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  1. tamarack
    Chimney Pond is perhaps 110 miles farther north than Hermit Lake, which might affect their relative snowfall. Chimney reached 94" in 2017, knocking Farmington's 84" out of the lead it had held for 48 years.
  2. tamarack
    Short memories? They had over 500k customers out from the Oct. 2017 gale; that's a few thousand more than in 1998, though in '17 most were re-powered within 2-3 days while the ice storm had many thousands dark for 2 weeks +.
  3. tamarack
    After seeing nearby cocorahs reports I can't be too critical of snow total verification. Chesterville, 7-8 miles to my SW, reported 2.9" from over 2" total precip, not quite half my 6.0 and with considerably more precip. 12 miles to my WSW, the Temple observer at 1220' had 11.5". 3 stations, all within less than a 30 minute drive from each other, and a 1-2-4 ratio of snowfall.
  4. tamarack
    Snowfall was surprisingly variable in southern Franklin County. Have not heard from the co-op, but 6 miles south in Chesterville only 2.9" was reported, at elev. 384'. Six miles west of the co-op I had 6.0" at 390' and 7 miles WNW in Temple - at 1220' - there was 11.5".
  5. tamarack
    Had 1.5" of 9:1 snow (almost powder ) overnight, so storm total is 6.0" with 1.38" LE, plus the 0.10" RA at the start. Oddly there's more in the driveway, 5"+, than at the stake, 4". No drifting at all, just chunks blowing out of the trees which didn't impact either spot.
  6. tamarack
    4.5" at 9 PM, a bit more than I'd thought, but only a bit. However, I discovered why the forecast busted - nothing but flakes noon on and LE (without the 0.10" RA at the start) was 1.19" for a lovely ratio of 3.8. Even a wet 8:1 would've put me up near that Will measured. I think maybe that the flakes were so moist when they landed that they played flexible Tetris and self-compacted throughout the storm.
  7. tamarack
    About the same depth here, not quite the morning forecast of 12-18 nor the midstream update to 8-12, as the good bands refused to come more than about 5 miles NW of I-95. Heavy precip now is downeast, but probably RA/mix within 30 miles of salt water. Many flickers here and 7-8 full blacks - only for 1-2 seconds, not enough to start the gennie but plenty to foul up computers and TV.
  8. tamarack
    Struggling to reach 2". GYX' latest "most likely" for Farmington is 9", down from this morning's 14. Gray and Augusta pegged for 6", but I'd not be surprised given the radar if they got the 9 and we got the 6. At least it's not a slushy mess.
  9. tamarack
    Looks like about 5° off plumb, meaning his 8" is really only 7.97". Reached 1" at 3 PM after 3 hours of SN.
  10. tamarack
    Which stubbornly resists much northward movement. Should that continue, I see a significant bust, 12-18" becoming maybe 6-8 (which still ain't too shabby for 1st week DEC.) 1/2"/hr isn't going to get our depth anywhere near the forecast. Still time, however.
  11. tamarack
    Flipped to all snow a couple minutes before noon - only 0.10" wasted precip. Took until 12:30 before leaves and grass were noticeably lighter in color and by 1 PM we had moderate SN with a tenth or 2. Temp slid from 35 to 32 over the last hour.
  12. tamarack
    Ski Sugarloaf.
  13. tamarack
    Mid 30s with RA- and occasional catpaws. If rates pick up the changeover would begin. Edit: Farmington snow potential now 6/14/22,. serious boost to the 10% chance, others much the same.
  14. tamarack
    Wow! Just got punched up to 6/14/19. Shazam! Warmer, pastier and less areal coverage version of 2003? Only a day early. (That beast dropped 24" of 14:1 pow with blizzard criteria for about 12 hours.)
  15. tamarack
    Last month we had a short period of "stuff" that rattled thru the branches and on the leaves just like IP. However, what landed on my wool jacket was opaque and quite irregular in shape, obviously flakes very heavily rimed, or half-melted and refrozen. 12-18? I'll have to look at GYX's "90%/most likely/10%" table again. An hour ago it had Farmington at 0/10/11".
  16. tamarack
    GYX was noting model flip-flops and potential huge impacts on qpf and p-type, starting before they posted the watch. Can't speak for other WSOs.
  17. tamarack
    Houlton hammerer.
  18. tamarack
    Tasty. And it's good to see a Maine poster from north of 45°. It's been a while since we've had anyone from the northeasterly 85% of the state..
  19. tamarack
    Depends on the size of the wiggles. At times the models' wiggling resembles me trying to shoot - offhand without a rest - a deer facing me and 250 yards away. The crosshairs are on target about 5% of the time and right or left the other 95.
  20. tamarack
    It will come back, and then go away again. Then . . .
  21. tamarack
    Maybe for orographics, as seen near MWN (which had surprisingly little - 11.7" while Pinkham recorded 43") but not for temps/p-type, except in SE-most New England. NYC had 14" of 15:1 pow at mid-upper 20s. BOX and PVD each had 17" from 2.1" LE and temps 20s to low 30s, so probably some mixing there. BDL got 18.5" of 11:1 at low-mid 20s.
  22. tamarack
    Sandy peaked at just above 17k cfs, Kennebec at Skowhegan near 46k. Augusta west side parking lots got their annual (or more) washing as the river got 2 ft above flood stage. Nothing serious.
  23. tamarack
    And they will change, many times. Morning GFS op was east, a near whiff. Seems likely, as I had the snows put on the pickup this morning.
  24. tamarack
    Close. BOX was 72 on 7/4 and 69 on Christmas eve. NYC recorded 72/63 that day; their average for 12/24 is 35° and that 32.5° positive departure is the greatest I've found for any individual day in their 150+ year POR.
  25. tamarack
    Not quite as weird as the middle of my first December in Maine - 1973 - when we had RA and 56 in BGR while my parents in NNJ were 15 and IP. However, having a 7 AM temp that's slightly milder than the average low in late July is noteworthy.
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