tamarack

Thanks. Read the article and it didn't change my thinking that there is no silver bullet. I mentioned the tube method mainly because of its DIY potential; I've made no attempt to employ it at my place in the woods. The small rodent population is massive here. Also, I wonder if results would've been different in our area, where chipmunks are present but not abundant and red-backed voles are much the most abundant small rodent. We also have several mouse species.

Fine for deer but small rodents (mice/voles)may be even more important as vectors and the spray may not be able to de-tick them. I've read that one can put "traps" around one's yard - edge of woods preferable. Those traps are homemade, using cotton batting (or dryer lint, cheaper) with permethrin mixed in, then stuffed into cardboard tubes - TP centers work well, or paper towel cores cut in 2-3 pieces. Placed under a board so not ruined by rain, the material is eagerly collected by the tiny furbies as tick-killer nest material. Need to place them at about 10-ft intervals, and check weekly to see if they've been emptied. Interior folks hitting their season averages. Would need another 20"+, not impossible but very unlikely.

I've attracted ticks in mid-late November while deer hunting, though usually with no snow on the ground, and it was last Oct 30 at the midcoast when I briefly hosted 26 of the little horrors including 3 of the tiny nymphs discovered that evening. Fortunately I've yet to provide a good drink for one of them, unlike yours which looked pretty engorged.

GFS bumped up qpf to 0.7-0.8" Monday afternoon, very close to what we got. (0.83" at my place) It was the ratios that won the day - 10-13 to1 while AFDs were talking 6-8. The exceedingly rare Route 2 jack, the area's snow shield temporarily incapacitated.

Not an option for my 2WD Ranger and the small hill to get up the driveway. Unfortunately, starting from bare ground meant tossing some of the gravel into the lawn, just like in November.

Back 10-12 days when March temps were running +7 or more, I figured this would be one of the less common years when our snow cover failed to persist into April. Would need some 70s or a flooding warm rain for it to go that quickly now. Before this storm the pack was more than 50% liquid equivalent, much of it gray ice rather than ripe snow, so pretty durable.

10.3" from 0.83" LE, ratio 12.4 was about 50% above what was being discussed. Snow was just packy enough to sail a long way without clogging the chute. 21" at the stake, tied for season's tallest though by my 9 PM obs it will probably be 16-18. 1st warning-criteria overperformer (forecast was 4-7) since March 2018. The 12 events between the 2 overperformers had 5 verify and 7 underperform. Biggest spring snowfall since 2011.

Took away late week here but doubled qpf for tonight and a real oak-croaker next Monday.

I think GYX is in progress of upping the forecast totals, and only the "expected" amount has been revised, not the 90% and 10% maps. Maybe this belongs in the month of March thread, but GFS went nuts at 12z - doubled qpf for the current event (just catching up to other guidance) but also wiping out Thurs-Fri and crushing us next Monday (and if day 7 wasn't silly enough, another solid event at day 14.)

Thought of that and added that to my edit.

12" at my place? Earlier GYX (supported by most guidance) gave Farmington only a 10% probability of reaching half that. Hope this doesn't trigger more wrath, but 8 years ago today Farmington hit 83°. Edit: Ginxy got there first, though 83 in the Maine foothills on 3/23 is likely more anomalous than 85 in his BY. (Unless that pic was at SR)

Was 8° and m.cl when I left the house - maybe stay cold enough for a decent ratio? (Since qpf likely to be the limiting factor in the foothills.)

Agree, though in their defense the hills of central Oxford are notorious snow-catchers. However, for the next zone NE (where I live) they backed off accum - P&C now down to 1-3. Event always looked a bit south, one more tic and we get some mood flakes (at midnight) and not much else.

Just read (on Daily Bulldog, online newsfeed out of Farmington) of yesterday's rescue at Tumbledown Mt of a woman with a broken ankle. Looking at that ice makes me wonder even more why they (had 2 kids with her) were there, and without crampons. Took a crew of about 20 (no way <10 gets it done) five hours to get her down safely, having to belay the sled and rope it down on five of the steeper stretches. Article has some great pics of the terrain involved.

Would need over 2 feet to qualify as "near normal" here. I give it a 0.1% chance.

May be on the northern fringe here for both. CNE jack?

Yesterday's max through my 9 PM obs time was a mere 40, with dz/fog and 36 at 9. Then the wind arrived and temp hopped up 8° in 2 hours. U20s this morning.

The 20 events I noted include 12/96, 4/97, 2/01 and 3/01. Of the 20, 9 have come this century and 4 more in the '90s. The ORH ratio, about 2 per 7 years, is essentially the same as Farmington (Maine),which has had 35 such events in 127 years. 13 of those came this century, with 9 in the "oughts."

The data I've gathered from UCC and Climod show BTV with 14 storms of 18"+ in 96 year POR (31 years missing early 20th) and ORH with 20 such events in 71 years, close to 2X the frequency of BTV though their respective biggest (ORH 34.5, BTV 35.3) are pretty much the same.

Looked at the local long term co-op and found a weak positive signal. --Compared to the 127-year JJA average, 11 of those 20 summers were AN and the overall average was +0.60 --Compared to the appropriate decade averages, also 11 were AN and 20-summer average was +0.49. Looking at only the 10 least snowy winters, against LT for JJA the departure was only +0.24 but against the decades it was +0.73. Still pretty weak.

37 with dz in Augusta - yay! Probably just clouds at home - no SN but no reduction of pack either (till tomorrow.)

The Rangeley area lakes show up bright and white, but not the Belgrade lakes, which also remain almost totally ice covered. Odd.

Was a bit surprised to find an inch new at home, similar to the most I saw on Mile Hill, 6 miles south but 400' higher. Most accumulation came 1-4 PM and max temp was 32, after the 31/5 on Monday.

2006 stunk, as we had only 7.8" after Jan 31 with 2.8" in March. However, the 1st half of 2005 was great, with 2 events just under a foot plus 5.5" on 11-12, though that last one had a 12-18" forecast 24 hours before it arrived, backed off to 8-12 and still busted, except for the west side of Sebago with the jack. As Dendrite noted, 2010 was even worse than 2006.

0.1 or 0.2 flakes here - not enough to wet the ground. Still in the running for least snowy DJF or M in my 47 years in Maine - 0.2" so far, record holder is 2010 with 0.6".