tamarack

Thanks to both of you. I doubt that's an issue for my glass tube max-min on plastic mount in a 3-sides protected spot.

How can it become colder than the surrounding temp? Disclosure: I still depend on the old max-min instrument and have little understanding of how those remotes work.

"Lower" was understatement - that 2nd inch, heavily rimed flakey things plus some IP, had 0.21" LE for 5:1, ratio for total storm 7:1. Still some dz, temp right around the freezing mark.

2" here but not much happening now (11:15). 1st inch, measured at 7 AM, had 14:1 ratio. 2nd one was tiny, rimed flakes, likely a much lower ratio. Current temp 31, up 2° from the 7 AM reading.

About 2" here, with a few tiny, rimed things still coming down. No tracks yet in the woods after a wet 2 hours this morning, though flushed partridges walking in and walking out. Yesterday at 4 PM heard 3 very loud shots, evenly spaced at an interval about what I'd do with my pump .30-06, definitely at the tree stand for which I'd given permission. Walked most of the way in 45 minutes later to see what happened, heard/saw nothing though the 2 pickups were still parked roadside. (If I'd thought to bring a flashlight I'd have continued but didn't wish to walk too close at late twilight when my blaze orange would look gray.) My guess is they thought/knew they'd hit the deer and were tracking it, as if the critter had been quickly on the ground I'd have heard/seen the guys dragging it out. Maybe - old saying is, "One shot, probable. Two shots, possible. Three shots, waste of ammunition."

When Angus King was Governor, he often hyped Canadian tourism in Maine and even joked about seceding and joining our northern neighbor so we could be "the Florida of Canada".

When we told our NJ family/friends that we were moving from BGR to northern Maine (Fort Kent), some asked whether "northern Maine" was north of Portland. Our reply - Portland is almost halfway there.

Was still breezy at 11 last evening when I was out with the dog, and evidently didn't calm down until too late, so the low here was 22, just 2° BN. That's coldest of the season but we're the farthest into fall without seeing 20° or lower here, 25 years POR. Not often we're 7° milder than IZG. Yesterday the afternoon max was 34 with gusts to 30, feeling extra sharp after the muggy 60s. Snow trend is moving in the wrong direction, too. Yesterday afternoon Farmington was shown with 58% chance of 4"+. This morning it's 24%. I won't be surprised if the current 1-3" forecast turns out to 1/2" of gray mush.

Same here - blink and you'll miss them. Whiteness on the top 500' of 3100-ft Mt Blue, NW from Farmington, and The Horn (part of Saddleback massif) is blocked from view by stuff in the air.

WWA for N. Maine, current Fort Kent forecast is 3-7".

Reached 63 here, now below 60 as I get ready to see if any deer are moving after the storm. Total event 1.12", Rt 2 corridor west of Skowhegan had less than most in Maine.

4 years ago today there was 1" OG from the small storm on 11/10, with another 6" paste coming on the 13th - followed by 1/2" of 33° RA. When I got home from work the flat half of the driveway was gray snowblower-clogging mush. Had to stop it and empty the chute 4 times in 10 minutes, clearing maybe 5% of the gray area during that time, so I recognized futility and put the machine away. Of course, the temp quickly dropped, freezing the deep ruts that then felt like driving over railroad iron for the next 2 weeks.

Don't expect much accum Wednesday but should see season's first frozen. Baby steps

The "lighter clouds" were actually a brief (2 minutes) wall of RA+. Not the first time I've been fooled that way.

Had 0.94" thru 7 this morning with temp 61 at that time. Average low here for 11/12 is 26. Steady light RA currently, but the thin red line that's deluging you lost its northerly 1/3 about 1/2 hour ago so no downpour here. Precip looks to taper off early aft. Lighter clouds visible to the NW so maybe back to showers.

That storm was the end of significant snow here, and thru Feb 9 we had not seen even a 4" event. Then Feb 10-March 12 featured 4 major storms and some littl'uns for a 60" period total and 94" (105% of avg) for the snow season. Only 9" OG on 2/9 but up to 35" on 3/12. The board included a member from Fort Kent then and he posted pics showing snow halfway up ground floor windows.

I've only seen one November blizzard, 11/21/89 in Gardiner to set the stage for the frigid December, but if 11/13-26 runs -6 to -10 here, we'll likely see some highs <30.

We're at +10.2 thru yesterday here. Continuing at +10 the rest of November is a reach (gross understatement).

I'd limit that to the past 4 years, as 16-17 had 3 of 12"+, tied with 2000-01 (And all 6 of those storms were at least 15.5") while 17-18 had 2, 19.9" and 16,5". Biggest since 17-18 is 12.4" last February. Season's biggest snowfall averaged 15.1" for our first 20 winters here (includes the pitiful 5.9" of 05-06), only 11.0" for the most recent 4.

My dream is a winter with 07-08's snowstorm frequency, seasoned with big dogs like 16-17.

Almost 100% deer ticks around our place, and sufficiently abundant that I expect to have ticks aboard when I come in from outside. (Unless it's August, when the mini-monsters seem to go inactive, or when there's snow cover.)

Only down to 23 at our fake cold kingdom - that's just 4° lower than the average for Nov 9 and we reached the same temp 4 weeks ago. Meh

yup, 1.1" more than here. That was the first season for the Snow Table, and over its 11 season LEW has done a lot better compared to climo than here. Same goes for Lava Rock. I'm waiting for climo to reassert itself.

I've read elsewhere that leaving 'some' leaves can be good for the lawn but leaving all the leaves can smother it. Not said in that (forgotten by me) source is that trying to rake the packed-down leaves once the snow is gone would be difficult to do without tearing up the soft-at-that-season turf. A layer of leaves might be good for the little invertebrates but that would include ticks.

Because we consistently had modest storms while others nearby got pounded, snowfall was almost exactly on the average thru March 31. Then the 15" April Fools joke kicked the total to 100". A fine winter but with lots of "what could've beens". (Though tiny in that respect compared to 12-13 and especially 14-15.)