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Everything posted by tamarack
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Ouch. I had 2-level fusion centered on C-4 ten years ago, but I highly doubt it was FB-related. In January 1981 I was riding shotgun in a pickup that went head-on with a fully loaded log truck, wheeler with a pup trailer, two big tiers of spruce sawlogs, probably 70 tons to our 2. Guess who won. Fortunately we each were only going about 25 mph at impact. Didn't wear seatbelts in the woods then - feared crushing more than impact - and I was lying sideways against the dash as we went from +25 to -20 in less than 1/10 second. Pushed the right headlight back to where the glovebox had been and collapsed the cap on my side to about 1/2 normal. Had I been belted I likely would've eaten the dash or right doorpost, that 1 in 1000 where not buckled was better. Still got 2 sprained ankles, non-displaced fracture of the lateral mellilus ("ankle point") and painful cartilage damage in the ribs. The sideways whiplash of head/neck almost certainly started the disc's gradual (no symptoms until Feb '11) herniating that by April of 2011 I shambled rather than walked and could barely tie my shoes. Oddly, it was entirely pain free except to some in my lower arms. MRI showed squashed spinal cord, PCP said one wrong fall would mean quadriplegia or worse. Surgery went well and I regained probably 90% of strength and 2/3 of balance. Neurosurgeon said 50% don't regain anything though essentially all have no further degradation.
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We had a little bit of that a couple hours ago but it went to mush "flakes" an hour ago. 1.5" here - watching the best bands going by a couple dozen miles to my south (less frequently, to my north) has been this winter's sport. Began on 12/6 when I had 6" of 4.5-to-one stuff while points south were getting 10-12" of modest (8/10:1) snow from the same LE. Usually one gets higher ratio snow when farther north, not often this time.
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Five years of interior OL/DL didn't leave much damage, now 55 years since the last college play. Two fingers (ring/middle) on the right hand with messed up joints - if I grip hard on something like a shovel handle, one (usually ring finger) or both can lock down on it, and I have to withdraw the object with my left hand and pull the finger(s) straight, not a pleasant sensation. Could be lots worse.
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Moderate snow since about 1 PM, maybe 1.5" new. Was nice feathers until 15 minutes ago; now it's fast-falling low ratio aggregates at 32.
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OTS for here as portrayed. At least it would be something with some meat to track, instead of these little near-nothings.
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You've got those nice green echoes overhead. We're under the crummy gray, a strip 10 miles wide north to south with Rt 2 in the middle. Maybe we can get some northward movement of the better stuff before the warm air arrives?
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Looks like another cold afternoon spoiled by a cheap evening max - perhaps 34 when I record Monday evening and 18 for the Tuesday PM high. then upper 30s the next day. Cold snaps almost always are shorter at this part of winter even if lowest temps are equal. This winter's cold has already been at March-length; maybe we can get 12-hour cold blasts with same-day mild-up later next month?
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Same pattern here, only with the waves being S- and the in-betweens nothing at all. Started at 9 AM with the best dendrites (little-uns since) and we've had somewhere between a dusting and 0.1". The colorful echoes are passing to our north and south - Rt 2 snow shield in effect though it won't have to work hard for this event.
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I suppose Maine ski country would be the solid woman in a wool coat and carrying a chainsaw. Agree that for a mountain massif the White are unchallenged in the NE, especially as viewed from the west. For single mountain awesome I think of Katahdin from the south. For Mainiacs that view is our Mt. Fuji. Edit: Have alternated between light snow and "Is it snowing?" since 9 AM, maybe 0.1" new. Since our 9.5" on 2/2 this month has probably featured a dozen snow chances, but the only one with any gravitas turned 8" into sleet at the last moment.
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Certainly true since KevinW began offering the snow table. Climo says otherwise, at least in the long term, as my totals run close to Farmington and their 90" average. And you're 3rd of 4, ahead of South Portland and the Raymond rockpile is ahead of me by about the same as I'm ahead of you. Would need another 15"+ here to move this winter from ratter to merely bad.
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Hanging at 18" here thanks to the sleet-armor from the 16th. Had 17" after than event, popped up briefly to 20 by Monday's little dump, compacted down to 3:1 ratio by the warm midweek. Only actual melting of snow as on the roof. Also release the 5-ft icicle on the north end of our over-porch gutter. Going back to March 6, 2007, temps that day would've been -2/-13 but for the 19 at my obs time the previous evening, 21° "lost' due to that cheap high. Got some of it back 2 days later with 7/-22, coldest daily mean in March I've had here. Only 0.5° off Farmington's coldest March mean with much longer POR; they had 7/-17 on 3/8/07 and 14/-25 on 3/2/1982. (7 AM obs at the co-op then, so the 1st was the actual cold morning - had -32 in Fort Kent.)
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Would be difficult since he was traded to Indy. Gets returned as damaged goods and has a miracle season? Nice map there - another near miss for NNE? Edit: 2nd one's much nicer (even if unlikely.)
