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I don't recall that early Dec storm in 1957, though we must've gotten 8-10". It's the cold blizzard on Feb 15-16 and the paste bomb on March 20-21 that stick in my memory. The Dec storms I remember came in 1960 (of course), and the near-Christmas events in 61, 63, 66(!) and 69.

Had a sun-flurry for a few minutes before the clouds caught up to the windblown flakes. Dusted the leaves but no accum.

Today's 1.03" brings the month to 2.63", with another 0.90" coming last Wednesday. Novie averages 4.27" and the driest was 0.84" in 2012. (Maybe Sandy sucked all the storms away from here. Son of Sandy brought 2.4" SN from 0.56" LE and 0.24" RA fell on 11/13. Only 0.04" for the other 28 days.)

Had 0.86" with moderate RA at 7 AM, another 0.17" when it stopped about 8:45 and by 9:30 it was full sun and low 40s. Frozen, if any, was long gone by 6 AM, but road conditions in the Rangeley area were nasty.

1.03" here, and if there was any frozen at the start, it was long gone by when I looked out at 6 AM. Franklin County Roads FB site noted messy roads about 3 towns to the north and northwest, including a loaded log truck jackknifed and blocking a road west of Rangeley.

Bit of slush here, 10 miles west (and 825' higher), Temple might have 6-8".

Cracked 100" here, with 5 storms of 11" to 13.5", also Farmington's coldest March on record. Excellent pack retention and the near misses to the south in March were a couple of good dumps here.

Four century-plus co-ops winked out in the past 15 years - Bridgton (though 2 separate co-ops for different periods), Lewiston, Gardiner (only Maine co-op I've found with data for 3/1888) and Farmington most recently, in October 2022.

It's a desktop and thus would not fit. Sloppiest 10"+ event I ever hope to try getting off the driveway - 4:1 mashed potato globs that landed with splats, mixed with 1.14" of 33-36° RA, this after 3 whiffed KUs. And we were a mere 5° from repeating what had happened on the exact same dates in 1969. (Farmington had 43" from that one.)

Only 25-26 years here, and the most recent 10 are almost exactly on the full-period average, though month-to-month varies: Jan avg +1.20 to March -1.17. The much longer POR at CAR is probably more characteristic, with only March BN (-0.43) and 5 months at least +3. Though a decade is just a blink of time when evaluating climate, that points toward warming. However, that says little about the next few months. Wind never fully quit last night, and the temp stopped at 12°, tied with last Tuesday for the month's coldest.

You had to bring up that one again. Most frustrating winter in my memory, for many reasons, but worse up north - the idea that BWI could have 7" more snow than CAR was mind-blowing. Also, CAR's temp for Jan-April must be at least one SD beyond that for any other year. That period in 2010 was 8.7° AN while 2nd mildest (2021) was 5.3° AN. This map perfectly conveys the snowfall distribution that I had in mind doing my outlook. The Farmington co-op averaged 104% of average for those 6 winters, but 4 of the 6 were BN with 3 at the edge of ratter territory. The 173% of 1968-69 (their snowiest of 130) skews the average.

Worked perfectly, thanks.

3.7" here that day, but the real events were the EF-0 and EF-1 tornados in the Georgetown area. Cold air and not a strong system, either - weird. Neither 95 nor 96 did we have measurable snow at our (then) Gardiner, Maine home. Biggest T-Day snowfall in our 13 years there was 3.7" in 1987. Biggest anywhere was 5.5" here in 2014, finishing a 13" dump, our only double-digit snowstorm in 70+ Novembers.

We had 2 days on Iceland as part of our Norway excursion in 2017 - no extra landing/takeoff cost from Icelandic Air, stayed at an AirBNB which was reasonable. Exchange rate was about 100 Icelandic kroner to the dollar and a good lunch (all the food there was good) ran 3000/4000 kroner. A year later it was about 140/$1, but we weren't counting kroner on that trip, just loving it.

Other than rain, finished with 4.6" from 0.62" LE. The 2.6" by 7 AM was 12:1 and the 2.0" ending about 1:20 was 5:1 with much settling as it fell. Precip became white rain about 11:30 and I thought the fun was over, but then another inch of silver dollars fell in about 40 minutes shortly after noon. Pic was taken about 12:30.

Quite pretty at 8 this morning.

Had 2.6" with 0.22" with S- at 7 this morning. After 2 hours of very light snow particles, we had 1/2 hour of nice flakes (which just stopped) that brought the total to 3". The overnight stuff was broom snow; the later snow is quite wet.

Only got down to 12-13 here - we're usually within 4-5° of BML on good rad nights, instead of nearly 10° less cold. Latest clown maps put our area on the edge; 10 miles either way makes the difference between 1" and 6". With poor CAD, we'll probably be closer to the first number, but still end up with the ground being white.

3-4" would be nice, though the RA portion might turn our driveway into an ice palace. We're in the zone where 10 miles west or east would make a big difference in the GYX forecast percentages: Farmington's for 4"/6" are 59%/27% while at Skowhegan they're 27%/3%. Our place is about 6 miles from the former and 15 from the latter. Could go either way.

Single digits Tuesday morning at Estcourt Sta?

T-Day 2018 had a max of 11° here, and that was the temp at my 9 PM obs time the night before. Afternoon max was 9, following the -3 min. That might've been the coldest Thanksgiving in the past hundred years.

The Apps Gale vies with 12/31/1962 (backside NW gales from the blizzard than ate BGR) for the strongest winds I've experienced. That later date had temps 5/-8, pretty hefty WCI for New Jersey.

Cutter. Pittsburgh INT AP: 1950-11-24 41 11 26.0 -13.7 39 0 1.54 14.0 10 1950-11-25 23 7 15.0 -24.4 50 0 1.10 10.1 20 1950-11-26 23 9 16.0 -23.1 49 0 0.33 3.3 22 1950-11-27 29 16 22.5 -16.3 42 0 0.16 1.7 17 NYC: 11/24/1950 53 38 45.5 0.1 19 0 0 0 0 11/25/1950 59 36 47.5 2.5 17 0 1.59 0 0 11/26/1950 41 28 34.5 -10.2 30 0 T 0 0 11/27/1950 40 32 29 -8.4 29 0 0 0 0

My earliest weather memory. Dad, older brother and I stood on our back porch at our NNJ home, watching the trees thrashing in the wind. A couple tops broke off as we watched, and dad said it was time to go inside.

3.6 AN here, 3.2 at BOX and 4.7 at NYC. Some folks have short memories.