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tamarack

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  1. Had to be in Maine, especially the north, to understand how awful and how frustrating that winter was. I clearly recall Cool Spruce wondering on about Jan 10 whether the big New Year's retro would ruin winter. How right he was! Still waiting for my 1st 30+; haven't come within 3" of that mark but more than a dozen 20"+, dating back thru March 1956. (Technically could extend back thru Dec 26-27, 1947 but I was only 2 months old for that one.)
  2. Not my worst Maine winter - that's a tossup among 73-74, 05-06 and 15-16 - but definitely the most frustrating. Four KUs and we had 3 whiffs and the worst 10"+ event ever - total precip was 3.81" (2.67" slop and 1.14" cold RA) making for the most difficult snow-clearing job of my life, far more laborious than pushing 24" pow up 6-7' tall snowbanks with the same snowscoop a year earlier.
  3. Our 17" only dropped to 13" despite an inch of low 40s RA. However, that 17" was compacted to 6:1 and very cold - the month was running 9.8° BN (23/3) thru the 22nd.
  4. Inland Fisheries and Wildlife manages Swan Island, a 2,000-acre tract in the lower Kennebec, and had harvested timber there only for internal needs, like building repair of the old farm buildings on the island. The 2017 gales triggered a 7,000-cord salvage, including 2 million board feet of white pine.
  5. The damaging winds in October 2017 lasted 30 minutes or less in most Maine locations but that was enough to black out half or more of the state's electricity customers and resulted in numerous large timber salvage harvests the next year. Up to 30 with clouds. Not much CA to D here; we'll see if any of the 5" of glacial pack can survive.
  6. The EF-4 was supposedly assigned due to opinions that the wiped-out houses had been poorly constructed, but maybe in the background was the thought among tornado alley mets that 5s were impossible in New England.
  7. Same here - had 6" more snow season-to- date with a 7" event coming on New Year's Eve. Also had plenty of cold thus solid lake covering for ice fishing. I doubt anything larger than 10 acres will have ice after tomorrow night and Friday.
  8. None last winter, none the winter before - 1st back-to-back with no 12"+. (Of course, 18-19 is my only 100"+ season w/o a 12" storm, so no real cause to complain - yet.)
  9. You're at maybe 40% of your annual average, I'm at 12%. Lots of cold season remains.
  10. We were so spoiled by the period March 1956 thru Feb 1961 that anything near the long term averages would seem terrible. MY memory of the mid-1960s is that 63-64 was okay and 66-67 was great - thundersnow on Christmas Eve, 15" with single digit temps in early Feb, 30" total in March (also Dec and Feb) plus the 3" surprise on 4/27.
  11. The sig tells the tale. Even Sunday night's little event was even littler, with its 0.8" in the "Small events" basket. Your 3 snows totaling 23.5" were 8.7" here. Missed the good bands for the 2 biggies - Dec 5th was elevational this far north, 11.5" at 1220' in Temple, 18" at 1300' in Carrabassett Valley.
  12. They only had 11" in 12/94 and 14.6" four years later. Pretty sure they've already passed those. Still could finish well under the 55" average.
  13. My place is near the top of that snowless polygon in central Maine - will solidify my position near the bottom of the snow table.
  14. I'll be surprised to reach 40 in my CAD catcher location sheltered behind the Kennebec Highlands.
  15. Slightly off topic, but this is what MSM does and it's frustrating. Last night on the 6 PM news a respected news anchor was addressing the very real negative economic impacts due to COVID-19. The example given was a woman who lost her job and took one for far less money, her income dropping from $6,000/month to $255/week. Not $6,000 down to $1,385 or $1,105 down to $255. The impact was huge but IMO the presentation was dishonest and makes one ponder whether other data from that source is similarly spun. I know cold spell wasn't long, but any Hydro issues due to ice jams in the smaller rivers and streams? I don't think there's enough ice - thickness nor extent - to pose a problem, at least in our area.
  16. The damage to massive masonry buildings at Assumption College was mind-blowing.
  17. For eastern NNE, the 2010 retro that ate winter came in early January.
  18. My dad's name for 17 was butcher boulevard - probably has been used for many roads. Couple years ago my son-in-law's cellphone lady put us on that road while driving from SNJ to Cornwall, NY - may be shorter, or quicker if no one else is on the road, but - yuck. Coming home late that evening I said "No thanks" to the lady and did my usual GSP/Turnpike route, about 30 minutes less time.
  19. That's often the forecast for torch-deluge to CF events, and we rarely get the snow. Our 6" pack has about 2" LE so I expect a skating rink after the Grinch - glad I have a pair of 5-gal buckets filled with wood ash.
  20. Yesterday's 0.8" locks in my 36th-place standing, 4th of 4 Mainiacs. Weird season - will climo assert itself?
  21. Keep the chains. If it's as warm and wet as currently modeled, you may need them to get thru the mud.
  22. That 2010 map hurts my eyes (and my memories.)
  23. Kinda hard to invert the big tube for a core. My Stratus lives indoors in the cold season, only let outside to take cores. Despite the claim of safety, I'm not confident that it would survive a heavy rain followed by freeze. Two years ago we had a 2"+ downpour while we were in SNJ for Christmas. When we got back, the 5-gal used for winter precip held an ice-discus that had bowed the bottom nearly an inch without breaking it - returned to normal once emptied and warmed. If there's much over 11" on the board I'll take the core in 2 steps, usually by carefully sliding my snow shovel (uncurved blade) at the halfway point, pushing the tube to contact and then very carefully lift/invert the shovel while holding the tube, taking care to swing away from the snowboard. I'll have a 2-gallon wash pail to dump the 1st partial core and just put the tube upside down into the pail with the 2nd. I do the melt/measure like dendrite.
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