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Top 3 here, 1999-2024, with max, min, precip, snow 1. 2010 35.0 64 11 6.44 0.6 2. 2012 34.4 80 -10 1.85 14.6 That 90° is the greatest span I've recorded, 3° more than Jan 1979 in Fort Kent (which has had much the most extremes). 3. 2024 32.6 51 4 8.67 29.3 4th was 2000

Same here, though January bucks the trend. Average January snowfall is ~20" and 4 years it was <10", only 5.1" to 7.7". 2004 was 10° BN, 2014 4° BN and 2013 plus this year within 0.1° of average. Rest of the months generally fall in line.

03-04 started great, 2 storms totaling 37" by Dec 15 including one of only 4 true blizzards here. Unfortunately, the rest of winter brought only 36" - not a ratter but 20% BN.

One paradox of this winter's temps may be that the overabundance of wind made it feel colder, but it blew away the rad pits thus keeping the overnights less cold. Barring a torch to end the month, DJF will be 1-1.5F below my 27-year average (and 6-7F colder than the previous 2 winters). My average doesn't include all of 1991-2020. It misses the Pinatubo chill but also excludes the mild winters of 96-97 & 97-98.

That would be about my score. Unless I chose to play the back 9 as well. We've had 20"+ snow in March 7 times in 26 winters but 23/24 was the 1st time we hit the mark in consecutive years. Trifecta??? Probably not. The other 5 were also over 30. Prior to 3/23 we'd never had a March in the 20s. It's easily the most variable of the 4 big snow months, ranging from 0.1" to 55.5". Toss out the top/bottom, it's still 0.6"/37.1".

In the 1980s-90s the company foresters mostly rode Tundras because of the bushwhack sledding required. After 2000 we tried not to run those sleds on the wide groomed trails, as they topped out at about 40 and the guys going 70+ didn't like our snails clogging up the trail. BML and HIE have pulled 40s for diurnal range. Jeff's -11 this morning may lead to 40+. 'Tis the season - bright sun, little wind and dry air.

Only rode a Moto-ski once, back in 1977, it was old already and the inner cowling was gone, such that one could watch wheels turning 12" ahead of his crotch. It was a joint timber cruise (Great Northern, International Paper, Seven Islands) east from Depot Lake, not far from Lac Frontiere, PQ. where we had bunked. The machine seemed to have a single speed, about 15, and sounded ying-ding-ding-ding . . . on the nice level track. Heading back to the border after day one, the 500-lb Everest became disabled, so the guys who knew what they were doing hooked it rear-to-rear on the Moto-ski, high enough to lift its track, lashed the skis straight and the old beast headed back west - ying-ding-ding ...at 15 mph.

Lies in the shadow of Katahdin. Ranger cabin (assume that's the measuring site) is at 2,925, Baxter Peak 5,269. The previous record, 84" in 1969, was at 420 (Farmington).

Nice rad night, -8 here.

94" pack at Chimney Pond, Maine's tallest recorded. (Pales compared to Pinkham Notch - 164" in 1969.)

April 6-8, 1982. The storm had dumped on CHI on the 5th then NYC-BOS on the 6th, a true winter-type blizzard. 6th was the Yankees' home opener and at the 1 PM start time NY was 25° and falling, S+ and 6" new. By storm's end they had 9.6" (3rd biggest April snow 1869-on) and reached 21°, their coldest April snow event, by about 5°. The evening of the 6th, CAR updated the forecast by adding flurries to the cloudy, 20s and windy. I woke up about 2 AM, looked out and saw that thick gray of heavy snow. My guess at Fort Kent was 17" but the gusts near 60 rearranged things, such that the pre-storm 27" at the stake was only 25" post-storm, with drifts 5-6' within 20 feet on either side. CAR's "flurries" verified at 26.3", at the time their biggest (now 4th). In 1984 there were 2 notable snow events, with almost nobody seeing both (unless they moved). SNE down to NYC had a late month pasting while much of NNE got bombed on March 14-15. CAR reset their top storm with 29.0" (now 2nd) and we measured 26.5, most I've seen.

In 1980 I was living at 47.13° N and averaged 133"/yr. Now it's 44.39° and 89". The snowfall/retention ratio works both ways - last winter I had 111% of average snow but only 2/3 of average SDDs. Max depth was 22" compared to average max of 29.

That winter was a great example of less snow/more pack. Snow total was 50"+ lower than our average winters in Fort Kent, but 3 March storms totaling 25" lifted the depth to a respectable 36", only 2" below the 9-year average peak.

Not just the West. Here's a week in Fort Kent less than 3 months after we moved (on Jan 1, 1976) into an apartment there, near the St. John: 3/19 24 -25 T 0.2 3/20 50 19 T T 75° rise in 32 hours 3/21 53 38 0.30 3/22 40 5 T 0.1 3/23 34 -7 T T 60° drop in 40 hours, 3/24 52 20 0.10 0.8 and . . . back up 59 in another 34 hours. 3/25 52 35 T T from TT: Mt. Snow is very far south, it's not very high, it's March, and any hugger/cutter + sun angle is going to really roast them. Overall pattern that I see (12z gfs ensemble, indv members) for that period looks somewhat dicey too I guess 3,600 asl isn't very high. And most slopes there face east.

That 20-spot in SNJ is right where our grandkids live. Verified there with 1.5" and within 4 hours of when it stopped there was no evidence it had ever been.