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Technically part of the valley so alot of people think 100 or less

That's a nice area between Agawam and Westfield, some smaller rolling hills and nice neighborhoods. Certainly a few hundred feet is better than the valley floor in Agawam and Springfield which is down around 60 ft. I'm only about 140 here.

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Just got back to Greenfield. Still close to 100% snow cover, even in town but man, just 5 miles 5-10 miles E of here it was a pretty ragged pack. Looking at Station histories on Wunderground (and according to my wife) it looks like the temps held in the 30's here until between 4-5pm. So only about upper 40's to low 50's for a few hours. Down to 34 now.

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My pack has been obliterated, Swiss cheese at best. I haven't seen almost a foot of snow disappear so fast.

Elevation is all relative, people think I'm high up at 1,100' but then I look at the berks and think they're high so it's nothing to be jealous or nitpicky over.

Crazy inversion this morning, was 43 at my house then when I got down to FIT it was 30 and all the trees were iced up and the roads a mess

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Who's the 4" slant sticker?

lol. That is quite the stand alone measurement.

1/2" snow here...maybe another .25" of ice in the overnight but that part of the system came and went while I was not really paying attention so I am sticking with the 1/2" total for froz.

Snow pack is pretty much a non discussion. Pretty much went from 8" down to scattered patches in shaded areas in a matter of a day.

I am not sure how much faith I have in the 10 day period at this point. After that were close to March which will signal the beginning of the end of an overall craptastic winter.

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Bare lawns here in Augusta, and just patches in the woods.  However, the storm was a net zero at home, though the current 12" pack has a much different character than the 12" of 2 days ago.  Driveway is an ice sheet, though surprisingly non-suicidal walking this morning.  Spread wood ashes anyway before starting the pickup.

 

Yesterday's 46/14 averaged 32.5F milder than Monday's 17/-22, biggest one-day change (in either direction) I've seen here.  Largest such leap came 3/19-20/1976 in Ft. Kent, with 24/-25 then 50/19 for a 35F change.  (Not when I lived there, but records for Jan 1996 show a low of -24 one day and +31 the next - 55F change is respectable.  Only 11F climb in maxima, though.)

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Bare lawns here in Augusta, and just patches in the woods.  However, the storm was a net zero at home, though the current 12" pack has a much different character than the 12" of 2 days ago.  Driveway is an ice sheet, though surprisingly non-suicidal walking this morning.  Spread wood ashes anyway before starting the pickup.

 

Yesterday's 46/14 averaged 32.5F milder than Monday's 17/-22, biggest one-day change (in either direction) I've seen here.  Largest such leap came 3/19-20/1976 in Ft. Kent, with 24/-25 then 50/19 for a 35F change.  (Not when I lived there, but records for Jan 1996 show a low of -24 one day and +31 the next - 55F change is respectable.  Only 11F climb in maxima, though.)

 

I ran through some numbers in my own record going back to 1985 and yesterday's difference of a low of -15° the previous day to this morning's 30° reading is the largest gain I've recorded (45°).  On the minus side, 12/24/1990 had a low of 50° and Christmas day it was 14° for a difference or 36°.

 

In terms of a high temperature difference, my greatest is 45° on 1/8/2014. 

 

4/26 through 4/29/1990 need an honorable mention because we went from a high of 43 on the 25th to a high of 77 on the 26th and then a high of 91 on the 28th to a high of 46 on the 29th.  That's a pretty wild swing for a 4 day period.

 

I may have some dates transposed as I do my daily ob at 7AM but the ranges should be correct.

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