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Second straight snow season with measurable in 7 months, as we had 1.5" in Oct. 2018. That's much more common here (6 of 22) than May measurable (2 of 22).

Snow pretty much gone, as expected, but windy 40s do not make for a nice day in May - had a couple flakes now and then as well. Yesterday's temp was 15° BN, would've been 17 but for a cheap 41° max at obs time the evening before, as 37 was the tops for the afternoon and it did well to get that high.

About 25 miles to the NE from Lee, Orient reported 14". They're on the border with Canada, right where the squiggly border (East Grand Lake and trib) turns toward the north. Missed all the squalls, as they slid south while the precip that dumped on NE Maine stayed just to my north. However, 3.2" on May 9 warrants no weenie complaints.

Last time NYC had a sub-40 temp in May was 1978. Last time they had 34° as late as 5/9 was...never, at least not since Central Park began keeping records in 1869. Still flakes in the air (and not just from the trees dumping) but accum is done unless we get a squall later. WCI's about 20 (teens in Aroostook) - happy May!

Cool! IMO, 6"+ icicles on May 9 is more rare that 6" of snow in May. Finished with 3.2", with the 1.2" after 7 AM only 0.07" LE - 17:1 snow in May. If the Farmington co-op git as much as here, it would be their biggest May snowfall in 57 years and 4th biggest ever measured, POR 127 years. If the changeover to snow had occurred at 10 PM instead of 2-3 AM, we'd probably have had closer to 5", but still the biggest May snowfall I've seen.

Back to S- with small flakes, another 1" of fluff since 7 for 3" total, more than any May snow in my 10 years in Fort Kent. (Though had I still been there in 1996, my 970' location would've had 10+ on Mother's Day weekend.)

2.0" of 9:1 snow at 7 AM (after 0.15" of RA/mix that didn't stay on the board.) Nicest dendrites yet now drifting down, and temp just dropped a degree.

Kibby is almost due north from those vantage points. Might be seeing Coburn. And for pack retention without snowmaking (or municipal snow dumps) I'd nominate Chimney Pond. Set a new depth record for Maine there, 94" in Feb 2017, dethroning Farmington's 84" in Feb 1969. Elevation near 3,000' and the Katahdin massif immediately south, that place gets very little direct sunlight, probably just an an hour or 3 until within 6 weeks of the solstice.

In spades! With co-ops in Allagash, Clayton Lake and Pittston Farm no longer reporting, I don't think there are any co-ops between Jackman and Fort Kent. (Not many full time residents either but weenies don't care, otherwise no pics from Kibby would show up here.) Also wish there were obs from Deboullie summit, or Rocky Mt 15 miles NW from Debo - 1,000+ feet lower than Kibby but 110-120 miles farther north. Less upslope but all those systems running down the St. Lawrence pile up around those hills. Was hoping for at least some measurable from this event. In 22 years only had the 0.3" on 5/13/2002 - while the Farmington co-op had 3.0" six miles to my west.

That nice sun probably disappeared a couple hours later, replaced by flurries and 40-50 mph gusts.

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"Old Sam Peabody" (Sometimes more than one "Peabody") Good streaming movie. The green movement is pissed at Moore. Ironic Have not seen it (haven't entered the streaming world) but read a very critical review - on a forestry and forest products site, not an environmentalist one. The review took Moore to task for basing his economic critique of wind and solar on old technology, ignoring for instance that solar had become far more efficient and less costly since the examples he used. (From 2008 IIRC) Another point in the review is that Moore assumed no environmentalists considered the costs (dollars and carbon) of making/building wind turbines and solar panels when they (the enviros) pushed for more use. There were many other examples of that that reviewer considered as bad journalism - made it seem like Moore had made up his mind on these issues and then scratched around trying to find supportive examples without considering whether they were valid examples.

GYX is in full retreat mode - P&C offers my area <1". At this rate we won't even see enough white stuff to lighten (briefly) the color of the grass. AWT

My average temp for May 9 is 50 (63/37) and for the month of January it's 15. With models showing H8s below -5C, having H8s at -25C (Maybe the -30s due to winter's generally greater anomalies) with long nights and calm air, my frost pocket site might be on the cold side of -40. Fake cold for sure, but tell that to a car battery.

Maybe like 2 weeks earlier when during the 24 hr prior to storm arrival the forecast here slid from 5 to 4 to 2, and verified as T.

Farmington had 8.4" on 5/11/45, a 9.0" storm on 10-11. Then 18 years later on the 11th their 2nd biggest May event dropped 7".

AUG/WVL/Skowhegan jack - 6-8" of paste, maybe 7:1 stuff, only 3-4" of 5:1 mush for LEW but only if the heaviest comes at night. Reality says we'll get about what we did from last week's 2-5" forecast, a few flakes after most precip was done.

They haven't even come out to check the menu here, though the cluster flies and some midges are out feeding the birds. Week after next for blackfly bites in my area.

That describes 1999 (killed my freshly planted Reliant peach tree) and 2010 (killed new shoots of ash, oak and some maple, plus all the blossoms on our apple trees.) Highly doubt it will happen this year, as the BN April is far different from April 2010 (+5) and early May '10 had 2 days at 81. (Then 5/11 dawned at 22° - disastah!) Yesterday's 69 was just about perfect, and the only green is on the willows, though buds have broken on hophornbeam and cherry, and red maple is in full flower.

22" and 9+ pounds - that's a really fat fish! (Though the estimator equation - length*girth*girth divided by 800 - works out to 9.9 lb.) Many years ago (the year Lauri Rapala's lures became widely available in the US) I caught a non-skinny 22" largemouth that weighed 5 1/8 pounds from the nearby NNJ lake.

April numbers Mean: 37.75 2.3 BN, 1st BN month since Nov. Avg hi: 48.6 3.1 BN, Highest: 60 on 4/27 Avg lo: 26.9 1.5 BN, Lowest: 18 on 4.21, also 4 mornings at 19 Precip: 6.16" 1.67" AN Wettest day: 1.19" on 4/13. 4?2-3 had 1.94" Snow: 8.6" 3.3" AN Snowiest day: 4.8" on 4/9. The 4/9-10 storm was 8.5", 4th greatest April snow in our 22 years here. Pack: 21" on 2/19 was the deepest. Mean for deepest pack is 29"

Here it's the week after. I've learned that putting out the tomatoes and peppers causes cloudy, cool and windy wx. The one year in Fort Kent that I chose to wait until June's 2nd Saturday, we had snow the following Monday. (Only a trace in the valley though it slightly whitened the grass, 1-2" above 1000'.)

It will slow down by a day - Farmington's 2 biggest May snowfalls came on the 11th - 1945 and 1963.

That's how I look at it here. After a mild 1st week temps have run close to -5 and Saturday's 60 ties 1976 and 78 (in Fort Kent) for coolest monthly max of my 48 Aprils in Maine. However, despite precip that will finish 40-50% AN (depends on when it starts tomorrow) we're BN for rainy days, tomorrow will make 9 days with measurable precip, average here is 11.4. Most days rated as "fair" or better, no half-weeks of misery mist, plus 4th largest April snowstorm in my 22 years here.

We had a trace and upper 30s RA. The New Year's retro-bomb that ate winter was still wrecking the wx here.