TheMainer

Was closing in on an inch at home when we left for the airport at 11, sunny and nothing at PWM.

Exchange rate is $0.69 right now so good winter to go if you get a chance. I love it up there, trying to get it in now before we start popping out kids.

Heading to Mont Valin the 2nd through the 5th assuming we don't get snow down here enough for me to groom between now and then, bought an annual pass already for my other trips so might as well use it.

Nice wintery appeal out there this morning taking the trash out, maybe an inch on top of the slushy inch left from the warmup. Assuming it doesn't melt today should have a white Christmas, though historically due to the Grinch we more consistently have a white Thanksgiving (though still we usually have white Christmas most years)

Went out packing trails and clearing blow downs today, surprising amount of snow north and west of town, especially compared to my house 8 miles south with only a crusty 3 inches on the ground. Hoping for minimal rain Tuesday and some snow Thursday and into Christmas week. Another 8 Inches and we can make our first pass with the groomer

The 3 inches of snow left in the yard definitely looks more like April than December,but happy we retained some snow. Will make an impenetrable base for snowmobile season as I'm hoping groomer shed still has 5 or 6 inches

Sprinkling lightly here at about 35 degrees, snow pack has been resilient so far with the freezing rain layer from earlier, now hoping we get the dry slot of the century and we might actually have a couple inches when I wake up tomorrow still, but I know that's just a pipe dream... Just don't flood like last year and I'll take that as a win currently.

Taking the wife to NYC for a 3 day trip the 21st through 23rd, so definitely lock in a HECS from NYC to Bangor Maine that weekend....

Another 1.5" here for ~17" for the season so far. Let's avoid the worst of the winds here and give it to the coastal guys that want it and we'll begin again on Friday building towards winter again.

If you love the outdoors and don't mind every business within an hour closing at 8pm (besides the handful of bars) it's a great place to live. I get to WFH 4 days a week and drive down by dryslots house 1 day per week to work in office about 2 hours away, but well worth it. I lived down there for 10 years and never really enjoyed it after growing up here.

After the 6 inches today the old man and I shoveled all the roofs up to deer camp and my grandmother's house. Closing in on 2 feet that'll all end up in the river by Wednesday night. At least I got to take my 98 tundra camp sled for a 2 mile ride up to camp, almost as much fun as my 2024

Close to 6 inches out of this little clipper, another 0,4 inches of QPF to help flood the river...

Don't know why I even tried to hope this wouldn't happen again. Hopefully all the cables holding our bridges hold again We maintain categorical PoPs with rain in this timeframe for the 5th straight forecast cycle as confidence continues to increase in this event. Moisture transport into the area is anomalous and on a par with storms in Dec 2023. A powerful low level jet will draw deep moisture northward from the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday into Wednesday night.

Less snow to melt in the rain, last thing we need to do is replace another 40 snowmobile bridges 2 years in a row! For the rain, while the area has been in a drought, the frozen ground will produce quick runoff and threaten to break up existing river ice. With QPF measured in inches, hydro concerns cannot be ignored.

Oh well, let's get the misery now and get back to winter before Christmas hopefully. Every God damn year except for 2018 this happens From the NWS: As the trough sharpens and pushes east on Wednesday, a more coherent frontal system forms over the Appalachians. This frontal system, in combination with subtropical ridging in the open Atlantic, works to push a surge of moisture and warmer air north into our area Wednesday into Wednesday night. This has the potential to bring rain, possibly heavy, lots of melting, and possibly some hydrological concerns Wednesday night into Thursday.