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Forecast max here for Saturday is 34, with snow. Grandkids in SNJ - sunny and 77.

This time of year, anything under 6", the snowblower remains under its tarp (unless we have freaky cold - April 6-9, 1982 averaged 23/10 at Farmington).

Late March has had some wild contrasts. On 3/31/98 I was working at Public Lands' Scraggly Lake tract, just NE from Baxter Park. WX there was occasional light RA/IP and mid 30s. At BGR, 100 miles south, it was 78. Another 100 south, PWM hit 88, their hottest March day.

Only for the 2-legged ones.

4/1/97 was a better example of rate-beats-warm-ground. 4/6-7/82 is probably the Northeast's coldest April blizzard in the past 150+ years. Temps for the much lesser storm in 4/2016 were also well below 32.

That would be a 'Dack destroyer. Uff Da

Some years back, a young cougar made it all the way from SD (IIRC) to SNE, only to get nailed on a CT highway.

Likewise here - missed the better bands, lousy dendrite growth, expected a better ratio than 8.7 to 1 with temps low 20s. Our 4" looks quite nice, however, and it brings the total to within 1/10" of the break point between awful and merely BN. Yep, not snowblowing Same here, but packed enough of the driveway so that the crummy-traction USPS van can deliver.

Moderate snow, tiny flakes, 25°, not quite 1".

March was on an 'F' track, with temp 4-5 AN (but BN for available sunshine) and no snows bigger than 0.9". Maybe this event and attendant cold can pull the month into D-land.

Flakes arrived 10:25, light-moderate. Temp still in the 20s.

Yesterday the GYX 90%-most likely-10% for Farmington was 0-1-4. This morning it's 2-4-12. Slight change. Actual forecast is 3-6, so maybe we can finally get a 1"+ event this month. Not quite what was happening last year on this date, but decent. Nice cold ground (low was 14°) so accum shouldn't be an issue (unless it's only S-- and doesn't start until afternoon).

Catpaws became mostly snow about 11:45, began to stick about 12:10, an inch new 45 minutes later. Pretty, but the solid echoes are nearly past our location.

Just mid-30s catpaws here, especially going over the hill to the west. In other news, the ice jam at Farmington Falls has cleared.

Latitude month - useless cold for SNE, 30"+ in the Maine foothills. Pack reached 43" on 3/20/14, 2nd latest we've reached 40" here. It's been awhile, but I've gotten pizza there a few times. It was the real NY/North End style pizza that I love. Not the doughy Greek bullshit that many pizzerias serve. Worked 3 years at a pizza shop in BGR 1973-75; owner was a 2nd-gen Neapolitan-American from Brooklyn so we made the real deal (though I mostly built Italians, rarely pounded dough). Manager of Pizza Hut would come to Napoli's when he wanted good stuff.

Canada geese in the field and on the "goose puddle" (refilled by yesterday's ice jam on the Sandy) along Rt 2 here. They must've decided that spring has sprung, flying a couple hundred miles of night-time travel, gambling that there will be food available where they land. Deep blue sky here after the low 20s morning.

>2 feet in NYC, <2" for the Maine foothills - that worked for Feb 2006. Chances for a repeat in late March 2025: 0.001%.

I thought I'd never see another month as awful as that one. The 8-week stretch of summer 2009 that had just 7 days without rain came close, but in our neighborhood, June 2023 at least tied with May 2005 for horribleness. Not as abnormally cold, but only 4 days without rain and a mere 20% of available sunshine, easily the lowest of any month I've recorded here.

Midlevel warmth spoiled it up here. Started with 7" powder then 3" IP from 1.1" LE at temp in upper teens, capped with some ZR. Total LE was 1.92", an 18-20" potential turned to 7.5".

Things started off great, with 8" Thanksgiving night and 9.3" on Dec 5, the two biggest snows of the season. We had recorded 24" by Dec 10. From then on, it has been a bunch of itty-bitties, other than the Feb 16-17 event which matched the T-Day's 8". We've had only 2 warned storms, tied with 2015-16 for the fewest; median WSW is 6. (Dec 5 was an overperformer, forecast was 3-6.)

At 65.0" here. Annual average is 89", YTD is 77" so we're a foot shy of the 3/17 cumulative. There's no 22" dump around the corner, like last March, but another 6" gets us to 80%.

The duration of snow cover in SNE/CNE? Still 8" pack this morning though it's hurting. Last year on 3/17 we were down to patches. Who knew that 23-24 would have that 3-storm 40"+ Hail Mary after the equinox?

Chickadees are calling spring's "phee-bee" rather than winter's "chick-a-dee-dee". Low clouds gone, mid-morn, full blue now.

Touched 50 yesterday, first time since mid November. Despite the full sun, that warmth only dropped the pack from 13" to 12". Low rh might've limited the melt and that solid pack easily carries our 45-lb Lab mix. Found depths 8" to 20" in the woods near our road while adding a medium-size white ash to the firewood supply.

That would be impressive. I'm at +2 but that's using my personal averages which began in May of 1998. If I'd had 1991-2020 norms at my site, the departure likely would've been +3 or +4. Nowhere near +7. Of course, we still have 12" on our lawn and 12-18" in the hardwood stands.