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And 66 was running neck and neck with 65 thru met summer - NYC's driest JJA and 2nd hottest. Then 9/21 had 5"+ and precip returned to average or more. Driest February here (1999-forward) is 1.04". Might be endangered.

QPF was below the .15-.25 noted in AFDs. The fluff factor mitigated that a bit - the meager 0.07" here produced 2.1". The last 2-4" forecast (Jan 29) had the same 0.07" but only 1/2".

2.1" thanks to 30:1 ratio. Most fell in the 2 hours prior to sunrise. First big gust will be a 30-second blizzard. Season total passes 2005-06 and 2020-21, so now only the 4th lowest. (Only 3.2" under the average total thru 2/16, however.)

PWM: 103 BGR: 102 BHB: 100, next to the chilly sea.

That's some "clipper" that dumps 6"+ from Michigan to Maine, where it might still be snowing at 1 PM EST. Lmao…just like Al Gore…when he said we wouldn’t see anymore snow anywhere in New England by 2015. And it just happened to be the snowiest in New England since we’ve been keeping records. Another moron that was spewing nonsense. And That ridiculous comment will be no different. I recommend adding "Southern" in front of the bolded, as most of NNE did significally better in 2007-08 than 14-15.

1995-96 was a great snow year but the weather whipsawed back and forth from Dec 1 thru April 14, at which time spring arrived. Though its 138.8" was 2nd only to 2007-08 (142.3") since we moved from Fort Kent in 1985, it ranked only 5th of 13 winters in Gardiner despite having 30" more than any other of those 13. The good periods, 12/1-21; 1/1-16; 1/29-2/19; 2/29-3/10 and 3/27-4/14. Those 88 days had temps 5.4 BN, 11.83" precip and 130.5" snow. The intervening blecch: 12/22-31; 1/17-28; 2/20-28 and 3/11-26. 47 days that ran +7.2 with 9.59" precip and 6.1" snow.

We went 24 days thru the middle of Dec with just 0.1" snow (and a boatload of rain), then had 30" in 5 storms over the next 18 days. So far this month we've had a one-hour flurry on 2/1 plus some catpaws in Saturday's TS. Would be nice to break this snow drought like it did in January.

11.6 AN here. Jan 23 on, +10.8 with minima +14.2; not bad for 3 weeks in midwinter. It's snowed about 1 hour in the past 2 weeks, the flurry on 2/1. (The catpaws in Saturday's TS don't count.) Pack hanging in at 14".

Yes! Just gray skies here, as forecast. Nice to see some good stuff to the south.

Crazy February day - temp got only to 46 but with the mild overnight the mean was +21. Brief (10 minutes) but noisy TS arrived at 4 PM with small hail, torrential rain (0.35" with catpaws) and 2 strikes within 1/2 mile, closer than anything last summer, plus others within a mile or so. I can't recall seeing rain that dense in February before yesterday.

We watched both from afar. In Fort Kent we'd just come out of 8 straight days with subzero highs. In our present locale, 2/16/03 hit -29, our coldest February temp here. 3rd time's the charm?

18" of wind-blown powder in February and 24" of paste. My mother and 4 y.o. little brother were flying home on 3/19 and scheduled to switch airplanes at DCA for a dinner flight to EWR. Snow at DCA and fog at EWR closed both, but they were able, barely, to land at (then) Idlewild. She then had to haul 2 suitcases and an overtired and hungry kid into a taxi to Newark. We got home before dz/fog turned to snow, but not by much.

Almost the same as here. +9.0, max 37 (yesterday), min 8 (twice, including yesterday). Jan 23 thru Feb 7 is +9.4 (max +5.7, min +13.2).

Never got past 31" here. We had 26" OG on Feb 1, received 23" of 18:1 snow and had 26" on Feb 28. Not much melting that month, as there was only 3 hr above 32, on the last Sunday of the month, and the average temp was 16/-10.

That little blob in Miane between the big blues is off. My site was 7.4" AN for that period and the co-op in town was nearly +9". The Oct-Jan average is 40-45" and that map would indicate only 15-20" rather than what's in my sig.

Average 1st half of winter that went nuts in Feb-Mar, 48" pack on 3/31.

GYX' current AFD understates the mildness a bit. Yesterday here was +7, today will be +10 or 11, tomorrow should be about the same and the weekend may approach +20. .SYNOPSIS... High pressure gradually builds eastward into our region through the end of the week with dry weather and seasonable to above normal temperature

This reminds me of 18 years ago. In mid-February 2006 a fellow from Corpus Christi called the manager of Aroostook State Park, a few miles west from PQI, asking about snowmobiling. The manager said it was awful in his area but was decent up in the St. John Valley. (Seven weeks earlier PQI had a 25" dump, with 33" at CAR, their greatest on record.) Imagine what the guy from south TX thought when told that northern Maine had crummy snow conditions in Feb. Conditions here in the Maine foothills are fair to poor - snow is there but all the Dec/Jan rain still makes issues at unbridged crossings. Better in the mountains.

Thanks. How long did significantly accumulating snow continue?

We snuck in 2 slightly BN days on 1/30-31, but the average for 1/23 onward is +9.5. Pack is holding at 18" with 4-5" LE, but it will probably retreat a bit over the weekend - more settling than melting.

More atmospheric water helped, but like Feb 1969 the real key is how long it snowed - 5 days in NS?

All good points, and the long look is crucial. We've had 5 events with 3.25" or greater, including 2 with 4"+, in the period Oct 22-Dec 23, only 15 months. However, June 98 thru Sept 99, 16 months, also had 5 such events and 4 of those topped 4". Looking the other way, 2001-04 had no such events and 2018-21 had only one. (Context: From May 1998 thru the present, we've had 29 storms of 3.25"+, about 1.2 per year.) Edit: The late lamented Farmington co-op has winters 1893-94 thru 2021-22, so 'n' = 129. Their average winter is 89.6" and the bottom 10% (13th lowest) had 60.6" and the top 10% winter had 122.6".

9 of the 25 winters here would meet those 2 criteria. I'd hate to be in a class in which the teacher set the curve assuming a 36% flunk rate. Median would probably be no higher than D. Retro low has turned sunny to mostly cloudy this afternoon.

June 2023: Summer lasted 2 days. 1 89 47 68 0.09 2 83 54 68.5 0.12 3 57 43 50 15 0.06 4 47 41 44 21 0.78 5 55 46 50.5 14.5 0.49 6 56 49 52.5 12.5 0.01 7 56 47 51.5 13.5 0.02 8 56 47 51.5 13.5 0.61 9 60 46 53 12 0.51 10 64 48 56 9 0.12 11 73 43 58 7 0.01 12 73 45 59 6 13 64 52 58 7 0.13 14 67 55 61 4 0.04 15 70 56 63 2 0.39 16 68 50 59 6 0.41 17 59 53 56 9 0.94 18 58 48 53 12 0.63 19 65 48 56.5 8.5 20 65 54 59.5 5.5 0.05 21 73 49 61 4 22 76 44 60 5 23 79 46 62.5 2.5 24 73 60 66.5 0.1 25 78 63 70.5 0.00005 26 68 60 64 1 0.31 27 70 58 64 1 0.77 28 68 63 65.5 0.45 29 75 62 68.5 0.84 30 73 62 67.5 0.01

Little black-and-whites are still calling chick-a-dee-dee, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear the almost-spring phee-bee this weekend. 3rd straight sunny day with a sharp breeze, thanks to the low that may still be burying some places in the Maritimes.