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It's in the sig, and expecting another 2-3 of fluff tomorrow night. Pack got up to 16" early in the month, down to 7 at present.

Siggy AN here, maybe, but not a torch. My running average for December temps rose to 22.36° after 12/15's record 29.69. We then had 4 straight BN months ('17 at 14.32, our coldest) that dragged the avg down to 21.64. Then 20-23 were all AN, especially 22&23, and the avg is back to 22.34. I expect this month to finish in the +1 to -1 range.

Farm country, just west of the Barrens.

Kids live in Monroeville, about 6 miles south from Glassboro. (And 515 miles from here - still better than when they lived in Decatur, IL.)

Club trails here had some use before the 2" rain, not much since. The northerly 500' of the section on our woodlot is a rock garden when there's less than 12-15" on the trails. Ouch!

Decent. Kids in Gloucester County saw a few flakes - need to have a Jersey-wide dump. Only a dusting here but we're still AN for YTD.

PWM reported snow from that storm shortly after 4 AM but it wasn't until almost 12:30 when I saw the first flakes from my office in AUG Eastside. Within less than 60 seconds I could barely see the pines across Hospital Street about 500 feet away - perhaps the greatest "wall of snow" I've seen (some Fort Kent snowsqualls the only competition). We had 16.0" at our Gardiner home, 2nd biggest snowfall in our 13 winters there. (Blockbuster storms landed elsewhere during that period.)

The Grinch is off the board this year, one of the few times.

Both BOS and PVD recorded 17" from that storm, but by the time fans had pushed the powder around to clear seats, there must've been some huge piles.

The 8" on Christmas 2017 (and 1978 in Fort Kent) is about it for snow on that day, but have more on Christmas Eve, especially the 15" thunderblizzard in 1966. Only T-Day snow that comes to mind was 2005, only 3.6" but the snow-starved kids (then living in SC) enjoyed 8 hours of steady daytime flakes. Only later did we learn of the 2 tornados on the midcoast that day.

Only 26 years' record, but the average departures from 12/21-12/28 are illustrative: 21: -1.3 22: +0.2 23: +3.2 24: +4.0 25: +1.1 26: +0.2 27: +0.8 28: -0.4

Had cold rain 7-9 last evening, an hour of nothing then resuming as snow. Accum began closer to 11 with 1.1" total and the trees nicely frosted. Some nightmare flashback from folks noting 2009-10, the winter that died here at 1 AM on Jan 3 when snow changed to rain.

That winter was lame in its first half - only 15" thru Jan 31 and a mere trace of "pack" at the Farmington co-op. 43 days later the pack was 56" (tied with 1971 for 2nd, behind 1969) as that period had 95", including storms of 18, 17, 15, 14, 13, plus several smaller ones.

Had 0.06" cold RA 7-9 PM, a pause in precip, then lgt SN after 10. Total 1.1" from 0.17" LE, the start of which melted as it landed.

93-94 was 3rd snowiest of my 13 winters in Gardiner but had by far the best pack, plus the coldest January. Top 5: 1. 1960-61 (NNJ): 100"+, 3 storms 18-24", NJ record depths. 2. 1983-84 (Fort Kent): Biggest pack I've seen, most strong storms, 26.5" March dump, biggest snowfall. 3a. 1976-77 (Fort Kent: 186.7", 2nd tallest pack 3b. 1981-82 (Fort Kent): 185.8", coldest WCI [1/18/82], April blizzard (vies with 2/3-4/61 for most impactful snowstorm - NYC schools reopened on 2/13). 5. 2007-08 (New Sharon): 142.3", huge SDDs. 2 storms/week much of Dec-Feb. Honorable mentions: 1957-58 (NNJ): 18" Feb blizzard, 24" paste bomb on the equinox; 2016-17 (New Sharon): 127.5", 2 storms of 21" plus 15.5" in the Pi Day blizzard.