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Maybe you need a new ruler, maybe 2 - one for length and one for girth. Longest pike I ever caught was 33" and weighed 8.25 lb. My grandfather caught a bass in the 1930s that was 24" and still weighed 8 lb after 3 days in the fridge before he could get it officially weighed. At the time it was NJ's biggest bass on record and though I only saw the mount (I'm old but not that old) the fish did not look especially portly. And that girth seems way low. Using the length-girth weight estimator (girth*girth*length divided by 800) a fish with those measurements would weigh about 6.1 lb. For skinny fish like pike the divisor is 900, which would be about 5.5 lb. We drove by the old ski lodge once it was light out the next morning...you could see the old trails still faintly visible too in the growth of the trees on the mountain. Apparently it went defunct after the 1981-1982 winter. Maybe the poor financial choices were a major part, as 1981-82 as a big snow winter in Maine. Dec was warm but snowy while the next 3 months were cold and snowy. (They would've probably been closed for the April blizzard in any case.) Of course 1979-80 was terrible, IIRC at Christmas that winter only one natural-only ski area was operating - Fort Kent - and it was marginal even there. 1980-81 was little better - those 2 winters rank 1 & 2 lowest at the Farmington co-op - so 81-82 might've been just a dead cat bounce for Evergreen. That may have been the time another small no-snowmaking area in Maine closed, Enchanted Mountain between Bingham and Jackman on Coburn Mountain (partly in Upper Enchanted Township though the ski area was in adjacent Johnson Mountain Twp.) (Coburn is one of Dryslot's favorite snomo destinations and possibly the highest groomed trail in New England.)

~75" avg. Three winter's ago 132" The 10 seasons on your sig average 83", but I think 75 is closer to the long term average. Your (hypothetical) neighbor at 250-300' lower elev would be near 70". Western Maine (and adjacent NH) is the CAD capital of New England. Agreed, as I've learned from experience, which also has shown that "best CAD" is often paired with "worst upslope". Bridgton area trivia (for anglers) - Maine's record bass, 11.5 lb, came out of Moose Pond. I've fished (frequently to obsessively) since I was 9 and have never caught one even half that big.

NNE did a little better, at least in Maine. Oddly, 3 of those 6 NYC ratters, 52, 54 and 55, had big dumps on Feb. 17-18. The 1952 event has been pushed back to #3 at PWM but it was a far more powerful storm in Maine than PWM's bigger snows of Jan 79 and Feb 13. When I read "Their Finest Hours" (have not seen the movie) I was reminded that the Maine Turnpike had about 1,000 stranded vehicles at the height of the '52 blizzard. Not much snow at CHH but it was plenty exciting.

To find another winter like 05-06 with no 6"+ storms I had to go back to 67-68 in NNJ. To find a third I'm probably back in the early 50s before I began to even measure the stuff. (Looking at the stats, winters 1949-50 thru 54-55 were a sixpack of ratters in NYC and anyplace in the general region.)

Those choices would be 2003-04 and 2007-08 up here. Dec 03 brought storms of 24" and 13" by the 15th and the rest of the winter only added another 35". Given the comparative regularity of snowfall thru the 4 snowy months, having more than half the season's production coming that soon is anomalous for sure. Then 2007-08's biggest event was 12.5" and only one other storm cracked 10, barely. But for nearly all 4 "winter" months (here) we saw 2 [or more] storms per week and finished with 142.3" and over 3800 SDDs.

48.2" when we average 90.6" - awfuller. I think some VT sites take the booby prize. IIRC, a couple places had their biggest 2015-16 snowfall on May 16, with about 4". I thought we were deprived here in 05-06 when we failed to have a 6" event; can't imagine not even reaching 4.

The cocorahs observer in Temple, Maine (next to Farmington) lives at 1220' and always gets more snow than other folks. In the Feb 2010 slopfest the Farmington co-op recorded 8.8" and that observer had 26.4" about 6 mile (and 800') away. 15 minutes to the hospital and attached medical specialty offices, an hour to AUG or LEW, 2 hours to the shore. More state taxes than NH, however, and not quite far enough inland to avoid the April mank.

I've seen 98/88 at some sea level Iranian sites - HI about 140 or some ridiculous number. And when winds are reported at 25 and the wx condition is "sand", must be lovely. Might drop below 50 tonight at my place. We average 6-7 sub-50 mornings for July, ranging 3 to 11. This month has a chance to set a new low for such minima - month's lowest so far is 54.

Cannot have too many trees. Back on topic - The Eagle Lake public lands, 22,000 acres just west of the town of Eagle Lake, has been blowdown central in recent decades. The tract shared (equally) a 600-acre blowdown with the township to the east in September 1986, a strip 4 miles long and up to a half mile wide with damage consistent with straight-line winds 90-100. Don't know if the folks at CAR did a ground check. Then 14-15 years ago a storm left a 15-mile string of blowdowns across 3 townships centered on the state tract, with most in patches 1-5 acres but with one 65-acre wipeout on the state land just south of Eagle Lake itself. The in 2013 (IIRC) an EF-0 tor in the town became straight-line wind and flattened about 200 acres along the north shore of Eagle Lake. We picked up about 3,000 cords of blowdown in both the first and last event, perhaps half that from the 65-acre patch.

