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Touched -25 or a bit colder here. Another 40+ diurnal range today. Saw -32 at PQI, guessing Big Black/Estcourt Station under -35.

Lowery day for sure. Something's in the air here in AUG - fog, dz, frdz, can't tell (could go outside, I suppose.) A number of stations reporting precip outside of the areas of radar returns; maybe it's originating too low to give a return.

And 77 years ago on nearly the same date, CON hit -37 and PWM a head-exploding -39 just a stone's throw from (mostly) salt water. Even NYC shivered at -8, their 3rd coldest morning on record.

3.0" of 17:1 fluff overnight. Switched to RA here in AUG, not sure what's happening at home under the dry strip. Yesterday was my 1st 20/20 day, for a mean of zero. Makes 18 of 22 winters here reaching -20 or colder. (Misses were 01-02, 05-06, 09-10, 12-13.)

Storm total 5.0" SN/IP with 1.03" LE plus 0.06" zr over the 2 days. 8:45-4 yesterday 1.5" IP, heaviest sleetfest since moving here, probably 0.65" or so LE. Walking is slightly unsecure as the "earth" moves under one's feet.

Odd sequence for this event - 1.5" of 20:1 fluff in 2 pre-dawn hours yesterday then 1.0" of 6:1 tiny-rimeys during the day, and perhaps 0.05" of zr overnight (bucket is warming near the stove.) GYX says 1-3 today, very little this evening and 5-8 for the 2-day total, down from 6-10 last evening. I don't think we'll even get to the 5. State offices are closed, though I think that a 2-hour delay to let the salt-sand folks do their thing would've been appropriate.

I tried deleting your highest and lowest winters (kind of like Olympic diving judges) and the other 11 averaged 159.2", so 160 is looking good. January stats/averages: Max: 30.00 4.51 AN. Mildest was 50 on the 11th, tied with 3 other days for 2nd mildest behind the 56 on 1/8/08. Min: 10.68 6.90 AN. Coldest was -17 on the 18th. Mean: 20.34 5.71 AN and 4th mildest of 22 Mildest mean was 38.5 on the 11th, coldest -2.5 on the 18th. Precip: 2.64" 0.57" BN, greatest day, 0.76" on the 12th. Snow: 15.6" 4.0" BN, greatest day 4.8" on the 16th. Greatest depth was 16" on the 19th and average was 10.9", 1.2" BN. Kind of a meh month, as was December. Hope February is more interesting.

2" in the foothills. That season had no snows greater than 3.4" thru Feb 9, then 21" with some thunder on 10-11 plus 5 more storms for another 39" thru March 12.

That's amazing. I've had half your snowfall but twice the pack (though it may lose an inch today.) It's where upslope goes to die but is great for CAD. I wonder if some of the southerly warmth running up the CT River spills over the NH notches but can't pass the Mahoosucs. There have been several times during warm-tongue events when I've been 5-10° cooler than BML/HIE here at 390'.

Was there any differences in cloud cover? Last evening we had thin overcast but it was enough to make temps hang around 20 thru 10 PM when I stopped looking. When I left home at 6:45 this morning it was mostly clear and zero or a bit below.

5.3" at my place, a bit more than I'd expected. Maine bullseye was Cumberland County just inland, a number of double digit reports topped by 14.2" in Standish, south side of Sebago. (LES? The lake is almost totally ice free. )

After a snowy December and several early January snowstorms (though little from the huge MA blizzard), NNE had 3 warm rain events dump a total of about 4" in 10 days. Farmington co-op had a 40" pack drop to 8", truly freakish for what's normally the coldest stretch of winter. Some ice jam flooding along the Sandy River too.

I've read and heard from more reliable sources that arson is suspected in a number of the Australian wildfires. That doesn't change the fact that abnormally hot and dry weather (at a time when climo is already hot and dry) is making those fires far more catastrophic than they would be with normal weather, and far harsher to those trying to control the fires.

If those are nickels and dimes, my area must be getting ha'pennies. This morning's half inch (maybe 3/4 by the time it ended) marks the 4th snow event of the new year here, and they total about 3", not 14. Keeps the surface looking fresh, at least, though the weekend may leave a bedraggled pack topped by a few IP.

