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PWM numbers: 11/26/1921 30 23 0.49" 1.5" 11/27/1921 25 20 1.11" 6.3" 11/28/1921 29 22 1.15" 7.6" Seems too cold for much ZR, more like an SN/IP mix. Farmington had 10" on 0.87" LE, likely all snow. Maine trees escape the catastrophe.

Maybe. I was utterly fascinated by the NNJ ice storm in January 1953; it planted seeds of both meteorology and forestry which are still growing. Of course, I was only 6 and people at that general age look at things differently than grown-ups. My reaction to 1998, which was precisely 45 years later (both accretions came Jan 8,9) was vastly different, as I was then responsible for 160k acres of forest in Western Maine. Because you need an ideal combination of cold air drain, moisture and lift which usually only occurs over a relatively small area. edit: a stalled front is also helpful. It's one of the more elusive weather events. That's one reason that 1998 was such a unicorn, causing catastrophic damage from Montreal to Moncton. And that NB pic several posts up-thread reminded me of the state lot in Hebron (10 miles NW from LEW) in 1998. I found a one-year twig of ash - perhaps 0.15" diameter - that had ice 3.0" x 2.2", about the size of a Pringles can. Blades of grass had ice the size of soda cans.

Trace of ZR and maybe 0.3" IP. Total 2-day QPF is <0.4". Roads were nasty this morning.

Dry overnight but the sleet should arrive within minutes. Temp ~25.

Yankees have 9 hr, struck out 5 times and made 5 errors. Their starter got pulled with a 10-run lead and 2 outs in the 5th, one out from getting the win. Just before 4 we have a patch of blue-ish sky as the sun attempts to peek.

3" here, all flakes. 1.9" from 0.16" LE at 7 then 1.1" from 0.06" LE feathers thru 11:30. Since then only countable flakes, none in the past hour as the band has moved south.

Guess we won't notice the partial solar eclipse - max coverage (~60% here) is about 6:30 AM and GYX had us possibly at 1"/hr snow then.

April 2007 redux?

I think it's only the 3rd time this cold season - Thanksgiving night, Feb 16, and almost April. Only 2015-16 has had fewer since we moved here in 1998. (Though the 120 days between 1st and 3rd are respectable.)

Saturday update: Here, 2-4" and max 31. SNJ is sunny and 80. The weird gets weirder. March to date is +3.5, thanks to 5th-22nd being +7.1.

Forecast max here for Saturday is 34, with snow. Grandkids in SNJ - sunny and 77.

This time of year, anything under 6", the snowblower remains under its tarp (unless we have freaky cold - April 6-9, 1982 averaged 23/10 at Farmington).

Late March has had some wild contrasts. On 3/31/98 I was working at Public Lands' Scraggly Lake tract, just NE from Baxter Park. WX there was occasional light RA/IP and mid 30s. At BGR, 100 miles south, it was 78. Another 100 south, PWM hit 88, their hottest March day.

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.

That would be a 'Dack destroyer. Uff Da

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.

Moderate snow, tiny flakes, 25°, not quite 1".

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.

Flakes arrived 10:25, light-moderate. Temp still in the 20s.

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).

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.

Just mid-30s catpaws here, especially going over the hill to the west. In other news, the ice jam at Farmington Falls has cleared.

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.