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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.)

Wind didn't quit until too late to allow 20° or colder. Low was 23, tied with Oct 11 and 29 for season's coldest so far. Since the average low today is 27, that's rather modest for low-to-date. (Though it's 35° below the minimum 3 days ago.)

Drove up the hill near the house at 5:30 before chasing the wily whitetail, looked to W/SW, saw clouds near the horizon while 95% of the sky was clear. IIRC, this makes 5 straight lunar eclipses spoiled by clouds. If that happens on April 8, 2024, I'll really be unhappy. No deer, several fir snags toppled by last night's wind, some blocking the snomo trail thru our woodlot.

Trivia: They hit 98 on 6/27/66. NYC reached triples 4 times that summer, tying 1953 for the most.

Did they get a cooling sea breeze on Nov. 2, 1950, when NYC/BOS/BDL/PVD had 84/83/83/81 respectively?

Breezy upper 60s, but dews 25-30° lower than yesterday. After 4 consecutive total lunar eclipses spoiled here by clouds, much of tomorrow morning's will be spoiled by sunrise.

The 0.35" overnight helped pull the temp all the way to mid 50s. Yesterday's 69/58 was +26, with the high +22 and the low +30. That 58 is 6° milder than in any of our previous 24 Novembers here and just 1° below our mildest October low. Highest daily minimum in November at the Farmington co-op is 59. Their minima tend to be a couple degrees higher than mine, so they may have notched their first 60+ in 130 Novies.

58 for the low. Average temps here for 11/6 are 47/28 - not often having a low temp 10+ degrees higher than the average high.

The bolded should be true for New England and points north. For the MA the warming climate may change SN with 1.5" LE at 30° to RA/Mix with 2" LE at 34. Also, I've read consistently that wx will be more variable, so we get a frigid February in 2015 and SNE temps approaching in February just 3 years later.

NYC hit 83 and 84 in that 1950 early Novie "summer".