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As a NJ expat I can understand that comment, but it depends on where in the state. We have family in SNJ farm country, well back from the shore, and there's little if any "Jersey attitude" there. Also as a NJ expat I realize I'll always be a "flatlander" despite having moved to Maine in January 1973 and worked in the Maine woods for 44 years. I've had almost no pushback, but I've also never carried on like I was a native.

When you've signed in, there's usually links to all the years back thru 10-11 when he started, though I've not tried it this year - only a lot of cold rain here today. Edit: Hit the drop-down menu at "home" and click on "past years." The table actually started with 06-07 which was news to me, but only Dendrite, Ginxy and Keven himself participated before 10-11.

Hope you're hunting not rafting - would be tough paddling while in a wetsuit. In our 3 days in Aroostook (also a couple hours in Piscataquis - Telos) for our forest management audit, we probably saw more than 2 dozen birds, including one that tried crossing the road with 2 pickups bearing down at 60+ on the St. Croix Road. Not enough left to be worth picking up.

Long time since I rode 112 to Woodsville, where my parents retired from NNJ, as dad passed in 1993. For certain we haven't been there since moving to our present home in 1998. Does the Franconia road depart 112 before the notch? IMO, the final 1/2 mile climbing to Kinsman Notch from the west is steeper than anywhere on the Kanc (though much shorter sustained climb) and twisty as well - always interesting in winter.

Swamps always get filled before freeze-up.

Thanks again for this fun topic. Hope we all get to make a lot of significant entries.

Was in northern Maine from Tuesday thru early afternoon yesterday - missed all but the Wed AM drizzle in the woods there - 95% of storm #1 came overnight - but a messy drive home. Had 2.43" in the gauge at 5:30 PM when I got home, another 1.21" thru 7 this morning, probably about 0.75" in the tube as I type. Cocorahs from nearby sites (including a very recent addition from New Sharon, about 2.5 miles ENE from my place) point to twin events 2-2.3" each this week. No more here, please, until freeze-up. Advisory posted for NW Maine this morning, places we visited Wed-Thurs (Round Pond, Telos, Deboullie) - would've been a lot messier for the auditor today. Yeah 1500ft is often a magic number for snow around these parts. Here too. Accumulating SN in Rangeley, which is all above 1500.

Was not looking forward to 225 miles on wet roads, with 80% coming before sunrise. Too many moose along Rt 11 north of Patten.

Chillier here, 21° and 1/8" ice on the soon-to-be-dumped washtub. Still below 40 with clouds, though precip arrival has thankfully slowed, so my 3:30-8 drive to Ashland tomorrow may be on dry roads. Will likely be a wet day in the woods but Wed/Thurs look fine. Couple days ago models were advertising near constant RA Tues-Fri.

Weak TS 8-9 last night, no strikes closer than about 4 miles. Gust front with brief (1-2 minutes, 0.06") RA+ about 9:45. 0.16" overall. Baby steps.

#2 at my place, 8.5" compared to 10.3" on March 23-24. Only 2006-07 had a greater percentage of snowfall in spring in our 22 years here.

We aren't big on the 4 big network stations, but the political ads have also corrupted DIY/Animal Planet/Discovery/Science to a disgusting degree. Some days back I read that Collins/Gideon total money-wasting was at 98 big big ones, must be into 9 figures by now, most expensive non-presidential campaign in the country. When Judge Kavanaugh was nominated for SCOTUS, opponents in Maine (and elsewhere I'm sure) assembled nearly $4 million in pledges for whichever Democrat would be running for that senate seat, and they told Collins that if she voted not to confirm Kavanaugh the pledges would be ripped up. Kind of like a bribe offering. And the battle was on...

We had a pretty good winter last spring, but met winter was MEH!! No storms over 7", no sustained cold, mediocre pack, etc. CAR had about 150", however, though no real biggies even there.

