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We had 30" of interior snows in 12/13, though no double-digit storms. Though we had last-minute dodges of several storms in 14-15, the pre-Thanksgiving event dropped 13" here, by far the biggest November snowfall I've seen. (2nd place is 8.5" in 1974 at BGR, 3rd is 8" in 1968 while in NNJ, surprisingly no top-3s in Fort Kent. A year after moving south from Fort Kent, they had 21" a few days before T-Day.)

Crazy man! (If I were 30 years younger, I would've been equally crazy.)

2020 was worse here, 2.5" rain and temp 28° AN, tallest AN day we've had here, 1° more than 3/22/12. Meh, get the front through and have a nice cold T-Day. As long as it's not T-Day 2018 cold, afternoon max near 10° with 40 mph gusts.

Not within the last decade, but 06-07 fits that description. The period Nov 8 thru Jan 13 (67 days) had only 11.0" snow and temps 8.0° AN. Jan 14 thru April 17 (94 days) brought another 84.3" with temps 5.3° BN. Result was a slightly AN snow season, and the only time I expect to see a storm (Patriot's Day) produce 5" snow and 5" rain. 03-04 was just the opposite, with the storms of Dec 6-7 and 14-15 totaling 37.2", which was 51% of the winter's snowfall. Yesterday's 34/14 was the first double-digit BN day since the nasty cold rain of June 4. Cloudy today but whatever might be falling is getting eaten by the dry air.

Very true, and the beginning of the end of agony came with Bill Parcells. Though SB-20 ranks only as the 5th worst beatdown according to advanced stats, IMO no other participant in SB history was so utterly overmatched. Also, Tony Eason must own the worst QB line in SB records, 9 dropbacks, 6 INC, 3 sacks, one a strip sack, about -25 net yards before Steve Grogan replaced him late in Q2. First day here with 40 HDDs this season, low of 14 and high 34 or 35. Ice 1.25" on the washtub, which is now emptied and under the porch, the snow scoop brought out to make room.

It works here, for our short (25 years) POR. Percent of average snow: OCT AN 105% OCT BN 95% NOV AN 89% NOV BN 114% Both AN 91% Both BN 105% O AN, N BN 125% O BN, N AN 87%

3.1° BN here thru yesterday and today will push that down a bit, but only 0.24" precip - month averages 4.27".

Reached 14 this morning with lots of frost, even on the branch tips 30 feet up on the fir I transplanted in 1998. (2 feet tall back then, now ~40 feet tall with branches spreading 20 feet wide.) Pure blue skies, a rare November treat.

Excellent news. Thanks for all the time you put in, so that we can enjoy watching folks' snow totals climb (we hope).

Clouds stopped the free fall so low 20s only. IZG reached 14 and SFM 15.

Shame it changed; might've set a new 24-hour record otherwise. Perfect radiating night....34⁰ in town, 24⁰ here, just 5 minutes away....while I understand it is "fake" cold, my need to warm the house is definitely not fake You know it's fake, I know it's fake, the battery in my pickup has no clue.

Probably stick season above 1"+ out your way. Had 0.3" from 0.07" LE, all snow. Still a few tiny white things falling, and I'm not sure (until 9 this evening) if the temp ever got past 32.

Probably stick season above 1"+ out your way. Had 0.3" from 0.07" LE, all snow. Still a few tiny white things falling, and I'm not sure (until 9 this evening) if the temp ever got past 32.

GYX forecast goes out to next Thursday and has my town at 49/29 that day, which would be more like 47/25 at my frost pocket place. Normal here for 11/16 is 42/24 so that forecast would be +3. "Torch" varies by season of course. 10+ in July would certainly fit the term and might set some daily records. In January 10° AN might mean a big snowstorm here. IMO, Met winter torch threshold should be 20+, and maybe 15+ in SNE.

Thanks. Not ideal but still useful.

20 minutes of moderate snow brought 0.2" and dropped the temp back to 30-31, but now beginning to let up. "Flakes" were not quite spherical things about 1/16 diam, but not graupel. Not much but first white ground.

