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GFS has BML reaching 50 with 1.2" qpf. Has looked a bit worse with each run, time to start moving the other way?

50s with 1-2" RA AUG-RUM. Grinch with a cage full of skunks. We going back to bare ground? Not impossible but doubtful, with the crusty stuff beneath yesterday's dump. If it's warm/wet enough to go to brown ground, expect some flood warnings.

That's something one might expect at Mammoth or Rainier! Both visibility (1/4 mile) and flake size are at their lowest in Augusta. I don't think there's as much outside the office here as that hourly average in VT.

Hawaii ought to have a record listed. Both Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea get occasional snow, sometimes a lot, and the latter peak supports a ski club!

49.5? Did they toss Berlin's 55" in Nov 1943? Pinkham's 77" in 2/69 ("mountain" sites not admitted?) That said, this event may have the broadest span of 30"+ of any in the Northeast. Maybe not (or maybe so) for total area but for spanning from north-central PA thru NY, VT and NH and possibly into York County, Maine

Would not have furnished at MWN for the storm of late Feb 1969. (Close, though)

Then there was late Feb 2010, with 10.7" mush and 2.68" LE , followed by 1.1" for 33-34F RA. This left about 7" of stuff with perhaps 40% water atop an unfrozen (thus high-friction) driveway. Was far harder to clear with the scoop than the 24.5" a year earlier.

That worked well for me in 24", might be tougher in 30+ though it's the best choice. Also had to do 24" with a snow scoop- 1st task was to shovel out a place to start dumping with the scoop. Could not make a run with the scoop like the usual, but merely take off a scoop-size bite and run it up the snowbank. Maybe 3" in Augusta. Almost half came 10-11 this morning as we caught the north edge of the megaband and had some real flakes. Then it returned to the teeny-tiny ones that reduce visibility equally but don't accumulate nearly as fast.

Same for me, in Ft. Kent. All the other places we've lived seem to have a 24" cap. Did not even see a flake until 8 AM, 2/3 the way from home to Augusta. Moderate SN here though lighter than 15 minutes ago, maybe 1". Home front might get a dusting, about 40" less than BGM.

PHL reporting SN+ and 30/27. Might get a nice front end thump before the p-type issues arrive. Family about 30 miles SSE from there reported snow an hour ago - they're not forecast to get much more than a sleety coating.

Actually reached -2. Still struggling to get out of single digits but the wind is gone. (Except in the north - FVE WCI is -21.)

Zero or -1 (haven't checked the max-min) and latest GFS says maybe 2" tomorrow - broom snow.

I tried to squeeze 0.1" out of what was on the board, but it was probably about 0.03", so T.

You must like the 06z GFS then - cold but <0.10" qpf over the 16 days.

CAA brought a dusting overnight. I think that might be the week's biggest snowfall here. Would love to be wrong.

December 12, 1960 'Twas the night before deer season, with snow in the woods, Still snowing at sunrise as we went for the goods. My dad and best friend and I headed out that day, with a foot and a half powder to impede our way. My friend and I slogged thru the hills in the snow, While my dad leaned upon a nice oak down below. My friend and I saw tracks, but not a thing more, While my dad saw the buck and one shot made the score. My friend and I walked back to admire the deer, And I got to field dress it, as dad made it clear. I wondered why he couldn't do it, not me, When I finally shot one (8 yr later, in PA), his training I could see.

Same was true for the Maine foothills. The immediately pre-storm forecast was 12-18 and once the changeover was complete we had all flakes, 6.0" from 1.38" LE - sloppiest significant snow since the mess in late Feb 2010. However, 5 miles to my SE and 400' higher (800 asl) there was about 10", and 40 miles to my north, Carrabassett Valley was reporting 18" (@ 1300'). Hope you folks get pounded, though my snow-loving grandkids a few miles south of Glassboro probably don't see much.

We might get a dusting, though probably not. We still have the 4" of armorplate left after the 5th-6th event, thanks to temps never reaching 35 and almost no sun. Man, GFS does not want it snow in CNE/NNE And GFS consistently has cutters in the longer range. What's not to like?

I lived slightly north of that "yardstick" at 700' elev in a northern Morris lake community. Even in Maine I've never seen a run of big storms like we had from March 1956 thru Feb. 3-4, 1961. Those endpoints were 24" (maybe more in the latter's howling wind) and March 21-22, 1958 was about the same. Add Feb 1958, March and Dec 1960 and the JFK inaugural storm in Jan 1961 and there's 7 events 18-24" in a 60-month span. We also had 12" paste bombs in April 1956 and March 1961.

Forecast here for 12/25-26/2002 was 10-16". GYX had 18, PWM 16, Augusta east (On Togus Pond) 15, Belgrade Village 8, and 12 miles NW of that last, 1". Apart from the mid-November storm and 13.8" on 1/4-5, 2002-03 was cold and dry. Season total of 67.8" is right at 75% of average.

Just had to check. Since we moved to Maine in 1973, I count 27 snowfalls of 6"+ at DCA. We (at our then current domicile) had 6"+ on 4 of those occasions: 1/22/1987 1993 superstorm 1/25/2000 2/12-13/2014. Missing just the pinky

That's odd - can't recall any other time I had accumulating snow from a significant all snow event before PWM. The contrast to that was 1/2/1987. PWM was reporting snow about 4 AM, and I waited all morning at the AUG office for first flakes, which didn't come until about 12:30 - 8+ hours difference? (Of course when it came we went from 1st flakes to 1/8 mile visibility in less than 60 seconds.)

Never touched a stick before going there, but I spent spring vacation that first year fielding bounces off the handball court wall at home until I was comfortable tossing and catching, then played defense at intramurals. No way I'd compete with folks that had sticks in their hands before they could walk. Did play on the football team and experienced the radical difference between the two coaches. The varsity FB coach would say things like "You better play your best or you'll lose 65-0!" Had the varsity Lax coach for freshman FB, and he'd say things like "Make that easy cross-block and the back will get 20 yards; 4-5 plays like that and the other defense will be cooked." Slightly different approach.

Good to know, though I'm still puzzled by the lack of change on 12/25/17, as my notes have the snowfall starting before 5 AM with 5" 7-noon; PWM should've had flakes before I did. And Frostbite had the goods faster than I could type.

I think GYX should look again. I found four 12/25s with 6"+ (07, 08, 13, 17) and 4 others with 1-4", though that 4" year (2005) had zero by 12/26 as the Grinch stole it. I assume that PWM measures depth at noon, or why 2002 shows zero for 12/25 - the 16" dump started early PM. That also explains why the 12/25 storm (5") doesn't affect depth until the 26th.