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Farmington had slightly (2") BN snow. They have "M" for the 1st day of the big mid-March storm, but their pack increased 13" that day. Using that for 3/14 (and the qpf fits) makes it a 23" dump. Both CAR and Fort Kent had about 20" above their averages, with the mid-March event dumping 29.0" at CAR, their #2 storm, topped only by the extended storm of 12/25-27/05. We lived in the back settlement then, 3 miles SW from downtown FK and 450' higher than the co-op, and had a high-density 170" total, starting early as Nov-Dec had 16"+ qpf and 73" SN. The 18.5" surprise (forecast was 1-3) of Feb 5-6 briefly brought our pack to 61" though it was 59" by the time of my next obs. Then we had 2.5 weeks of thaw that dropped the pack to 35". It inched up to 42" before that 3/14-15 storm pushed it to 65" with a 26.5" slam, biggest snowstorm and pack of my experience. Probably had 16"+ in that pack, and on 3/15 we went up to Big Twenty Twp to retrieve a disabled snowmobile. While there I cut a long stick, marked it in 10" increments, and found a depth of 80" after ramming the stick thru the frozen layer left by a mid-Dec IP/ZR storm. (Crust from that would carry a bull moose, though it was likely softened a bit by the Feb thaw.) Temps: Nov about average, Dec 2.7 BN, Jan 1.5 BN, Feb 8.1 AN, Mar 6.3 BN. In 9.7 winters in Fort Kent, only 1.5 days of school were lost to snow. The poor forecast Feb storm caused the plow crew to sleep in and school was canceled because the parking lots were buried. At decision time on 3/14 there was 6" new with moderate snow and 6"+ to come so the buses ran as usual. Then the storm grew up with 3"/hr and 14" by noon and the kids were sent home then. AFAIK, there were no glitches in the bus routes despite the 30-mile run to Allagash with HS students and the very hilly 25 miles to Winterville with kids of all grades. Probably more than you wanted to know.

I think he was seeing precip inches close to his SN total that month, too.

Had 5.3" but by late morning when I started snow clearing it was down to 3-4", and it took about twice as long as did the 10" I cleared on Monday. Of course, that event had 0.66" LE while this one totaled 1.16" with probably 0.9" or more still in the glop.

Getting fringed by the early month frigid storm was just the start. Thru the 15th we were running 5° BN, with 3.46" precip and 2.1" SN. Rest of the month was dry and near normal temp.

Moving this slop was about as bad as expected and there's another hour's work. Stuff was too slippery to clog the chute but so heavy that the machine could only toss it 5-6 feet at best, forcing me to toss much the same snow twice. Currently mostly cloudy (sun peeks) with mid 30s, down a few ticks from the max. Today's temps will be 12-14° AN, added to the 9.1 AN for 1-25.

Can't quite match that, but Jan 2014 had 3.77" here, 120% of average, plus temps 3.5° BN (11.1° mean) while getting only 5.1" SN, lowest of 25 Januarys. For the Farmington co-op it was worse - 4.3", ranking 129th of 130 Januarys. Sometimes even the best hitters swing and miss on a meatball hanging curve.

Feb. 2015 was a bit odd in that it set few daily minima records while setting many all-time records for the month, some places for any month. At the Farmington co-op, 2/15 is coldest by nearly 2° but never came closer than 5° to tie a daily record. No/few record cold mornings but just never got mild - the above co-op had 22 days with subzero minima and the mildest morning was 7°. At my frost pocket the number were 24 subzero lows and 5°. The month had maybe 3 hours of temp >32, reaching 34 on 2/22 while the next highest max was 30 three days later.

Fair enough. The long-term average for that part of Jersey, north Morris and south Passaic/Sussex Counties, is about 40" but the period 1956 (when my quantifiable snowstorm memory begins) through 1971 (when I moved 10 miles SE and 500' lower) had a 55-60" average, with both 60-61 and 66-67 cracking the 100" barrier.

Until the record-smashing 22nd/23rd, it was an odd coincidence that the 2 highest March temps came on the same day of the month. Our 28.3" is well over the 20.0" average (includes this month) and 3rd highest January, trailing 2015 and 2019. The month is also running 9.1° AN and will probably finish right about there. Previous mildest January was +7.4° in 2006.

