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

That observer is at 1,775'.

The Randolph observer for cocorahs generally reports the most snowfall in NH, except when it's SNE storms.

More like SE to NW (Jeff to Bridgton) perhaps? Our zone got bumped from 4-10 to 4-14. Light rain arrived 11:40, near 40° but feels colder. Expect mix to start when precip gets heavier.

Latest GYX map has my place in the 8-12" area. Ranges for Farmington have increased from yesterday afternoon's 4/10/15 to 5/11/17 this morning, and they're now above 0% for 18+. (Though not much above zero %)

44.666 and 70.027 according to cocorahs, and I assume that's from data I provided.

lol Steve, Roughly where the 9.7 is here and i marked where Tom is and Lava approx. A bit too far north. We're a mile or 2 SW from where the county line makes that 90° turn.

Jeff is close to the 7 of 9.7. Go from there halfway to the 8 in 19.8 and it's close to my place,. just west of the county line and also the north edge of "2nd red" - looks like the 11-12" color.

Three homes on our 2000' of dead-end (in winter) road - guess who's tail-end Charlie for power restoration. (As long as nothing gets wrecked within that 2000', we'll be okay.)

We've made a down payment for an on-demand generator but it can't be installed until the underground gas line can be dug. Glad the winter wasn't bitter cold - less frost to thaw.

"Some" people - my lament was for big April snow forecasts that didn't verify, or verified to the south. Of course, the snowblower gas tank is nearly empty. The machine was running on fumes when I finished up the 3/24 dump, and not (then) seeing anything significant coming up, I didn't want to fill the tank only to have to drain it before putting it away later in the month. Anything under 8" this time of year doesn't warrant using the blower, the trade-off being a few hours of waiting compared to hurling more driveway material onto the lawn.

They got something like 17" on April 28-29, 1987. Only about 7" for central Maine and the foothills.

Getting close enough to almost be real. April storm forecasts 3-4 days out have been fails in recent years - 2016 and 2017.1 slipped south - and even WS warned storms have underperformed here - 2017.2 and last April. GYX's 90%/expected/10% last evening for Farmington was <1"/4"/14", crazy wide range though understandable for a tightrope April event. This morning it's 4"/10"/15" and spots in the western mts have significant (>10%) odds of 18"+. Could get interesting, could miss by 1°C or a few mb less strengthening and be a total slopfest under 1000'.

They've not done all that great this snow season. Both are significantly BN and haven't gotten any storms near to what parts of SNE had in early DEC. Rangeley's biggest is 10" and while Jackman got 13 from that same end of Feb event, they had a near whiff on the Mar 23-24 storm, 1.4" while the foothills were +/-10". A later bombo might leave them short on qpf and jack the hills of northern Washington County (and NB.)

Not impossible that it could dump similar snowfall in places, but as the maps posted by ma blizzard show, a totally different animal. Instead of the usual wet April snow like this one will be (at best), 1982 was midwinter powder. From NYC, which has nothing else like it in their 151 Aprils, up thru CAR, that storm had a degree of anomaly that I would put behind only 9/38, 6/53 and the Octobomb for New England events. (Also the greatest positive bust I ever expect to witness. )

Some of the sweatiest I've been in subzero temps was while helping to break trail in deep powder. Done it the leap-frog way several times, and once on a hill climb near Hafey Mt (15miles north of Allagash Village) using the sled-snowshoe method. I had the racquets as I was the heavier one (by far) and had maybe 1% the snowmobile experience of my chum. So I headed up the unplowed road and when I'd hear the buzz approach, step aside. Rider would get another 100' then paunch it, I'd slog up to help turn the sled downhill, then he'd ride down and do a u-turn while I continued up. Wash, rinse, repeat- for a bit over a half mile and 270' elevation gain, about 10% climb. Finally we reached a plateau and he was able to ride all the way to the town line post where we would work on boundary maintenance the next day, on flat to slightly downhill terrain. After spending an exhausting hour-plus at the end of a long day, we took less than 10 easy minutes the next day getting to our starting point and refreshed 2+ miles of line, about twice the normal day's distance.

CAR is AN but Jackman is about 15" BN for ytd and Rangeley 21" BN. If they get another 24" and 31", respectively, they'll hit the averages.

In Diamond Pond's 13 full winters (98-99 thru 10-11) the average was exactly 230", to the tenths, and they recorded 15 events of 20"-36" with at least one in 9 of 13 seasons. Their "worst" winter was 09-10 with a paltry 181.7". Pack never was measured higher than 56", but I think they must've been in a windy locale as many sizable snows at well below 32 brought minimal increase in depth. Edit: The above table is slightly different from the numbers I found, but not enough to matter.

A few miles farther east might be preferable this late in the season. Also, the Euro slp map you posted puts the center closer to Isles of Shoals, which would probably mean a howling flooding 35° northeaster for my area. how close are you to average? 8" below. Here it's 17" under, and only one April of my 22 here has topped that amount. (2007, which dumped more than double!)

One page 1 of this thread Will mentioned Dallas Plantation, and if I were looking for a ski-oriented site in the western Maine mountains that would be one of the first places to check. Prices should be considerably lower than in Rangeley (stay away from Saddleback Lake) and much of the township would offer views of the Saddleback trails. It's also on the way to Sugarloaf, and though that hill would be only 10-15 miles away, Crocker Mountain (pretty in its own right) would block the view.

In the 8 Aprils since the 4/1/11 dump, our area has had that kind of forecast 4-5 times without any reaching even 4", so seeing would be believing. Ice is out early up here on two of the lakes I fish, Guess I’ll have to wait to see what happens late week, Was planning to go this weekend. Long Pond in Belgrade is about 2/3 clear with only the N and S coves remaining, and the ice there is all black and probably won't survive today's sunny 50s. The near-2" RA followed by Sat-Sun 50s took a 10" pack down to "trace" by last evening, ending the run of 1"+ at 146 days, not bad for a warm winter with 20% BN snowfall. Getting 20+ days in November helps.

Mreaves is on the right track. The state forester can discuss your objectives with the land and offer some insight on the possibilities offered by your forest. That person won't run your timber sale (at least not in Maine, probably not in VT/NH either) but can point you to reputable private consulting foresters. A number of surveys have consistently demonstrated that timber sales with forester supervision result in a more valuable residual forest and bring more revenue to landowners than jobs without forester input. As a long time forester I was able (and eager) to write my own management plan and mark all the trees to be cut, but for my timber harvest 7 years ago I worked with a forestry company with better connections to markets and loggers than I'll ever have.

The co-op in Hartford (Maine, of course) averages nearly 110" at 745' elev, though its POR is only 22 years. It's about 20 miles NNW from LEW and less that 10 miles from Route 26 in West Paris. That highway goes right to the access road for SR, maybe an hour from Hartford, depending where one is in the town. Probably not a whole lot farther from Wildcat. The Sumner Hills (of which Hartford is a part) are notable snow catchers.

3-pounders. Those are big bugs. 1st burgers on the grill here in a couple hours. Clouds moving in after 6 hours of mostly sunny.

Surprising sunlight here, and snow atop the overwintered carrots was thin enough for me to move it (and the leaf mulch beneath) and dig. Broke a couple with the garden fork but they are super tasty after sleeping all winter.