White Christmas Miracle? December 23-24th

[dryslot]

Up to 8" now.

[dryslot]

 

 

[WxWatcher007]

Hovering at 32° but the fluff is here. We’ll see what we can do overnight.

[dendrite]

5.6”

Still snowing decently

[dendrite]

Beast trough

[moneypitmike]

Just got up.  Eyeballing about 8" with  SN++ at the moment.  Double digits look doable, maybe even a foot based on what last night's models were showing for the morning hours.  

First, coffee. 

[moneypitmike]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Beast trough

 

I'm 8 miles east of Brunswick in the middle of the GYX radar hole, ftw.

By the way--I think until perhaps just now, that has been heavy, wet snow.  Temp was hovering right around freezing  through the duration until about an hour ago.  Cooler air filtering in now.

 

 

[moneypitmike]

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

 

 

At least as far as mby goes, this looks like it could be spot on

[moneypitmike]

And so it is as GYX writes below.    It is just dumping.

My favorite part of this where it says "nearly stationary".

 

443 AM EST Wed Dec 24 2025

...An area of heavy snow will affect Kennebec...west central Knox...
northern York...Oxford...west central Waldo...Androscoggin...south
central Somerset...Lincoln...Cumberland...Sagadahoc and southern
Franklin Counties...

At 437 AM EST...An area of heavy snow was impacting much of western
and coastal Maine and nearly stationary.

Locations impacted include...
Belgrade, Scarborough, Jay, New Gloucester, Wales, Whitefield, Bath,
Fayette, Livermore Falls, Rangeley, Mount Abram, Smithfield, Frye
Island, Winslow, Lewiston, Boothbay, Bowdoin, Georgetown, Albany, and
Standish.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 295 between mile markers 1 and 51.
 Interstate 95 between mile markers 39 and 136.

This also includes...
  Sebago Lake, Pleasant Mountain, Burnt Meadow Mountains, Saddleback
Mountain, and Mount Abraham.
  Peaks Island, Long Island, Cushing Island, Cousins Island, and
Bailey Island.

  * Visibilities will drop quickly to less than a half mile in this
  area of heavy snow.

  * Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour are occurring in this
  area of heavy snow.

[moneypitmike]

Last of my posts:   HRRR keeps this going for another 2-3 hours.  Early contender for the storm of the season for here.  My P/C is calling for a new daytime 3-5.

 

thought i heard a tree snap from across the river esrlier.  Just now, we briefly lost ss a transformer blew.  Power’s back, internet is gone though.

[CoastalWx]

Looks like the inv trough may clip ern pym county with 1-2 or so. One day things will actually break right. 

[ineedsnow]

2.75 total hopefully we don't melt all of it out today 

[moneypitmike]

Lights keep flickering.......branches must be hanging on wires somewhere.

[mahk_webstah]

22 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

And so it is as GYX writes below.    It is just dumping.

My favorite part of this where it says "nearly stationary".

 

443 AM EST Wed Dec 24 2025

...An area of heavy snow will affect Kennebec...west central Knox...
northern York...Oxford...west central Waldo...Androscoggin...south
central Somerset...Lincoln...Cumberland...Sagadahoc and southern
Franklin Counties...

At 437 AM EST...An area of heavy snow was impacting much of western
and coastal Maine and nearly stationary.

Locations impacted include...
Belgrade, Scarborough, Jay, New Gloucester, Wales, Whitefield, Bath,
Fayette, Livermore Falls, Rangeley, Mount Abram, Smithfield, Frye
Island, Winslow, Lewiston, Boothbay, Bowdoin, Georgetown, Albany, and
Standish.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 295 between mile markers 1 and 51.
 Interstate 95 between mile markers 39 and 136.

This also includes...
  Sebago Lake, Pleasant Mountain, Burnt Meadow Mountains, Saddleback
Mountain, and Mount Abraham.
  Peaks Island, Long Island, Cushing Island, Cousins Island, and
Bailey Island.

  * Visibilities will drop quickly to less than a half mile in this
  area of heavy snow.

  * Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour are occurring in this
  area of heavy snow.

Man that’s fun!  A early morning walk and video?

[dryslot]

We are at 15” and it’s still puking snow

IMAGES

[dryslot]

[mahk_webstah]

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

We are at 15” and it’s still puking snow

IMAGES

Wow!  20+

[mahk_webstah]

Just now, dryslot said:

You have your snowpack set for the winter.

[dryslot]

This band is stationary 

[mahk_webstah]

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

This band is stationary 

Let’s get some oranges into that

[moneypitmike]

4 minutes ago, dryslot said:

This band is stationary 

 

You gotta love to see it.  I haven't measured......I'm eyeballing about 10 so far--maybe more.

An added bonus is the wind has started to crank--at least here on the water.  Drifting is visible.

[dryslot]

Just now, moneypitmike said:

 

You gotta love to see it.  I haven't measured......I'm eyeballing about 10 so far--maybe more.

An added bonus is the wind has started to crank--at least here on the water.  Drifting is visible.

This snow actually has some water in it.

[moneypitmike]

Just now, dryslot said:

This snow actually has some water in it.

I thought that was just down here closer to the coast.  It was evident walking the dog last night......clearing it will be a bitch.

[Ginx snewx]

14 minutes ago, dryslot said:

We are at 15” and it’s still puking snow

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Jesus and still dumping!!!  Congrats Jeffafafafa. Take pics up there and more on it's way. 

We are lucky to have peeps right in the JP zone.

[moneypitmike]

Another transformer flash.

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Beast trough

Standing wave of confluence 

[CoastalWx]

That’s awesome Jeff. I knew someone was gonna get 18+.

[CoastalWx]

Looks like that band is finally moving. But still. 

[moneypitmike]

I think it's notable that while some aspects of this system didn't play out as planned, the IT location was modeled really well by a lot of the models for several days.  There was not a whole lot of flux about where it was going to line up.  The mid-coast through Jeff had been the focus for a while.  

Meanwhile, power and internet keep flickering ftl.

Looking forward to daylight to get a better sense of things.