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Hoping November cools off after later next week's warmth. October is going to finish about 1.5° BN and BN October/AN November is bad news for this area, at least based on the Farmington co-op. The comparisons below are split because 1893 thru summer 1966 the obs sites were in town and since September 1966 it's been 1.5 miles north of town center where houses are scattered and the land is mainly fields and trees. The current site has been slightly cooler and snowier than those in the built-up section of even this small town. Percentages of average snowfall: 1893/94 - 65/66 (Avg. 88.1") 66/67 on (Avg. 92.1") All years (Avg. 90.0") OCT-NOV both AN: 98.0% (n: 19) 97.8% (n: 15) 97.8% OCT-NOV both BN: 102.5% (n: 20) 103.6% (n: 14) 102.7% OCT BN-NOV AN: 93.9% (n: 14) 81.4% (n: 12) 88.0% OCT AN-NOV BN: 102.4% (n: 16) 113.1% (n: 13) 107.2%

22" in October is insane, and even that early in the season that much snow doesn't go away in a day or two. We had much less (4.5", with 8" in Farmington) and temps 35-40 on the next couple days after. One of those days I was in the Rangeley area helping our forest inventory contractor check on the accuracy of his crews. It was like a day-long icewater shower in the woods, and my job at each cruise point was to find a spot with little/no snow-dripping branches overhead so I could record the measurements on a dry (sort of) page.

Thanks for the info. I grew up in northern Morris County - anywhere near your NJ place? Had some great winters there (some awful ones as well) including ~100" both in 60-61 and 66-67. Took 3" on April 27 to reach triple digits in '67. Down to 12-13° this AM. Hit 12° on this date in 2002 for my coldest (before today?) morning in October.

Far from Boston here, but 10/29/2000 we had 4.5" of 28:1 feathers, daily max of 31. Another 1.8" of 10:1 snow after my obs on the 29th for storm total of 6.3" and then 0.4" RA. Bigger Oct event here than 2011.

Two beautiful pics - love the framing of Stowe with that bright aspen. Had 0.24" cold RA yesterday and nothing today, October total now 5.32", about 0.3" BN as it's my wettest month on average. Looks like the month will finish about 1° BN for temps. November looks to be warm after the 1st couple days. Hope that changes after mid-month as a BN Oct followed by an AN Nov has a poor history for snow at the nearby co-op.

So would I if I still lived in NNJ - those 3 big storms totaled over 60" at my place. Not so good where I live now; for that winter the Farmington co-op recorded 0.7" less than EWR, a not common phenomenon, and those 3 events were key: 56.3" at EWR, 5.5" at Farmington. And all 3 of those election day clipper maps stop the snow a few miles south/north/west of my place. It's too early to whine about missing snow, but I hope the results so far aren't the pattern - snow in N. Maine and the mts on 16-17 then in SNE today while we see neither flakes nor sun in either.

Wouldn't make a bit of difference here.

And then came to a spectacularly abrupt end with the March super-torch; loggers had thousands of cords stranded on winter-only roads by a week of 70s and some 80s.

Welcome back, though every time a new/returned NH/VT member signs in, I again ask "Where are the Maineiacs from the northern/eastern part of the state?" I think you will do better than 90-95. I average 90" in my CAD-rich/upslope-absent location at 395'. 30 miles to my SW, Hartford, Maine in the Sumner hills at 700' has averaged 108" for the exact same period as my record here, 98-99 on. At 1500' I'd expect you to get at least as much as they do, maybe a bit less from synoptics but more when the track is too close to the coast. Lazy flakes drifting down - ground is cold (low was23) but current temp is 32-33 and no accum likely.

The grass isn't tall enough to fall on them.

Actually seeing the sun occasionally, which has been uncommon this month (though Sunday was appreciated.) This week's mostly BN temps may pull the month down to about average here. Yesterday's high of 37 was the season's coolest max by 8°.

Our genny got a 10-hour workout thanks to the late September storm. It's like insurance - good to have but one is happy if it's never needed.

I filled the gas can for the snowblower this morning, which means snow will stay to our south.

Had not heard this. Unless the Bears can offer the kind of package they sent to the Raiders for Khalil Mack, just say no. the spider is alive...someone please send help That one looks big enough to dip in batter and french-fry.

Pin oaks in Farmington are 80% (rough est.) leaf-retained and just reaching their peak color - they're the reddest of the oak species I see, though all near here are planted street trees. The large oak 100' from this computer has 30-40% of its leaves; beyond that one only the understory beech/oak have more than a few hangers-on. Zilch for acorns; scouted the 3-stem clump near my back line Saturday and found nada - that's been a decent area to hunt even w/o nuts but was hoping for even better.

May work for his area but not for mine. Farmington co-op has recorded measurable in Oct on 1/4 of their years - 32 of 128 - and totals for those snow seasons average 101% of normal, no real signal. For 1"+ Octobers (n=27) it's the same and for the 8 Octobers with 4"+ it's 103%. In my NNJ years only 1962 had measurable October snow. 62-63 was poor in NYC (16") but inland areas had 30-40% AN - the 4 locations closest to my old home had 46-60" compared to norms of 35-42. Take your pick...

Bit of graupel as I type. Season's first frozen.

All gray here, skies and trees. Not much sun this week. At least it's mild.

Reading all those grim reports in klw's post makes me wonder if NNE has the same disease. Maine's active cases have run around 600 in recent days, with hospitalizations ~10 and ICU patients 1-3. Count your blessings...

For a good history, unfortunately w/o maps, I recommend the book "The Week Maine Burned". PWM temps during the worst of it: 10/23 70 37 10/24 83 35 Strong SW wind and very low humidity (assumed, from massive diurnal range) 10/25 59 26 Stronger NW winds, turning fire's long right flank into the head. Worst day of the fires. 10/26 65 20 Most recent measurable precip was 0.08" on Sept 30. Edit: The link is limited mostly to the Bar Harbor fire, which did its damage a couple days earlier than the above stats.

That storm dumped 10" of fluff in 4.5 hours at Augusta and was still <1/4 mile visibility when I had to leave - wife got rear-ended a couple miles from home and rode the ambulance to the hospital to make sure the clips in her sternum (double bypass the previous Oct.) White-out for the 1st 10 miles but down to SN after that. Had 8" at home, only 5" at Farmington - for hours, radar had a yellow "banana" IZG-LEW-AUG-Belfast and Franklin County was just north of the bright colors. GYX had 15" and AUG probably about the same.

Better creeping than in full sprint like last month. Up to 4.93" for October, may get the 8/10" next week to bring the month up to average.

I thought Baikal was the only freshwater lake that had seals.

Got fringed here, 3", but 9" (month's biggest) from the next one, bringing the month total to 46.5", 0.3" more than Dec 2007. (2017 is the snowiest Feb, 46.9" despite nothing during the final 12 days.) Feb 2008 had 11 days with 1"+ and 5 with 5"+, the archetypical endless snow period w/o anything really big. The 6 days 5-10 brought 4 storms of 4" to 6.4" totaling 20.9" plus a 1.8" 'dusting' on the 8th.

Same here. In the (draft) Parks and Lands newsletter for November, the director noted that Parks has set a new record for campers in a season and that's thru 9/30 so the total will be higher than what will be in that report. I don't know how that has worked out for the campers (no outbreaks reported) but to date, there have been no COVID-19 cases among Parks and Lands employees. Also, use of hiking trails on Lands Division (my agency) is way up, though exact numbers aren't documented.