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Why not? The Sox broke the "curse" under a total lunar eclipse.

You're right! I forgot it was leap year. March 1970 eclipse was ~93% in NNJ, like an early twilight. We barely paused at our carpentry site.

Last half dozen years have included 4 or 5 total lunar eclipses, none of which were visible here, thanks to clouds. Also, my Sundays are spoken for.

A degree cooler than here, where the wind never fully quit overnight. Maybe teens for sunrise service tomorrow. Tha Montreal damage seems disproportionally great for the accretion - maybe some wind with the TS? Of course, most of the breakage appeared to be Norway and silver maples, both noted for ice damage.

In its 153-year POR, Central Park hasn't had another April storm like it. 1875 and 1915 had storms with (slightly) greater snowfall, but those were paste bombs. In 1982 most snow fell at mid-to-low 20s. Maxed out at 45 yesterday, CF wind roaring thru trees this morning, still 12" at the stake, possibly upper teens for the sunrise service on Sunday. Extended has 60s-70 for mid-late next week, should get rid of the snow.

Southern New England. Other than the coast, NNE did well despite the lack of consistent cold. However, memory tends to recall the big snows more than the ugly winters, sometimes justifiable. From March 1956 thru Feb 1961 our NNJ home had 7 storms with 18-24", the final one (Feb 3-4, 1961) dumping at least 24 - gusts pas 50 made measuring a guess - on top of the 25-30" pack. Friend and I tried wading into the woods. I was 5'8" then, snow came above my navel and my boots were on packed snow not ground. 100 yards of that was more an enough to reveal our foolishness.

Did you get much west of Route 11 and into the Allagash-St. John country?

Yankees' home opener was that day. Conditions at 1 PM game time: 25°, S+, 6" new. PLAY BALL! Didn't reach northern Maine until the next day, when the previous evening's forecast from CAR was 20s, windy, flurries. 26.3" at the WSO. (Odd that CAR's 2nd greatest April snow is only 13.3" in 2020, and those 2 are the only ones with 12"+. They've recorded only 7 storms of 10"+. During CA's POR, the Farmington co-op has had 10 double-digit storms, and while they had just 10" in the April 1982 blizzard, those 10+ include storms of 20", 18" and 16.5", along with 3 others of 12-13". Average April snow at CAR is 8.4", Farmington 6.2".)

Low 40s at 1:45, sun has been visible thru clouds off/on since late morn. Trees are bare and mostly dry. Saw 1 PM temp of 63 at AFN.

Maybe 0.15" accretion here. Temp finally into the mid 30s with ice beginning to fall from the trees. Can the sun burn thru and mix down warmth here? Forecast of 55 says probably.

You could probably talk them down to an even 1.6. That's about 10 miles SW from where my parents retired to Woodsville, NH, and had plenty of snow there 1981-93 at 620' elev, 220' higher than the river, especially in that first winter. (Of course, that was compared to the hills of NNJ where snow averaged about 40"/year.) Loons are back. Hundreds to thousands of Canada geese picking thru the cornfield stubble along Route 2 in Farmington for the past week.

Started at 2:40 with bunches of IP pus a rumble of thunder - can't recall any thundersleet before.

Reached 53° under thin clouds, mildest since early November. Today? Hanging around 30 while 440 miles SW in SNJ the grandkids are probably putting in their garden with temp flirting with 80.

Even with 2 AN winters in the last 5, we're BN for the period, but 93% of average isn't a significant departure.

One day when my older brother was at Camp Buckner after his plebe year a West Point, his company was learning to handle and aim 105 mm howitzers, lobbing live shells over a hill to where spotters could report results. A full load was 7 bags of powder but they were using only one, until the pop, pop of the mild load was punctuated by a ka-boom - someone had put in the full 7, whether by accident or not. The crew figured the shell landed somewhere in Bear Mountain State Park. Six-eight years later, the news reported that some campers at the park heard an explosion as a shell landed a couple hundred yards from their site, clearing out a few trees..

The real equivalents came in 1976 and 2002 when some SNE points reached 95 just past mid Month.

NNE had its own "big month" at Pinkham Notch, as the 81" set a new March record. The season total of 201.9" is 5th greatest and another 13" will put 22-23 into 3rd. (Top 2 are out of reach, 285" in 57-58 and 323" in 68-69.)

Nice 50° difference between home and the SNJ branch of family. Sleet here, skeeters there?

GYX discussion had 0.3" accretion as the 'floor' for the W.Maine mts. Forecast has ZR/IP into the foothills, with no accretion noted but '<1/2" IP' included. Forecast here for Wed high temp is 32. March had but one day at/below 32, would be very odd to get another in April.

Only a 40° difference between my place and the grandkids' SNJ garden. Since we moved to the Maine foothills, our average temp runs about 13° milder than where the kids live.

38/30 yesterday. We do it again Wednesday though with less RA. While the grandkids in SNJ are gardening under 75° sun, we'll be 37 with misery mist.

Probably close to your average. I think Minneapolis avg is closer to 60".

Especially away from salt water.

The winter that wrecked my grading system. DJFM temperature was the mildest of my 25 winters here and had only 2 days with true bottom-of-winter cold. However- - - there were no extended thaws, no freakishly high temps, one of the few DJFM periods that failed to top 50. " to Even the 3.25" mega-Grinch only dropped the pack from 15" to 12. Normally that avg temp would rate an F, but the avoidance of long thaws, or serious RA after 12/23, probably merits a D. Snowfall is at 115% of avg thru this morning. The 22" dump in mid-Dec is the 3rd largest snowstorm here and all but guaranteed continuous and AN pack - SDDs are running about 20% above avg, depth peaked at 36" and stayed 19" or deeper for 10 weeks. Snow total, assuming little/no more, would be a B+ but the big storm and good pack will raise the grade a bit.

My little pickups (1992 Ranger inherited from dad, 2004 Mazda, 2011 Ranger) have all been 2WD and this was the 29th winter I've been driving them, so I'm not too concerned.