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Saw maps like that one last Sunday for today and Thurs-Fri. Only off by a factor of 5. Seeing would be believing.

Noon news on PWM ch13 had 3-6 for S.Maine/SE NH and 1-3 up here. Blockbuster.

Precip shut off like a switch at 11, now seeing the treetops waving a bit.

Might've begun as a bit of SN but all IP since then, approaching 2" of ball bearings. First real sleetfest in years, though the 6"+ SN from the LE would've been much nicer. Still not far from 20°.

You sure that's not last Saturday's map for today's event? (Though fringe/whiff seems like better odds than another sleetfest.)

Xmas 2020 was 50s up here, the biggest positive departure (+29) I've measured for any day here, 1° more than 3/22/2012. Not going to get the 2.5" precip of 12/25/20 either - maybe a third as much.

Same conditions here. Might have begun with a little SN - had maybe 2/10" on the porch railing at 4 AM - but it's been blasted down to the wood by the IP. Had 1" of pebbles with 0.30 LE at 7 AM, made for interesting walking and the pickup spun its way up the driveway to put the garbage out to the nd of our road. May need to go back and bring the bags home if they're still unremoved by afternoon. Garbage pickup here is alternate Tuesdays; last time it was also snowed out, picked up the next day. Some of the heaviest IP at present, stuff bouncing up to 6" when hitting that railing - good downward velocity. Might get to half of the low end of the forecast range thanks to the p-type surprise. Pack solidifier, if nothing else.

Some very light snow during the past hour, now stopped with barely enough to see on surfaces. 12Z GFS has qpf under 6/10" for our area after being about 1" yesterday. Naturally.

Our wonderful 4-storms-in-10-days epicosity isn't quite living up to expectations so far.

Seems exactly opposite of models 3 days ago, when tomorrow/Tuesday's event was all snow for New England except maybe for ACK and the late week system was looking cutter-ish. Maybe by Wednesday midnight we'll have a handle on that one. Edit: 16th is getting a dung-like aroma here but it's not yet fully turned. 11th, 14th just disappeared.

Since inheriting my dad's 1992 Ranger in 1994, those rigs (including a 2004 Mazda -Ranger with a different badge) have been my commuting/work vehicle. The 2011 has 141k and still going well, though I had to spring for a new battery last week, replacing the original equipment. Unfortunately, this last is automatic as my web search found no reasonably new/low mileage 5-speeds north of PHL. The new Ranger is a different beast, with Ford doing what Toyota did to the Tacoma - bigger isn't better for compact pickups, IMO. And your call on summer 2009 was right on - had a stretch from early June thru the first few days of August that saw rain on 49 of 56 days. Both June and July 2009 were the cloudiest I've had here for those months, with June 09 the cloudiest for any month (though this past December tied with it.)

Especially in March with warmer days followed by nights well below freezing. Insulation-independent icicles. We have about 10 feet of gutter, open-ended so no downspouts, above the steps from porch to driveway and get serious icicles at each end.

That's the hard way. The year up north when we had to quit maintaining boundary lines because the old evidence was buried was like that pic, but a stiff stick (straight sapling 1" thick was best) could be shoved down thru the crusts and give a much easier measurement. That's how I got the 80" depth the day after that year's big March dump. Phin - Lynx are moving south. When I worked in the NW part of Maine (76-85), trappers caught only bobcats, now only lynx (which all but a very few have been released angered but otherwise unharmed.) Those tuft-eared kitties are doing so well that the USFWS may petition to have their threatened status ended, at least for the MN/NNE populations. (Opponents probably have a 200-paragrph lawsuit ready to go if that happens. When the timber harvesting rules for the Northern long-eared bat were posted, the lawsuit came on the same day. Only 161 paragraphs, though.)

You know it's an SNE winter (so far) when the table shows 10 reports from Mass and 5 from CT with more than anyone in Maine. We'll see if climo asserts itself in late winter/early spring.

GFS is doing its usual qpf build-up from this distance. If its pattern repeats, modeled qpf will peak tomorrow then shrink to about half by Tuesday morning.

Far preferable to big ZR for this forester. 1998 was mostly sleet where we live now (maybe 1/4 of precip was ZR) while it was all ZR in Gardiner where we lived in Jan. 1998. There were more and bigger broken branches/trees on our 0.8-acre house lot in Gardiner than on our 100-times-bigger woodlot in the foothills. The change from ZR-some/no-IP and IP-some-ZR was about 10 miles south of here, recognizable in 1998 by small/medium branches on the ground/huge branches and whole trees down. From this distance, 16th looks all snow, 18-19 SN/IP.

Quick drop from teens to near zero last evening, then it hung at zero to +2 all night before dropping to -5 between 6 and 7 this morning. I think the air was mixing too much during the wee hours. Bright blue currently but with some wispies on the south horizon.

Jan. 8-9, 1953 (45 years to the day before 1998) on the hills N and W of NYC. Five miles away and 200' lower it was RA and the hills 200' higher than our 700' had "asparagus trees" - sticks with all the branches piled around them. Ice fell off on Jan 10 - had 6" cracked ice in our driveway - but it was the 14th before the lights came on. My 2nd oldest wx memory, behind the 1950 Apps gale.

1953 and 1998 - two monster ice storms. A third is unnecessary.

Fixed. Jan 27-28 was a great storm (wish I'd been here to see it) but the rest was meh, climaxed by the VD massacre. Lots of time for things to change for the better (or . . ) Seems like the only storms this season where I've done as good or better than points south have been 4:1 slop or low end advisory. March for payback?

06z GFS no dream for here - 2 or 3 whiffs/fringes followed by 2 cutters (then a day 14 snowstorm .) Won't happen that way, fortunately.

17", first of three 16"+ events that year - Feb-Mar total was 89.3" that year. Nearly vacuumed a partridge with the snowblower at 6 AM on the 6th near the end of the storm here. Dog was on the trolley and began barking - tie-out from trolley was buried in the new snow and he felt trapped. Started in with the machine but the dog was getting frantic so I stopped the blower and took two quick steps when the bird burst out of the snow, whacking my leg a few times with its wings.

-15 here, rare that I'm colder than BML. Saw -21 at PQI.

We had about 0.3" RA at the end of the Jan. 16 storm (Most while I was clearing the slop from the driveway) but that's all since the Grinch. It's popped a few degrees above 32 several times but our last 40+ was in the wee hours of 12/26 as temps coasted down from the Christmas torch. Finished at 0.9" from 0.07" LE, about what was forecast. 17" pack is 2" BN for the date; 43.4" total snow is about 10" BN.

Maybe up to 0.9" and it looks about done, in 6 hours of S-. No such thing as bad snow but this was stretching it a bit.