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Also at NYC and PWM plus most places in between. And that's despite a 2-3 day handicap.

Way AN and with little temp contrast. Had 32/19 on 1/1 and those remain the month's high and low. 1/1-5 is 8.2° AN, the max +2.6 nd the min +13.7. Yesterday's inch of 20:1 fluff brought out the plow this morning. Looks like we may see the sun today for a bit, something not in view since about noon last Friday.

Thanks for that info. I looked up a number of NNJ sites relatively close to NYC plus LGA and JFK and found 1983 totals ranging from 60.8" at LGA to 71.1" at Morris Plains. Maybe EWR was abnormally dry compared to the others , though none came within 10% of Central Park. Of course, the idea behind my post was the increase of temperature and precipitation, and how much snow there was in 2011-20 compared to the terrible 1980s.

Now that 2020 is in the books, some interesting (to me, anyway) changes in 30-year norms: Temp Precip Snow Location 81-10 91-20 81-10 91-20 81-10 91-20 NYC 55.41 55.72 50.01* 49.52 23.85 29.07 BDL 50.63 51.16 46.50 47.12 49.66 52.27 Snow data missing for nearly 5 years during 96-97 thru 01-02. BOS 51.76 52.21 43.93 43.43 44.29 49.42 PWM 46.51 47.04 47.28 48.02 62.63 68.77 CAR 39.87 40.43 38.79 40.86 112.36 120.33 Farm** 42.28 42.99 48.37 49.29 86.51 91.57 Average 47.74 48.26 45.81 46.37 63.22 68.57 * The 80.56" reported for NYC in 1983 is probably spurious and may have been tossed. EWR had 22" lower precip that year. If the EWR number is used instead of NYC, the NYC 81-10 drops to 49.28" and the 6-site average to 45.69". ** Farmington Maine co-op. (Western foothills)

Lousy for trying to freeze down winter logging roads, too. As we entered 2021 only the North region of BPL had active jobs, and staff had to scramble after the mega-Grinch to find environmentally safe places for loggers to work. Minima this month are running about 14° AN.

No surprise you're a lot wetter than Burlington, given its downslope site and your elevation. The difference with Pittsfield seems more anomalous. Is that 131" for calendar 2020 or winter 19-20? My 2019-20 was 85.1" but calendar 2020 only 72.1".

Agreed. Normally by now I'd be looking to go ice fishing. This year it would be fishing for ice.

Another cloudy flakeless day upcoming, maybe 3. Following the December trend; last month had 21 days I recorded as cloudy, 3 more than in any other month here. Would like some cold - no safe ice for drilling holes yet which is very odd for early January in central Maine. Jan minima running 12-14° AN.

Measured 2.0" at 7 AM with 0.20" LE. Snow appeared to stop (very few very tiny things, maybe with frdz mixed) at noon so at 12:15 I measured total OG - 6.0" - and cleared the board again - 4.0" from 0.40" LE. Many years ago in Psych 101 the instructor stated that one who was perfectly normal in all aspects was the most abnormal of persons. Works the same for snowstorms? Light snow the past 45 minutes may accumulate a couple tenths on the board but I doubt it will increase total depth, just move the storm ratio below 10. Boosts season total to 17.3", about 2/3 the average for season to date.

We take - looks better than our 1.9" on Dec. 17.

We paid our shovel/snowscoop dues in Ft. Kent, avg winter 130"+. (And again for 2008-09 and 09-10 when our Craftsman Trac-26's power transfer mechanism wore out - would travel backwards but not forwards. Took it apart, found the ruined parts, unable to find anyone that made them 25+ years after My dad had bought the critter.) I siphon as much as possible back into the gas can, then run the blower dry. Next fall, gas it up, hit the primer 3X and it usually fires up on the 2nd-3rd pull. (Only 10 yr old, though.) Has cord for electric start but I've never had to use it. The Craftsman wouldn't pull-start when much under 20°.