Garbage for sure - 73-74 was my first full winter in Maine (BGR) and only a snowy April kept it from setting a futility record there. They had more after the equinox (21.0") than before (19.8") and my biggest pre-equinoctial "storm" was 4.5" of near-zero feathers that had 0.10" LE. The airport's biggest prior to spring was 3.3" in December that changed to RA and dumped nearly 3". That was the event that featured 56° in BGR and at the same time 15° at my parents' place in NNJ, while the western half of SNE had a lights-out ice storm. BGR's least snowy winter was 22.2" in 79-80; none came after the equinox.

90%+ leaf drop around our place. The woods has lots of early-drop ash and basswood but even the maples are mostly bare. Only the 80' oak has more than 1/3 of its foliage. At the same time, there are hillsides near the Sandy River in Farmington with <50% leaf drop and still colorful though short on the reds. Another upper 20s windshield-scraping morning here.

The sub-heading for that article, below, is only a small part of its content, but I guess climate change gets clicks (like mine.) Climate change is taking a toll on woodlands in the Northeast. Much of the article was about the need for more arborists, a real issue. CC was noted as a factor but not applied specifically to the trees noted in the piece except in relation to drought, which though currently serious cannot compare to conditions in the (cooler) 1960s. One little part about planting southern trees was puzzling, mentioning black gum, pawpaw and persimmon as tolerant of warmth and drought. In Maine all the black gum I've encountered were in wetland soils. The same person then noted she was planting balsam fir to replace adelgid-vulnerable hemlock. Fir is considered at risk in Maine due to a warming climate; it's about the last species I'd recommend planting in Mass. Considerable discussion of emerald ash borer, not really a climate change issue. I was surprised at the article's dismissive treatment of biological control ( because "it's so expensive!") for EAB, when that strategy is the only option for saving ash in the forest - pesticide application is economically feasible only for valuable specimen trees. Not a bad article overall but had some headscratchers.

110" at Logan is probably about 250% - said the numbers Nazi.

300% AN? 4 times the average? Wouldn't that be near 170" for BOS? 14-15 was super for the eastern half of SNE, but that super? (Just idle curiosity, which has gotten me in trouble before.)

I wonder what killed all the roots on that tree - too much Lesco? And also wonder how it remained upright as long as it did. 0.14" yesterday, winds gusting close to 30 but no issues beyond a few twigs in the road. Also happy to see the GFS backing off yesterday's ridiculous QPF, now under 1" for next week instead of 5". More changes inevitable.

About half of my 142" in 07-08 was "nuisance snow" but it kept building the pack. We take (unless my nuisance 2" is 12" both north and south of here.)

4 PM obs 67mph, TSTM. Fun!

Light RA in Augusta, appears to be letting up and barely made puddles. Really hope 12Z GFS is out to lunch for next week. Tuesday-Friday is our annual forest certification audit, this year in northern Maine. Two days ago that period was dry but latest GFS op has 3-6" RA pretty much statewide, highest BGR to MLT and north. It's Day 6-9 so will undoubtedly change multiple times between now and then, but if it were to verify things would not only be uncomfortable but we might have trouble with flooding on the logging roads blocking the auditor from reaching what he needs to see. (Or blocking our way out of the woods after he's seen it.)

Got 2.8" here.

:Small sample size - 2 stations, NYC and Farmington, Maine - but with PORs of 152 and 128 years: Calendar day precip, 4"+ and 3"+, percent change in frequency NYC: 1869-1969 vs. 1970-on, 4"+ up 74% 3"+ up 95% Farmington, same periods, 4"+ up 127% 3"+ up 44% Not sure if UHI affects precip, though Farmington's population of 5000 probably offers little of it.

Though Maine's new COVID cases are up from a month ago, their active cases have been running about 550 and hospitalized 10-15, ICU 1-2. With newbies averaging about 30/day, that plus actives would mean about 18 days from Diagnosis to recovery, which seems a bit long given the low numbers in hospital. Seems like Maine CDC has remained pretty conservative about declaring recoveries.