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GYX not too enthusiastic, except maybe for the far south/SE parts of its CWA. Even the 10% chance at Farmington is only 3" and the "most likely" is <1". 06z GFS op is a whiff Augusta and points N and W. Still lots of time for jigs and jogs. Stake showing 4" and it's high LE and solid, so we're not whining too much here. Especially since this last event was showing up as a 50° torch-deluge on models several days earlier.

Storm total 2.5" from 0.53" LE (some of the 0.58" noted in previous post was rain-soak) with trees looking quite nice until the wind picked up. Only 0.02" came from the 0.4" of light snow falling 7-11 AM. At the first good snow-dislodging gust it sounded like a herd of giant squirrels were pitter-pattering on our roof, as the snow was a bit crusted so the stuff hit the roof in chunks.

After losing several indoor-outdoor cats to the local predators (coyote/fisher), ours now are inside only. Of course, our bit of lawn is surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest full of small rodents, so we could never place enough TP-roll permethrin baits to have much effect. My lawn mower would just laugh at those 2" TP cores. If your lawn is grass-to-grass with your neighbors, the mouse-nest "trap" tactic is out of play. If there's forest edge, a yard or two inside would be the place for those TP rolls to be placed.

Last year I read about a way to control ticks in a yard without spray. It involves adding permethrin to cotton (or dryer lint -cheaper and just as effective) and cramming the stuff into cardboard rolls - TP centers work fine, paper towel cores should be cut in 2-3 pieces. The devices are then placed at about 10-foot intervals around the lawn/yard, preferably sheltered by a piece of bark/wood, etc. so the rain doesn't ruin them. Mice and voles love that stuff and carry it back to build their nests, where the permethrin cleans the little rodents of all ticks. (Of course, if your yard covers an acre, you'd need about 100 of the things.)

2" overnight after a slushy tenth before 9 PM, with 0.25" total precip by then. Haven't melted the rain/snow bucket but the 2" on the board held 0.58". Trees nicely frosted for the grandkids from SNJ. Still some light snow, probably will continue most of he morning, might pick up another tenth or two. Several reports of thunder in the area, but not here so November remains my only month here without it. Sw a report from GYX of 8" in Carrabassett Valley.

Frosty mid 20s this morning, 2" of armor plate merely softened yesterday and got harder than ever overnight.

Looks very similar to the map we saw Saturday evening. Busted high for most of the foothills and points S & E, but that map had 6"+ for N. Maine, which verified. Trend has been favorable, as last week was offering a torch-deluge, but I'm still underwhelmed by our prospects from this one.

Except when real cold arrives, liquids and produce might want to come inside quickly lest they suffer hypothermia.

Maybe in NNNE Had 1.36" precip and 1.5" of stuff. Light snow 10-noon dropped 1/2" but changed to IP/ZR/RA continuing thru 6 P. An hour of fatties brought another inch, followed by moderate rain thru 9 PM, 1.28" total by then, another 0.08" after. The 6-7 snowburst dropped about 1.5" in Farmington, and the road into town from church was freshly plowed outbound but full of shush heading to town center. With traffic oncoming I had little choice but to challenge the slop, and even at under 15 mph I lost steering for a bit due to "slushoplaning", though the front tires regained contact with something solid before trouble occurred The 7 days 18-24 includedd 5 with max of 33 (including yesterday) and one 34. Those 6 days featured 2.02" precip and 1.6" snowfall. Hope that's just a preseason thing and not an augury for the rest of the snow season. On the positive side, yesterday's mess brought November's total to nearly an inch above my average.

BGR to Milo- nice little 12+ nugget. Lock it in.

I've not seeing anyone saying it will be another 1995-96, but the run of strong storms is reminiscent. 1st one this season was the gale of 10/17 and we've had several since. In 1995 the first serious event came 10/22, and it wasn't until 4 weeks later, on about #6 that the ground turned white. We then had 5-6 more siggy snowstorms thru mid-Jan before the cutters in late month destroyed the pack, after which Feb/Mar/Apr brought several more. Far to be preferred to a 1999-00 where nothing was happening.

540 line looks to be directly over my house. One twitch north or south....

