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Likewise. All small flakes and took 9 hours to make 2.3" on 0.20" LE. Still, it was the only 2"+ event here to top 10:1. Others have ranged from 4.5 to 9.7, with only a small amount of IP (in one event) and no ZR included. Makes for a solid pack, however, though 12/25 would've killed almost any pack.

12z GFS was also a bit more than 06 or yesterday. Maybe a repeat of yesterday instead of 1/2"?

Helps that BTV radar can pick up the upslope so well. GYX beams are pretty high by the time they reach the mountains. Also, BTV has (or is near to) a skiing vibe while GYX is much less so.

In my NNJ years we very rarely had powder on powder. Even powder on crust wasn't that frequent. My memory has only 2 winters, 60-61 and 66-67, with multiple pow-pow scenarios. Finished with 2.3" from 9 hours of S-. Maybe another inch tomorrow night, Friday is gone, we'll see about next weekend. At least there's interesting stuff to track. Most of last month was a boring desert.

Current GYX for our area is 2-3. Something like yesterday's 1.1 seems more likely. Teeny differences.

So does the most horrid Grinch storm ever. Checking N. Maine records, Van Buren temps were 41° AN on 12/25. 30° departures tend to set monthly records; 40s break all time station records. The local co-op in Farmington has one in 128 years and NYC one in 152. (Both set on 12/30/1917)

Only 1.1" yesterday but the trees are nicely prettied up. Like everyone here I'd love a blockbuster, but getting an inch or three several times a week (and no big rains) can make for a decent winter. Like a mini 07-08.

With 2 double-digit snows? Each bigger than any I've had this winter or last? Looking at all the previous 22 winters here, I'm a weak D/D- thru Jan. 31, D for snow, D- for temps. Noted on that AN table that the only NNE locale is CON, which is more CNE. Not surprised.

How often has this sequence played out this winter's active periods? Models show a good-looking event until inside 100 hr when it fizzles but there's another nice one coming a few days later, which then gets inside 100 and . . . Pete and re-Pete. A couple down-sequence ones have come thru but that's been the exception.

If 24" instead of 30 counts as a hole.

Of course I've been out of skiing for 40 years, back when underfoot width was usually in the 60s. On Jan. 26, 1981 the pickup in which I was riding shotgun went head-on with 70 tons of fully loaded log truck (we lost), non-displaced fracture of the lower leg that meant 4 weeks each in a walking cast and rehabbing the idled muscles/tendons instead of 3-5 days/week on snowshoes. But I ate like I was still on the racquets and gained 15-20 lb. I'd just been promoted to district manager which cut boots-on-ground time in half, and moved to new place with a bad set-up for wood heat, so a scramble for wood - used 9 cords that 1st winter instead of 4-5 at the old place. Between time constraints and thoughts of hanging on to the Fort Kent rope tow at my new weight, I didn't get back on the slopes. Osteoarthritis recently clinched the "retirement". Measured 0.8" about 3 PM, most of which came in 15 minutes of S/S+ either side of 1:30. Teeny flakes before and after.

Right. Probably more today than Sunday here. (And "more" is relative - not much either day.)

Nearly doubled the total for MBY, not that I believe a bit of either one.

100 mm - did not know there were Alpine skis that wide. Except for length, those boards would look appropriate on the jumping hill.

Sounds a little like 2/2/1976 in Maine, when CAR went from RA+ and 49 to -7 with 50+ gusts in about 8 hours. Of course, the infrastructure was a bit better by then; the only near-fatality was the woman caught by the Kenduskeag Stream flood (actually a tidal bore that raised the water 15' in 15 minutes) and had a rescuer swim out to where she was sitting atop her rapidly sinking car. Also liked the reference to 1857. I've read that NYC had a day that January that failed to get up to zero.

Didn't cash in but nearly 5 times what fell just 40 miles north.

Is that your yearly average or 20-21 to date?

Nice pic. Shows the existing powerline R-O-W on the Johnson Mt/West Forks town line where NECEC would run before turning south (thru the W. Forks public lot.)

24" here on 12/6-7, one of only 4 events in 23 winters to hit all the blizzard criteria.

Bleccch! That's a snow to deluge track for Kittery to Fort Kent. Though I like the 2nd choice. I can recall only one event that tagged CHI, NYC and CAR with big snows, April 1982. None of NYC's top 10 snows did all that much in Maine.

It was Tuesday of last week when I met our groomer-operator neighbor riding his sled out for lunch after several hours of trying to fix the tranny on the old Gilbert tractor. Going up Coburn on the way by?

Yup. I'm still a few tenths behind Lava Rock but at least not outside the top 25 like in December. Maine seems to lag behind its climo in most of the years that Kevin W has run the snow table. Don't think we had any sleet here, just rimed flakes that made for 2" of dense [3-4 to 1] stuff 7A-1P) before we saw real flakes. Should be good groomer food, might take the dog out to see if the local club's machine is still sitting dead on our woodlot.

Big snows in New Jersey are much the same as those in Maine (in fact, true for DCA thru CAR) except for temps, just less common. However, the usual NJ event pounds and then leaves - the continuing snow phenomenon is more a thing at upslope locales and northern Maine.

Mount Arlington in western Morris County reported 35.1", by a trained spotter. Don't know if it all came in 24 hr. IF validated it top the 34": at Cape May in 1899. Though it's odd that the least snowy site in New Jersey recorded the state's biggest snowfall, that Feb 1899 storm was more than just odd. Tallahassee had snow and a low of -2 during that cold snap and NYC temps/snow are shown below: 2/9 11 -2 0 2/10 7 -6 0 2/11 9 -2 0 2/12 9 4 5.3 2/13 11 6 10.7

I've found January snow to often be a poor predicter of season totals. Had 24.6", in the top 1/3 of Januarys and 5" AN, in Jan 2006 then only 7.8" total for Feb/Mar/April. January 2013 had only 5.7", then the lowest here, but finished right at my 90" average. That low-snow record lasted only a year as January 2014 had just 5.1" - by the 14th I'd had 2" snow and 3" RA with average temp 6° BN, the "impossible trifecta" but that winter had over 100" and excellent pack retention. This January's 18.2" is only 1.4" BN, the closest to my average of 19.6". The month's coldest temp thru the 29th was a mere -1, which would've been the least cold month of January minimum in my 23 years here but 30-31 had lows of -7 and -19.