Like what today is up here.

We had 0.65" from May 17 thru June 27 - wonderful for getting the garden started. Since then we've had 8.33"; maybe go from dust to mushrooms? Edit: 06z GFS OP shows 0.26" over the next 16 days. Pendulum swings again?

Several years ago a co-worker gave me a box full of black walnuts, probably 200-300 all told, from his trees on the midcoast. I fall-planted about 2/3 of them, 3 to a hole, and never saw any sprouts at all. Nor did I see signs of their being excavated by local rodents. That co-worker also has had no success in getting any to grow. A side note: There was a half-full 5-gal bucket of the nuts after I'd planted both of my open areas. For temporary protection I slid a 2nd bucket into the 1st. Red squirrels chewed an inch or two from the top edge of the lower bucket, trying (unsuccessfully) to get at the nuts. Those critters had never been within 50 miles of a black walnut yet they certainly knew good eats when they smelled it.

1.18" here, 3.82" in 4 days, 8.33" in 17.

Except for this year, with its 6-week drought that went from CoC to just plain hot. One year in 10?

The tree-killer hailstorm that hit Rome (Maine) on August 30, 2007 still had significant piles 24 hours later, despite temps in 60s-70s. By then only the runoff-accumulated piles remained.

Today will be July's 1st BN day though we're only about 2.5F AN as we've not gone over 82. June 29 and 30 were BN, and were days like today, only with even more RA.

Showers just arrived here. After the famine, the feast continues.

Either that or a gall. Some are caused by disease and others by insects (and the bug would be inside or there would be an exit hole.)

My parents retired to Woodsville in 1981 and both passed while in that hospital and are buried in the cemetery about 1/4 mile up the hill. Water must be charging down that hill into town, and I can barely imagine what the very flashy (steep gradient, little holding area like lakes/bogs) Wild Ammonoosuc is doing, other than living up to its name. Hope it spares the Ammonoosuc Fish & Game clubhouse; it dates to the early 20th century. Don’t discount idiots who think they would make good pets either. People have let them go when they got too much to handle. Some years before the CT roadkill a cougar was reported in Cape Elizabeth, just where one would expect to find one. Hairs were recovered that confirmed it was a cougar but I never heard if any provenance was determined. I'd say 99.99% chance that was a released animal whose butcher bill got too large. A biologist co-worker (now retired - he's 4 years older than me!) said there were up to a hundred permitted captive cougars in the state and likely almost as many illegal captives. IMO there is no breeding wild population in Maine though releases or wanderers from west or north might occasionally pass thru. The plethora of trailcams plus the lack of any classic (hair scraped off, partially covered in sticks/leaves) cougar kills of deer or moose are negative factors for such a population. Nothing is impossible, of course. After seeing bobcats twice from my pickup during the late 1970s in northern Maine (it's all Canada lynx there now) I never saw another for 40+ years until one came sauntering down our road this past spring.

7.15" here in the past 15 days. 0.65" in the previous 42. Feast or famine.

For half an hour I watched as dark and promising clouds slid by a few miles to our north and skies to the SW appeared to brighten. Then they socked in again as a cell developed behind and a bit south of the first bunch, and we got exactly 1.00" from 4:40 to 5:10, with about 90% in the first 20 minutes. Also the first lightning strike inside 2 miles , though I missed the flash and can only guess at the actual distance - loud enough for within a mile or so. Another one a bit over 2 miles to our north probably hit near the powerlines along Industry Road as most of our kitchen and living room outlets stopped working. Easily fixed by resetting the breaker. Hearing thunder from another cell, which may pass to our south (or may not.) Enjoying cool 60s after a warm and humid day.

The heat pumps (times 3) at our church look like yours though about 1/4 wider, befitting a room 65' by 45' with cathedral ceiling. Off topic, but is that a Hawken reproduction hanging below the balcony railing?

Absolutely. Or one can stumble into success. A few weeks after moving to our present location in mid-May 1998, I moved a slightly damaged (by our dog) balsam fir from our shady side yard to the sunny front. It was then a misshapen 2' tall, and now is a near-perfect cone about 35' tall with branches spreading over 15' at the base. It's about 12" at 4.5' off the ground - "about" because I don't care to fight my way into the center of those branches and then goo up my diameter tape with fir pitch. Getting 12" RA in the month following the transplant surely helped, as I don't think I watered it at all. (And it's grown to the point that I would consider donating it for some municipal Christmas tree if the town would do the cut and haul.)

Cannot stress this too much. Even with proper root-pruning and good care, up to 90% of roots stay behind when a tree is lifted at the nursery.

Until the Chester, MA records were determined to be invalid, that site held the state's high (107 on 8/2/75, tied with New Bedford) and low (-35, 1/12/1981) records.