tamarack

I've done my daily obs at 9 PM since moving to Fort Kent in 1/1/76, and the above numbers are for those 24-hour periods. (Prior to that, at NNJ and BGR, I observed at midnight. Given my forester job's schedule demanding wake-up at 5-5:30, I moved the obs time in favor of more sleep.) When I joined cocorahs in August of 2009, I merely added the 7 AM obs, not wishing to abandon 33 years of the evening obs.

That's a lot of 'T' obs. I've only had 9, plus 17 with measurable snow. (Avg winter here has 25 'T's and 42 with 0.1"+.)

My first memory was disappointment. We'd planned to drive home from SNJ on the 27th but decided it was wiser to stay an extra day with the grandkids. They had never seen a snowstorm greater than 7-8" and the forecast there was 12-16, starting in the evening of the 26th. Instead, first flakes came about 7 AM, lasted until 11 and the 1.5" total was gone by 3 PM. The grandkids were more disappointed than I was. When we got home about 6 PM on 1/28, we found 20" of 9:1 sand in our driveway, very difficult to slog thru as the consistency tended to twist and slide away from our feet. Pics and descriptions from neighbors plus other data were convincing that our home had "seen" full blizzard criteria; we've had that only 4 times in our 25+ winters here. Had we been home, that storm would've been the most powerful January blizzard I'd ever experienced, with only Jan 19-20, 1961 even coming close. (And 18 days later came the VD massacre - 24 hours before game time the forecast was 18-24; we got 1.5.)

They had about the same temp as where my wife is visiting her sister, just north from Ocala. 3.8" with 0.40" LE yesterday, at 31-32°. More like a March 26 event than Jan 26.

Another 3" here to go with the 3.3" today? Lots better than the total whiff that's been progged before today.

Measured 3.3" from 0.26" LE at 12:30. Still snowing with very small flakes but it's likely that the 12:30 depth is as tall as it will get, though the ratio will suffer. Forecast at 7 this morning was 2-4, looked later and it was revised to 3-5, probably when the day crew looked at the radar and now-casted. Either way, it verified here.

Had 3" from 7:30 to 10:30, nice moist feathers, little since but radar shows another patch of decent precip - hope it's white.

Horrific for sure, not one but two huge losses. May you stay strong through this trial. The bolded reminded me of my mom, years ago. At age 55 she was diagnosed with emphysema, thanks to 40 years of 2-3 packs/day. She quit cold turkey, but over the next 15 years her lung function gradually failed, the final 18 months on O2 24/7. In the last months she felt that she could never get a full breath of air. Her two non-smoking sisters lived into their 90s.

Current GYX forecast says "cloudy", storm goes like Bass and Norwood.

0.2" ice on the snowboard, only 0.1" on the twigs. Currently mostly sunny, so the trees should shed later this AM. Used a goodly amount of ashes on the driveway and stairs.

Had 18" of windblown powder Feb 15-16, then 24" paste bomb March 20-21 at our NNJ home. March 56 thru Feb 61 in NNJ had more big snows than any other place I've lived.

Adds about 1/25". Horrors!

Add the Mahoosucs. I can't imagine going thru Mahoosuc Notch in winter. In Sept 1985 a bunch of BPL folks went about halfway, entering from the east, then headed back out. With no pack it was a fun scramble/slither thru the huge boulders.

Lots of sleds buzzing on the town trails in southern Franklin County, though the scenery isn't quite the equal of the top of Coburn Mt.

Maybe try cocorahs.org. There's an active observer in Brattleboro, WH-29 (some inactives from the town with lower numbers). I was able to get to that observer's data dump without signing back in, though as a member since 2009 I'm somewhat familiar with the site.

Rescue dogs On the dim sun menu most of today, after the -12 low. We must've decoupled earlier than the other rad pits. We're almost never colder than BML/HIE on calm nights.

You've read enough of Tip's tomes to know that he thinks we're all neurotic about snow and cold, himself included. And I won't argue that. Always consider the source.

Our 1st few months in Fort Kent (and some other periods there) displayed the lots-of-modest events snow. From when we moved there on Jan 1 thru the 1.5" on May 7 as I tilled the garden, we had 93.5" with no events larger than 8". (They did have at least one double-digit storm in Dec 1975.)

Only 2 minutes totality at CAR. PQI and especially HUL would be longer. So would MLT.

And 23-24 would make the 6th since 17-18. (I think - I'm well known for misunderstanding things.)

Mansfield co-op at 3,950' reached 149" in 1969, and hit the 130s in 1996 and 2001. Jay base at 1,875' recorded a 110" pack in 1994 so 70% more near the top might not be impossible. Would be better if they had a Stowe-like opening above 3k with a continuous spot to measure and photograph.

Feb 1987 was dry and near snowless. However, we'd had 5 storms for 49" in Jan, so cry me a river.

Only 6 (17-18) but still a horrible run.

My NNJ home average 40", current home just shy of 90 and our years in Fort Kent over 130. Yet that 5-year period in NNJ had big storms like no other time I've experienced. 3/19-20/1956: 24" 2/15-16/1958: 18" 3/20-21/1958: 24" 3/3-4/1960: 18" 12/11-121960: 18" 1/19-20/1961: 20" 2/3-4/1961: 24" (That 60-61 winter also had a 10-12" paste bomb on 3/23 with most falling in 4 hours, also a cold rain on 5/27 that had a few pingers.)

Same here, 26.5" on 3/14-15/1984 in Fort Kent. Reached 24.5" at my current residence on 2/22-23/2009, also 24" five times - one here, one in FK and 3 in NNJ between 3/56 and 2/61. (That 2/3-4/61 depth involves guesswork due to high winds. A nearby site recorded 27".) 2nd straight January with both temp and snowfall AN. Last January was almost +9 for temps; this month will probably finish between 2 and 4 AN.