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I'll take 5" and like it as it more than triples January snow here, but it's odd to see the mountains, coast and the I-95 corridor modeled with more than the Maine foothills. It almost never verifies that way.

That's freakishly uniform - all of New England with an H8 within 2C? The entire map within 8C.

For someone. Might be better for my brother near Wilmington NC than for the grandkids in SNJ.

Feb. 2023? Certainly not this winter. That blast 2 years back had MWN gusting over 140 at temps below -40.

About 15" of powder at my NNJ home. While ice fishing nearby a couple days later, I saw 2 snowmobiles come over the low hill and onto the lake - 1st ones I'd seen. 1963-64 was a sneaky good winter, with a white Christmas (7" on 12/23) and a late Feb rain forecast turning into a 10" dump. It ended on a sour note - I was babysitting 4 kids on 3/21 with a WSW posted and was watching all evening as the storm mucked about with no accum. Parents got home at 2 AM (as planned) and by then it was S+ with 1"+ paste on the roads. I slept until 10 AM, got up and looked out to see how much had fallen after I'd gone to bed. Saw . . . nothing. Upper 40s and full spring sun had melted everything but a few patches behind the larger trees - bummed.

Maybe. Saturday's 1" of 17:1 fluff survived Sunday's 30° with full sun, though it settled some. Same conditions a month from now and the new snow would be gone.

I'm too cheap to buy into the Globe, but found Snow Valley on G.E. Trails mostly grown in and looks like only the foundation remains from the lodge. (2022 imagery) I can remember seeing the upper trails of Bromley seeming close enough that skiers there could lob snowballs down on us. (Those trails were about 2.5 miles away. )

Thanks to that ceaseless wind (until last Saturday), January here hasn't gone below 2°. Average maxima running -3° while minima at +4°. Our coldest came during Dec. 23-27, with lows -6; 12 (with 6.3" fluff); -5; -6; -7

I hope to get onto Flying Pond (Northern Kennebec County) early next week, and expect to find 10-12" given when the ice first caught and subsequent temps/snow.

That's why I like ice fishing, though the price of live bait keeps climbing - up around $10 for a good day on the hard water.

In 1970 and 71 (once each) our NNJ scout troop visited Snow Valley, just north from Manchester VT, in the middle of the Stratton/Bromley/Magic triangle. T-Bar and Poma, about 600' vertical with some steeps but no black diamonds. I've looked on GE but the place probably closed a few years after our excursions so the trails have trees 40-50 feet tall.

Or with the liquid salt solution - gets the road down to pavement faster but a slimefest while flakes are accumulating. Reached 1.0" on 0.06" LE.

Some folks think they can drive normally in light snow. They slow down when it's puking but stay at 75 in rates like this event.

First flakes didn't appear until 11:30 this morning, and by 3 PM we'd reached 1/4" - ultralight rate - and radar doesn't promise much more.

Didn't quite reach 30 here but the first sunny day since 12/26. The 2 intervening weeks featured 9 cloudy days and 5 PC - dark times. The 7" armor plate is tough enough to hold my 230 lb while wearing street shoes.

The most recent wildfire over 1,000 acres in Maine was in 1977, about 3,000 acres, nearly all in Baxter Park and in the blowdown of November 1974. With all that fully dried fuel, the fire was burning downhill on a calm night - a very uncommon fire behavior. (The Park wanted to clear out the fallen wood but was stopped by a lawsuit that claimed such action would violate Governor Baxter's deeds of trust. Only the roadside areas were cleared; the rest was a bomb waiting to explode.)

Seems colder in the Northeast thanks to the wind. Also clouds and daily max temps - here they're running 3.7° BN this month while mins are +4.5.

Well put. The storm that's shutting down ATL would be a nothingburger at ORH. I doubt that any system could cover all the angles. NESIS measures the impact of inches of snow on numbers of people and is the best system out there IMO. However, storm severity can vary by winds/drifting and by total depth including pre-storm pack. Since I live in a state with relatively few people, severe storms focused on here aren't going to score very high. As one example, the New Year's Eve 1962 storm dumped 30-45" on the Penobscot Valley and had winds gusting 60+ but is only a blip to folks outside of the impact area. That system also brought damaging NW winds (maybe the strongest I've experienced, along with Nov 1950) hundreds of miles to the SW but outside of the snowfall region. Seeing large oaks having been ripped out of semi-frozen ground illustrated the wind's power.

He might want a 'personal' rating, though his post said "general". My personal top 3, listed chronologically: Feb 3-4, 1961 NESIS 4, 7th Apr 7-8, 1982 NESIS 2, 43rd Mar 14-15, 1984 NESIS <1 First one was in NNJ, ~24" (big wind) and set depth records for NJ - ~45" at my place, 50+ to NW. Other 2 were in Northern Maine, with few people. The April event had gusts to near 60 with giant drifts, the March storm (26.5", biggest I've seen) brought depth to 65", also tops.

One example of that is Fort Kent. Anyone familiar with Aroostook snow knows that FK gets more snow on average than CAR. However, the careful measurements at the WSO plus the lackadaisical effort 40 miles to the NW show CAR as snowier by about 20". Crazy. Another sad factor is loss of co-ops. Four sites fairly close to me and with records beginning from 1886 to 1903 (Gardiner, Lewiston, Bridgton, Farmington) have gone away over the past 15 years, that last hurting the most as its records were most complete. Only 13 months missed in 130 years, only one since 1909. WVL goes back to 1893 but its snow records rival Fort Kent for under-measuring. Already gusting into the 40's up here, Were heading up towards Pittsburgh that should be a fun run.........lol Probably not a good day to go up Coburn Mountain.

Two verys? A bit much. Though I appreciate the "less so". After 26 years here, the median halfway point for HDDs is January 22, and I'd guess all of the Northeast would be close to the same even as the magnitude varies greatly. Midpoint for actual fuel use would be several days earlier as the sun offers more help as the season ages. Thru last winter our average snowfall is 89.0". Current average for snowfall is exactly half, 44.5", by Jan 31. That 1/31-2/1 split wiggles around but those periods stay within 2" of each other. (I thought other NE sites would be similar, but checked CAR and there it's front-loaded, with 55% by Jan 31.)

77 years ago (Oct 47), the Kennebunkport fire torched an island 1/2 mile out to sea. Winds were gusting into the 50s, not 60-90, and there were no slopes (obviously) to help foster the spread. 90 mph gusts might've threatened Lisbon (Portugal, not Maine). For another example of the power of wildfire, look into the destruction of Peshtigo, WI on Oct 8, 1871, a fire powered by the same winds that spread a more well-known blaze in Chicago.

I think that's consecutive days. In 1961, NYC stayed below 32 from Jan 20 thru Feb 3, 16 days in which the high was 29 and the low -2. Also, though the punctuation is ambiguous, the 15 days in 2015 may be the 2nd place run; 1961 being tops (as it is at Central Park).

We had 40.9" post-equinox. Even Fort Kent never had that much in any of our 10 springs there. Storms were 5", 22" and 13.9". The big dog also dumped 6"+ from 9-10:30 PM, heaviest non-squall rate I've seen.

As a weather enthusiast: Bring it on! As a forester: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!