancy

Think I might've backed a little farther from the river. Reminded me of my first spring (1976) in Ft. Kent, with bedroom-size ice chunks 3-4' thick were thudding against the base of the 3' diameter elm on river's edge. That tree had been debarked 6-7 feet higher on the river side 2 years earlier when a week-long jam 30 miles upriver at Dickey let go. The water rose 20' in 2-3 minutes in Ft. Kent, with ice chunks on Main Street breaking the plate glass storefront windows. Two summers later work began on the dike to protect West Main up to a 32' flood. The 2008 flood reached 30.8 and did lots of damage on the unprotected east side. Finished with 6.2" of 14:1 fluff. The new snow plus clear and calm allowed the temp to radiate down to -17 this morning. Mid -20s in Aroostook.

12+ hours of light/moderate snow (and some graupel at 8°, coldest I've seen that) and finished with 6.2" from 0.45" LE, nearly 14:1. Now only 8.6" BN. Clear and calm last night with new snow, so -17 this morning. Saw -24 from PQI, might've reached -30 in NW Maine.

Up to 4.5", moderate rate at present. I can't recall a snowstorm with more hiccups - borderline S+ to almost nothing and back again, switching from okay flakes to teeny ones and back again - about 4 times, graupel, decent dendrites at present.

Nicest dendrites of this event, though more in the 1/2-3/4" per hour here. At 2:30 we had 4.2" with 0.35" LE for a 12:1 ratio, though the current flakes undoubtedly have a higher fluff factor.

Briefly moderate, now back to light though the flakes are 0.2" instead of 0.1".