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Trying to understand and follow along as best as possible, so I appreciate all the discussion. If the cold isn't budging past 128, where is the modeled rain coming from for coastal Maine? I'm assuming the cold budges once the low finally tracks overhead, yes?

Coastal front starting to show up on radar just offshore York County, ME. Does it mean anything for sensible weather impacts? Popped open the radar and was surprised to see that showing up.

Thanks, appreciate the intel.

shouldn't have bought any hype anyways. most on here were cautioning against such totals. regardless, classic Lava "meh-ing" a storm before it even gets underway.

shouldn't have bought any hype anyways. most on here were cautioning against such totals. regardless, classic Lava "meh-ing" a storm before it even gets underway.

More important to get the best info out there vs inflate expectations only to crash them back to reality just before (or during) go time. 18 vs 20", not that big of a deal. My expectations are 14/15" anyways.

GYX upping the ante with this AM's map

Reasonable map from GYX

3" here in South PWM between the past 2 days, split evenly at 1.5" each day. 28.4" YTD. Pretty respectable given the lousy pattern, and only one event > 6" (11/20 which was 7")

Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback. @J.SpinI don't report a storm total to CoCoRaHS, just my daily precip totals. I only report storm totals to the NWS (informally - I'm not a trained spotter), and on here via the wkevin.com

Question for anyone who reports their precip to CoCoRaHS... @Ginx snewx @tamarack This is my first winter reporting to them and using a snowboard. Tomorrow's event looks to start between 4-5AM. I usually measure at or around 7AM. If I measure and report tomorrow at 7AM, I will have to wipe the board clean (in order to report appropriately on Friday). However, wiping the snowboard after only 2 hours of snow could impact the accuracy of my total storm measurement. I'm inclined to measure and report at 5AM, as I'm sure there will only be a T, then take my storm total measurement when the snow stops mid-morning, and report that on Friday. Is that what others do for events with timing like this? I did this for an event last week, but it looked like others took their usual 7AM reading, so my observation looked "wrong".

What kind of trees? I put some spruce & arbor vitae in the ground this time last year, and they did fine. Had some minor winter burn on the south side, but with water and hollytone in the spring they bounced back. I know your climo and soil conditions are different than mine, but I expect they'd do ok. Especially since the ground is wet. My winter burn was caused, in part, by dry soil heading into the winter.

I'm in for South Portland, ME Thanks!

You mean child labor?

Gotcha. Not a huge area, my south-facing back yard has a few spots where seed never took when the original owners planted their lawn. The overall area (of concern) is about 200-300 square feet, with 4-6 inch bare spots interspersed between. No concerns about it over-taking other grass.

This is great info, thank you. Sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, although being on the coastal plain I do have less snow cover than lava, and with that do get some early and late season frosts. Did you use that step-on planter thing? Thanks again!

What time of year did you plant the plugs? Where did you buy them from?

I'm trying to spread the clover on my lawn; in fact I wish my entire lawn was clover. Nice, hearty green that's essentially drought resistant. It keeps the grass that's inter-mingled nice and healthy, too. The honey bees love it as well. Win-win-win.

Just let it go. What is this, year 4? The weeds aren't going to lose this battle. All you're going to do is dump even more chemicals directly into the Portland-area drinking water supply.

Thankfully, here in the Portland area that mentality is already starting to shift. People are becoming aware of the major impact fertilizers and pesticides are having on Casco Bay, its ecosystems, and the health of our populations. In some neighborhoods, if you're the one with the monochrome-green lawn with 0 weeds then you're in the minority...AND even laughed at and looked down upon as an inconsiderate menace to the environment.

https://twitter.com/MaineRangers/status/988846563505000448?s=20

How close was that fire to you today?

The public drinking water sources and local coastal waterways thank you in advance for your heavy of use fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides.

My chuckle was more around Ray getting the label of General Public. Feels like he's deserving of more just based on his dedication, but there's no other appropriate bucket for him. Side note: do you know why the reporting from the PWM ASOS site is inconsistent in terms of when you all report it?

"General Public"