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Surprised here, too, as there's not a cloud in the sky and temp may have dipped under 20, which couldn't have happened if we'd had much cloud.

A firewood poem includes this: "Ash wood green or ash wood dry, a king shall warm his slippers by." However I must demur on birch. Yellow birch is fine firewood but all the birches must be split to dry well as their bark is waterproof to an extent greater than any other species group. At the worst end of that spectrum is probably balsam poplar, also called balm of Gilead. As one fellow from Allagash once said in a discussion of burning unseasoned wood, "You couldn't afford the oil it would take to burn balm of Gilead!" I'm not familiar with the growth habits of black locust in its natural range, but in Maine it doesn't seem all that windfirm, which is a bit odd for such strong wood though sometimes the strength of root wood differs from that above ground. Working against its resistance to windthrow is its intolerance of shade. Like the far weaker and equally intolerant aspen, the live foliage tends to be concentrated near the top, so the sail area is all at the top of the mast, giving the wind more leverage.

Hickory and hophornbeam must be close and maybe Osage orange, though different sources show different relative BTU levels. Black locust offers rot resistance equal to cedar plus lots more strength. Not native to the Northeast but planted (and naturalized) in many places.

Except for last week's? Stayed 31-32 from when the snow pushed temps out of the upper 30s Thursday afternoon right thru the next morning when steady precip ended.

Here it's been mild mornings and mild cloudy or partly cloudy afternoons. Temp is running +1.1 thru yesterday, but -1 for maxima (and +3 for minima.) Mildest has been 54, same as last month's highest and 60s seem out of the question for the next 10 days at least. At least the precipitation has come in discrete events rather than days and days of mank and muck - 3 storms for 4.66", over 250% of average MTD.

Same here, though we were antsy after last week's outage. However, we're fairly protected from SE winds by the Kennebec Highlands. 1.2" warm RA took all the snow, Sandy R. is at 14,600, slightly higher than from the 2" event early month, and the Kennebec in AUG was slightly above flood so the parking lots get at least a partial washing.

Yup. Hit right in the forecast range (8-12), first April WSW forecast to verify since 2011 (though there's been at most a half dozen 2011 on, and getting big April snow is usually a no-margin scenario.)

According to the news, CMP had 260k customers out at one point, and still 58k this morning (not us, fortunately - lights came on 3:30 yesterday afternoon.) There were/are 100 CMP line crews plus 439 contracted from out of state and 122 tree service crews on the job. Fortunately the outages were Maine-centered, not all of the Northeast like Jan 1998. Edit, for PF: Looks like that snow is stuck to the N/NW side of the trees, hiding from the spring sun.

That cocorahs site is at something like 1775', so 500' or so higher than Rt 2.

I scratch my head at how some of those cocorahs sites are listed. Winthrop 9.4 W is actually in Leeds, or maybe even across the Androscoggin in Turner. Those 19-20" reports from Madrid 4 WNW and 5 WNW are likely in Sandy River Plantation near where the AT crosses Rt 4 and probably about 1500' asl.

Agreed. 93 to Littleton then over to Rt 2 in Jefferson (on Rt 116? Been a while since we've driven it.) Maybe 30 miles from the Interstate to Randolph. From PWM the nearest one can get on I-95 is Gray or Auburn, and Rt 26 (Gray) or 4 (Auburn) go thru a handful of small towns with 35 mph limits before one even gets to Rt 2 - more than twice the secondary road travel that way. Simpler but all secondaries is RT 302 right from PWM to 16 in N. Conway. (And in the summer 302 in Naples can be a long parking lot. Same with N. Conway in tourist seasons.)

Two-day snow from the cocorahs site there: 16.5". Next highest cocorahs in NH was BML with 7. Think you're going to like it there.

Doesn't have the Temple cocorahs, 13" thru yesterday morning and 0.4" in flurries during that day. (Or my 0.2" flurries atop the initial 8.3". That many flakes in the air would've been another inch in January.) Jacks in Rangeley country and Bigelow to Crocker. Still no power. 25hr Ours came on at 3:30, after blinking off at 8:45 yesterday morning, not quite 31 hours and the longest we've been dark since moving here; 30 hours in Dec 2000 had been the worst. Only had to cut one fairly small tree out of the road, but 2 bigger ones (50' tall maple and 60' pine) tipped onto the lines about 3 miles to our north, the pine still there about noon today.

At 9 last night measured 4.8" from 0.80" LE, exactly 6:1 and that's what it felt like. Also 0.36" RA before the changeover. Overnight another 3.5" and 0.34" LE, 10:1 but still very sticky, about 7" at the stake. That 8.3" puts this winter into the 80s. 15 of the previous 21 were in 60s/70s/90s/100s but never 80s - just a statistical fluke. (Have also had one winter each in 40s/50s/110s/120s/130s/140s.) Multiple power blinks but so far it's always come back on. Small willow tree (3" by 30') is laying on the wires and I've about to take a long stick and whack the branches, hoping it's bent but not broken.

IMO, the Knife Edge is the most acrophobia-inducing blazed trail in the east, though I've not seen more than a tiny fraction of trail miles in the region. The trail up the cliff edge on Kineo is right up there, but all one needs there is to walk away from the cliff. Knife Edge doesn't offer that escape.

Mostly light/moderate snow since the big flakes departed around 5:30. The best bands seem either to go around here or die south of Route 2. May not reach the 8-12" from the GYX map unless that changes. Maybe 1" over the past 2:30. Only has to beat 5.2" to be 4th biggest April snowfall here. (3rd is 11.3" - not happening.) Lights went out for about 10 seconds at 7:30 and we thought that was it. Have blinked a couple times since. Snow is a bit drier with small flakes so maybe we escape?

So I could see. As long as they remain straight, all will be well. Can't say the same for the pines in the background - too many horizontal snow-catchers.

Same temp and 3" in 2 hours. More of a damp powder than glop here, maybe 8:1 instead of 5:1. Wind is light/moderate but shaking some off the deciduous trees - hope that continues (and the fir and pines hold together.)

Tried cropping, no joy. Had some silver dollars for a bit, back to nickels and quarters. 1.5" in 1st hour.

Quick half inch - unfortunately my pics are 4.92 mb and my limit is 4.88 (and when I go thru the "compact" routine nothing changes.) Trees are well frosted - our power may be in trouble if we get more than 6".

My place is (as usual) right on a color change boundary, but this time it's between 8-18 and 12-18. Point Range What's this?

About what it looks like here. Moderate SN atm, nickels and a few quarters.

Mostly SN here - had a period of decent flakes, though their rapid rate of descent means low ratios. Better echoes upstream.

For a mass of mountain, the Presidentials are definitely tops, IMO. The NC Apps are taller but are in the midst of 3,000' plateaus and also wooded, so don't seem as impressive. But for a single peak I'd take Katahdin viewed from the south, as it's 4,000' higher than anything between eye and peak.

Slushy flakes here though less right now as we're between pockets of heavier precip.