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Near 50" here as well, with storms 16.0, 11.3, 4.7, 9.5, 7.3 plus some scraps for 49.3". had some meat, too, with total precip 5.73", all flakes but ~1/2" of IP/ZR in #4. The syzyzy storm was 2nd biggest of our 13 winters at Gardiner and went from 1st flakes to 1/8 mile visibility in <2 minutes, a classic wall. The pack was well sustained, with 24" and ~7" SWE at the equinox. March 23-30 had +8 temps but there was still 8" with perhaps 4" water in the very ripe pack. Then 4.57" RA on 31-4/1 with temp near 50 (some gusts of 50, too) blew away the snow. The Kennebec had the greatest peak flow in Maine records - 232,000 cfs - reaching 22 feet above flood stage at AUG.

0.5 BN here December 2024: Avg max: 30.9 Within 2 hundredth of the average. Mildest, 48 on the 12th Avg min: 12.4 -1.2 Coldest, -7 on the 27th Mean: 21.7 -0.5 Precip: 5.08" +0.21" Wettest (and all RA), 1.34" on the 11th Snow: 22.5" +3.3" Had 9.1" on the 5th 297 SDDs, not quite twice the avg (157). 2024 averaged 44.38°, warmest of the 26 full years here, 0.13° above 2010. Annual precip: 52.08" +2.81" 8 of 12 months were AN. 2024 had our driest February and wettest March.

Maybe the cold weekend will turn our few inches of white into marble, forcing all the little rodent owl and coyote food to skitter across the surface.

My whining about 09-10 must be in the top 10. Winter basically ended at 1 AM on Jan 3 when the 21° with SN at 10 PM became 34° and RA. Just as Cool Spruce had predicted. We had advisory-level snow on the MLK weekend plus the nice WINDEX on the 28th, but that was IT for wintry precip. I don't consider the 4:1 sludge (thanks, Will, for that term) in late Feb worthy of being called snow.

That "rainer" is a mix at CAR; their forecast has a few inches on the ground by Friday morning. Far NW Maine might reach double digits.

Storm total 0.95" but still 6" at the stake, 27 for the low and half of a 5-gal bucket of ashes for the driveway. Entertainment yesterday was 2 guys extracting and hauling out an ancient truck with a logging crane, last used in early 2008, all this during the heaviest rain and with temps still in the mid 30s. They had coats on but neither one was wearing a hat.

Not everywhere: Snow SDDs White Christmas 12/23 17.3" 92 Brown ground. still draining off the 12/18 monsoon 12/24 22.5" 284* 12" and 2nd deepest of 27 Dec25s here. * Thru yesterday, still 7-8" pack as I type. Dec 24 will also finish 5-6° colder than 23.

Had a sudden influx of dense fog and thought "here comes the warmth". Ten minutes later the fog was gone and we haven't yet reached 40.

Best of both worlds?

Guilford to Auburn? Hope you don't have a daily commute. Moderate RA here trying to scour out the CAD but still 8" and I think we keep about 4 after this mess.

Hope the worm turns like it did when I was much younger. We moved from uber-urban East Orange NJ (30k people, 4 sq.mi.) to a lake community in the Jersey Highlands in summer 1950. The first 5 winters there were all BN and with no storms of note. The next 6 winters, 55-56 thru 60-61, averaged more than 150% of climo and featured 7 storms of 18-24" and a depth into the mid 40s after the last of those 7 in early Feb 1961. Not impossible?

The year before. Some sites there had more snow in February than we saw for the whole winter.

We take. Those are the 2 snowiest Februarys I've experienced, each >45".

I'd leave out 'Northmost' NNE. We had lots of rad cold when we lived in the riverside area of Fort Kent, down to -41 at the apartment and -47 at our 1st house. When we moved to the back settlement, 450' higher than in town and on a slope, those 4 winters never got lower than -34 (and howling - lowest WCI I've experienced, abt -101 old scale, -70s new) but had 18 mornings -25 or colder, including 8 in the -30s. Places like Pittsburg and the Northeast Kingdom probably have similar temps at non-rad sites. Just being picky.

