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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.

I looked at the long-term (began Jan 1893) record at the Farmington co-op, which sadly went offline in October 2022 when the 55-years (late) observer's health declined and no one picked up the torch. Quite similar - 6-of-10 lower during the past 50 and only 3 of the highest 10. (Their snowiest for any month, Feb 1969, missed the cut by 4 years.)

CC is also increasing variability. How many of the 10 most snowy Februarys came in the last 50?

Not far enough - like PD1, we whiffed, continuing the run of storms (Jan 4 excepted) that stayed south that winter.

2.5" in Feb with only 0.09" LE, plus 0.35" in the 2/10 TS. Only need an inch to pass 2/06 and escape last place. (2005-06 had 45.0" thru Jan 31 and only 7.8" after. Then the next winter had 19.1" thru Jan 31 and 76.2" after. Combine the 2 winters and things look close to average. )

Near -5 this morning, BML hit -13.

I think those are valid met terms that the ever-hyping media has grabbed.

Just a flurry here, had 3-4 minutes of nice feathers plus 10 minutes of little'uns for 0.1". We've had only 2 warned storms so far, which if that's final number would tie 15-16 for fewest since I began tracking WSWs in 06-07 and the only winter with fewer than 4. Median number is 6. We're at nearly 95% of average for season-to-date, but short on the big'uns.

And 66 was running neck and neck with 65 thru met summer - NYC's driest JJA and 2nd hottest. Then 9/21 had 5"+ and precip returned to average or more. Driest February here (1999-forward) is 1.04". Might be endangered.

QPF was below the .15-.25 noted in AFDs. The fluff factor mitigated that a bit - the meager 0.07" here produced 2.1". The last 2-4" forecast (Jan 29) had the same 0.07" but only 1/2".

2.1" thanks to 30:1 ratio. Most fell in the 2 hours prior to sunrise. First big gust will be a 30-second blizzard. Season total passes 2005-06 and 2020-21, so now only the 4th lowest. (Only 3.2" under the average total thru 2/16, however.)

PWM: 103 BGR: 102 BHB: 100, next to the chilly sea.

That's some "clipper" that dumps 6"+ from Michigan to Maine, where it might still be snowing at 1 PM EST. Lmao…just like Al Gore…when he said we wouldn’t see anymore snow anywhere in New England by 2015. And it just happened to be the snowiest in New England since we’ve been keeping records. Another moron that was spewing nonsense. And That ridiculous comment will be no different. I recommend adding "Southern" in front of the bolded, as most of NNE did significally better in 2007-08 than 14-15.

1995-96 was a great snow year but the weather whipsawed back and forth from Dec 1 thru April 14, at which time spring arrived. Though its 138.8" was 2nd only to 2007-08 (142.3") since we moved from Fort Kent in 1985, it ranked only 5th of 13 winters in Gardiner despite having 30" more than any other of those 13. The good periods, 12/1-21; 1/1-16; 1/29-2/19; 2/29-3/10 and 3/27-4/14. Those 88 days had temps 5.4 BN, 11.83" precip and 130.5" snow. The intervening blecch: 12/22-31; 1/17-28; 2/20-28 and 3/11-26. 47 days that ran +7.2 with 9.59" precip and 6.1" snow.

We went 24 days thru the middle of Dec with just 0.1" snow (and a boatload of rain), then had 30" in 5 storms over the next 18 days. So far this month we've had a one-hour flurry on 2/1 plus some catpaws in Saturday's TS. Would be nice to break this snow drought like it did in January.

11.6 AN here. Jan 23 on, +10.8 with minima +14.2; not bad for 3 weeks in midwinter. It's snowed about 1 hour in the past 2 weeks, the flurry on 2/1. (The catpaws in Saturday's TS don't count.) Pack hanging in at 14".

Yes! Just gray skies here, as forecast. Nice to see some good stuff to the south.

Crazy February day - temp got only to 46 but with the mild overnight the mean was +21. Brief (10 minutes) but noisy TS arrived at 4 PM with small hail, torrential rain (0.35" with catpaws) and 2 strikes within 1/2 mile, closer than anything last summer, plus others within a mile or so. I can't recall seeing rain that dense in February before yesterday.

We watched both from afar. In Fort Kent we'd just come out of 8 straight days with subzero highs. In our present locale, 2/16/03 hit -29, our coldest February temp here. 3rd time's the charm?

18" of wind-blown powder in February and 24" of paste. My mother and 4 y.o. little brother were flying home on 3/19 and scheduled to switch airplanes at DCA for a dinner flight to EWR. Snow at DCA and fog at EWR closed both, but they were able, barely, to land at (then) Idlewild. She then had to haul 2 suitcases and an overtired and hungry kid into a taxi to Newark. We got home before dz/fog turned to snow, but not by much.

Almost the same as here. +9.0, max 37 (yesterday), min 8 (twice, including yesterday). Jan 23 thru Feb 7 is +9.4 (max +5.7, min +13.2).

Never got past 31" here. We had 26" OG on Feb 1, received 23" of 18:1 snow and had 26" on Feb 28. Not much melting that month, as there was only 3 hr above 32, on the last Sunday of the month, and the average temp was 16/-10.

That little blob in Miane between the big blues is off. My site was 7.4" AN for that period and the co-op in town was nearly +9". The Oct-Jan average is 40-45" and that map would indicate only 15-20" rather than what's in my sig.

Average 1st half of winter that went nuts in Feb-Mar, 48" pack on 3/31.

GYX' current AFD understates the mildness a bit. Yesterday here was +7, today will be +10 or 11, tomorrow should be about the same and the weekend may approach +20. .SYNOPSIS... High pressure gradually builds eastward into our region through the end of the week with dry weather and seasonable to above normal temperature