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Hazy sun noon-2 PM pushed the temp to 48 before the clouds closed back in. GYX day crew upped QPF here from <0.10" to 0.10-0.25. Should've stuck with the lower call - got 0.02". Penobscot Valley towns reporting 1/4-1/2". Different air this AM after the CF, sunny with chilly wind. At 10 AM FVE 10° with WCI -7.

The only spring 3 weeks ahead in our nearly 28 years here was 2010 (had our mildest Feb, March and April), and it came to a crashing halt when May 11-13 had minima of 23/26/25. Disastah!

So far this year we're running just over 60% of average. I'll believe that 'ton' if it arrives. (Would welcome it, too.)

Male aspens are already spreading pollen up here, and a couple of 60s days will pop the flowers on red & silver maples. Looks like the pack (10" this morning) will survive into April, thanks to the cold weekend. Only 9 of our 27 winters have failed to reach April, 10 if I count 2024 as we were down to a trace just pre-equinox. I don't count it as we had 40.9" after the equinox, most spring snow of my 53 winters in Maine.

We lost our black Lab of 13 years on Oct 29, 2016, and with us past normal retirement age led to pondering whether to get another dog. We decided to wait until spring before making a decision. "Spring" came on Feb 4 a yellow Lab mix thru Maine Lab Rescue. Scrawny 32-lb 17-month-old fixed female from TX. (She's now in the 50s and not fat.) Might've never seen snow, and her first 2 weeks here included 5 storms totaling 45", then the Pi-day blizzard really spooked her. Now 10 yr old, turns 11 in July, still spry but achy when I do a reasonably long bushwhack on our woodlot, as she has to sniff everything - if I walk a mile, she does 3 or 4.

Yup. Had a 0.3" flurry on the 2nd and 2" paste on the 3rd.

2.85" here, 1" BN for March. This week's 2 midgets will close the gap, but the month will still be the 10th BN of the last 11. April 2007 broke the record for snow at the Farmingtion co-op with 36.1"; it's 50% above #2 at 24", POR 1983-2022. We had 37.2", with storms of 18.5", 11.2" and my only "5-by-5" event. The Patriots Day bomb brought 5.2" SN and 5.43": total precip. That said, my best April has to be 1982, as it included the most powerful blizzard of my 80 years' experience. For anomalous events, I rank that storm with things like the Octobomb, 4/97 at inland sites, 2/78 in eastern SNE, 2/52 in southern/central Maine and the 1998 ice storm. IMO, only 1938 and 1888 rank higher.

Central Park has had only 3 Aprils this century and 2 with 1"+ (4.0", 2003; 5.5", 2018). That would be 12% measurable, 8%. Extended to the most recent 50 years, it's 7 meas., 4 with 1"+ including the 1982 blizzard. The site's first 100 years (1869-70 thru 1968-69) had lots more - 32 meas., 23 with 1"+.

For me, notable weather events help to trigger memories of other things, as well as the storms themselves. Finished with 6.7" and 0.65" LE, moist but not sloppy.

Not that uncommon at 44N and above, but I can recall only 2 post-equinox events in NNJ that featured accumulating snow thru the day. First one was March 29, 1970, which happened to be Easter. Snow started about 9 AM and dumped 11" at temps low-mid 20s, ending in the evening at our Morris County home. 2nd was on a NNJ visit (we lived in Fort Kent then) when the forecast included a winter storm warning on April 19, 1983. Snow began at dawn and continued until late evening - had some issues accumulating midday but never quit. We measured that one also at 11", but in Ogdensburg, Sussex County. (Three years later, on our next visit to New Jersey, a cold rain on April 22 turned to snow in the evening and that deformation band dumped 13" of paste at our friend's house, about 1,200' asl. Down to the center of Blairstown, about 500' asl, they had a sloppy 5-6". We wondered if they'd ever let us back in NJ.)

I'll need to pack a track on our driveway with the car, or we don't get mail delivery. Gassed up the snowblower just in case, but unless we get 6"+ it will remain silent.

FB entry said 6 went to hospitals, 4 already released. No details on the other 2. Estimated 144 people on that old barn floor.

Between 3 and 4", still moderate but barely. Radar points to this continuing the rest of the day, though accumulation might be minimal later this aft. Maybe reach 6"?

A bit surprised that Yuma's April record of 107 is so low. Both BOS and NYC have reached April heat to within 10° (or less) of their all time highs. I think Yuma has topped 125. Yesterday's 1.5" puts us an inch above last year's total, but it's 2.4" below our average thru March 21. Tonight/tomorrow is currently forecast as 4-7"; the higher amount would push the total to the April 1 average.

Three hours of feathers 10A-1P yesterday, 0.1-0.2" on the road and leaves, 0.4-0.6" on the old snow (maybe 75% cover in the woods) on 0.01" LE. I called it 0.3" SN.\ GYX "at least, most likely, 10% chance" thru 008Z Monday is 0.5/6/12. Probably closest to the 0.5" as the parade of midgets continues.