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Slight surprise 7-8 this morning, 0.2", now all gone. Did not expect anything this far north.

Low of 14 this morning, probably last teens until Novie. Nice sun yesterday but the high of 38 with gusty winds didn't scream spring.

75.1" here, 84% of average. Yesterday's 1.6" came 6-8:30 PM after 8 hours of non-accum flakes, droplets, drizzle. One 30-minute puff of feathers 6-6:30 dropped 3/4". 23 with a breeze this morning. Teens tonight?

Forecast now is <1/2" today, <1" tonight. AWT

Flakes seen here but no accum as it's been very light. Vis at WVL briefly dropped under a mile about noon, but not for long enough to even lighten the green of lawns. Forecast for here is 1-3 daytime and 1-2 after sunset. Current radar says we're more likely to repeat last Thursday's 0.6", if that. What could be more exciting in April than 12 hours of non-accumulating snow at 34F?

Totally different from both the AFD (1-3" mts) and the forecast for our zip (some mix).

My 47-y.o. desk-job (mostly) dad didn't get to do much shoveling, either. I went hunting for squirrel and/or partridge (got neither) on 12/24 and learned a couple of things. 1. 345kv wires are hot, both ways. It was light snow when I got to the powerlines about 2 miles SW from home, and could hear the little pops as flakes were instantly vaporized. 2. Thundersnow! I was about halfway home in heavy snow when I heard a loud boom. Since I 'knew' that it can't thunder in snow, I wondered if it was a sonic boom (as if a jet would be flying around in a powerful storm). The 2nd boom, with a bit of echo despite all the snowflakes, was obvious. Then my thought was, "This is going to be some storm!" (15", deepest pack on Christmas until we moved to Fort Kent.)

Most recent white Christmas at Central Park prior to 2024 was 1983. The only other one in the past 50 years was 1966, but it happened 4 times in the 5 years 1959-63.

Sometimes it's our friend, sometimes our fiend. Also, big CAD sites tend to avoid upslope.

Wind finally dropped off after midnight, allowing the temp to reach 17, which is also the median for April's lowest. Pure blue now with a light breeze. GYX has us with 2-4" overnight before going to IP then RA tomorrow.

It was odd in central Maine - warning criteria (7.5" in Gardiner) on 3/31 before the SNE bomb.

Clouds hung tough yesterday, damping the max to only 40, ten degrees under the forecast. March numbers: Avg max: 39.8 +1.0 Mildest: 54 on the 22nd Avg min: 20.6 +3.6 Coldest: -13 on the 3rd Mean: 30.2 +2.3 Precip: 4.50" +0.71" Wettest day: 0.99" on the 6th Snow: 9.6" -7.5" Snowiest: 4.0" on the 24th Deepest: 19" on the month's 1st 4 days. Avg depth: 9.4" -7.8" March 2025 came and went, if not a lion maybe a bobcat, with temps like a lamb in the middle. 1-4: -5.9° 5-22: +7.1° 23-31: -3.2°

Normal highs but 5-10° BN lows. BDL norm for next Monday is 46°, probably something like 57/35. Mount Tolland would be more like 53/33.

Sounds like January 10, 1998, when 95% of the ice cascaded to the ground. My wife was at the AUG Civic Center with an elderly woman suffering Parkinson's, and our drive home at 10 PM was one of the most eerie trips in memory. Zero lights, super dense fog, and all kinds of stuff littering the roads. Couldn't see the trees/branches/wires until almost on top of them.

PWM numbers: 11/26/1921 30 23 0.49" 1.5" 11/27/1921 25 20 1.11" 6.3" 11/28/1921 29 22 1.15" 7.6" Seems too cold for much ZR, more like an SN/IP mix. Farmington had 10" on 0.87" LE, likely all snow. Maine trees escape the catastrophe.

Maybe. I was utterly fascinated by the NNJ ice storm in January 1953; it planted seeds of both meteorology and forestry which are still growing. Of course, I was only 6 and people at that general age look at things differently than grown-ups. My reaction to 1998, which was precisely 45 years later (both accretions came Jan 8,9) was vastly different, as I was then responsible for 160k acres of forest in Western Maine. Because you need an ideal combination of cold air drain, moisture and lift which usually only occurs over a relatively small area. edit: a stalled front is also helpful. It's one of the more elusive weather events. That's one reason that 1998 was such a unicorn, causing catastrophic damage from Montreal to Moncton. And that NB pic several posts up-thread reminded me of the state lot in Hebron (10 miles NW from LEW) in 1998. I found a one-year twig of ash - perhaps 0.15" diameter - that had ice 3.0" x 2.2", about the size of a Pringles can. Blades of grass had ice the size of soda cans.

Trace of ZR and maybe 0.3" IP. Total 2-day QPF is <0.4". Roads were nasty this morning.

Dry overnight but the sleet should arrive within minutes. Temp ~25.

Yankees have 9 hr, struck out 5 times and made 5 errors. Their starter got pulled with a 10-run lead and 2 outs in the 5th, one out from getting the win. Just before 4 we have a patch of blue-ish sky as the sun attempts to peek.

3" here, all flakes. 1.9" from 0.16" LE at 7 then 1.1" from 0.06" LE feathers thru 11:30. Since then only countable flakes, none in the past hour as the band has moved south.

Guess we won't notice the partial solar eclipse - max coverage (~60% here) is about 6:30 AM and GYX had us possibly at 1"/hr snow then.

April 2007 redux?

I think it's only the 3rd time this cold season - Thanksgiving night, Feb 16, and almost April. Only 2015-16 has had fewer since we moved here in 1998. (Though the 120 days between 1st and 3rd are respectable.)

Saturday update: Here, 2-4" and max 31. SNJ is sunny and 80. The weird gets weirder. March to date is +3.5, thanks to 5th-22nd being +7.1.