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I feel the same about 1998, especially since it was precisely 45 years from the NNJ ice storm that piqued my interest in both weather and trees.

Afternoon max was 13-14" and it's down a couple from that, but the max will be the 24° from 9:01 last evening. 9 hours of occasional S-- since 7 AM has failed to produce measurable snow, but it picked up a tiny bit in the last few minutes. Radar makes the current echoes look more like a forerunner of the evening event than part of last night's snow.

Folks in Lake Wobegon. Overnight event was forecast for lesser amounts in southern Maine, more in central, but verified just the opposite. GXX afternoon discussion leans toward more snow for the southern half of its CWA for Tuesday as well, though the trend might move it right out of the state. 4 days out, so who knows?

No, but earlier this week I heard the chickadees' phee-bee call, their spring song.

That 0.3" qpf with the storm #1's 15:1 ratio would be very nice, but 2-4 is the logical forecast.

Had 24° at my 9 PM obs last evening, 10° to low teens so far today.

P&C has us with 2-4", though it's 4-8 at Jackman. If Act Two performs like #1, it's dusting to 2" here. However, I'd smile if the much lesser storm brought more snow.

Those 2 A's were actually nicer than usual up here, totaling 15.3", garden-variety WSW events. Of course, sites to south and east within 40 miles had 25-30 with verified blizzard criteria in both events. More common for A's are whiffs or fringes - the Jan 1996 KU brought 4" at our (then) home in Gardiner, while PWM had 10.2" and there was less than 1" at the New Sharon co-op. (But we usually clean up on B's.)

Great pics. Last 2 days here have been wildlife-rich, with a dozen turkeys leaving tracks all around the house on Tuesday and 2 separate 8-deer groups yesterday. We'd been seeing a gang of four (deer) every 2-3 days since last month, but they were joined by another dozen. Our homey partridge appears almost daily in the yard or an apple tree, to keep the dog excited. Only 2.5" from 0.17" LE at 7 AM and maybe a tenth more since, far from the Act One forecast of 5-9. Significant qpf didn't make it as far north as expected. However, that bust did lift the season total to almost exactly the average, which is 63.3" thru today.

Only 2.5" of 15:1 fluff by 7A, maybe a tenth since, and not worth starting the snowblower - will let this storm cover the ice and improve traction. Less than an inch 30 miles to our north - all forecasts showed lower qpf as one moved to the north, but the attenuation began farther south than expected. Discussions going into this included qpf of 0.75" to 1.25"; less than 0.20" so far. Temp is barely above 10° while grandkids (and transfer pups) in SNJ will enjoy ~70.

Instead of 8" here from the first wave, it's maybe 3. WWA criteria, but still would be the month's biggest snowfall. Edit: Seeing the map that includes Act II, maybe 6" total, still WWA. Hope the lowered numbers aren't a trend.

"Only" 10 here - must've missed one - and only one RA and one with significant IP; the other 8 were all snow. Looks like our depth might peak in late Feb/early March, when it should.

Looks a lot better than this month so far. With tonight's dusting we'll have had 6 snow events for 6" total (or less). Putting an end to the Feb march of the midgets.

Only an inch here, but we'll more than make up for that in the late week event.

Not much here from 2/25-26 but two 14" events in March: 6-7 and 15-16, with near-blizzard conditions on the 16th from backside NW gales under sunny skies. Late Feb-early March might be good enough to put this season close to the average. Except for south of PWM, Maine has fared better than most.

P has a max of 15 for Thursday, which would make for the first "cold" snowfall - every event with 1"+ this season has come with temps mid 20s to near 32, usually closer to the latter. GYX discussion compared this setup to 2/4/22 and we had 12.4" from that one, also on a Wed-Fri though 90% came on the Thursday. Still 3 days out . . .

23 years in NNJ, coldest was -14 3 years in BGR, coldest was -17 12 days in Fort Kent, coldest was -41

Lots of foot-plus reports CAR north. PQI hit -18 this morning, we were about +5. There and in Western Maine have done quite well after a slow start. I'm 1" AN season to date, thanks mainly due to being in the jack area in mid-December. If there's no snow thru next Tuesday it will be 1" BN. That Northeast snowfall table had all but 3 stations far below normal - BGR is only slightly BN. I can't recall seeing such a wall-to-wall ratter in progress.

We expected little from yesterday's system and got even less - 0.2" SN here. Western Maine except for the mountains got next to nothing. It's trailers north for the sledding crowd.

With the burnout being on the 6th, that air was past New England by the 10th at the latest, unless the Ohio site continued to emit large amounts of material for another week or more. I find it interesting that many who immediately discount anything coming from authorities such as EPA are willing to fully believe whatever some anonymous stranger posts online.

Nice! HUL was reporting ZR much of yesterday, maybe some siggy accretion?

After the morning TS came 4.5 hours of essentially nothing. Very light snow started about 2:40 and looks to be about done, 0.1" new in 2 hours. We'll cope.

Teens with SN/SN+ all morning at CAR/FVE. Nothing happening here since the 10 AM TS.

Spooked our pup (as usual) but only 0.10" RA. However, almost all came in 5 minutes - inch-an-hour RA quite uncommon here in Feb.

Things started with a bang here as well - brief heavy RA and only the 4th time we've heard thunder in 25 Februarys.