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And semis on the rocks in Chain of Ponds. Addressing the 2002-03 and 2003-04 question: 02-03 was great in SNE but cold and dry here - suppression. Total snow was 75% of average and it's one of only 3 (of 27) winters without a 20"+ month. 03-04 was front-loaded here. The storms of Dec 6-7 and 14-15 totaled 37.1". the rest of the snow season had only 35.5".

It's rare farther north, too. Using the (late lamented) Farmington Maine co-op, with 129 winters from 1893-94 thru 2021-22, only 4 times did all 4 "snow months" exceed the average, 1922-23, 1962-63, 1968-69 (their top winter with 164") and 2007-08. Only the 2 earliest had 20"+ in all 4 months. (The DJFM averages, rounded to the inch, are 18/21/21/16. Avg winter 89.6".)

Fort Kent snow probably settled some. ...Aroostook County... 3 WNW Blaine 10.3 in 0636 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter 2 SSW Easton 9.0 in 0445 AM 11/17 NWS Employee 2 SSE Castle Hill 8.9 in 0700 AM 11/17 COCORAHS 3 NW Monticello 7.8 in 0507 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter 1 WNW Ashland 7.7 in 0708 AM 11/17 1 NW Presque Isle 7.5 in 0803 AM 11/17 NWS Employee 4 SW Stockholm 7.0 in 0830 AM 11/17 Public 2 ENE Presque Isle 7.0 in 0830 AM 11/17 Public 1 WSW Madawaska 6.8 in 0454 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter Fort Kent 1 SE 6.5 in 0700 AM 11/17 COOP Caribou NWS 6.0 in 0700 AM 11/17 COOP 1 SE Fort Kent 6.0 in 0715 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter Perham 6.0 in 0800 AM 11/17 Public 4 NNE Caribou 5.8 in 0715 AM 11/17 NWS Employee 2 NE Fort Fairfield 5.0 in 0601 AM 11/17 NWS Employee 1 NNW Macwahoc 5.0 in 0745 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter 4 NW Caribou 3.8 in 0630 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter 4 WSW Fort Fairfield 3.5 in 0715 AM 11/17 Trained Spotter Houlton 3.3 in 0836 PM 11/16 Trained Spotter 1 WNW Caribou 3.2 in 0919 PM 11/16 NWS Employee Frenchville 3.0 in 0500 PM 11/16 Public Van Buren 1 NNE 3.0 in 0630 AM 11/17 COOP 4 SE Washburn 2.0 in 0500 PM 11/16 Trained Spotter

Tops I saw on cocorahs was 8.9", between Ashland and PQI. The Fort Kent pic looks more like 6-7.

Had 2.4" from 0.33" LE yesterday. 1.6" by 7 AM, hours of DZ (some freezing) then 0.8" mid-aft, most between 3-4 PM. Nice to have "real" cover, though I don't expect things to remain white this month.

2.4" yesterday at 390', overnight had 1.6" of 7:1 cornmeal, then another 0.8" after noon, most in 3-4 PM moist (8:1) feathers. Saw where the deer had been last night, but none seen while I had the rifle out there this morning.

Had 23° at 11 last evening with bright stars, figured 1st teens were a cinch, but that was the bottom - must've had clouds moving in shortly after. Pure sun at the moment, a rare phenomenon in November.

Models are squabbling and marginal temps. Unless the Euro and GFS get some resemblance, we might still be seeing absurd ranges this time tomorrow.

It's shrunk down to about 1/3 the thickness of OFA and is free (except for the advertisers). Also, Dublin is a pretty town and a snow-catcher due to its elevation. I'll let you comment on your town.

Just for fun I looked at my 27 winters of snow vis-a-vis ENSO, using the categories I've seen on here. Current average is 88.5". EL NINO Very strong (1): 48.2" 2015-16, my lowest winter Strong (none): n/a Moderate (3): 77.2" 1 AN 99.0"/64.8" Weak (4): 96.0" 3 AN 109.2"/85.1" LA NADA (7): 86.3" 4 AN 112.8"/52.8" LA NINA Weak (4): 109.0" 3 AN 137.1"/68.0" Moderate (8): 85.7" 3 AN 142.3"/52.5" Includes top winter and 2nd worst. Strong (none): n/a Very strong: None noted, 1950-51 on. Probably means little or nothing.

If you can get the NH version of North Woods Law (much more numerous than the Maine ones), every 2-3 episodes you would probably see a warden/rehab contact. Almost all have a happy ending, though one cannot know which contacts get onto the show. The NH Warden Service could likely point you to rehabber locations. A Trace is just snow falling and either melting on contact or less than anything measurable. So yes, you had that, but nothing measurable yet. I've had up to 0.3" of wispy snow that melted out to less than 0.005", thus a trace. Not common and it looks odd, but I've not found a better way to report. Edit: Moved the snowblower out of the shed and set out the snow stake. Hope that doesn't scare off Sunday's event.

Some mood flakes yesterday afternoon, plus about 2 minutes of S+ that whitened the ground (0.1"). Saw 1.0-1.5" in the Augusta and Brunswick regions, also in southern Somerset County to our east.

Only mood flakes here, though nothing at the moment. Overcast is featureless, suggesting that there's flakes between there and here. Very November-y.

I feel your pain - 2025 so far exceeds any other year of memory for meh. --Only one snow event over 4" (8.0" in mid-Feb) --January had only 5.6" with the month's 'biggest' of 2.1". --No 1"+ precip days until Sept 25 --Only 5 days with thunder; previous low was 8 in 2010. --Met summer brought only 2 such days - avg is 10.5 and another record few (5 in 2010). --No significant wind events. Only 2 wx phenomena of note: --The drought, which is about as exciting as watching paint dry (and with my knee replacement in late June, I couldn't do much to help the garden cope). --Only our 3rd heatwave in the 28 summers here, and 4 total days of 90+ - only 2002 (7) had more. (Note: I don't like droughts and I don't like big heat. Things can only get better. )

Our 13kw Generac fully furnishes our needs; it ran for 101 straight hours from the Dec 2023 storm with no issues. (26kw = big house, at least compared with our 960 sq.ft. plus the loft.) The actual unit was about $3k but the total was north of $10k. The electrical work was almost as expensive as the genny itself, and the purchase/installation/filling of two 100-gallon propane tanks came to over $4k. We also tossed ~$750 for a screening fence around the tanks.