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Was the season's biggest snowfall and the ugliest 10"+ event I ever hope to see - 10.7" from 2.67" LE, mashed potatoes that splattered upon landing and wouldn't stay on the branches (fortunately) and it was back and forth with 1.14" of 33-34° RA on NE winds while NYC had its 21" snowicane. Snowblower was broken and moving that slop with the scoop, with an unfrozen driveway beneath to prevent easy sliding, was far more difficult than the 24.5" that fell about 370 days earlier. (Of course, if I'd known how warm March would be - 10° AN through 3/21 - would've been smarter to just leave the stuff alone.)

If some single-leader growth is your goal, I'd suggest pinching off all but the best-looking bud, probably the one on the left in your pic. Otherwise the tree is likely to have 3-4 separate leaders. Some folks would prefer that look, similar to a multi-weeviled "cabbage" pine.

Elevational to the extreme. Farmington co-op an my place each got ~10" from that event at about 400' elev (co-op over, MBY under) while the Temple cocorahs obs 6 miles west of the co-op and at 1220' recorded 26.4". Latitude helped a bit - highest co-op total I saw was 30" at Jackman, about the same elev as Temple. Then there were the 2 kids (HS or college age, can't recall) who thought they would try the "glades" on the back side of Sugarloaf. It's dense forest with lots of fir and spruce of all sizes, totally unskiable and they ended up neck deep and calling for help. Parents were billed for the rescue.

Can't really imagine trying to do cardio while masked. It's tough enough singing in our choir - skilled composers always leave room for catch-breaths between phrases, but that's "maskless room" and not enough when drawing air through the cloth. Sometimes it feels like I'll suck the mask halfway down my throat.

Despite Maine's generally tight restrictions, state employees aren't treated quite like that. When I'm at the office (about once per 2 weeks) I have to be masked while in the hallway or with others nearby but my little corner is 20' from the hall and it's masks off. We're limited to 2 per state vehicle, masks on, but no silliness about masking while bushwhacking thru the woods - likely would have it ripped off in the brush. As of this time no Parks and Lands employees have tested positive, and the staff at state parks have had lots of contact with visitors.

Saddleback summit must have gotten 30-40" from that earlier storm. Rangeley measured 17" down by the lake at 1530'.

Snowy headwaters sending that precip downriver today/tomorrow?

I hear you. We had booked almost all the places at a northern Maine sporting camp as part of our annual 2-day "silvicultural advisory committee" (basically an expert review group) field trip last August, but COVID led us to bail out about 2 months beforehand - lot of folks from all over bunking together was a no go. Had to be a big blow to the camp owner, as August is a down month with just prepping for September bear hunters on the table. We're rescheduling the same itinerary for this August under the assumption/hope that all/most attendees will have been vaccinated by then.

That's the most I could find for NH on cocorahs. Saw 19.2" in Marlboro, VT - Windham County, 1482' elev. Looks like an outlier; 2nd might've been Landgrove with 12" (can't recall the county.) Measured 1.4" total, 0.7" at 9 last night and a repeat at 7 this AM as the snow was tapering off. Storm total was 1.08" with 0.28" from accumulating snow and 0.80" from RA and melt-on-contact snow, which was mainly 10:30 A to 2 P yesterday. Must've switched to RA during the night as the morning 0.7" had 0.10" LE and the bucket held 0.36". Got into Farmington by 7:45 this morning and saw less there than at my place, while Temple at 1220' reported 8.3", tops for Maine cocorahs.

Great way to open the homestand.

Records at KNYC go back thru 1869. Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan used to be the city's "official" site but was replaced for much the same reasons that plague Logan. Those records probably go back as far as those at the Park but ceased after 12/31/1960 when the 'officiality' switched. Hated to see the termination of such a lengthy record but at age 14 I didn't have the money to keep it going.

3.5 hours of S- all melted on contact, perhaps 0.2" LE. Just dz since 2 PM.

So it seems - it's always been something this cold season. First flakes at 10:30. Could snow all day at this rate and merely wet the leaves.

Why am I not surprised (at how this event is going.)

Fake news. Nothing was falling in Farmington at 8:30 and nothing has fallen yet here.

Most I found on cocorahs was 7" at Landgrove, Bennington County, elev. 1809'. Precip spinning in place just to our south - not a drop so far. GFS still has over 1" QPF but P&C now says only 1-2" snow, coming this evening/overnight. Can we elude this one too?

lol. We see that kind of dot over Katahdin all the time, much different than the larger blob that frequents the Presidentials.

Brady tossed 5 TDs in the 2nd period at the height of the snowfall. We got a bit of cold rain here, but 2 days later saw some white ground in shady areas along I-84 north of the Tolland massif. Were heading to DEC for #3 granddaughter's birth, which came at 10:22 on 10/22. (Or 22:22 military time)

Willows are greened up a bit here, male aspen catkins approaching full length, red maple in blossom. GYX put us under a warning because their threshold for siggy tree damage in wet sticky snow is 4", well below WSW criteria (as noted in their morning AFD). Been a tough winter for my woodlot - the 6" of 4:1 mush on 12/5-6 took down a few trees and bent some others and the winds on 3/29 felled 15-20 (and still counting - have not seen all the lot yet.) Then there's the tall fir shattered by lightning on 3/26. I like snow but I like trees, too.

Certainly important but probably not the whole story. My mom smoked heavily for 40 years then quit cold turkey when her COPD (Emphysema in her case) was diagnosed. Her lungs gradually failed over the next 15 years until the strain caused her death, probably from a stroke, at age 70. Had she not quit she probably wouldn't have reached 60. Her 2 (nonsmoking) sisters lived into their 90s with good health up until their final (fairly short) illnesses.

Or a month ago. Would probably be 12-18 here on the Ides.

Dublin, NH. Or better still, the old Temple Mountain ski area at 1475' (the parking lot), four miles east of Peterborough. Both look to be in the 20" area on the Euro clown map.

P&C has our town with 1-3, Farmington 6 miles to the west 2-5. These very marginal situations rarely do much here - might be non-accumulating slushy things here, an inch or 2 at the Farmington co-op and 5-8" for the Temple cocorahs (10 miles to my west) at 1220'. That's the spot that got 26" in late Feb 2010 while the co-op and I had around 10" at ~400'.

Not enough junk in the yard and the cabin isn't drooping.

I see 50.1" for your 15-16 entry on the snow table (1.9" more than I had), thus only 4.5" away. LEW has only 35" for 05-06 though their records were beginning to be wonky after 2002. (GYX recorded 50.4" for 0-06.)