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Our NNJ school also let us out at noon, with 7-8" of fluff at mid-teens, first big snow I'd seen at sub-20 temps, 18" total. Then Dec 11-12 brought another 18" at low teens and the JFK inaugural storm 20" at near 10. The capper, 24"+ on Feb 3-4, came with the more common mid-upper 20s along with monster winds. March 1960 was the only time I saw our larger lake re-freeze in March after a Feb ice out (and probably to safe thickness though the "safe ice" red ball flag wasn't re-raised.) Snowfall this March remains an unknown, but I highly doubt there will be any cold to match 3/60 - maybe a cold day or 2 (1st-2nd were 5° BN) but not the extended bunches of 10-15° BN of that March.

Good move. NW Cumberland is radically different from the PWM area. Numbers for Meh-bruary 2020 Avg max 30.4 +1.3 Mildest: 49 on the 24h/. Coldest max: 14 in the snow on the 18th Avg min: 7.5 +1.5 Coldest: -28 on the 15th, 2nd coldest Feb morning here. Mildest min: 27 on the 25th-26th Avg temp: 19.0 +1.4 Precip: 3.26" +0.19" Biggest day: 1.42" of "stuff" on the 27th. Snowfall: 17.9" -5.1" Biggest storm: 5.5" on 18-19. Avg snowpack: 16.3" -3.2" Peaked at 21" on the 19th. Not terrible but nothing memorable except perhaps that -28, though it was fake cold.

Should see some snow in the hills between Newport and BGR. That area (160s mile markers), always catches snow, also unwary drivers. It's Maine's I-95 version of the Mt. Tolland Triangle on I-84.

One of only 4 events in 22 winters here to reach blizzard criteria, this time for 5-6 hours, and though it was all snow with temps +/- 20°, its 2.12" LE resulted in only 15.5" - not often one sees 7:1 snow at those temps. Our Lab-mix rescue from TX had tolerated all the Feb snow in her first 2 weeks here, but was absolutely petrified on Pi day a month later. A repeat would make this a plus winter even if we fall short of climo snowfall.

We've had some very cold mornings this month, but only because our frost pocket site radiates well. But our coldest afternoon has been around 10° and most winters have some close to or below zero. OUr longest run of days with max 32 or lower is 7 while most winters have streaks of 10-20+.

Biologists estimated that 2/3 of NNJ deer perished in 1960-61. Winter came with a rush Dec 11-12 with 12-20" of low-teens powder when deer would normally still be fattening up on acorns and hickory nuts. That also greatly reduced the take during the state's firearm season (12th was opening day) such that an emergency 3-day season was added at the end of the month. Then the JFK inaugural storm dumped 15-25" atop an existing modest pack and 2+ subfreezing weeks later another 20-28" landed on Feb. 3-4. In NNE the deer have stands of evergreens in which to take shelter. Not so in NNJ and the critters had to wallow thru the depths in open hardwood stands. Friend and I attempted the 1/4 mile walk to the nearby reservoir on Feb.5 and gave up after 100 yards of navel-deep thrashing. (We were both 5-8/5-9 at the time, and much better fed than the deer.)

How long is their record? (No time to look atm) Longest I'd found elsewhere was NYC, back thru 1869 though snow depth wasn't consistently reported until 40-50 years later.

Which is terrible, but if 5 million (only a guess) have contracted the flu, that's a 0.3% mortality rate. We need to take care that the coronavirus doesn't hit millions in the US.

I'd be real cautious in accepting numbers (for any statistic) from a country where government totally controls the media. China also controls media but things have gone so far there, and they're so economically connected with the rest of the world, that it was in their self-interest to be more open with this issue.

Last blizzard warning here was Feb. 14, 2015. That didn't verify either - 1.5" (1/8 of low end of forecast range) with little wind. (Pi day 2017 did reach blizz criteria for 5-6 hours - only the 4th to do so in 22 winters - but wasn't blizz-warned.)

Those high percentages probably are a result of gross under-reporting of confirmed cases. 100% mortality in Iran? 55% in S. Korea? - zero credibility. That said, the mortality rate appears to be an order of magnitude higher than that for the seasonal flu.

25-30° AN? Maxima 35-40° AN? I'll take the under.

If so (and I don't know the verification rates) it's at the expense of precision. "55% chance of AN temps" offers a lot less info than "60s on D7". (Or 2-4" tomorrow)

We got on SM years ago because we were still on dial-up and grandkid pics took 10-15 minutes to download as e-mail attachments. FB would download in 60 seconds.

Given recent temp trends, guess AN and rack up accuracy points.

When did you move to SE Mass? (jk)

Same here for Jan 1 on, but OND were only slightly (6%) AN. Oct was +2.1 while Nov/Dec were -1.2. If we get 1" or so from this coming event, the 5-month precip would be very close to my average.

He knows as well as we do that the skiers (at least in numbers worth turning the bull wheels) disappear long before the snow. Even in 2012 wx cooled off after the March furnace - Eustis, just north of the 'Loaf and about 400' lower than its base lodge, had highs 20s to 40s from 3/26 thru 4/12 that year, with modest new snow but next to nothing for RA.

Or 2010, much the worst March here. Its 0.6" snow is the least for any DJFM since we moved to Maine 47 years ago. It's also my mildest March of 21 here, lacked the summery warmth of 2012 but it's the only March that failed to record at least one subzero morning - didn't even get down to 10 and 28 of 31 days were AN. 2nd wettest, too, its 6.44" trailing only 3/99. But that earlier month had 32" of snow with 2 storms of 14".

Current GYX odds have Farmington at 95% for 6+ and 73% for 8+. 50 miles south at the WSO those odds are 20% and 8%.

Not quite done in NNE - GYX has us under a WS watch for the Thursday event.

Don't know about cold out that far, but Madawaska and New Sweden have high 20s pack and the woods probably a foot more. Today likely took 1-2" off the depth but Thursday should add a bunch

Sat/Sun temps at my place were 37/-8 and 43/12 and it was low teens again this morning with full sun and light winds each day. Tubing about to burst and 24-7 boiling?

Considering the minimum, quite a nice day here with full sun, no wind and temps leaping upward. 3 mornings at -20 or colder this year, about average (78 such minima in 22 years.)

Or, climo usually wins. Current snow total is 8.5" BN for the date, and unless something serious pops between now and May, this will be just the 2nd winter in 50+ years (including some back when I lived in NNJ) that failed to produce a snowfall greater than 7". Just a garden-variety BN winter here, not a major ratter like in the MA.