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Pretty thin outside of the mountains - even the far north is way below average though far better than around here. Not sure the club trail thru our woodlot is open yet, only a handful of sled passes down our road to access it, and at the corner of our gravel road and (paved) Industry Road is a place that works on snowmobiles. Our 9" "pack" isn't as tall as some of the rocks on that trail.

Not far away, Hooker (1,800' elev) averages about 120" thru Jan 20.

No flakes here since Monday AM. Being at 390' some 30-40 miles SE from 3-4k peaks kinda limits (eliminates) upslope. We live on synoptics.

IDK - we're 9.2° AN so far and our warmest January (2006) was 7.9° AN. This despite never getting up to 40. CAR is running +13, looks torchy to me. Today will make 29 AN days in the past 30, and only the few clear calm nighttime hours this month on the 12th allowed radiation sufficient to make that day -1.

Ever try skinning the non-salmonid freshwater fish? Makes all the difference, IMO. Not many pickerel up here as big as the one in your pic but the pike are bigger and make an outstanding fish stew.

My dad made 4 topwater traps about 1960 from a diagram in a sporting mag - more skimming required but can set it for sensitive or heavy-duty takes, never wind-sets (big issue with 1960 underwater traps) and never snubs a fish when being picked up to access the reel, also visible from 1/4 mile away, far longer than I'm now interested in running. He made 4 more in 1986 when my daughter got interested in ice fishing. Used a spud (ice chisel) for 5-6 years, great until the ice gets thicker than 10-12" then a real chore. The Snabb hand auger dad bought about 1961 is good to 30"+ (requires kneeling past 25) and is the only efficient spoon auger I ever saw, though it's also the only one I've seen in the past 50+ years; the corkscrew design took over the market.

NNE plow operators tend to clear snow for the next storm, not just the current one. That's probably why the RI fellow was so disappointed 4 years ago. Piles in Pawtucket after 15" looked just as big as western Maine mountain roadsides after 50" in 9 days atop a 30"+ pack.

12z GFS shows zero qpf here thru 300, after which the cold is gone. (Needs a barf emogi.)

Running +9° here for January, +6 for max and +12 for min.

We found a threshold in Feb-Mar 1984 in NW Maine - had to stop boundary maintenance because all the old evidence was buried. Measured 80" depth on 3/15 at Big 20 Twp. Average temp here is similar to Berlin, 24.8/3.3, though it's "live", changing a bit with each new entry. Temps currently bottom out on the 21st at 24.3/2.2. (Better than my 10-yr avg at Fort Kent, which dropped to 11/-12 on 1/15. That's 3° lower than the town's 75-year POR at the Water Company co-op site but only 0.6° lower for my 10 years there - 76-85.)

My guess is the long-collapsed remains of an old dug well.

Imagine how Jeff would feel - less than 4 feet while Phin gets over 70.

Agree on Hartford. Had some jams on 495 Lowell/Lawrence, not your concern. 81 used to be a mess in construction near Wilkes-Barre but that's finished. IND can be a pain, too. Had to enter home to Scranton then Scranton-DEC to compare with the 90-forever. Kids moved to SNJ 6 years ago so no DEC trips since then. Just increased to to moderate SN but still less than 1". At 11, IZG had 33 and SN, AUG 36 with RA. Don't know how long before we change over.

Even in our relatively low-pop state, any significant IT changes are like stopping a fully loaded supertanker. Cool picture of an American Marten taken in Crawford Notch. Nice to see them making a comeback up in NNE. I believe they were once common in most of New England. Most of the population is up north in Canada now. Most of the population has always been in Canada. However, Maine has a fairly healthy number of marten, possibly the most in the lower 48. (Same for Canada lynx, moose, fisher. Probably close for loons, too. Geography and % of forest land.)

Do you take that route to enrich the Empire State? Our IL trips (to DEC not CHI) go 84-81-80, etc. No tolls west of the Hudson. Mapquest said the Buffalo trail was 9 minutes quicker (for a 1,300-mile drive ), though that time might be squandered on 90 west of Sturbridge. Had 0.2" earlier, nothing during the past 90 minutes. P&C says 1-2" here + 1"+ RA.

Especially at Saddleback.

Latest from GYX: WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 6 inches expected above 1000 feet with up to 12 inches possible above 2000 feet. 1 to 3 inches expected on the valley floors. * WHERE...Northern Coos and Southern Coos Counties. South of there is similar except only 8" above 2k.

Better be AP. Anyway, we have Grinches to perform that task.

At the 95% effective rate, a million people vaccinated means 50,000 positives. But that data generates fewer clicks.

Waste of money. You'd be better off spending it at Pittston Farm if you wanted to ride. From Sunday noon thru 384, GFS shows a grand total of 0.04" qpf for my area. Has enough cold to put safe ice on the lakes, at least. Rain followed by weeks of dry cold, everyone's favorite midwinter wx.

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.

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.