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2nd pic, too many pixels for both to fit on one message.

Wreckage of a small red pine plantation thanks to December 18th, about 1.5 miles from home.

End of the February flop . . . It's the first February here to be solid F's for both temp and snow. Avg Max: 34.4 +5.0 Warmest day: 48, 28th Mildest avg Feb max, 1999-on Avg Min: 14.4 +7.8 Coldest day: -6, 20th. Ties Feb 2013 for most modest cold day. Mean: 24.4 +6.4 2nd mildest, behind 2010 Met winter mean: 23.80 Mildest, replacing the 23.64 last year Precip: 0.95" -2.02" Greatest day: 0.35" on the 10th, all coming in a 10-minute TS. Driest February, eclipsing the 1.04" in 2012 Snowfall: 3.7" -18.2" Greatest day: 2.1" on the 16th. 2nd least snow (3.3" in 2006) Only 19% (0.18") of precip was frozen. Note: If the cold front that arrived late on 2/28 had come a mere 8 hours earlier, the month average would've been 23.7 and met winter 23.59, leaving 2023 as mildest.

CF arrival was sudden, with a brief downpour and some house-creaking gusts, probably near 40, but then things quieted to 20s-30s gusts. Nary a flake. The late (10:50 PM) passage and slow temp drop at first resulted in it still being 43° at my obs time and thus the max for 2/29, even though it may not reach 20 this afternoon. Had the front come thru 8 hours earlier, the February temp would've been nearly a degree colder than what it actually will average.

Still 12" here (with 4-5" SWE) but that may be cut in half by the end of next week.

In NNE some of the hottest days come with modest dews (hard to cook all that water), often in late spring/early summer on W/NW winds before the humid SW flow carries the heat. Hottest temp at CAR is 96, in May 1977 and June, 1944 and 2020.

GYX has an hour-by-hour chart of winds for many sites in its CWA, and for our area the strongest winds come with CAA and continue into tomorrow evening. Only ~40 gusts compared to the 50+ in Dec, but they're from the NW and may pick out some trees partially tipped by the stronger SE winds back then. Bad winter for the woodlot.

Tops here since moving from Fort Kent, and only 95-96 in Gardiner and 00-01 here are even close.

Meh. 1st half of April was indeed nice. 2nd half had one sunny day, 9 cloudy ones, and segued into a downpour that caused the 4th greatest peak flow on the Sandy River (relegated to 5th in Dec). May had a mid-month dry spell but the month was way AN for RA, then June 1-18 had only a single day w/o measurable RA.

15-16 DJF here was 23.45 and a year ago, 23.64. With 3 days left, we're at 23.53. I think we'll sneak ahead, maybe around 23.7, though a lot depends on when the CF crashes the temp, as that will likely determine Wed's min and Thurs' max, which will probably occur at the same time.

Snow on the course is thinner than usual, but IMO it was the forecast between now and start time that nailed the coffin shut. (As noted in the linked article)

Metal - won't stay for long on 12/12. (The 5k+ is a bit harder to take than buying a roof rake.)

Nice relaxing day on Flying Pond, no strikes to make me hustle until one (stole the bait) as I was picking up. Seemed like cloudy/full sun exchanged the sky every hour or two. Max here was 38-39 but on the ice it felt like 50 when the skies were blue.

0.7" of 35:1 fluff in the pre-dawn hours, thus passing 2006 for least snowy February. Wednesday's RA should push us past 2012 for driest, so terrible month for RA/SN but no records - lose-lose. We'll end up close to 2010's mildest February.

The ticks seem to go away, or estivate, or something from mid-July thru August. Our Parks and Lands peer review forest trip in 2019 was in southern Maine - Newcastle, Swan Island (with its huge deer population), Hebron and Skowhegan, 40 people walking in tick-infested areas in mid-August. I figured we would have a tick-pickin' horror show but, if anyone saw a tick, I never heard about it. (And I was responsible for listening and writing up the trip notes.) Since then, the tick-free Augusts have continued. My personal record was 26 deer ticks at the Topsham lot, but that was in late October. I was tossing them out the window as I drove up I-295 toward Augusta.

Maybe. Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst. Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner. BN tick attachments also.

Finished with 0.5" from 0.07" LE. Barring a surprise between now and March 1, this will be the least snowy of 26 Februarys here.

2005-06 was a pretty low floor, with almost no snow after Jan 31. Among 389 met winter months at the Farmington co-op, only Dec 1999 had less snow than the 1.1" of Feb 06.

Seems like your NJ locale is in the north part. I saw some FB pics a couple days back from where I grew up in northern Morris County, and the snow cover looked about like that 3". Also, the lake where I usually fished was wide open. I don't think the red ball flag (denoting safe ice) was ever flown this year. We may have a 20° AN day by mid week. Wednesday's average here is 32/9 and 48/35 is a possibility.

Fighting to reach 1/4" here.

Last 9 days have averaged 28/7 with maxima ranging from 21 to 32. We took advantage of the seasonal temps with a qpf total of 0.07". Feb precip is currently 0.44", with 80% of that in the strongest Feb TS I can recall. Current lowest Feb precip is 1.04", so a new low is a given. If we stay below the 0.57" of Jan 2004, only the 0.31" of April 1999 will be drier than this month.

GYX gives us a 10% chance to reach 1". Feb snow is currently 0.8" below 2/2006, our least snowy Feb - let's go for the record! After 3 subzero minima in the past 4 days, it may not have gone below 20 this morning, nice mild launchpad for the next "storm".

That's their greatest calendar day snowfall. March 3-5, 1960 dumped 17.7" there, 8th greatest overall.

12 pages with less than 3 days 'till go time doesn't seem excessive. Thurs-Fri may be a small oasis, may be a mirage, but everything else is dry sand so folks post. Sadly, the only rep for the eastern half of Maine is Vim Toot. Only one for the north half, too, though The Mainer is close.

We touched -12 in January. If that holds for winter's coldest (probably about a 99% chance it will), it will tie 01-02 for the 2nd most modest, 2° colder than the -10 in 05-06, and will be the 6th of 26 winters failing to reach -20 or colder.