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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.

Same here. 19-20 was rescued from ratter-dom by post equinox storms, with 3.2" on 5/9 for the exclamation point. 20-21 is 2nd lowest here, beating only 15-16, and last winter was on the border between lousy and ratter. The height of frustration came in Feb 2021, when a couple of NNJ sites had more snow in that month than we had for the entire snow season.

A tornado is the one weather event for which I'm content to never see in person.

So far, this month is challenging 2007 for warmest January - 11.4 AN thru today compared to 13.0 AN in '07. That year things turned cold on 1/14; from that date thru Feb 24 (6 weeks) only one day got above freezing, and that only 33°. Jan 14 thru Mar 9, 55 days, ran 9.1 BN and there was still another 46" snow to come. Haven't seen anything like that progged for this winter.

Of course.

1.2" from 0.10" LE, with continuous light (or very light) snow from 9 AM to 9:30 PM. Small storm, big change in the scenery.

"All politics weather are is local." The northern 2/3 of Maine had significantly AN temps last month, +5 here, +6-7 from CAR north.

My Chesterville source has the live bait sign out, and Flying Pond isn't all that deep and it's tucked into the hills, so the ice probably catches there earlier than places like Parker Pond or the Belgrades.

Very light snow began 9 AM, several hours earlier than forecast - probably the lower level wasn't as dry as expected. Still light and about 2/3" so far and one more area of echoes now overhead. Woods look really nice, though yesterday's hours of FRDZ made for better catchment o the twigs. This morning at my first look at the bird feeders, I noted a downy woodpecker clinging to the lowest of the containers and not moving at all, with tail and beak touching the metal. Made me wonder if it had died there, but later there were 2 blue jay gluttons there and no feathers on the ground, so I guess the little hammerer had decided to sleep next to breakfast.

Flying Pond looked okay on Wednesday - no one fishing but saw a number of auger holes made since the big deluge. Will try there tomorrow, first ice fishing since March 2021 thanks to the 21-22 A-fib experience. Other than the Fort Kent years, where one needs a power auger, snowmobile and ice shack (I'm 0-for-3), I've never skipped an ice fishing season since I was about 10. Light SN since 9, about 2/3 inch new. Doesn't take much to pretty up the woods.