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That's typical for NW winds here, both topography and dense forest 70-80 ft tall. Many Maine points recorded gusts well into the 40s but only mid 30s here. We're slightly less sheltered on east winds, but it was still an unpleasant surprise last December when we had 4 hours of 50+ gusts and major damage to our woodlot, in addition to running the genny for 100+ hours. Mid 20s for the afternoon max (spoiled by a cheap 32° high last evening) and WCI near 10. Several bad crashes reported in the area, probably where the blowing snow was icing the highways. When I traveled to Farmington this morning, the drifts all seemed to be on the many turns of Route 2 along the Sandy River.

Had 5" in 6 hours overnight from a grown-up clipper. Ratio was 14:1 despite some wet flakes early - bit of ice stuck to the board.

2010 Jr.

A week or more back, several posters (me included) stated that 2024 was a lot more like 2010 than 2012. For one thing, we've already had 2.5 time the precip of 2012 and are about 75% of the 2010 total. However, the max/min relationship for the 3 years reinforces the 2010 redux. Departures (rounded to tenths) - March of: Max min mean BN days 2010 +6.9 +7.8 +7.4 3 2012 +8.6 +5.0 +6.8 11 '24 1-18 +7.1 +11.9 +9.5 1

SIL lives in central FL, a dozen miles north from Ocala. No beaches close at hand but quite pretty - horse country. My wife has been down there twice but I've no real reason either. However, the family reunion last May in Lancaster PA was great fun. Many clouds, fairly brisk wind, cool temps. Radar showed precip overhead but none reaching the ground here. Somehow, March temps have run about +10 while never getting milder than 51. Much meh.

Yes, but barely. JJA average here is 63.29 and 2023 was 63.37, so +0.08. (And 0.01° below the median ) Turning into an above average March Snows up north. Go get it if you can. Constant refills NW NNE. CAR has had just over 40% of normal snow, month to date, only 20% here and I don't know if PWM has had any. Longitude is topping latitude so far.

Hope it's not too fresh. Other than the gas pumps at Irving (not their convenience store), none of the five businesses in the Farmington intervale have reopened since the Dec 18 flood. I was looking forward to trying the new Giffords' ice cream flavors there.

90 on the 25th??? I checked CLIMOD and the max that day was the 3rd consecutive 49.

0.36" RA thru 8 this morning then 0.04"/0.2" SN from then thru 9:30. During that 1.5 hr had 30 minutes of nice (wet) feathers trying to stick.

True, but they got there by vastly different routes. 2010 was the tortoise, 2012 the hare. At my place: 2010 2012 Departure +7.4 +6.8 Top day dept +16 +27 Max temp 64 80 Min temp 11 -10 Days BN 3 11 Precip 6.44" 1.85" Snow 0.6" 14.6" IMO, "Jr 2012" should have multiple days with 70-75, here, not BDL.

Probably not a coincidence that 104F is 40C.

Last 3 days have dragged my month average from +11.3 down to a frigid +9.8.

I inherited my dad's Ranger in 1994 and those rigs (1992 Ranger, 2004 Mazda, 2011 Ranger) been my commuter/work vehicle ever since, over 400k total miles. Only carries 1/4 cord of wood but I rarely have to transport the stuff more than a mile usually much less. Only 2WDs but I've found that if I can get up my driveway, I'll make it over Mile Hill, which climbs ~300' over that mile and has a sharp curve at the bottom to inhibit a fast-running start.

That's +9.6. I've at +10.0 here, but 8 of the 12 days have been cloudy, we've had 4.08" of (mostly) rain and a lot of windy days (including today's mostly sunny). Kinda cuts into the warm feeling, but then early March climo is still winter here.

We reached 36" on March 4 at the end of that day's 12" dump. Still had 24" on today's date (4" this year) and it rose to 28" from our share of the paste bomb. Our tiny share of the real event was getting 4.5" in 90 minutes as the sun was setting.

2010 was 0.64° milder than 2012 here, due mostly to consistent AN but no big heat. Other than being way AN for temp, the months were radically different, and this month (one BN day, the 1st, over 4" precip and tiny snow) is looking far more like 2010. 2010 extremes: 64/11 2012: 80/-10 (That 90° range is tops for any month I've measured. 2nd place is Jan 1979 in Fort Kent with 40/-47.) 2010 had 3 days with BN temps; 2012 had 11. 2010 had 13 days with temps 10+ AN; 2012 had 12. 2010 had 6.44" precip and 0.6" snow; 2012 was 1.85" and 14.6" snow.

Most adaptable large animal in North America - they've been seen living in downtown LA and it wouldn't surprise me to hear of them in Manhattan. They've been in Maine for 90+ years.

Looks like longitude (and elevation) was far more important than latitude for this event. Aroostook had little more than flurries. The only Maine site I saw that had more than 4-5" was Andover, though I've not seen the ski area totals - SR/SBk/SL probably had 10+.

7-8° AN here, may pull the month down to an even +10.

3 PM readings BOSTON PTSUNNY 45 31 58 NW22G41 29.41R WORCESTER CLOUDY 36 21 54 W26G45 29.45R NANTUCKET CLOUDY 46 27 47 W25G44 29.40R PROVIDENCE PTSUNNY 41 23 48 NW23G41 29.49R HARTFORD MOSUNNY 45 21 38 NW25G43 29.56F ALBANY MOSUNNY 44 20 38 W28G43 29.64S NEW YORK CITY MOSUNNY 50 16 25 NW25G37 29.67R

Dec 18 cleaned out nearly all of them here, though it also created some replacements.

Gusts into the 30s but that's no real news. Maybe it can shake out the fir top that's been lodged in an adjacent maple for 2 years, since the rest of that fir was blown apart by lightning. I was amazed to see it still there after the hours of 50+ gusts last Dec 18.

Probably works well, but the bolded phrase would be very difficult for our critter.

Last month, only 0.95" total, driest of 26 Februarys here. Typical upslope conditions this morning - zero flakes, 50% cloud cover, biting wind. I guess we can't have both big CAD and upslope.

Late report: Our dog got skunked Saturday night from a critter near our back porch, maybe under it. First time for her. Fortunately, either the skunk shot only a small dose or the dog was missed by the worst, but it was bad enough. She came back tail under butt, very embarrassed. Then I further traumatized her by dragging her into the shower stall (she's mostly Lab but hates water) and scrubbed her using a dog-deodoring spray and warm water from a pot my wife had filled. Did not turn on the shower - dog would've been even more unhappy and I'd have been much wetter. Dog smells normal though there's still a bit of aroma in the house.