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Would be interesting to duplicate. That was my 2nd winter in N. Maine and snowiest ever with 186.7", though March '77 remains CAR's mildest. An early month storm dumped 11" and boosted depth to season's peak of 54". A few days later came a run of 40s and 50s which dropped pack by 20" but made it really solid. Two weeks later we were cruising spruce-fir east of Depot Lake (T13R16, a border town between Daaquam and St.-Pamphile, PQ) and our 1st day's lines ran 1.75 miles east from the lakeside road, 1/4 mi north then back, parallel to line 1. Crust looked good but the thought of having it degrade nearly 2 miles from our sleds meant carrying our snowshoes. Shortly after starting the return leg we jumped a cow moose which cantered off, leaving tracks less than 2" deep. Next day it was mid 20s with light snow (N fringe of a storm that dumped 2'+ in NW CT) and the raquettes stayed in the truck. We had snowshoe-free walking nearly 3 weeks into April, by far the longest boots-only crust I've seen.
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In its lamentedly short period of recording weather data, Diamond Pond, east of the CT lakes, averaged about 230" at 2200'. Kibby summit is a thousand feet taller but the better potential would be among the wind turbines on the ridge to Kibby's south, which get up over 3100'. Convince the windmills' owners to have the full time maintenance personnel establish and monitor/record from a site on the ridge between the spinners would be interesting. The access roads are all on the west side of the ridge so would catch that part of upslope but miss the high-Froude dumps to the east. If only . . .
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Valdez, Alaska averages 285" for 1991-2020. Losing the 1989-90 season's 552" dropped the 30-year average a bit. Their site was at 23' thru 2008 then moved to a spot at 95'.
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Both morning and afternoon P&Cs from GYX offer a measly <1/2" for my area, far from the 3"+ on that map, which seems based on all snow here while the AFD says otherwise.
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I've read that NYC had a day that January that never warmed up to zero - unofficial but perhaps the only subzero max in the city's history.
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Well,. sort of, but when my expected 1" event drops 2" it doesn't move the needle much. For an active February with many chances, having no double-digit storms and only one bigger than 3" is a downer, especially when I see several NNJ sites with more snow this month than I've had all season. They were talking on news this AM about how February has been below normal for temps. We in the minority because TAN is at +1.1F. Jan +4.0 Dec +3.1 Yesterday's +16 moved our average back into AN range, will probably finish avg to +1. OCT -1.5 NOV +2.0 DEC +4.3 JAN +5.6 FEB +0.6 thru yesterday Autumns with BN Oct and AN Nov almost always mean bad news for the coming winter here. Same for the much longer POR at Farmington.
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We had near-freezing sludge at the start on the 8th and by the time snow was done (11.5") on the 9th temps were in the singles and reached -14 the next morning.
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But it was, for me, the grinchi-est Grinch of them all, for at least 3 reasons: 1. It happened on Christmas Day rather than merely within a few days of 12/25. 2. It brought the biggest one-day rain of my 23 Decembers here. 3. Its 29° AN temp is the greatest I've recorded here, 1° more than 3/22/2012 (which I thought was impossible to top.) Beyond that I agree - it's been very meh though not yet as bad (though close) as last winter, when the 3 met winter months failed to produce a snowfall greater than 7" and had the same lack of real lasting cold.
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Doesn't look likely this year, but 4 of my 22 winters here had their coldest temp in March: 00-01, 06-07 (on the 9th, the latest so far), 10-11 and 18-19, all in the range -20 to -25.
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The Feb. 10-11 storm (my 21" dump and 3rd and most recent TSSN) grew up as it moved north, though ORH got 5.6. That said, BOS had 32" for Feb/Mar and ORH 48, not up to Jan's monster snow but also not bad for "letting up".
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Biggest 04-05 snowfall here prior to Feb 10 was a measly 3.4". Then the next 31 days brought 60", including storms of 21, 11.5 and 11 inches, for a slightly AN snow season.
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We did it for our rescue thru Maine Lab Rescue in 2017. Her appearance is all/most yellow Lab, has the webbed feet, short somewhat coarse coat (less inner hair than the purebred black Lab we enjoyed 2003-16) and general body form of a Lab. She also has the pink nose and white blaze on the back of her neck that describes a "Dudley Lab". However, the DNA results had her with 1/8 each of 4 different breeds, Lab being one but another was Corgi(?) and while I don't recall the other 2, I do remember they were nothing like a Lab. The other 1/2 was listed as "mixed", so we learned essentially nothing. Despite the Lab appearance she doesn't particularly like water (Abby the black Lab was unable to walk past it without a wallow - at any temp) and "retriever" is not part of her character. However, the Lab personality is all there, enthusiasm, friendliness, tolerant of kids, cats and most everything else.
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I'd go for that, but even more for 2001 - 55.5" including 35 after the equinox. Had 48" OG on 3/31.