Had a few flakes at 9:20 but nothing more until 10:50. Lgt snow since then, but temp is 32-33 and we're almost to solar noon, so unless it snows a lot harder, we'll not have more than a trace. Only place the flakes are surviving is on the upturned edges of the few oak leaves still on the tree. Timing is everything. Edit: Radar shows a short burst of mod snow now coming overhead, so maybe a tenth or 2 to whiten the lawn.

When I worked at Napoli's Pizza in BGR (73-75), several co-workers smoked the stuff, and they said the price of $20/oz seemed inflation-proof. In the summer of 1975, I worked as a research field assistant, intensively sampling dense stands of sapling-pole spruce-fir stands. My partner like MJ though not on the job, and one week working Downeast on St. Regis land, the manager assigned us helpers from NYC (sort of a Fresh Air Fund thing). After the last day's work there, the four ~20 y.o. guys invited us to where they were staying in East Machias and offered us weed. I said no thanks, but my chum partook. When we got back to the St. Regis field office where we'd stayed, he commented, "That was the goooood stuff!" and was thankful that I was driving as his time consciousness was messed up, such that he thought the truck would be going 100 mph and then 10 mph, back and forth. Weed cures all. We’d have a friendlier and more inclusive society if everyone puffed and chewed a little. Take care. I read some recent research pointing to heart issues when it's smoked, can't recall any such info on edibles.

Someone here might know, but I'm not that someone. Also, this was about 30 years ago.

The big oak 50 yards from the house is down to about 20% leafed. The pin oaks planted in Farmington (they're not native to Maine) still have perhaps 3/4 of their leaves. Usually, those trees have the brightest fall color of any oak, with a deep scarlet, but this year they were a mousey yellow with only a sprig here and there showing any red. Wind is backing down, but this morning it was fierce - dumped a large dead ash on our road (and fortunately it broke apart for easy removal) and not only blew around the traffic cones where some roadwork was being done in New Sharon but also tipped over some of the 4-foot-square caution signs. The 38 when I reset the max-min last evening will hold as the day's high.

Many years ago when I lived in Gardiner, I found a small (10'x20') fenced-in area while hunting in the 2,000' strip of woods between our house and the camps on Cobbossee Stream. The holes where things had been dug up confirmed the use. In late July I went back, carefully, to see the spot and there were MJ plants 7+ feet tall. I counted paces on the way back out, noting landmarks, and sent an anonymous letter with directions to the Gardiner police. I also told our stall biologist, also a good friend, and 2 days later he greeted me with, "Your patch made the cover of the Kennebec Journal!" (Pic with officer shouldering a bunch of plants.) The police called it a "nice patch", about 35 plants. We've also found the stuff growing on many of the Public Lands tracts, the biggest a field with ~1,500 plants just inside the east boundary of the large Scopan Unit, west from PQI, discovered by a Northern Region forester and forest tech. The forester, probably the last person who would ever use, started jumping up and down and shouting, "We're rich! We're rich!". Then he radioed the sheriff's department.

Had >20" pack when that blast hit, so the mice and voles were snuggling and making babies underneath. Bare ground, cold wx and lots of raptors are the best tick medicine.

I looked on G.E. to compare Black to Titcomb Hill in Farmington, but they are very different, with Black offering a bit over 1,000' vertical compared to Titcomb's 300'. Despite its modest size, Titcomb keeps the Mt. Blue HS Alpine/Nordic teams very competitive.

Ken Allen, who for decades wrote hunting and fishing columns for the Waterville and Augusta papers, recounted 2 possible mountain lion sightings. One came as he was driving south from Greenville at dusk with light rain. The animal crossed right to left in front of him, so he braked and backed up for a better look. There at the mouth of an old road was a big golden retriever. The other gave Ken a good look, with cat face and long tail visible. Two conclusions: There are valid lion sightings, and even experts can be fooled.

Never heard of an albino marten before, but most mammals produce very rare albino offspring so it's certainly possible. A long-tailed weasel is about 2/3 the size of a marten and always turns white, just like it's much smaller short-tailed weasel. I think both species are called ermine when white.