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Eastern Aroostook looks like the Midwest but with more hills, and the Downeast accent is rarely heard there. The St. John Valley is surrounded by decent size hills, but the major difference is culture, as 90%+ of the people have French ancestry, some from Acadia and some from Quebec. One frequently hears French spoken, though it's significantly different from that spoken in Paris. West of Route 11 is mostly commercial forest land with paved roads becoming gravel logging roads a few miles west of that highway. There are significant hills in that area, with Deboullie probably the most rugged area - elevation tops out near 2000' so far less than Greens/Whites but also far more remote. Winter. The latitude matters…northern Maine is a different area. Our 1973 move from NNJ to BGR, 390 straight-line miles and nearly 4° latitude, meant a significant change in climate. Three years later we moved to Fort Kent, 170 miles and 2.5°, and that climate change was at least twice as much as from the earlier move.

12", according to the snow table.

Post-equinox snow pushed 2019-20 from ratter to near average, and included the 2 biggest snowfalls, 10.3" on 3/23-24 an 8.5" on 4/9-10. Then 3.2" on 5/9, over 90% of our May snowfall since moving here in 1998.

Wet snowfall plus mild day. Probably still 20" pack there, and more on the trails thru the woods. Unless runoff has cut thru some trails (which I doubt up there), riding should be okay.

Not here. Both March and April had AN temps, and the 2-month total of 10.2" was less than half of the 21.3" average. CAR did better, with Mar/Apr total of 30.3" compared to the 28.9" average.

Had 2.2" of 7:1 snow in 3.5 hours before the change to rain about 8:15. Sometime later (maybe at the end?) there was a tenth of IP. Storm total 0.69" with 2.3" total with 0.36" LE. Currently near 40 with the sun trying to break thru.

We got 4.6" from the northern edge, better than the 1-3 forecast. Then 2/11 added 8" of 31-to-1 feathers with temp in the singles, followed by the winter's 2nd 21" dump on 12-13. That brought the pack to 47" and the morning forecast on 2/15 was for 12-16" - easy 50s pack with an outside chance at 60" on the way. not. As first flakes were falling, the afternoon forecast dropped to 6-10, which was eked into verification with a 6.2" total, post-storm pack 46" as the wind did some scouring near the stake. Then Feb 17-28 ran 11.5° A, chopping the pack by half. Our rescue Lab mix from TX arrived on Feb 4, perhaps never having experienced snow, then saw 45" in her first 2 weeks here. (And was even more terrified by the pi-day blizzard. Like all Labs, she loves snow now.)

The perp was a co-worker with the council member, and later took his own life.

In the past week-plus, two NJ state council members have been murdered while in their parked cars. Apparently, they were not connected.

Same here, except we were 9.2° AN last month. The rest of Feb would need to run 15-16° AN to duplicate Jan's departure. It would take CAR in 1981 to approach that.

That storm ranks with the most exciting weather events I've experienced, though as a forester it had a dark side. Fortunately, more than 95% of BPL's Lands Division was north and/or west of major damage. Some southern Maine state lots were devastated, especially Hebron, but the only large tract to suffer heavy damage was Tunk/Donnell, east from Ellsworth. On of the most ironic effects from that storm occurred in NNH, where Gorham had RA, MWN was setting warmth records, and areas 1500-2500' asl were hammered.

That month had 4 monster storms. We whiffed on 1 and 4 but totaled 3 feet from 2 & 3. Had we batted 1.000, it is to dream.

Easter 1970? (Early Easter, 3/29) NYC had 4" while we had 11" of mid-low 20s powder, all during daylight.

Great recollections. I'd add 2 storms within your NJ set: 3/20-21/1958: A two-day two-foot paste bomb, with some family drama included (but that's a long story). Our 700' elevation helped with the accumulation. 1/19-20/1961: The JFK inaugural event. We had 20", including the only accumulating snow at <10° I saw in NNJ. This storm began the record 17-day stretch of <30° in NYC and started the pack that 2/3-4/61 brought to record depths of up to 52" in NNJ, probably 45" at our place. I was at Johns Hopkins during the 1/29-30/1966 storm, a full blizzard in Baltimore with only 3-4 streets passable in the city at storm's height and many side streets not yet plowed a week later. Since my NNJ days, the clear #1 is the April blizzard of 1982, also a well-discussed storm on the forum. However, the 1998 ice storm had by far the greatest impact on life in general.

I've only found one Maine site with data for 3/1888, though I'm sure there are others, as shown on the map posted by GINX. That one I found was Gardiner, south of AUG, which had 8" of paste - guessing the consistency by that day's temp of 38/32. Meanwhile, 130 miles SW ASH had 30". Maine was too far east. PF's explanation looks on target.

2008 - probably. 1998 - odds are much lower, due to that event's vast area, though its worst spots could be duplicated on a smaller acreage.

Chick-a-dee-dee (-dee) in winter. Phee-bee as spring approaches.

See 2006. Thru Jan 31 that winter we were 1" AN. Feb 1 onward, 36" BN - FMA avg 44.3", 2006: 7.8", biggest storm (and only one 2"+) was 2.8". Currently 7" AN YTD.

Biddeford Middle School was rendered unusable by frozen/burst sprinklers, damage to most rooms. Alternative facilities are being arranged but that building may be down for much of the rest of the school year.

In Maine, CNE vs climo depends mostly on how much snow was recorded from the mid-Dec storm. GYX didn't do too well and they're at 88% of normal YTD, while places a bit farther inland are over 100%. (Though Lava Rock's higher elevation brought him 15" from that event and he's probably at about 130% avg.) Lower elevation, Jeff got 8.5" while Tunafish near PWM only 4.2". "Fully" NNE sites are mainly AN - CAR at 110%, my place 120% thanks to 22" from the mid-Dec storm.

Even after 10 years in Fort Kent where winter's average was over 130", the greatest collection of big snowstorms I've seen, by far, came when we lived in northern Morris County, with 7 storms of 18-24" from March 1956 thru Feb 1961. Big snowstorms look much the same from the MA to NNE.

Their WCI on 12/31/1962 might've been just as low as the current record-tying temp.

It also missed Feb 1969 in Boston. (Unless they kick out 4-day events)

Definitely a latitudinal winter this time. However, there were places in Morris County that had more snow in Feb 2021 than my Maine foothills locale had for that whole winter.

Berlin has much more "far interior" character than Boscowan, though not all that much farther from tidewater.