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Stayed in cloudy 30s thru noon, sun popped out shortly after and the temp jumped 10° in 90 minutes. Good pack-settler.

Same here. In 2005-06 our biggest snowfall was the same 5.9" in late January. Then we had only 7.8" the rest of the way. That season is the only one that failed to have a 6"+ event since we moved to Maine in January 1973. (Probably did not have a winter w/o a 6+ in NNJ after 1964-65, so once in the most recent 60 winters.)

Even in NNE, March has a Jekyll-Hyde character for snowfall. The past 5 years March has averaged 16.6", close to the 26-year average of 17.4", but year-to-year variability is wacky: 20 15.5" 21 0.1" 22 10.0" 23 27.9" 24 29.3" (27" after the equinox)

Other than for swimming, I haven't worn shorts in about 50 years. Between the puckerbrush and the blackflies, not a good choice for bushwhacking thru the Maine woods.

186.7" total for 76-77 with peak depth 54". We had no rain between 12/7 and 3/13, only snow, and had flakes on 82 of 90 days in DJF. After the mid-March thaw settled the pack by 20"+ and cold returned, the snow was so solid that we had 3-4 weeks of no-snowshoe travel thru the woods (would support a running moose), where the depth was 3-4 feet. We spent Christmas with family in NNJ while Fort Kent had 24" on 12/26-27, then another 12" that we drove thru during the night of 29-30 (another story). Our 2nd car, a blue VW Beetle, was just a white lump in the parking lot when we got home.

And Tuna's lawn might hold snow a bit longer than the downtown sidewalks of PWM. Man I haven’t seen such a flaccid ending to winter in a long time. I'll nominate 2021 - March total a slushy 0.1" followed by the rare April failing to reach 70.

Even a few shortleaf pines, one of the South's Big Four (longleaf, loblolly, slash, shortleaf) at its northerly extent. Pines and oaks on sand, classic fire type forest, similar to the Jersey pine barrens.

C+ for temps, thanks to the first BN for DJF in 6 years. C- as we entered March at 90% of average with no events 10"+. (About 75% of winters here have a double-digit.)

We had exactly one gust that approached that velocity. There were gusts into the 30s all day but we've had lots of such winds this winter. The pup and I were outside for her evening stroll at 10:15 when a gust at least 10 mph beyond the day's peak came roaring thru. Didn't hear anything break, surprisingly, maybe due to the one and done. (In contrast, almost all of the abundant tree damage in our woodlot on Dec. 18, 2023 commenced after an hour of the 50+ gusts.)

I'd toss April 1982 into the mix - a classic January storm transplanted into a spring month. While NYC has had 2 slightly greater April snows, in 1875 and 1915, they've had no other significant April events within 5° as cold, since 1869. That 1997 event was strange where we then lived, 9 miles south from AUG. It was a decent (7.5") snowfall that came about 12 hours before the SNE explosion. I don't know how (if?) our storm was connected. Same LP went retro/crazy? 1st of 2 back-to-back? Gardiner data: 3/31 37 26 0.82" 6.0" 4/1 39 24 0.17" 1.5"

Our generator has remained quiet. Gusts 30+, garden variety wind in this very windy winter. The strongest wind must be elsewhere.

I attended Johns Hopkins for 2 years 64-65 and 65-66, before my GPA led to a non-invite for a 3rd year. 64-65 had only some small snows, 4-5" but 65-66 had a major blizzard in late January. 2-3 days before that event the city had a 7" storm, "Biggest since 1959". Then on Jan 30 the big one came, with 4" at 9 PM becoming 10" by midnight. During the school year I lived in a frat house on St. Paul Street, and woke up about 3 AM on the 31st, to see even lower visibility than during the 2"/hour period. Snowfall was lighter but 50 mph winds roaring out of the north produced a true blizzard. Total snow was ~15" and it paralyzed the city. Only Charles and St. Paul were passable north-to-south and IIRC only Orleans east-west. Four days later I went home (NNJ) for semester break, and when I returned 5 days later, many side streets remained impassable, more than week after the storm.

The '80s are notorious for low snow totals, but they were quite cold. In 1988 at our (then) Gardiner home, the snow season's 2nd biggest dump was 8" on April 16. The previous year we had 6.3" on April 28-29. Long seasons.

Up here on the "fringe" it was 15+ hours of steady moderate snow for 9.5". The post-equinox dumps of 16" and 19" made March 2001 the 2nd snowiest month (55.5") I've seen. Only the 61.5" of Dec 1976 at Fort Kent had more.

Caller ID FTW. Not 100% effective but much better than without it.

1.21" here, pack drops from 19" to 16", maybe 15 by day's end but that stuff has a lot of SWE. Highest reports are from downriver, not the mountains, though data from uphill is sketchy. I highly doubt that the ice will move much on the Sandy.

Climo there is probably almost 3 times as much as here (~90"). January - more than 10X.

And first steps for me. Gray 30s here, much like yesterday.

The 1930s were a decade of extremes. I've looked up statewide records for hottest and coldest days, wettest and driest years for each state, thus 200 total records. It's not comprehensive - haven't found any more recent than 2011 (no updated tables?) and only 9 of the 200 pre-date 1880. That said, the 1930s own 55 records; 2nd place is the 1950s with 28. The '30s records: Hottest 24 (14 in 1936 alone) Coldest 10 Wettest 2 (ID, WA) Driest 19

Cutters in December, none in Jan-Feb (for the first time since about 2013). No big storms, however. In 26 winters, we've had 20 with at least one double-digit dump - 77% - but none so far in this one.

I can't recall another winter that matched this year's near continuous running of the Northern Greens' snow machine, especially in January. Meanwhile, much of points east were in drought. Jan 2-31 here had only 0.43" precip and 4.6" snow. How much fell at Stowe during that period?

-14 here this morning, coldest March temp since 2019 and 2nd coldest since 2015. Probably the last subzero morning this season, unless the SW flow is delayed a bit - temps progged to drop like a rock this evening then slide up after midnight. March is easily the most variable of the 4 snowiest months, ranging from 0.1" in 2021 to 55.5" twenty years earlier. 88% of total snow falls in those 4 months, with totals below: DEC 19.2" JAN 19.9" FEB 22.1" MAR 17.4"

4° here with gusts into the 20s. Not fake. (That comes tomorrow morning.)

February in the foothills: Avg max: 26.3 -3.0 Mildest: 44 on 25 and 26 Avg min: 5.5 -1.0 Coldest: -19 on the 2nd Mean: 15.9 -2.0 Precip: 2.58" 0.37" BN 0.85" on the 16th Snow: 26.5" 4.5" AN 6.5" on the 16th, part of the 8.0" storm Avg pack: 16.6" -2.5" Tallest: 22" on the 16th DJF avg 17.7 -0.7 First BN for DJF since 2018-19.

Wasn't expecting much, got even less - 0.4" of 8:1 stuff, mostly tiny graupel-like things. Still low 20s and overcast at 10:15. Will the WF push the temp to the forecast 40 in this CAD kingdom before the CF comes roaring thru?