CAR was nearly +15 that month; the only New England month that comes close to that magnitude of departure, + or -, is Dec 1989. (2/15 is a contender at some sites.) Going into it, CAR's warmest Feb temp was 49. 2/81 tied that mark twice and topped it 7 times. The St. John ice ran, unheard of in midwinter, taking with it the logging bridge ~30 miles SW from Allagash. (Normally, that bridge would be disassembled in late March and reassembled in May.) This after the coldest of the 9 Decembers we lived there and 2nd coldest of 10 Januarys. 80-81 was also the least snowy (43") of the 130 winters at the Farmington co-op, 1" less than the previous winter.

One of my favorite snow trivia came in that period. New Jersey's greatest snowfall (34") came in its southernmost town. Cape May's average annual snow is the state's lowest; that 1899 dump was 2 years' usual production.

Would not mind a repeat of Feb-Mar 1899; Farmington co-op totaled 66" for those 2 months.

Today's prices boggle my mind, though it's almost 44 years since I last skied and almost 54 since I learned parallel during a ski week at Glen Ellen (now Sugarbush North). For $45 one would get 5 days' lift tickets and daily lessons plus 2 "parties" - spiced wine and ski films immediately after the lifts stopped. Except that year they cut the January price in half!

Living in Gardiner then, and 12/31/89 reached 38 after 32 days of highs 32 or lower (29 were 24 or lower). December's mean of 8.9° was 13.1° BN, then January came in at 17.4, which was +7.0. However, 12/89 brought 21.6" while Jan had 24.9. Lowest temp in Jan was -1, the same as December's average low, as that month featured 17 days at/under -1. The cold arrived with the Nov 21 thunderblizzard. I'd parked the ancient Subaru (2WD) pointing north, and the wind filled most of the space under the hood and froze the throttle cable, causing some "fun" as the battery was low - start/roar/shut down 3x before the cable ice shook off what I hadn't been able to scrape off. We were too far north for the T-Day storm but the max of 17 (with flurries) was easily the coldest in our 13 Novembers there. (Punched my deer tag that day as well. ) Next day's min of -1 was lowest by 6°.

We had 21" from that event and it arrived mere hours after 8" of 30:1 feathers. Feb 7-16 featured 45" from 3.83" LE and was quite a shock for the Lab mix from TX that we adopted on the 4th. We also had 21" on Dec 29-30 and that one was meatier, 10:1 compared to 12:1 in Feb, but the most powerful storm that 16-17 winter was the Pi Day blizzard.

IMO, a few spots 40+ aren't enough for the "B" - Both 12/20 and 3/23 had some 40s reported (and the Erie/Ontario LES bands several times) but of that lot, I'd only nominate the one that dumped 5-6 feet in the BUF area. 40" of 12:1 snow creates far more disruption than when it's 25:1 fluff. In Maine I'd say that only Feb 1969 passes the sniff test, with some western mountains and foothills locales hitting the 40 mark and with over 4" LE. We did have the Historic Feb 69 storm that a SLP did a fujiwara in the GOM for 3 days that dumped 36" here and i believe 40" in Farmington. 43", more than a foot bigger than any other one there. (The Dec 6-7, 2003 storm was reported as 40" but I think it was measured in one of the many drifts. We were at church, 1.3 miles SE from the co-op site and 110' higher, less than 2 hours after accum ended, and the snow there looked much like at my place 5.3 miles to the east. My 24" was 6" by my 9 PM obs time and 18" after. The Farmington co-op obs came at midnight and was 14" on the 6th and 26 the next day. Given conditions at 9 PM, a midnight obs at my place might've been 12/12, so 14 for 12/6 is reasonable but that 26 is not.)

-7 this morning, month's coldest. Last 5 days averaged -3. Without Christmas Eve it's -6 but the 6" of fluff that day was the best.

Wolfie quick to counter snowy, but what about RadarMan’s area? 30 burgers are tough. I think October 2011 in the northern Berks? I haven't seen one in the past 78 years. However, I've encountered 7 storms in the 24-26.5" range, starting with 3/56 and most recently 2/09.

Looks like a smashing CF after a cutter. Exciting but no thanks.

Last winter was a disaster, with blowdowns and flood damage from the Dec 18 storm and thaws/rains that followed, while the North had way BN snowfall. 22-23 was better, especially in Aroostook.