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Why is Hydro Quebec's rate for Miami, 2000 miles from the turbines, only about 40% of Boston's rate, less that 1000 miles away? NIMBY would make sense if price-gouged power is in play.

And mowed it a week later after the run of 80s?

12.5" here, best storm of the season.

And I'm a few months older!

Longest closure I had was 9 days in Jan 1961, because a fire wrecked nearly a third of the HS. Lots of cold ice fishing, as it was in the midst of NYC's record 16-day run of maxima 32 or lower - mildest during the streak was 29. Then the blizzard of Feb 34, a Fri-Sat event, closed school on Monday, the only 3rd-day closing for snow I've had. Better than NYC, though, as their schools lost that entire week.

That was the evening forecast from CAR on April 6, 1982 - windy, cold (daytime 20s) and flurries. By 2 AM we had S+ and the WSO recorded 26.3" from the blizzard, biggest snowfall there at the time, now #4, and the most powerful snow event I've experienced. We only had 17" - I think, as 60 mph gusts made measurement a challenge and pack at the stake actually lost 2". Best bust ever!

From Mitch's post: LE on Tuesday and Wednesday was found by coring the snow on top of the snow board using the outer cylinder of the Stratus rain gauge and then melting it down as this amount of snow easily overflows the outer cylinder multiple times over. The melted water was then measured with the funnel and inner cylinder. That's exactly what I do for cores of storm and for pack SWE. For depths taller than the Stratus, I slide my flat shovel into the snow horizontally 9-10" below the top, carefully lift and invert gauge/shovel while leaving the rest of the pack intact, then empty the gauge into a bucket. Wash/rinse/repeat until reaching board or ground. I need to keep a written score for packs like last week's core showing 9.31" SWE - do not wish to lose count.

Were you up there later that month? Farther east at Eustis, 1,260' asl, March 22-24 brought 34.5" - they had 64.6" for the month despite only 3.3" from the 5-7 storm. BPL was finishing a timber harvest on the Redington public lot (5 miles SW from 'Loaf summit) at 2,500+, with the last load coming out just as S++ arrived - probably a 40-spot there. 16" paste at my place. I got 26" in 2016-17 which was the biggest since we moved into our house in 2013. Seems like 30+ is a big hurdle I've been interested in wx since the Jan 1953 ice storm in NNJ and the biggest storm I've seen over those 70 years (yikes!) was 26.5" at Fort Kent in March 1984. 30s are rare most everywhere. (Note: Farmington co-op reported 40" for 12/6-7/2003. We had 24" and were at church 1.5 miles from the co-op site as final flakes fell, and the snow there looked much like the snow at my home. 30"? maybe. 40? slant stick or in a drift.)

That obs came from 2 miles west from and 200+ feet higher than downtown. Might've meant an extra 10" (though 25" in town center isn't too shabby.)

Forecast here was 5-9 and by 4 yesterday we'd had only a trace. Then the band arrived from the SE, and we finished with 6" even, with 2/3 of that coming in 90 minutes, 5:30-7 PM. Pack was 28" at 9 last night, settled back to 25" now. Tomorrow may be the best remaining chance to put on the snowshoes and prune apple trees while I can be 8 feet tall.

Reminds me of the SNE bomb of Feb. 1978. Lived in Fort Kent at that time and we had 2" while some EMA/RI spots had over 3 feet. And seeing a post from The County is excellent.

I've read that some southern Maine spot got 16" from 3/1888, which compares poorly with 30" at ASH, not to mention something like 50 at HVN. Only Maine record I've found was the Gardiner co-op, which recorded 8.0" on a day with temp 38/32 so obviously paste.

Not bad. I don't have the York County numbers but it wouldn't be a surprise if there were some 20" totals there. I measured 9.5" from 18+ hours of steady moderate snow while Farmington co-op recorded 14.0". If we'd gotten the big dog from early month, some records would've been shattered as the co-op finished with 58.3", their 4th biggest month and tops for months not beginning with "F". My 55.5" is the 2nd snowiest month anywhere, behind only the 61.5" for Dec 1976 in Fort Kent.

Maybe not since 135 years ago?

34.1" in the 1980s. Only one season topped 60" and it took the 13.3" April blizzard to get there. 70s were about the same as the LT avg.

Data for Boston (Logan) that I've gleaned has their 1920-on average at 43.2" (with some early decades not at Logan) and 49.7" for 1991-2020. For the 2010s it was 52.4". (Without 2014-15, the 30-year is 47.4" and the 2010s only 46.0".) Edit: Ninja-ed by jm1220

Your late afternoon 5-7 call for my area was spot on. Accumulating snow began about 4 PM and the band from northern GOM hit about an hour later. Had 5.5" from 4-9 plus another 0.5" overnight, with about 4" pounding from 5:30-7 PM, some 3"+/hr periods. For such a sticky snow, the near 10:1 ratio (6.0"/0.61" LE) was surprisingly high.

I learned that in the 1993 Superstorm, was tracking 1.5-2"/hr on the deck and when it approached 10", I checked out the cul-de-sac and found ~6". Low 20s and late afternoon so no delay in accumulation. (That storm was one of the more disappointing 10"+ events in memory, as essentially every other site in New England had more, and the forecast had been 1-3 feet. Warmth aloft caused heavy riming, such that my 1.70" LE only made 10.3".) Moderate snow arrived about 4 PM, but without some inch-an-hour S+ we'll fall short of the 5-9" forecast.

Finally seeing a few flakes after 3.5 dry hours. Maybe it waited until the sun was low enough to allow accumulation, though we're mid 30s atm.

That nice green lobe south of Fundy has some NW in its track (at present) but everything west of there seems to run WNW by W and would stay to our south. Edit: And we're more than 200 feet lower than the key elev, though I don't think Mile Hill at 800' has done any better so far.

Had non-accumulating light snow 10-noon, nothing since except the wind exercising the trees, echoes getting farther and farther away from here. Can't recall ever getting only a trace from a warned storm (forecast here was 5-9) but there's still many hours in which to avoid a first time.

Club trail thru our woodlot looked nice and smooth on my walk yesterday. Nothing doing here atm, echoes are traveling NNW instead of N or NE, thus passing to our west. Unless that direction changes or the system moves farther NE, I smell a bust. (However, GYX forecast for here has the majority falling after dark.)

First real flakes here at 10:05 (had some teeny flakey things about 7) but no accum yet, sill too light to stick at 33°.

Dublin/Jaffrey area in NH, I'm less familiar with the VT towns. For a hairy drive in NH, take Rt 101 past Temple Mountain.

Took the season's first core last Monday": 9.31" from a 30" pack. Depth was down to 7" after the upper 40s New Year's Day but even that had about 3" LE. From then thru 3/6 we had about 8" precip (62" SN) with the depth peaking at 36" on 3/4, and even with the much AN temps there was more settling than melting.