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That had been my thinking. When I vertically inserted the snow shovel, I could see it 3-4" into the stuff - not really surprising for snow that's 98.6% air.

From 7 AM thru 1:30 PM on Jan 26, we enjoyed some of the prettiest, and slowest falling (<2 ft/sec) feathers we've seen - 6.0" in 6.5 hours. Walking on that 6" was like walking on air; I figured that the 6" had less than 0.2" LE and was shocked that it melted to only 0.08", or 75:1. Twice I've had storms of 4.5" with just 0.10" LE, 45:1, and once a 1" dusting had only 0.01", but 6" at 75:1 was something I thought impossible. Jan 25-27 data: 25: 2 -13 0.17" 2.0" 15" 26: 10 -1 0.55" 17.0" 28" (peaked at 30") 27: 15 -4 0.05" 0.6" 25

Maybe scratch out the 2nd thru 5th words?

Even though we finished a couple inches below our average and missed the 2nd blizzard (0.2" - OceanStwx thanked me for establishing the north cutoff ), it was still a plus winter. Most sustained cold since 18-19, good retention, 8.5" on 12/24 plus the Jan 25-27 fluff bomb, 19.6" from 0.77" LE. Can't label it as blizzard as there was very little wind.

Time to plant veggies, which usually means bye-bye rain. Happens about 2/3 of years, with the other 3rd like 2005. Or 2025 - 9 straight cloudy days 5/17-25 and 19-25 temps were 50.6/40.4 (that max is 16° BN) with no sun. Pollinator punishment. Yesterday's 16° AN (82/57) brought the month's temp right up to the average.

The Brunswick tornado was a brief ER-0 event about 4 miles SW from town center, and did minor damage. The Phippsburg tornado formed just past noon about 15 miles SE from the first one. It was an EF-1 with winds to 100 mph, tracking 3.8 miles with width to 75 yards. Many trees were blown down and several buildings damaged, but no injuries were reported. Meanwhile 65 miles north, we had moderate snow and 20s at the same time. Day's data: 27° 14° 0.39" 3.8" The snow fell straight down, barely a breath of wind. The official report: A pair of waterspouts/tornadoes moved northward from the Gulf of Maine during the early afternoon of Thanksgiving Day. The waterspouts/tornadoes formed along a warm frontal boundary that was associated with an area of low pressure which was bringing snow to much of the state of Maine. The first waterspout/tornado moved ashore over the southern tip of the Phippsburg peninsula near Bald Head, crossed Small Point, moved over The Branch, went ashore again on Hermit Island, lifted, reformed over Tottman Cove, and then went ashore once again near West Point. The second tornado/waterspout reportedly touched down as a waterspout south of Brunswick in Middle Bay, then moved ashore near the northern end of Mere Point Neck, moved back over water at the northern end of Maquoit Bay, then moved back over land and crossed Bunganug Road before dissipating.

Looks like EWR has that 97. Warmth reached into Aroostook - HOU 82 at 2 PM, was 84 earlier. Didn't get to northern ARO - FVE tops at 53 with RA.

April 28, 2009 hit 89, tops for that year. In 28 years, we've had two months tying on 3 occasions and in 2010 the warmest (88°) was reached 5 times - May, July(2), August and September, hence the fractions below: APR: 1 MAY: 3.2 JUN: 10 JUL: 9.4 AUG: 3.7 SEP: 0.7 Hottest here of 93 occurred on July 3 and September 9, 2002. Low of 44, now approaching 80, but clouds have dimmed the sun. We've gone from 5% leaf-out on Friday to 50% now and climbing; might be the quickest leaf-out I've seen.

Some of that in Maine, but nearly all the panels are being installed on idle farmland. Only advantage comes when the panels' life are done - quicker to revert the land to farming than to create a mature forest.

Looking at NYC and other (somewhat shorter record) sites, I'd put the mid-60s as the driest in a century or more.

The 1960s drought in the Northeast 'peaked' in 1965. Thay year was the driest on record for all 3 SNE states, plus NJ, PA, DE. NY's record occurred in the drier region in the Allegheny Plateau, but the NYC records picture the drought clearly: 1931-60 norm: 44.24" Driest ranks, 1869-on: 1962 37.15" 21st 1963 34.28" 5th (4"+ event in November prevented a new record.) 1964 32.99" 2nd 1965 26.09" 1st (Remains of Camille doused one VA town with that much in 5 hours.) 1966 was tracking close to 1965 thru August. Then 5.54" fell on 9/21/66, the beginning of the drought's end. JAN-AUG SEP-DEC 1965 19.05" 7.04" 1966 19.79" 20.21"

The one big event, Jan 25-27, parlayed a modest 0.77" LE into 19.6" of fluff, ratio 25:1. Next biggest was 8.5" on Christmas Eve. Only once before have I recorded a storm of 15"+ with ratio above 16:1, at Fort Kent in December 1981 - 15.5"/0.68" for 23:1

Outside of the upslope sites, NNE did somewhat poorly, especially CAR. Their 86.4" ranks 74th of 87 and failed to have a 10"+ event for just the 4th time in 60+ years.

You're too young to have experienced the 1960s.

We're far enough from salt water to avoid significant marine influence. However, with a warming climate one might expect more convective events, but the opposite has been occurring. Our average for thunder days is 15 but in recent years it's been lower, and just 5 days last year, only the 2nd year below double digits (8 in 2010). Met summer had only 2 instead of the average of 10. Merely stochastic variation? (SSS - we moved here 28 years ago on May 15.) Had 1.28" between 9 last evening and 7:30 this AM, a very pleasant surprise given the modest forecast yesterday afternoon. With that drink, the coming 70s should bring an explosion of growth - leaf out here is a bit behind the average.