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11 hours ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

Oh yeah for sure. But New England is mostly close to the ocean so realistically it's going to be humid most of the time whenever it's hot. When is the last time we had Arizona type dry heat around here? I cannot even recall.

In NNE some of the hottest days come with modest dews (hard to cook all that water), often in late spring/early summer on W/NW winds before the humid SW flow carries the heat.  Hottest temp at CAR is 96, in May 1977 and June, 1944 and 2020.

GYX has an hour-by-hour chart of winds for many sites in its CWA, and for our area the strongest winds come with CAA and continue into tomorrow evening.  Only ~40 gusts compared to the 50+ in Dec, but they're from the NW and may pick out some trees partially tipped by the stronger SE winds back then.  Bad winter for the woodlot. 

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

That would be about right as the 07-08 season was one of my top 5 all time up here.

Tops here since moving from Fort Kent, and only 95-96 in Gardiner and 00-01 here are even close.

18 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It did last spring too and we know how nice last spring ended up bring. Blocks in spring don’t mean nasty weather like some folks on here think lol

Meh.  1st half of April was indeed nice.  2nd half had one sunny day, 9 cloudy ones, and segued into a downpour that caused the 4th greatest peak flow on the Sandy River (relegated to 5th in Dec).  May had a mid-month dry spell but the month was way AN for RA, then June 1-18 had only a single day w/o measurable RA.

16 hours ago, NW_of_GYX said:

All time rat. Still think 15-16 was worse here though. Anyone have temp departures for DJF that year? 

15-16 DJF here was 23.45 and a year ago, 23.64.  With 3 days left, we're at 23.53.  I think we'll sneak ahead, maybe around 23.7, though a lot depends on when the CF crashes the temp, as that will likely determine Wed's min and Thurs' max, which will probably occur at the same time.

16 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

I didn't realize how bad it is in Northen Main this winter.

Lack of snow cancels longest sled dog race in eastern United States (yahoo.com)

Snow on the course is thinner than usual, but IMO it was the forecast between now and start time that nailed the coffin shut.  (As noted in the linked article)

8 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

thanks, but how do you tie up and attach on a 12/12 roof? 

Metal - won't stay for long on 12/12.  (The 5k+ is a bit harder to take than buying a roof rake.)

Nice relaxing day on Flying Pond, no strikes to make me hustle until one (stole the bait) as I was picking up.  Seemed like cloudy/full sun exchanged the sky every hour or two.  Max here was 38-39 but on the ice it felt like 50 when the skies were blue.

11 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

About an inch dusting last night coating the trees this morning. 

0.7" of 35:1 fluff in the pre-dawn hours, thus passing 2006 for least snowy February.  Wednesday's RA should push us past 2012 for driest, so terrible month for RA/SN but no records - lose-lose.  We'll end up close to 2010's mildest February.  

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

 Oddly last summer was not bad for mosquitoes here.  The larvae probably all drowned from the constant rain.

As usual ticks were bad spring and fall but fairly scarce in the summer. Interestingly there were a lot of pet owners having flea problems last year. Our vet said it was unlike anything he’s ever seen.

The ticks seem to go away, or estivate, or something from mid-July thru August.  Our Parks and Lands peer review forest trip in 2019 was in southern Maine - Newcastle, Swan Island (with its huge deer population), Hebron and Skowhegan, 40 people walking in tick-infested areas in mid-August.  I figured we would have a tick-pickin' horror show but, if anyone saw a tick, I never heard about it.  (And I was responsible for listening and writing up the trip notes.)  Since then, the tick-free Augusts have continued.  My personal record was 26 deer ticks at the Topsham lot, but that was in late October.  I was tossing them out the window as I drove up I-295 toward Augusta.

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This is going to to be an epic bug and insect spring/ summer. Warm winter with zero cold, wet winter until Feb / tons of water in ground and a torch Morch/ Napril.. They’ll be out over next few weeks splatting in car windshields and grills . Not looking forward to that 

Maybe.  Last year we had a wet May and a near-constant rainy June, and we feared the worst.  Instead, black flies and mosquito populations were less than usual, and we had the fewest deerflies since we lived in Gardiner.  BN tick attachments also.

Finished with 0.5" from 0.07" LE.  Barring a surprise between now and March 1, this will be the least snowy of 26 Februarys here.

51 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Assuming a high ACE/La Nina, really the only subpar season is 1998-1999...and once you get above 200 ACE they are all decent...2005-2006 probably being the floor.

2005-06 was a pretty low floor, with almost no snow after Jan 31.  Among 389 met winter months at the Farmington co-op, only Dec 1999 had less snow than the 1.1" of Feb 06.

12 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

Must be pretty far south because my NJ home currently has a 3” pack and no grass showing; been that way for almost 2 weeks, though I think it’s on life support by tomorrow.


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Seems like your NJ locale is in the north part.  I saw some FB pics a couple days back from where I grew up in northern Morris County, and the snow cover looked about like that 3".  Also, the lake where I usually fished was wide open.  I don't think the red ball flag (denoting safe ice) was ever flown this year.

We may have a 20° AN day by mid week.  Wednesday's average here is 32/9 and 48/35 is a possibility.

Fighting to reach 1/4" here.   

49 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Of course for the last two weeks when the airmass is serviceable, shows up. So much for the good back half of winter. 

Last 9 days have averaged 28/7 with maxima ranging from 21 to 32.  We took advantage of the seasonal temps with a qpf total of 0.07".  

Feb precip is currently 0.44", with 80% of that in the strongest Feb TS I can recall.  Current lowest Feb precip is 1.04", so a new low is a given.  If we stay below the 0.57" of Jan 2004, only the 0.31" of April 1999 will be drier than this month.

GYX gives us a 10% chance to reach 1".  Feb snow is currently 0.8" below 2/2006, our least snowy Feb - let's go for the record!

After 3 subzero minima in the past 4 days, it may not have gone below 20 this morning, nice mild launchpad for the next "storm".

16 hours ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

Largest ever snowstorm in PVD for the month of March was 14.7" on 03/19/56. That month was like the March version of Feb 2015 with a snowstorm every week. 31.6" in March 1956 and 31.8" in Feb 2015.

That's their greatest calendar day snowfall.  March 3-5, 1960 dumped 17.7" there, 8th greatest overall.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

This poor thread ... It is verifying, as there's a system on the charts now passing inside the mid range.  I guess a better verbal approach at the onset ...like don't use "biggie" adjectives might have been tactful but boo hoo.

Success!

Unfortunately it's only because its cinema up to this point ... failed to deliver drugs to the drug addicts, that there are now pages and pages of what really amounts of plebe-witted rabble. The virtuosity and usefulness to actual weather and analytics are lost in all that vastly more valuable din. 

Also, I'd remind that although population is sparser, the eastern half of Maine is part of this forum.

12 pages with less than 3 days 'till go time doesn't seem excessive.  Thurs-Fri may be a small oasis, may be a mirage, but everything else is dry sand so folks post.

Sadly, the only rep for the eastern half of Maine is Vim Toot.  Only one for the north half, too, though The Mainer is close.

2 hours ago, Lava Rock said:

I've only been below 10F twice

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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.

14 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

CC in general has, agree, but interesting only 3 top 10 snowiest Feb’s have been done in the last 50yrs. 

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.)

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

142yrs of data and 7 of the top 10 least snowiest Feb’s have occurred in the last 50yrs. A Ratter month is becoming more common lol.

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

11 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Yeah I remember thinking how sucky it would be to miss it and then it just came north final 3 days. 

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

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

You beat me by 1” so far.

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.