That storm was somewhat of a disappointment at my (then) Gardiner home. Forecast from the WSO (then at PWM) was "1 to 3 feet with life-threatening conditions." We had 10.3" of6:1 snow (no IP/ZR) with upper teens - crummy dendrites plus a bit of riming. I've yet to find a report from another Maine site that shows a storm total as low as mine. Not all was negative; that 10" brought the pack to 31", the only time in my 13 winters there that the depth reached the 30s. 1/4/81 was the last below 0F max at CON. Max at CAR was -16, their coldest on record. We'd been away that weekend, and when we returned to our Ft. Kent home at 8 PM that Sunday it was -25 with moderate snow, coldest I've seen accumulating SN (though it was less than 1".)

They're everywhere! Though I've not picked up any while awaiting (unsuccessfully) for a deer - snow cover has helped with the ticks, less so for the larger critters. However, my Oct. 30 trip to the state lot in Topsham (midcoast) fetched me 26 of the little horrors, all black-legged (deer) ticks, including 4-5 of the tiny nymphs. Was stopping to kill 1-2 every hundred yards while driving out the twisty road from the tract, then did a partial strip-tease (in the commode cubicle with the door closed, of course) back at the Augusta office and found 8-9 in my clothes. Three more of the teeny ones had to be detached at home.

Falling can be kind of exhilarating. It's the landings I don't like.

Different world up there - love the Ft. Kent pic. Madawaska reporting 10" OG. Most of the Aroostook trails pre-date the ITS system, and I'd guess they have an earlier go-date.

Don't worry, she'll quickly adapt. By mid Feb a sunny day in the calm 20s she'll be out there in short sleeves.

Full pool at Umbagog is about 1250, but the point is well taken. They may have had only one day (the 10th) get above 32 in the past 2 weeks. And that was on 11/15 My temps for 13,14 were 19/6 (windy) then 24/-2 (calm.) Umbagog was probably something like 14/2 and 19/-8 those days, and they'd had lows around 10 on 11/8, 9, 12. However, the always late to freeze Long Pond in Belgrade has had only some skim ice along the edges. Last 2 days have been essentially average for means (-7 highs, +7 lows) and have boosted the month average from 8.1 BN all the way to 7.3 BN. Precip has been about half the average so far.

Dry and cloudy here. After nearly 0.6" precip the past 2 days with temps never reaching 35 and just 0.1" SN, dry is good.

To each their own, I guess. My wish-storm would be Dec. 30-31, 1962, only about 75 miles to the west of where it actually went. That event dumped 29.5" on BGR and 40"+ 10-40 miles upriver. It had storm force winds that piled drifts tall enough to snare a large bulldozer (that was out trying to free a 6WD grader, which had been sent to dig out a plow truck, and all this about a mile from I-95's current location thru BGR.) Temps cycled back and forth between near freezing and near zero. The backside NW winds shattered windows in NNJ and uprooted large bare-limbed oaks, with the 12/31 temps of 5/-8 at my place. The Bangor Daily News is nearly 200 years old, and that Sunday, Dec 31, is the only time they were unable to publish.

2013 was okay here, with snowfall that season almost exactly on my average. However, Feb. 8-9 was a disappointment. I'd watched light-moderate SN from mid-morning forward in Augusta, with 6" in the parking lot as I headed home. There I found less than 1"- my 9 PM obs was 1.3". Picked up overnight and the storm total of 11.3" made for a decent storm, but hearing that AUG and LEW each had over 2 feet was a bit depressing. (Not as bad as 12/25-26/2002,though. AUG/Gardiner 15", GYX 18" Belgrade Village 8-10", and 12 miles NW from there: 1.0".)

15.6" is meh? Fort Kent's 2" was the real meh.

Farmington's 20 snowiest winters followed AN Octobers 70% of the time, AN Novembers just 40%. Their 20 least snowy winters came with October temps 50/50 but November AN 65% of the years.

Wow. My situation was never that acute. However, the stenosis being in my neck (C-4) resulted in roughly equivalent loss of function for the whole body. Oddly, I had essentially no pain, other than some ache in my forearms while loading the woodstove. Also, my notorious resistance to cold (Please put on a jacket; you're making ME feel cold!) disappeared, or reversed. Usually I sleep under one light blanket, but the night I got home at 8 PM from a forestry meeting and found the inside temp in the 40s - power outage and wife house-sitting near BGR so no woodstove heat - I could not feel warm even under 4-5 thick coverings, despite the woodstove going full blast.

If you go there, I can only hope it goes as well as mine did.