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O come on. <1/2" is more than "nothing". (probably)

12z GFS says 1st week of March will have the coldest temps of the season (and there's a 0.01% chance of that verifying.)

Many years ago (mid 60s) while I was at our NNJ home during semester break, we had 3" of IP followed by about 0.4" zr. Had to wear the creepers to climb the small hill from lake to house and kids were skating in their back yards. I couldn't mar the surface with a heel-stomp and I was nearly as big then as now.

For sure. Those 2-storm maps showing 15-20" for our area were slightly optimistic, given yesterday's 2" of IP and the current forecast for 1" tomorrow night/Friday. And the cold air is on the way out, it seems, so the probable dumps that seem to go away may become thread-the-needle scenarios.

GYX has us with an inch. And I thought its 1-3 yesterday was bad. Odd 90%/most likely/10% numbers for Farmington - 0/1/8. I guess that's a 10% chance of big jump north.

We had all sleet, 2.0" from 0.76" LE. With decent ratios that's a 8-12" dump. Some very light frdz at the end but no effect on the surface. Worst part of clearing was the unstable footing from those tiny ball bearings. Would've been easier to clear the 8-12.

Nice month at the Farmington co-op, with 32.6". Would prefer 2001 when they had 58.3", their snowiest month that doesn't start with "F".

Saw maps like that one last Sunday for today and Thurs-Fri. Only off by a factor of 5. Seeing would be believing.

Noon news on PWM ch13 had 3-6 for S.Maine/SE NH and 1-3 up here. Blockbuster.

Precip shut off like a switch at 11, now seeing the treetops waving a bit.

Might've begun as a bit of SN but all IP since then, approaching 2" of ball bearings. First real sleetfest in years, though the 6"+ SN from the LE would've been much nicer. Still not far from 20°.

You sure that's not last Saturday's map for today's event? (Though fringe/whiff seems like better odds than another sleetfest.)

Xmas 2020 was 50s up here, the biggest positive departure (+29) I've measured for any day here, 1° more than 3/22/2012. Not going to get the 2.5" precip of 12/25/20 either - maybe a third as much.

Same conditions here. Might have begun with a little SN - had maybe 2/10" on the porch railing at 4 AM - but it's been blasted down to the wood by the IP. Had 1" of pebbles with 0.30 LE at 7 AM, made for interesting walking and the pickup spun its way up the driveway to put the garbage out to the nd of our road. May need to go back and bring the bags home if they're still unremoved by afternoon. Garbage pickup here is alternate Tuesdays; last time it was also snowed out, picked up the next day. Some of the heaviest IP at present, stuff bouncing up to 6" when hitting that railing - good downward velocity. Might get to half of the low end of the forecast range thanks to the p-type surprise. Pack solidifier, if nothing else.

Some very light snow during the past hour, now stopped with barely enough to see on surfaces. 12Z GFS has qpf under 6/10" for our area after being about 1" yesterday. Naturally.

Our wonderful 4-storms-in-10-days epicosity isn't quite living up to expectations so far.

Seems exactly opposite of models 3 days ago, when tomorrow/Tuesday's event was all snow for New England except maybe for ACK and the late week system was looking cutter-ish. Maybe by Wednesday midnight we'll have a handle on that one. Edit: 16th is getting a dung-like aroma here but it's not yet fully turned. 11th, 14th just disappeared.

Since inheriting my dad's 1992 Ranger in 1994, those rigs (including a 2004 Mazda -Ranger with a different badge) have been my commuting/work vehicle. The 2011 has 141k and still going well, though I had to spring for a new battery last week, replacing the original equipment. Unfortunately, this last is automatic as my web search found no reasonably new/low mileage 5-speeds north of PHL. The new Ranger is a different beast, with Ford doing what Toyota did to the Tacoma - bigger isn't better for compact pickups, IMO. And your call on summer 2009 was right on - had a stretch from early June thru the first few days of August that saw rain on 49 of 56 days. Both June and July 2009 were the cloudiest I've had here for those months, with June 09 the cloudiest for any month (though this past December tied with it.)

Especially in March with warmer days followed by nights well below freezing. Insulation-independent icicles. We have about 10 feet of gutter, open-ended so no downspouts, above the steps from porch to driveway and get serious icicles at each end.

That's the hard way. The year up north when we had to quit maintaining boundary lines because the old evidence was buried was like that pic, but a stiff stick (straight sapling 1" thick was best) could be shoved down thru the crusts and give a much easier measurement. That's how I got the 80" depth the day after that year's big March dump. Phin - Lynx are moving south. When I worked in the NW part of Maine (76-85), trappers caught only bobcats, now only lynx (which all but a very few have been released angered but otherwise unharmed.) Those tuft-eared kitties are doing so well that the USFWS may petition to have their threatened status ended, at least for the MN/NNE populations. (Opponents probably have a 200-paragrph lawsuit ready to go if that happens. When the timber harvesting rules for the Northern long-eared bat were posted, the lawsuit came on the same day. Only 161 paragraphs, though.)

You know it's an SNE winter (so far) when the table shows 10 reports from Mass and 5 from CT with more than anyone in Maine. We'll see if climo asserts itself in late winter/early spring.

GFS is doing its usual qpf build-up from this distance. If its pattern repeats, modeled qpf will peak tomorrow then shrink to about half by Tuesday morning.

Far preferable to big ZR for this forester. 1998 was mostly sleet where we live now (maybe 1/4 of precip was ZR) while it was all ZR in Gardiner where we lived in Jan. 1998. There were more and bigger broken branches/trees on our 0.8-acre house lot in Gardiner than on our 100-times-bigger woodlot in the foothills. The change from ZR-some/no-IP and IP-some-ZR was about 10 miles south of here, recognizable in 1998 by small/medium branches on the ground/huge branches and whole trees down. From this distance, 16th looks all snow, 18-19 SN/IP.

Quick drop from teens to near zero last evening, then it hung at zero to +2 all night before dropping to -5 between 6 and 7 this morning. I think the air was mixing too much during the wee hours. Bright blue currently but with some wispies on the south horizon.

Jan. 8-9, 1953 (45 years to the day before 1998) on the hills N and W of NYC. Five miles away and 200' lower it was RA and the hills 200' higher than our 700' had "asparagus trees" - sticks with all the branches piled around them. Ice fell off on Jan 10 - had 6" cracked ice in our driveway - but it was the 14th before the lights came on. My 2nd oldest wx memory, behind the 1950 Apps gale.