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Back to normal. Last 2 totaled 20.0", lowering the average a full inch, to 21.9".

The ride from Northern Door motel in Fort Kent to Deboullie is awesome. Find lodging in St. Francis or Allagash would shorten the trip, though the 15-mile rail trail along the St. John has its own awesomeness, looking into Canada the whole way. The run of air-snow has been fun - another 9.5" from Jan 29 thru last night - but a snowstorm with more than 0.2" LE would be welcomed.

That 5-year period in NNJ - March 1956 thru February 1961 - produced a run of big dogs beyond anything I've seen anywhere else. The fact that the previous 5 winters ranged from poor to ratter merely emphasized the abundance. The storms: 3/18-19/56 24", low 20s powder 4/8/56 12", classic birch bender 2/15-16/58 18", with blizzard conditions and temps falling thru the 20s/teens 3/34/60 18", with temps upper teens. School let out at noon, already 8" new 12/11-12/60 18", with temps low teens, 1st day of NJ firearms deer season 1/19-20/61 20", temps upper singles to low teens 2/3-4/61 24", temps mid-upper 20s. Some guesswork for depth, major blizzard conditions In 1961, Jan 19 thru Feb 3 NYC temps ranged from -2 to 29. That 16-day run of sub-32 is easily the site's longest.

Saw it once, way back when I was in HS. January 15, 1961 was a Sunday and my dad and I went ice fishing that afternoon. Caught almost nothing, in part because steady ZR froze on the traps, making them non-functional. About 1/4" accretion when it changed to SN in the evening, with 6" new at sunrise. 95% of the time, an event like that would close the schools, but they had lost 2.5 days in December and a bigger storm was on the horizon, so off we went - no accidents AFAIK. Thurs-Fri brought a 20" blizzard (Fri was JFK inauguration day in snowy DC) costing another school day and winter's biggest on Feb 3-4 yet another. Fortunately for schools, that was a Fri-Sat event with Monday off because plows had no place to push the stuff; NJ had depths 30-50" after that one.

Different architecture (and magnitude so far) but frequency like Feb 2008. He sucked on the pats They essentially replaced him for Meyers, with ugly results. 2023-24 stats for each: Catches Yards TD Ju-Ju 47 491 3 Jacobi 158 1834 12

3.0" here, but with only 0.15" LE it's leave/pack, as I ran the blower thru the 6" from the previous 2. In 3 days, February has 1.3" more than all of January, and we've had 3 events with ratios 20+ in 6 days, 9.0" total from 0.42" LE. Pack is up to 14" but the top 6 is vulnerable, all from the fluff gang. Tonight's potential mix'n'mess, though minor, may squash things down a bit.

Another 3.9" from 0.18" LE. Two events in 3 days, barely over 1/4" LE (0.27") fluffed out to 6". Only swept the porch steps on the 30th, blew the combo in 4th gear on the snowblower. (Would've moved just as well at 6th gear but my knees wouldn't.)

50% chance here, no depth stated. Dusting? Sunday night looks better, unless it goes away like tonight's. (Or warms too soon,)

88-89 was total meh in Gardiner, where we then living, nothing big, lots of messy but weak storms. Highlight of that snow season was 1.8" the night of Oct 8-9, the earliest 1"+ event I've seen, by nearly 2 weeks (10/21 at Fort Kent).

Constrained by P-type south, QPF north. Big spread in the GYX 90%/most likely/10%. At Farmington it's zero/2"/7". Pittsburg's 10% is 11". Still some N/S wiggle room on a fairly weak system.

For those who haven't reached the age of 3.

Finished with 2.1" from 0.09" LE, nice 23:1 fluff. The afternoon snow showers/squalls passed to the south.

Same amount here, then 3.5 hours of no-measurable tiny flakes under thin clouds, temp remaining <20. At 1 PM, 3 at FVE, 41 at ASH.

Ouch! My wife said roads were slick as she traveled to Farmington. Once again a small event can be more dangerous than a heavy fall. When visibility is <1/4 mile, folks slow down. Over 1/2 mile, let's roll.

Had 1.5" of 30:1 fluff by 8 AM, now it's teenyflakes, outside chance to reach 2", temp near 10. January's biggest snow event.

At 2 PM we had upper teens and falling, winds 20G30, WCI near zero. Brisk

Would be nice if that was US Route 2.

Never been caught by a squall while driving but had a 30-second burst from a 6.4" storm that dropped visibility such that I couldn't see parked cars 5 yards away. I've twice had white-outs under sunny skies, first on Jan 30, 1971 at Crown Pt, NY with the north wind plus 4" fresh powder having the entirety of Champlain for its fetch - couldn't spot the headlights of an oncoming car until within 10 yards. #2 was westbound on the Trans-Canada along the frozen St. Lawrence on April 6, 1977, with SW winds gusting 40+. The range road accessing the TC was total white-out (couldn't see the front end of the hood) when driving thru a cut. The throttle cable of my 6-cyl full size pickup was iced by the blowing snow and I firewalled the pedal trying unsuccessfully to loosen it, but fortunately the non-aerodynamic 1976 rig would only make 55 mph pushing into that wind and the TC was elevated enough that the snow was mostly too low to be a hindrance. I rode the beast 40 miles to my exit, St.-Jean-Port-Joli, turned off the engine then coasted to a stop in the first open lot, scraped the ice from the cable and went merrily on my way to St.-Pamphile.

Probably Jan 28, 2010. Had 1" from that one and Rumford, where we were at a meeting, had ~2" with howling winds and a 10°+ drop in temp. By far the strongest squall since we lived in Fort Kent. (Unfortunately, that was the last true winter event for the 09-10 season.)

Only quake I've felt was on Jan 9, 1982 - awakened us on a cold (-23) Saturday morning. My wife felt a significant (~5.0) aftershock 2 days later, but I didn't notice as I was driving home from work on a bumpy gravel road. Epicenter was near Plaster Rock, NB and 5.8 or 5.9. About half of Maine had effects of a 5+. It caused several hairline cracks on our foundation, which became leaks during the very rainy April of 1983.

The 1.4" (0.09" LE) from Monday's clipper is hanging tough. Cold temps and 7" glacial pack underneath help. Another sunny day with 30° diurnal range. 1st 10 days of the month had precious little sunshine, so the catch-up is welcomed.

Too far east here, only 6". 4.5" came 5:30-7 PM, a little taste of what was happening in southern VT/NH.

10 years for the northern Greens, 10,000 years for here.

On our Japan trip 9 years ago, it took 8 hours to fly Honolulu-Tokyo, about 3,800 miles. Coming back, Tokyo-SFO (5,200 miles) took the same 8 hours, with ground speed above 800 at times. 4th straight subzero morning and tomorrow is forecast for #5.