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Sun finally peeking thru the clouds, will push the temp a few degrees over 60. Looks like a windy sunrise service tomorrow. 42 years ago, NW New Jersey had up to a foot of snow, with accum8ulation thru the day.

Wood frogs began "quacking" Thursday at the old stock pond near our well. Peepers joined them last evening. It's a few days to a week later than in recent springs. Cloudy and upper 40s with sprinkles here at 10:45. Forecast high is 74 but that will take some sunshine. Otherwise, we'd top out near yesterday's 62. The inside temp only dropped to 72 overnight, so no morning stove-loading for the first time since early November.

HIE has climbed 44° from their morning low of 19. TD is 10, RH 12%. IZG is 65 off their low of 22, twin 13's for TD and RH. crispy.

My 75.6" was 13" BN and it had no storms 10"+, for only the 7th time in 27 winters. After the 6.3" of 15:1 powder on 12/24, we had only 1 event over 4". The 2 biggest snows came on Thanksgiving night and Dec 4-5: great start, then fizzle. Only the sustained cold allowed decent snowpack.

My records note high dews, +/-70, for the first 4 days, upper 60s on 8/10 and mid 60s 8/19. Rest of the month the dews weren't high enough to note. Kev is correct that the late month was coolest - final 12 days had average minima of 50.8. Sunny and breezy here, feels a bit chilly after 3 mild days.

High of 62 yesterday - once the early clouds broke away, the heat was on. We missed most of the afternoon rain, getting 0.22" while Carrabassett Valley got 1.08", but about half of our rain came in the first 3 minutes, with nice fat July-like drops pounding down.

We had that cold (though extremes were modest) but the snowfall went the opposite way. 23-24 lowest temp: -12 Met winter avg: 23.8 +5.4 (mildest of 27 years) 24-25 lowest temp: -19 Met winter avg: 17.7 -0.7 (1st BN since 18-19) 23-24 snowfall: 99.0" 10.5" AN, 112% of avg, had storms of 12.4" (DEC), 22.0" (MAR) and 13.9" (APR) The 40.9" post-equinox was highest I've recorded, incl. Fort Kent. 24-25 snowfall: 75.6" 12.9" BN, 85% of avg, biggest storm 9.3".

56 yesterday, mildest so far by 4F. (But only 3.5 AN - averages warming 0.5/day now.) AM long term discussion, by Ekster/Legro, waxed a bit poetic. Fri will be a bit of a transition day as a warm front approaches from the southwest. NBM made a big shift in high temps Sat...bringing widespread 60s and 70s in the local area. However warm fronts often fail to breach the Lakes Region and often result in heartbreak for those yearning for warmer days. The upper air pattern is more favorable than normal for an advancing warm front however...with building heights and surface high pressure centered well southeast of the area. It is not a favorable set up for sustained cold air damming. To give a slight nod towards climatology I did blend in a bit of MEX guidance to knock NBM temps down a couple of degrees.

Cloudy morn turned into the nicest day of spring so far. Also released the final sticks of the firewood pile from the ice. Drained the snowblower and moved it into its warm-season home.

It was the opposite here. We'd had 24" by Dec 10, which was 14" AN for the date and which had the season's 2 biggest snowfalls. Since then, we've run 26" BN and only the fast start avoided a major ratter.

Some patches of blue! (Occasionally) It's been a gray month so far with low diurnal ranges. Highs are running 6.5° BN while lows are 0.6° AN. The weekend high was 38, low 31, some flakes (T) each day and near constant light RA.

Slight surprise 7-8 this morning, 0.2", now all gone. Did not expect anything this far north.

Low of 14 this morning, probably last teens until Novie. Nice sun yesterday but the high of 38 with gusty winds didn't scream spring.

75.1" here, 84% of average. Yesterday's 1.6" came 6-8:30 PM after 8 hours of non-accum flakes, droplets, drizzle. One 30-minute puff of feathers 6-6:30 dropped 3/4". 23 with a breeze this morning. Teens tonight?

Forecast now is <1/2" today, <1" tonight. AWT