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In its lamentedly short period of recording weather data, Diamond Pond, east of the CT lakes, averaged about 230" at 2200'. Kibby summit is a thousand feet taller but the better potential would be among the wind turbines on the ridge to Kibby's south, which get up over 3100'. Convince the windmills' owners to have the full time maintenance personnel establish and monitor/record from a site on the ridge between the spinners would be interesting. The access roads are all on the west side of the ridge so would catch that part of upslope but miss the high-Froude dumps to the east. If only . . .

Valdez, Alaska averages 285" for 1991-2020. Losing the 1989-90 season's 552" dropped the 30-year average a bit. Their site was at 23' thru 2008 then moved to a spot at 95'.

Both morning and afternoon P&Cs from GYX offer a measly <1/2" for my area, far from the 3"+ on that map, which seems based on all snow here while the AFD says otherwise.

I've read that NYC had a day that January that never warmed up to zero - unofficial but perhaps the only subzero max in the city's history.

Well,. sort of, but when my expected 1" event drops 2" it doesn't move the needle much. For an active February with many chances, having no double-digit storms and only one bigger than 3" is a downer, especially when I see several NNJ sites with more snow this month than I've had all season. They were talking on news this AM about how February has been below normal for temps. We in the minority because TAN is at +1.1F. Jan +4.0 Dec +3.1 Yesterday's +16 moved our average back into AN range, will probably finish avg to +1. OCT -1.5 NOV +2.0 DEC +4.3 JAN +5.6 FEB +0.6 thru yesterday Autumns with BN Oct and AN Nov almost always mean bad news for the coming winter here. Same for the much longer POR at Farmington.

We had near-freezing sludge at the start on the 8th and by the time snow was done (11.5") on the 9th temps were in the singles and reached -14 the next morning.

But it was, for me, the grinchi-est Grinch of them all, for at least 3 reasons: 1. It happened on Christmas Day rather than merely within a few days of 12/25. 2. It brought the biggest one-day rain of my 23 Decembers here. 3. Its 29° AN temp is the greatest I've recorded here, 1° more than 3/22/2012 (which I thought was impossible to top.) Beyond that I agree - it's been very meh though not yet as bad (though close) as last winter, when the 3 met winter months failed to produce a snowfall greater than 7" and had the same lack of real lasting cold.

Doesn't look likely this year, but 4 of my 22 winters here had their coldest temp in March: 00-01, 06-07 (on the 9th, the latest so far), 10-11 and 18-19, all in the range -20 to -25.

The Feb. 10-11 storm (my 21" dump and 3rd and most recent TSSN) grew up as it moved north, though ORH got 5.6. That said, BOS had 32" for Feb/Mar and ORH 48, not up to Jan's monster snow but also not bad for "letting up".

Biggest 04-05 snowfall here prior to Feb 10 was a measly 3.4". Then the next 31 days brought 60", including storms of 21, 11.5 and 11 inches, for a slightly AN snow season.

We did it for our rescue thru Maine Lab Rescue in 2017. Her appearance is all/most yellow Lab, has the webbed feet, short somewhat coarse coat (less inner hair than the purebred black Lab we enjoyed 2003-16) and general body form of a Lab. She also has the pink nose and white blaze on the back of her neck that describes a "Dudley Lab". However, the DNA results had her with 1/8 each of 4 different breeds, Lab being one but another was Corgi(?) and while I don't recall the other 2, I do remember they were nothing like a Lab. The other 1/2 was listed as "mixed", so we learned essentially nothing. Despite the Lab appearance she doesn't particularly like water (Abby the black Lab was unable to walk past it without a wallow - at any temp) and "retriever" is not part of her character. However, the Lab personality is all there, enthusiasm, friendliness, tolerant of kids, cats and most everything else.

I'd go for that, but even more for 2001 - 55.5" including 35 after the equinox. Had 48" OG on 3/31.

Mid 30s at 7 this AM though it was about 30 last evening. Just had a couple decent gusts come thru, maybe 25-30 mph. I thought the wind was coming tomorrow. Yesterday's high of 40 was the warmest here since the wee hours of 12/26 as we coasted down from the Grinch-torch.

Blackflies are easily outrun, though there may be even more of them where you run to. It's the deerflies that are barely subsonic- hyperbole but I've watched squadrons pacing my vehicle at 20+ mph. And while mosquitos sip daintily thru their straw and blackflies merely scrape enough skin so they can lap up their lunch, a deerfly bite feels like the beast has carved off a slab and flown off with it. I did learn that if one stands still (feeding the smaller pests) the deerflies lose interest. It's like T.Rex in Jurassic Park - those little horrors feel like they have similar dental equipment though on a smaller scale.

Concerning huge Morris Cty totals, IMO it would be a bit sad if Mount Arlington's 35.1" officially eclipses the current record, mainly because I like the irony of the least snowy spot in the state having recorded the biggest snowfall.

GFS op has had that early March cold on about 2/3 of the runs I've seen over the past week. The other1/3 has been different, sometimes much different.

Thanks. Someone from Fayson Lakes where I grew up said18, but it looked like more there and was more elsewhere in Morris County.

I've run the machine for 3 storms, the mess of Jan 16 (during moderate RA), Feb 3 (morning after the event) and the 2/16 sleet - only 2" but nasty for walking or driving. Last evening's 3" will be well settled by tomorrow sunset, no need to remove it beyond the porch stairs and the cars.

Definitely looks catlike, and while lynx have been expanding south thru Maine I doubt they've made it to your place. When I lived in N. Maine (76-85) the trappers there caught only bobcat. Latest surveys related to the lynx' Threatened designation show few bobcats north of Moosehead and there have been reliable lynx sightings in the Rangeley country and some even farther south. Probably some seen in Coos County as well. Those critters are doing so well that USFWS is pondering their being delisted in the East.

Most fisher tracks I've seen are in pairs, one paw slightly ahead of the other and back paws landing almost exactly in the forepaw impressions. Seen that same pattern from weasels, mink and marten and have seen all those mustelids loping along. If that pic showed a fisher, it was likely moving faster than the ones that have left the pairs tracks.

Had to look it up, despite living within 30 miles for 20+ years. Lots of Jersey boys here. Temp was slowly rising before sunrise, trees were pretty but will be empty by this afternoon.

Nice! I'm guessing my home growing up. a few miles to your south but at 700', has gotten more snow than here in the Maine foothills. Yesterday's 3" brought the pack to the same 20" and total snowfall to 48.4. How much did you measure from the Feb. 1-2 bomb?

12 miles west from GYX and 340' higher made all the difference.

IMO, this gets an A+. We finished with 3.0" from 0.31" LE and 2" fell between 7 and 9 PM. Snow ended by 10.

Sounds like a plan! Surface temps here mid-upper 20s so no issues there.