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I think that 75,000-acre "pond" north of Greenville might be frozen over. Maine waterbody nomenclature is a bit different. Growing up in NNJ, we lived 100 yards from a 50-acre "lake", where I did most of my very frequent fishing. Ten miles south of my current residence lies a 9,000-acre "pond". At least it's named "Great Pond", largest of the Belgrade Lakes.

After 3 straight crummy winters, 22-23 and this season might be the "new" climate for our area: Solidly AN temps (and even moreso for precip), SN avg to AN but low ratios and frequent snow-to-rain events.

WS watch posted for northeast Maine, basically east of Rt 11 and down to extreme northern Wash Cty. CAR has that area in the 8-12 color.

The foreground of the field across from our place has that same pattern - my wife said it looked like a mattress pad. Tale of 2 messy storms: Jan 10 Jan 13 SN 9.0" 3.8" LE 1.34" 0.66" RA 0.84" 0.73" Tot 2.18" 1.39" Unlike Dec 18, there was little wind in either event.

If they could get to the place, and if they wouldn't care whether they could see the field. Tonight Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow. Low around 23. Windy, with a west wind 30 to 37 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible. Sunday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow. High near 25. Windy, with a west wind 25 to 30 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible. Sunday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Areas of blowing snow. Low around 14. Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 39 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 4 to 8 inches possible. M.L.King Day Snow before 10am, then snow showers likely, mainly between 10am and 4pm. High near 20. Breezy, with a southwest wind 17 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%

Last January was +8.8; thru yesterday we're running +4.0, though today will kick that up by about 0.7°.

Hyperbole much? Dec. 23 was 0.07° hotter than Dec. 22, and Jan to date is running 4.5° less hot than Jan. 23. I'd it's not IMBY, then I don't care. I'd rather watch the game. Might be able to see nothing but snowflakes.

Peak accum 3.8" at 12:10 PM, with 0.66" LE. Changeover was in progress as I took the core, but only a trace of liquid at that time. Lgt RA at present.

Read that PWM peaked 12:06 PM, at 14.57 ft, 0.40 above the previous record. Peak must be 1.5-2 hours later at Pit 2. (It's about 4 hr behind PWM at AUG.)

3.5" at 11:30, lots of teeny snow-things at noon.

2" in 45 minutes at RUM, 1" at home, best snowsquall since we moved from Fort Kent in 1985. (Unfortunately, that event brought the last flakes of powder here for the 09-10 snow season.)

About 2" new, moderate snow falling almost vertically, upper 20s.

I wonder how high the water got on Dec 19 or 20, as the Kennebec peaked art 167k cfs, about halfway between the record (232k cfs in 4/1987) and 3rd place. Dews have dropped considerably today, now in the mid-teens. Might delay significant snow as the dry air gets overcome, but also might delay the changeover to RA. I'm guessing 4-5" here plus 1/4-1/2" wet.

After clogging the snowblower before it went 5 feet in the slushiest part, I parked the machine and, fortunately, was able to have the driveway plowed. (1st driveway-plow since moving into our first house in 1977, in Fort Kent.) The ice was left after plowing the slush and that night's below freezing temp.

You might change your mind if you had to negotiate our glare ice driveway. It needs some white "gravel", soon. 2-4" cornmeal, packed, would be very welcome.

The Japanese Alps along with the heights in Hokkaido must be in the running for snowiest places on Earth, along with Rainier, Baker and the mts behind Sitka and Juneau.

My hope is for some snow that the grandkids in SNJ can play in. The only accumulating snow they've seen since 2021-22 led to needing a short tow in Jay as they headed back south following an 8-day visit here.

Average temp here for Jan 24 is 25/3, so it might be AN (slightly) anyway.

That's my thinking, especially after seeing WWA colors rather than the WSW for last Wed. My area was in the 8-12 color then (final pre-storm forecast 6-10) and the 4-6 color this morning. My 9" then was lower than places just to the west, where 10-14 was the rule. Coastal flooding is the main threat this time, as astronomical tides are a foot higher tomorrow than last Wed. Looking for 4-5", with the rain maybe half the 0.84" that made the Wed stuff all but immovable.

That's my philosophy. Didn't work on 12/18 - last time I experienced 50+ gusts for 4 hours was on 12/31/62. (Doria and Bob had stronger gusts, but only for an hour or so.)

Lots of snow in 95-96, its 138.8" was tops of my 13 winters in Gardiner by 30". That trails only 2007-08 since moving from Fort Kent in 1985. However, the major thaws, especially in January, tempered my enthusiasm. Five top SDDs for Gardiner winters: 1993-94 1,993 1986-87 1,879 1989-90 1,641 1992-93 1,352 1995-96 1,290

Looks really good for an event that only brought us 3.8".

Sun came out at 11:30, after 10 minutes of calm and fog. Headed out to the catch bucket and a couple shovels of glop. Total precip: 2.18"

Latitude. We'll finish this mess with 12-13" pack and >3" SWE. We managed to reach 36" last season even though it was the warmest of 25 cold seasons (DJFM) here. I could see us going into the 20s by 1/17.

I doubt we gusted to 30 here. Isle au Haut recorded 95 mph earlier. 9" probably boosted the pack up to 17" when the p-type changed about 5 AM, now down to 14" with moderate RA and upper 30s. Most miserable stuff to move since the Late Feb mess in 2010 (10.7" of 4:1 slop plus 1.14" of mid-30s RA). I'm sure we're over 2", maybe near 2.5, and most of that is in the new snow. It was near 7:1 when it was all snow but now more like 4:1 and decreasing. I may go out a couple hours after the rain stops, and use a smaller shovel, one with <1 sq.ft. surface rather than the near 2 sq.ft. one I used at 7 AM.