If one is old enough (like me) one can dig thru memories. From March 1956 thru February 1961 our NNJ place in the hills at 700' had 7 events dumping 18-24", the last one possibly more as the wind was screeching and the pack gained more than 2 feet. Even in Fort Kent we never had that kind of big snow period.

It was 2012. The Farmington Maine co-op has records back thru 1893 and their 5 warmest March days are below: 83° 3/23/2012 82° 3/22/2012 80° 3/20/2012 79° 3/20/1903 78° 3/18/2012

LAT/LON for that obs is very near (-0.03/-0.02 difference) to the New Gloucester obs, which makes sense even if the reported total doesn't.

Absolutely. News reported that 2 men in Penobscot County died while clearing snow this morning.

That's probably about what I'd have reported had I gone out with the yardstick at 4 AM. At that time, we had SN- at upper teens and there was 4-5" on the porch railing. At 5:30 it was mid 20s with pounding IP and maybe 1.5" on the railing and at my 7 AM obs time we had light ZR at near 30, the railing was down to <1" and I could only report 5.3" of very soggy stuff. I'm not looking forward to running the snowblower as shoveling was awful - no matter how hard I tried to hurl the stuff, only about half the load would detach from the blade. Total precip thru 7 was 1.12" and I estimated the ZR at 0.10" using the accretion amount. Assuming 7.5" at 4 AM, perhaps ~0.60" LE followed by ~0.40" LE from IP. QPF was consistent with the forecast 8-12" but this one makes up for the 22-23 overperformer.

The 5.3" from the current event brings it to 28.3". Had I gone out to measure at 4 AM before the change to sleet, the month would be over 30".

This month looks to destroy my grading system - the temp, mildest of 25 Januarys by far - merits F-minus. If we get snow in the forecast 8-12 range, that makes the month worth an A. Even with snow weighted 2x temp, the results would look inappropriate. (I'm not opposed to subjective adjustments. )

Uffda!

Our ~25 year old furnace began leaking in spring 2013. I was at work when the service guy came and checked out everything. Then he told my wife that there was good news and bad news. "Let's have the good news." "Today is Friday." "Bad news?" "The boiler is cracked; you need a new furnace." Fortunately, our Jan-Mar timber harvest had produced enough to pay the bill.

1/4" ice shouldn't cause much tree damage unless it's atop a big snow load, but it would make shoveling/snowblowing a lot more challenging.

Seems a bit odd that our 10.1" made the map but not the list; also odd that we were 3" or more above Temple/Farmington (7.1"/6.8") - usually it's the other way, and other nearby obs look a lot closer to our 10" than to 7". Also missed was the cocorahs obs of 20.5" from Parsonsfield, York Cty. (Unless that total was checked and tossed) From Ginxy: Boy I was surprised when I got to the top of my hill 775 feet I am 515. A good 1.5 to 2 more than me just maybe 500 yds up my hill. I had 2.75. One of the best differences in a short walk I have see here. Most dramatic elevation effect I've seen came in NW Jersey back on 4/23/86. We were staying at a friend's place in Blairstown, near the Del. Water Gap, at perhaps 1,100' and a deformation band after a cold rain dumped 13" in about 9 hours. Downtown at 500-600 they might've had 5".

High ratio is why it overperformed here. 10.1" with 0.66" LE, 15.3-to-1.

That would make for the 3rd snowiest January here. Need only 4.6" to get there, but 10" to reach 2nd and 14 to pass 2015.

Highest I've seen in Maine is 20.5" at Parsonsfield, NW-most town in York County. Friends at the western part of Wells lost power for 30 hours; probably 6-8" plus ZR there.

This month will finish between 9 and 10° AN, about 2° above our 2nd mildest January in 2006, and snow is already 3"+ above average. Jan 2006 was 5" AN though that month had rain with almost every event and nothing bigger than 5.9" - that month's 11" max depth is the most pitiful mark for any winter here while we've got 24" at the stake with more to come (unless the forecast has a really radical change). December was 4"+ AN for snow and 5° AN - I can't recall having 2 significantly mild months with AN snow in both. NNE bonus. Makes up for January 2014, which was 3.5° BN with 120% precip that produced 27% of average snowfall. Its snow also ranked 129th of 130 Januarys at the Farmington co-op.

Super! Your area really got pounded during the day. We had 6.3" by 7 AM and I was pleased with another 3.8" to reach double digits and a 24" pack, but you must've had 9-10" after 7.