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That's 10.5" more than we had in the Maine foothills that winter. Only need another 0.5" to match that ratter. Odds look good.

Only 5.5" at HUL but 10-11" at PQI, Castle Hill. Also a bogus 13" from Hermon. Next town east (BGR) had about 1" at the AP (and no problems on my wife's flight from FL). 2.0" from 0.41" LE, thanks to tiny flakes and tiny IP. High temp was 19.

Not for the first time. Some actual flakes in sight. We've had 4-5 periods of real flakes, none lasting more than 5 minutes.

Tiny flakes became tiny flakes plus tiny IP about 12:45, temp upper teens, 1.1".

We're in the 3-4" color. Maybe reached the 1" mark after 5" of very small flakes and radar upstream isn't very exciting. I'd be surprised if we get more than 2". If we finish right at 2", we'll have had 7 snow events in 16 days for 17" total. A weird sequence, but it certainly could have been worse.

Only one winter here with 3, 2013-14, with our least snowy January bracketed by Dec, Feb, Mar. That January had significantly BN temp and significantly AN precip to go with <25% avg snow.

My threshold for a big snow month is 30" - we've had 22 such months in our first 21 winters here, never more than 2 winters without one, but the most recent was January 2019. Maybe the coming 3 storms thru 2/20 can produce a 17"+ total; if not, this will be the 6th in a row w/o a 30-spot month as March looks to be a long shot.

Or US Rt 2 for the northerly one.

Same as here - great rad night. HOU and PQI had -19.

Long enough to have landed the space shuttle. In the early 1980s a couple of co-workers (one a private pilot) were flying back to BGR after a forestry conference in NM and there was a wicked crosswind. The jet hit a bit hard and bounced, that wind caught and lifted the right wing, and the airplane was significantly tilted. The private pilot thought "here we go!" but the crew up front realized they had another 10,000 feet of runway, plenty of time to juice the jets and stabilize the craft without needing a go-around.

Hope so, as my wife is scheduled to fly home from FL (visiting her sister there) on Thursday. Morning AFD from GYX has the storm a bit earlier than previous discussions, snow mostly done by early afternoon. Her flight is scheduled to land at BGR about 5 PM, which probably would be okay, unless that airplane is doing 2 St. Pete/BGR cycles (don't think so), which would mean a BGR takeoff about 9 AM on cycle #1. Another low-QPF fluff event would be fine.

Finished with 2.2" and 0.17" LE. Just a refresher here, happy for the folks in southern Maine.

Tiny flakes, 1.9" with 0.15" LE and 15° at 7 AM. 2-3 was the right call here.

An engineer would say the glass is twice as big as needed. No biggies here since early Dec (9.3") but lots of interesting things to ponder. Sure beats the 50 days of (mostly) boredom following that storm.

Looks like another 2-4 or 3-5 here. Enough of these dime-quarter events could add up to a lot of snow.

Got that 'nother tenth. Snow burst (little wind) dumped 0.5" in <10 minutes, centered on 8:50 this morning. Visibility dropped to <1/8 mile. Another flurry (0.1") while I was out shopping.

2.6" here at 9, might get another tenth or 2, so not quite into the 3-5 range. The 11:1 ratio was closer to the usual, after 3 events with ratios over 20:1. Today's temp was 11/-14, one of the colder snowy days in recent years.

Same temp here, up from -14. First flakes 11:25, now looks like moderate.

2" in Fort Kent.

Understandable, but here the post-equinox snow was such as to un-rat the winter. The 40.9" topped even the spring snowfall in Fort Kent Also, 2 of the 3 storms were overperformers: 1-2 became 5" on 3/21 then 10-16 for 23-24 verified at 22.0". The 13.9" in April landed within the 12-18 forecast. Edit: The Farmington "triad" grew up in the afternoon forecast. This morning it was 1-3-4 and now its 2-4-7.

Our average here has hovered near 90" as we reach the middle of our 27th snow season. From purely a snowfall aspect, anything in the 80s or 90s is near normal. 70s is BN and 60s near ratter (or full ratter on a mega-frustrating season like 2009-10), <60" is down the rat hole. Subjective values come into play - sustained pack despite near-ratter snow (2002-03) elevates a winter and so would one or more events 12"+. Nearby bombs while we mostly watch (Nemo, 14-15) downgrade winters.

Back to normal. Last 2 totaled 20.0", lowering the average a full inch, to 21.9".

The ride from Northern Door motel in Fort Kent to Deboullie is awesome. Find lodging in St. Francis or Allagash would shorten the trip, though the 15-mile rail trail along the St. John has its own awesomeness, looking into Canada the whole way. The run of air-snow has been fun - another 9.5" from Jan 29 thru last night - but a snowstorm with more than 0.2" LE would be welcomed.

That 5-year period in NNJ - March 1956 thru February 1961 - produced a run of big dogs beyond anything I've seen anywhere else. The fact that the previous 5 winters ranged from poor to ratter merely emphasized the abundance. The storms: 3/18-19/56 24", low 20s powder 4/8/56 12", classic birch bender 2/15-16/58 18", with blizzard conditions and temps falling thru the 20s/teens 3/34/60 18", with temps upper teens. School let out at noon, already 8" new 12/11-12/60 18", with temps low teens, 1st day of NJ firearms deer season 1/19-20/61 20", temps upper singles to low teens 2/3-4/61 24", temps mid-upper 20s. Some guesswork for depth, major blizzard conditions In 1961, Jan 19 thru Feb 3 NYC temps ranged from -2 to 29. That 16-day run of sub-32 is easily the site's longest.