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The worst 10" dump ever - 4:1 mashed potatoes that splattered on landing, mixed/followed by 1.1" of 34-35° RA, this latter while NYC was mid 20s with its 20.9" snowicane - on the same NE winds as up here. Snowblower was broken and running the scoop in that mush was harder than moving the 24.5" storm a year earlier. The only one of the 4 KUs that gave us a flake (though what fell here wasn't exactly flakes.)

Yesterday's mean of 33 was the month's mildest (so far), by 11°. Pack down to 16" and may lose another 2" by sunset. Mostly settling and sublimation, though some melting as well.

High yesterday was 33, stopping the run of 32 or below at 35 days. Now we'll have 4 days well above 32, but the month should finish at about 2° BN.

Yesterday made 35 straight days without getting over 32°, the longest such run we've had here. Both 2009 (with 12/31/08) and Jan-Feb 2015 had streaks of 33 days. Either today or tomorrow will end the current one.

Maybe those pines had grown sufficiently tall to reach pavement if toppled in a crosswind. I've heard nothing about a 4th lane - would be dumb. Loggers get paid to cut along the interstates, due to the strung-out harvest area and the cost of ensuring safety for the traffic. The timber value defrays much of the cost to the state.

Top 3 here, 1999-2024, with max, min, precip, snow 1. 2010 35.0 64 11 6.44 0.6 2. 2012 34.4 80 -10 1.85 14.6 That 90° is the greatest span I've recorded, 3° more than Jan 1979 in Fort Kent (which has had much the most extremes). 3. 2024 32.6 51 4 8.67 29.3 4th was 2000

Same here, though January bucks the trend. Average January snowfall is ~20" and 4 years it was <10", only 5.1" to 7.7". 2004 was 10° BN, 2014 4° BN and 2013 plus this year within 0.1° of average. Rest of the months generally fall in line.

03-04 started great, 2 storms totaling 37" by Dec 15 including one of only 4 true blizzards here. Unfortunately, the rest of winter brought only 36" - not a ratter but 20% BN.

One paradox of this winter's temps may be that the overabundance of wind made it feel colder, but it blew away the rad pits thus keeping the overnights less cold. Barring a torch to end the month, DJF will be 1-1.5F below my 27-year average (and 6-7F colder than the previous 2 winters). My average doesn't include all of 1991-2020. It misses the Pinatubo chill but also excludes the mild winters of 96-97 & 97-98.

That would be about my score. Unless I chose to play the back 9 as well. We've had 20"+ snow in March 7 times in 26 winters but 23/24 was the 1st time we hit the mark in consecutive years. Trifecta??? Probably not. The other 5 were also over 30. Prior to 3/23 we'd never had a March in the 20s. It's easily the most variable of the 4 big snow months, ranging from 0.1" to 55.5". Toss out the top/bottom, it's still 0.6"/37.1".

In the 1980s-90s the company foresters mostly rode Tundras because of the bushwhack sledding required. After 2000 we tried not to run those sleds on the wide groomed trails, as they topped out at about 40 and the guys going 70+ didn't like our snails clogging up the trail. BML and HIE have pulled 40s for diurnal range. Jeff's -11 this morning may lead to 40+. 'Tis the season - bright sun, little wind and dry air.

Only rode a Moto-ski once, back in 1977, it was old already and the inner cowling was gone, such that one could watch wheels turning 12" ahead of his crotch. It was a joint timber cruise (Great Northern, International Paper, Seven Islands) east from Depot Lake, not far from Lac Frontiere, PQ. where we had bunked. The machine seemed to have a single speed, about 15, and sounded ying-ding-ding-ding . . . on the nice level track. Heading back to the border after day one, the 500-lb Everest became disabled, so the guys who knew what they were doing hooked it rear-to-rear on the Moto-ski, high enough to lift its track, lashed the skis straight and the old beast headed back west - ying-ding-ding ...at 15 mph.

Lies in the shadow of Katahdin. Ranger cabin (assume that's the measuring site) is at 2,925, Baxter Peak 5,269. The previous record, 84" in 1969, was at 420 (Farmington).

