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- Birthday 03/10/1946
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New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread
tamarack replied to klw's topic in New England
Only for the 2-legged ones. -
4/1/97 was a better example of rate-beats-warm-ground. 4/6-7/82 is probably the Northeast's coldest April blizzard in the past 150+ years. Temps for the much lesser storm in 4/2016 were also well below 32.
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That would be a 'Dack destroyer. Uff Da
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New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread
tamarack replied to klw's topic in New England
Some years back, a young cougar made it all the way from SD (IIRC) to SNE, only to get nailed on a CT highway. -
Likewise here - missed the better bands, lousy dendrite growth, expected a better ratio than 8.7 to 1 with temps low 20s. Our 4" looks quite nice, however, and it brings the total to within 1/10" of the break point between awful and merely BN. Yep, not snowblowing Same here, but packed enough of the driveway so that the crummy-traction USPS van can deliver.
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Moderate snow, tiny flakes, 25°, not quite 1".
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March was on an 'F' track, with temp 4-5 AN (but BN for available sunshine) and no snows bigger than 0.9". Maybe this event and attendant cold can pull the month into D-land.
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Flakes arrived 10:25, light-moderate. Temp still in the 20s.
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Yesterday the GYX 90%-most likely-10% for Farmington was 0-1-4. This morning it's 2-4-12. Slight change. Actual forecast is 3-6, so maybe we can finally get a 1"+ event this month. Not quite what was happening last year on this date, but decent. Nice cold ground (low was 14°) so accum shouldn't be an issue (unless it's only S-- and doesn't start until afternoon).
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Catpaws became mostly snow about 11:45, began to stick about 12:10, an inch new 45 minutes later. Pretty, but the solid echoes are nearly past our location.
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Just mid-30s catpaws here, especially going over the hill to the west. In other news, the ice jam at Farmington Falls has cleared.
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Latitude month - useless cold for SNE, 30"+ in the Maine foothills. Pack reached 43" on 3/20/14, 2nd latest we've reached 40" here. It's been awhile, but I've gotten pizza there a few times. It was the real NY/North End style pizza that I love. Not the doughy Greek bullshit that many pizzerias serve. Worked 3 years at a pizza shop in BGR 1973-75; owner was a 2nd-gen Neapolitan-American from Brooklyn so we made the real deal (though I mostly built Italians, rarely pounded dough). Manager of Pizza Hut would come to Napoli's when he wanted good stuff.
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Canada geese in the field and on the "goose puddle" (refilled by yesterday's ice jam on the Sandy) along Rt 2 here. They must've decided that spring has sprung, flying a couple hundred miles of night-time travel, gambling that there will be food available where they land. Deep blue sky here after the low 20s morning.
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>2 feet in NYC, <2" for the Maine foothills - that worked for Feb 2006. Chances for a repeat in late March 2025: 0.001%.
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I thought I'd never see another month as awful as that one. The 8-week stretch of summer 2009 that had just 7 days without rain came close, but in our neighborhood, June 2023 at least tied with May 2005 for horribleness. Not as abnormally cold, but only 4 days without rain and a mere 20% of available sunshine, easily the lowest of any month I've recorded here.