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Harder than one might think. Neither BOS, BDL or the local co-op has recorded even a 6° departure (pos or neg) during met summer. P&C has 1-2 for me and 2-4 just 6 miles to my west. Either one is more than what things looked like 24 hours ago. Checked for GYX discussion 15 minutes ago and last update was before 11 AM - must be pondering the mess big time. Edit: Finally posted the update at 4:52. Some fine (elevational) lines between nada and birch bender.

Cutting across 5 lanes of the GSP just to pass folks on the right is certainly aggressive and probably exhibits skill, but I wouldn't (didn't) look at that as a positive.

You've got about 50 miles of extra latitude as well as the elevation. Looking better for there than it did a day or two back.

The biggest snowfall of my experience, 26.5" on 3/14-15/1984, had bar. 30.40 at the start and 30.10 at the end (on a cheap instrument). The storm had relatively light wind, but I can't recall another major storm with pressure that high and so little change from start to finish. It came on the heels of very cold HP.

6" paste for Mile Hill at 800', 1" (at most) slush in MBY at 390'.

Our small church had online-only services from mid March into June. Currently we have in-person services with both masks and distancing - seems like the church-related outbreaks are mostly in places that do neither. We also put the Sunday AM service online for folks whose health/preference means they wouldn't attend at this time.

On today's date in 2015 I'd recorded 41.9" of snow for the season and had 10" OG. Not exactly dealing from the same deck so far.

We're in a very low population density area, and this week was the first time any acquaintances caught the virus - a family that had been attending the same church as us but moved to another nearby one last summer. We have good friends in that 2nd church so we'll be alert for future cases there.

06z GFS agrees. Gives me perhaps a 1" starter atop my 5" pack, then 1"+ RA at U30s to 40. Then it shows the first sustained cold of the season but only about 0.05" qpf for the rest of the 16-day. Suppression city? I don't think that forecast will totally destroy our little pack but may leave the driveway needing both 5-gal buckets of wood ashes.

In the city or east (BTV) and west (PWM)? I'm definitely not an urban-preference person - my college years in BWI and BGR confirmed that opinion.

That's certainly true, but this season's Grinch was far out of the ordinary. The 2.54" on 12/25 is my greatest 1-day precip for any day in DJFM, the +29 temp is the largest positive departure for any day, any month, and it was the latest in the season I've seen a 6" pack go to bare ground. Currently have 5-6" but I don't think I'll lose it all Saturday - maybe half the qpf of 12/25 and temps 10-15° less mild.

Same idea for the weather presentations on the PWM network channels. They offer "coastal" and "inland" forecasts, but the latter seem to fit Westbrook and Gorham more than Raymond or LEW.

We like where we are now, but for snow being about 5 miles SE (thus 400'+ higher) would probably add 10-15% to our snow. Example: We got 6" of 4:1 stuff on Dec 5 while Mile Hill had at least 10, based on what was there 4-5 days later.

Normal? Yesterday's 1° BN broke a 21-day run of ANs, and January is still 7° AN. Storms obviously can cut despite any antecedent temps, but we'd have a better chance if the thermometer looked more like January. There's even a chance that we never get below zero this month. -4 in 2002 is the mildest monthly minimum so far. (Avg is -22 and median -23.)

We were visiting at the time so I shared their disappointment. Then found out we'd had a 20" blizzard at home, best January snowstorm of my life, had I been there. (Got home about 12 hr after final flakes, then to do all the snow removal.)

Farmington (midnight obs) 6-7: 14"/26" This is the strange number. My place (9 PM obs) 6-7: 6"/18". Had S+ at 9 so prob. 12" by midnight, 12" after. New Sharon co-op (7 AM obs): 23" on 12/7.

And the grandkids in SNJ were overjoyed at the 12-16" forecast, until it verified at 1.5" which was gone 3-4 hours after final flakes.

Surprising bit of snow in the pre-dawn, 1.0" of 40:1 fluff though I rounded LE up to 0.03" - covers the dusting that fell 7-8 AM after I cleared the board. If wxeyeNH's request of 1/3 of the Kuchera fantasy were to verify, I'm all done thru 1/24 as that map had me at about 3". 06z GFS dumps about 1.5" of low 40s RA over the weekend and the ever-retreating cold has moved completely beyond 384; all 16 days show AN minima, ranging from a few degrees to 20+ during the deluge. In other trivia, yesterday's mean temp was 1° BN, stopping the AN run at 21 days. (And leaving me wondering how long before the next BN.)

Mainly to protect native brook trout, and "many" would've been more accurate than "nearly all". Lakes in which landlocked salmon and/or togue are the more important species are often open, like the Fish River chain of lakes. Most smaller waterbodies in N. Maine are closed in winter and a lot of the larger lakes open.

Unfortunately, Aroostook is bleeding population in a serious way. Great snowmobiling (N. Maine may be as good as anywhere in the lower 48) but fewer other winter rec opps - decent X-C (or biathlon, if that's your thing), a small alpine ski area. Good fishing during the warm seasons but nearly all the lakes are closed to ice fishing. Sort of "Midwestern" type scenery with all the fields - St. John Valley is more scenic but even farther from amenities.

NO embarrassed TB12 twice this season - 3rd time too?

Pass. Jan 1996 had 2 nice storms atop a snowy Dec, though the metro-blizzard was a whiff. Then 3 torch-deluges in 11 days, Farmington loses 32" of snowpack right when climo temps are coldest. I've whined enough on that other month . . .

And 12z was worse. The weekend event is now a 1-1.5" snowpack swallower and the cold finally arrives, sort of, at 384 (after another cutter.) It never happens quite that way, even with cutters. Normal low temp at CAR in mid-January is near zero. That 12z run has them never getting below 11°.

Near zero this morning, first BN minimum since 12/20. Average max here for 1/11 is 26° and the forecast high is low 30s so it's probably 50/50 whether the mean can end the string of ANs at 21. 06z GFS was not impressive, <1/4" qpf in 16 days, Fri-Sat is RA and the arrival of deep cold pushed back to the 24th. Next run will be different, one way or another.

A friend took a nice salmon thru the ice on Parker Pond (Fayette/Mt. Vernon, 10-15 miles SSW from my place.) Probably on some cove ice near his brother's home that somehow survived the Christmas deluge. Long Pond in Belgrade is about 2/3 open. Yesterday's low of 9° is the coldest since 12/20 (my last BN day) but still 3-4° AN.