Nice rad night, -8 here.

94" pack at Chimney Pond, Maine's tallest recorded. (Pales compared to Pinkham Notch - 164" in 1969.)

April 6-8, 1982. The storm had dumped on CHI on the 5th then NYC-BOS on the 6th, a true winter-type blizzard. 6th was the Yankees' home opener and at the 1 PM start time NY was 25° and falling, S+ and 6" new. By storm's end they had 9.6" (3rd biggest April snow 1869-on) and reached 21°, their coldest April snow event, by about 5°. The evening of the 6th, CAR updated the forecast by adding flurries to the cloudy, 20s and windy. I woke up about 2 AM, looked out and saw that thick gray of heavy snow. My guess at Fort Kent was 17" but the gusts near 60 rearranged things, such that the pre-storm 27" at the stake was only 25" post-storm, with drifts 5-6' within 20 feet on either side. CAR's "flurries" verified at 26.3", at the time their biggest (now 4th). In 1984 there were 2 notable snow events, with almost nobody seeing both (unless they moved). SNE down to NYC had a late month pasting while much of NNE got bombed on March 14-15. CAR reset their top storm with 29.0" (now 2nd) and we measured 26.5, most I've seen.

In 1980 I was living at 47.13° N and averaged 133"/yr. Now it's 44.39° and 89". The snowfall/retention ratio works both ways - last winter I had 111% of average snow but only 2/3 of average SDDs. Max depth was 22" compared to average max of 29.

That winter was a great example of less snow/more pack. Snow total was 50"+ lower than our average winters in Fort Kent, but 3 March storms totaling 25" lifted the depth to a respectable 36", only 2" below the 9-year average peak.

Not just the West. Here's a week in Fort Kent less than 3 months after we moved (on Jan 1, 1976) into an apartment there, near the St. John: 3/19 24 -25 T 0.2 3/20 50 19 T T 75° rise in 32 hours 3/21 53 38 0.30 3/22 40 5 T 0.1 3/23 34 -7 T T 60° drop in 40 hours, 3/24 52 20 0.10 0.8 and . . . back up 59 in another 34 hours. 3/25 52 35 T T from TT: Mt. Snow is very far south, it's not very high, it's March, and any hugger/cutter + sun angle is going to really roast them. Overall pattern that I see (12z gfs ensemble, indv members) for that period looks somewhat dicey too I guess 3,600 asl isn't very high. And most slopes there face east.

That 20-spot in SNJ is right where our grandkids live. Verified there with 1.5" and within 4 hours of when it stopped there was no evidence it had ever been.

21" here. Had 17" total from the very dense T-Day and early Dec powder storms provided enough to keep the ground white - never dropped below 6". This recent storm is the only one with real meat since that early pair, though we got 6.3" of 15:1 fluff on 12/24.

The long-term (but sadly, no longer) reporting at the Farmington co-op recorded from Jan 1, 1893 thru May 2022, with the LT annual snowfall of 90". T(or zero) Dates <6" NOV none 13 (only 2, 12 thru 30, lowest 1") DEC none 3 (13th, 19th, 22nd, lowest 4") JAN none (lowest, 7" on 22nd) FEB none (lowest 6", 3rd - twice) MAR none 4 (only 1, 1 thru 24, lowest 4") APR 1 10 (none 1 thru 15)

Comment on those videos seems logical. For whatever reason, the airplane hit too hard, crushing the rear landing gear. When the right wing broke off the left was still providing lift, hence the rollover.

After 26 winters, thru 2023-24, our 89" average is evenly split - 44.5" thru Jan 31 and 44.5" Feb 1 on. Some winters are wildly different: 2005-06 (a ratter) had 85% by Jan 31, while the next year had only 19% by then, thanks mainly by a record-shattering April. Current medians are slightly apart - 44.8/43.9.

For glare ice the best medicine might be wood ashes - might even be better than sand. Of course, most places allow homeowners to get sand from the town's sand/salt shed while the ash requires an even more local woodstove.