1985 Polar Bear

No one did. Parts of Maine and New Hampshire are in moderate to severe drought. Just saying what the NWS is saying.

Maine seemed to have fewer juicy SWFE this past winter (just the one big one), which can be jackpots for western / northern areas.

I live on a small hill, and usually can see evidence of rain runoff down to the roadside ditch when we get something like last night's 2.5. It was heartening that I didn't see too much of that this time. A "good" rain.

Yeah, it's probably just more noticeable now since one can now easily see it on phone radar apps, and before you'd never know that Sebago to Augusta was being hammered and you'd miss out.

Nearly 2.5 inches overnight. Gyx issued its most recent drought update for Maine and NH, discouraging as usual. What caught my eye was this historical five year map of drought, and the coastal strip of high drought. To my experience in recent years, this lines up with what seems to be increasing phenomenon of a really strong marine layer due to stout south/southeast winds in summer shredding frontal thunderstorms that approach the coastm from the mountains. Is that possible, that we're seeing fewer coastal t-storms in summer due?

Has the Sabattus / Orange water main break washed any of it away?!

Some of those January 2005 AFDs by Walt Drag are on this page of the 2005 reminiscing thread:

Enjoy!

That looks a lot like Little Joe's, maybe?

"The Arctic rigors...have come down like an avalanche upon us. How must the poor have suffered...in ill-provided dwellings, with lack of comfortable clothing by day and night, with lack of fuel and even food perhaps! The extreme cold, before unparalleled in this latitude, which looked into many well-conditioned and provided homes with an awe-inspiring presence, with what pallid ghastliness must it have invaded the houses of the poor even to their hearthstones." -- Bangor (Maine) Daily Union, Jan. 26, 1857