Happy New Year - one than can't (can it?) be worse than 2020. December 2020: Avg high: 32.9 +2.3 max 56 on the 1st Avg low: 19.3 +6.2 min -5 on the 19th Mean: 26.1 +4.3 The low of 44 on the 1st is my highest minimum in December. 2nd place is the 43 on Christmas. The 54/43 on the 25th was +28.8, highest AN for any day since moving here in May 1998. (now 2nd: 27.8 on 3/22/2012) Precip: 5.85" 1.36" AN Biggest day: 2.54" on the 25th, my greatest one-day precip in December. Yay Grinch! Snowfall: 9.2" 9.8" BN. Largest event was 6.0 of 4:1 stuff on 5-6. OND snow total of 11.3" is 47% of average. 2020 - the year: Avg temp: 42.9 +1.35. Hottest: 90 on 6/20. Coldest: -28 on 2/15 Precip: 46.54" -2.66" Wettest month was Dec and day, 12/25. Driest was September, 1.29" with 1.14" coming on the 30th. The 6 weeks 5/17-6/27 had only 0.65". The 17 days 6/28-7/14 had 8.33". feast or famine Snowfall (Calendar year): 72.1", lowest since 2010. Biggest storm: 10.3" on 3/23/24 Tallest pack: 21" on 2/19. (Avg tallest is 30"; median 27")

My 0.1" overnight kept the ground white almost until noon. Biggest snowfall since 12/20. I think that continuous snow cover begins tomorrow night.

Same storm (21"): Our Subaru Forester, well buried.

I remember only one significant ice storm that didn't begin with frozen precip, usually SN but a couple times IP. That one event, Dec. 11-12, 1970 in NNJ, produced the weirdest looking lawns ever, with grass blades encased in 3/4" ice and not a speck of snow on the ground before or during the event. Probably my #3 ice storm, vying with Dec 1983 in Fort Kent, but orders of magnitude below 1953 and 1998.

Good thing, after the grinchiest Grinch ever. Nice going from modeled cutter/whiff to perhaps 2 decent snow events.

Had 10" in NNJ, with pulses of heavier snow the evenings of 23rd and 24th, and flurries/S- between. Not all that many Christmas Eve/Day snow memories - 1961, 1966 (best one, with thunder), 1978 (Fort Kent) and 2017.

Pure sleet that one can shovel, meaning w/o ZR mixing in, has for me always melted out very close to 3:1, similar to snowmaking product. A situation like the Fort Kent ice storm in mid-December 1983 was different. At the end of that event, our yard had a 3" crust (atop a solid 24" pack) consisted of a 1/2" layer of clear ice sandwiched between 1.25" layers of ZR-welded IP. It was very difficult to get a core (had to somehow have the tube I use melt its way thru) and it came to 1.9". Thus the 2.5" of IP-stuff had 1.4" LE for slightly less than 2:1. (And with one half-decent snowfall on it, that crust would hold a running bull moose.)

Had a few graupel flurries this morning, partly to mostly cloudy this afternoon. Other than some small piles, there's zero snow cover here. Rivers have peaked and are on the downslide, with the Kennebec in AUG cresting on the midday high tide at nearly 4' over flood. (Big floods like 1987 overwhelm the tide cycle, for about 3 days in that one.) Decided to move the max-min after the heat pump was installed, as the exhaust is about 3' from the old site. The installer said the pump's exhaust would affect the thermometer when set for AC and that's likely to be about 95% of our use.

Usually. Long ago (1978) we had a sizable fire of incendiary origin NW from Allagash village. I was on patrol to prevent/report (I had neither training nor authority for law enforcement) any more suspicious fires when I saw some fighter jockey from downcountry come blazing down the Little Black River valley at nearly the same altitude as the 2 Hueys doing water drops. I heard later that the Maine Forest Service radios nearly melted from the commentary. I've only lost a 12" pack in January once, in January 1995. The snow had already compacted to 8" when we had 3 days that averaged 25° AN, with 0.4" RA to help. Only needed the 1st 2 to finish the melt, as day 2 was 51/45, by far (8°) the mildest Jan minimum I've experienced in Maine.

Our 17" only dropped to 13" despite an inch of low 40s RA. However, that 17" was compacted to 6:1 and very cold - the month was running 9.8° BN (23/3) thru the 22nd.

Yesterday's 0.8" locks in my 36th-place standing, 4th of 4 Mainiacs. Weird season - will climo assert itself?

Actually reached -2. Still struggling to get out of single digits but the wind is gone. (Except in the north - FVE WCI is -21.)

Zero or -1 (haven't checked the max-min) and latest GFS says maybe 2" tomorrow - broom snow.

I tried to squeeze 0.1" out of what was on the board, but it was probably about 0.03", so T.