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Unfortunately, the price of #2 is high enough that the mild wx merely limits the increased spending for heat. January is running +9.1 thru yesterday and by the end of the weekend it will probably be back to double digits AN. Mildest January here so far was +7.4 in 2006, so we're breaking new ground unless late month turns arctic.

On the 4-6/3-4 boundary here. Seems like we're always on one of those boundaries according to the TV news maps.

For snomo lovers, Moosetown Riders posted on FB a long string of pics taken, probably last Saturday, while grooming trails between Allagash and Estcourt after that area's 20"+ snowfall.

Puzzling over the track that would produce that distribution. Upper GOM hard left like post-Christmas 1969? That's when many Maine stations had 12-20" SN followed by 3-6" RA while BTV had 30" and most of SNH had an ice storm.

About 1/2" IP and now moderate ZR with poor accretion (thankfully). Precip started with temps low 20s, now 30+, and not a single snowflake. What an odd system.

Every time I've taken LE from a purely sleet event, the ratio has been ~3:1. Reported 0.03" to cocorahs with trace accretion and a few pingers. Since then we've probably had twice the LE in ZR/IP with 0.1-0.2" of the pellets. Western edge effect. (Though some bright echoes are moving our way.)

Back in the stone age (1971) I paid less than twice that ($22.50) for a Mon-Fri ski week with daily lessons at the old Glen Ellen.

2" of dust at near-zero temp here. Thru the first week of February, we had yet to get a 4" event. Then 10th-11th broke the schneid with 21" and a bit of thunder. Clouds and low 30s hung tough here, though the clouds thinned enough for a brief rosy sunset.

FVE had 1/2 mile vis in SN at 4 PM. The "20 inches in the SJV" had legs.

A little better up here. Last Saturday I fished Flying Pond (N. Kennebec County) and found 7-8", though I couldn't get onto the island next to where I cut the holes, thanks to the 12/23 deluge that still has the pond high with thin (or no) ice on some of the edges. Also found 3 bass of +/-18" and lost 2 others that felt about the same. Might find 9-10" if I go out next week, thanks to 22/-3 and 20/7 for the 11th and 12th. Nicer than cranking my 60-year-old auger thru 20" or more.

Northern Aroostook was forecast for 11-17, with 20" possible in the St. John Valley.

Good strategy. The time here to have done that would've been about 2 AM, so we have 3" of chute-clogging slop. Fallback position is to allow some drainage thru mid-afternoon then pack it down with the Forester.

Still some very light RA here, temp managed to climb 2° above freezing.

Making up for the mid-Dec bonanza? (Though that storm didn't do a whole lot for portions of NNE.)

11 AM temps 51 at AUG and 36 at WVL. Not common for those 2 sites along the Kennebec River to be 15° different. Very lgt RA here and still 33.

When did the obs move to Logan? Asking because they hit -18 on Feb 9, 1934 and -17 just 6 weeks earlier.

Cleared 1.5" (0.13" LE) from half the board at my 9 PM obs time - 20° at that time. I woke up at 3 AM, temp up to 32 and lgt/mod ZR/RA with little accretion. The cleared half had another 2.2" while the catch bucket held 0.69" LE and the 9-3 SN wasn't 3:1 stuff - that's a sleet ratio and I don't think we had any. The change probably occurred in the 1-2 AM range, maybe earlier, and I had to guess at the snow's LE for that period. Though the after-9 snow might've been 3"+ at change time, I've reported the depth measured at 3. Another 0.43" between 3 and 7 for total SN/RA LE of 1.25". Still some RA- with temp 33 and a bit of ice on some branches. I almost wish yesterday's forecast of 47 this afternoon would verify, as that would settle the mess some, but the forecast high is now 39 and I don't think we'll even get there. Hoping to deal with it 2-3 PM after some of the liquid has drained from the glop. Up to 11" at the stake at 7 AM.

About 1". The latest AFD mentioned cooler with a bit more snow, the P&C upped our town's overnight before the RA from 2-4 to 3-5, while the probability map/table showed a distinct decrease since earlier in the afternoon. I'll go with the AFD/P&C, thank you. In happier times, how much SN in your area from the mid-December dump? 20-27" along the Route 2 corridor in Franklin/Oxford, 22 for the home front.

Probably closer to 20" BN YTD, but still pitifully low.

Very glad you've got the appointment for snows. Still low 20s here, with light snow and a bit under 1" so far. This bunch should be through in a couple hours, then we wait for the main event. GYX has Farmington's "most likely" at 4", which for this system might mean 3" here, 6 miles to the east. I would be pleasantly surprised by either number - hoping for no net loss from this mixed bag.

0.2" fluff earlier, 2 hour break, now just resumed but with tiny flakes instead of the earlier feathers.

Was -3 here yesterday, first subzero of the season.

GYX map has MBY in the 2-3" color. Nam is nicer, 7-8". Either way, 20 miles one way or the other doubles or halves the forecast here. Still 2 days before the meat arrives; would love to have a forecast sequence like mid December, when GYX cut the 10-16 forecast to 8-12 as first flakes were falling, then both forecasts busted way low.

Nice central location for N. Maine - not too far from the rail trail, and going the other way, good access into North Maine Woods. I assume you've ridden into Deboullie, one of my favorite places though I've only been there once on a sled. Usually not groomed but almost always with trails broken out (unless one happens to be first in).

Backside snow here is less common than 20" dumps, though sometimes we get some delayed accum when the ULL passes overhead.