My average low temp dropped into single digits just after Christmas, and the last 6 days have not even gotten below 20 - will be 7 with today and may not end until Monday. For grins (and groans) I compared those 6 days to the same dates 2 years ago: 16-17: 1.8/-23.2/-10.7; 28.6° BN 19-20: 32.5/21.3/26.9; 9.0° AN Highs 31° milder, lows 44.5° milder.

Top 20 on Kevin W's table include 9 from MA, 5 from NH, 4 from VT, and 2 lonely ones from Maine - South Portland and Portland (of course!)

Ellsworth was his home, IIRC, about 10 miles NE of Blue Hill. Demand. If you can offer higher resolution, in my backyard type forecasts that's what people are going to want. And we don't have the computing power to run two versions. And running a coarse model and downscaling it to 13 km isn't really helping improve things either. Probably way too simplistic, but if those resolution numbers represent square "pixels" then 13km offers about 38 times as many bust opportunities as does 80.

70.027W here. Not sure exactly where on CC/ACK those two live. And Borderwx take the north trophy. We've had some people from Ft Kent and Eastport in the past. When I joined Eastern in March 2005 the fellow in Fort Kent was posting some impressive snow pics, with more from the post-Christmas 3-footer that year. I think he moved sometime after 05-06. Don't recall any posts from EPO. Either I missed them or they came prior to 3/05.

I'm about 42 miles north of Jeff and at 390' a bit higher, and 57 miles NNE of (though 300+ lower than) Lava Rock. No elevational help here and longitude can be good or bad depending on track, but topography makes the Maine foothills perhaps the CAD kings of New England.

Sadly true - I'm at approx. 44.66 N. Don't know exactly where PF's and Alex's homes are, but using 1.2 miles per (latitude) minute, I'd guess I'm 10-15 miles N of PF, maybe twice that far N of Alex. We used to have posters from Aroostook and more recently one from the BGR area. By far the biggest geographical hole in the New England sub-forum is the northern 2/3 of Maine. That's about 30% of NE's area though probably less than 3% of the population.

0.2" on the board this morning. Trees still loaded from yesterday's 7" but forecast winds later today should empty everything more than 20' from the ground.

GPS is great, but its use should be enhanced by another 3-letter term: M A P

7 AM temps listed on GYX's site showed LEW at 25, next coolest were PWM and FVE at 31. Lewiston: The state's new cold pole. About 10° cooler than my frost-pocket location.

Great link. Noted that Chimney Pond had taken the Maine depth record with 94" in Feb. 2017. Before, I'd not seen anything above Farmington's 84" in Feb. 1969. Fitting that the state record should be near Katahdin at about 3,000' instead of at 420' next to Route 27. Last evening's temp had the biggest pre-CF-mixing boost I can recall - was 26-27 at 6:30 and a windy 39 by 9, where it stayed for nearly 2 hr before starting to slide down back toward this morning's mid-upper 20s.

Hard to choose here in the foothills. Using calendar years (mostly), 2000-09 averaged 92.4" while 2010-19 had 91.6" with perhaps a bit to be added in the next 8 days, though not the 8" it would take to match 00-09. --00-09 and 10-19 each had 4 years with 100"+, though curiously the 10 seasons 99-00 thru 08-09 had only 3 while 09-10 thru 18-19 did it 6 times. Advantage 10-19. --My top 3 calendar years are 2007, 2008, and 2001 in that order. (Seasons: It's 07-08, 00-01 and 16-17 in that order.) Advantage 00-09. --My 2 largest snowfalls came 12/6-7/03 and 2/22-23/09. Of the top 10, 6 came 00-09, top 20 had 12 in 00-09. Advantage 00-09 --00-09 (actually 99-00 thru 08-09) had 2 ratters, 3 meh winters, 5 good ones including the two snowiest. 09-10 thru 18-19 had 3 ratters, one meh, and 6 good winters. Advantage 10-19. For extreme events, it's 00-09. For consistency, it's 10-19. For snowpack, 10-19 leads in days with 1" to 29" while 00-09 is ahead for 30"+ and for average of winter's deepest, 31" to 30". Call it a draw.