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That's pretty impressive. I live in a twin and I'm exposed to the West/Northwest, so get blasted by the cold winds. Small house so doesn't take long to hear up. Normally nerd humidifier on in Jan and Feb.

By midweek, our protracted period of snowfall was winding down here in the Northern Greens, and we finally began to get some views of the mountains. When the clouds broke away you could see that the mountains were absolutely plastered with snow – the snowpack depth at the Mt. Mansfield Stake topping out near 40 inches will attest to that. Also notable in the views was the very low snow line – it reached way down below 1,000’ into the valleys. I hadn’t been out to the hill since Monday when the storm was still going strong, but I had enough time yesterday to go on a ski tour for my workout. I was unsure if the lower elevations of Timberline were still going to be offering good powder turns, but when I parked and checked out the snow consistency, it seemed quite good, so I decided to tour from there. The snow had definitely settled since Monday; depths at 1,500’ that were 15-20” on that outing were roughly 12” yesterday. There hasn’t been any real melting of the snow, so that really just represented settling of the snowpack, and all the liquid equivalent was still there to support skiing. Areas in direct sun showed greater effects of consolidation, but humidity levels have been low, so even the most affected areas still weren’t getting mushy. The depth of the snowpack definitely increased with elevation, and up around 2,000 – 2,500’ the snow depths were in the 1 to 2 foot range. I didn’t get any higher than that, but above 3,000’ the depths should be fairly similar to the depths at the Mt. Mansfield Stake. By yesterday there had naturally been a lot of additional skier traffic compared to Monday, but there were still plenty of untracked lines available. The very best powder was in areas protected from the sun, but that’s a lot of terrain at this time of year when the sun angle is so low. The snow may have consolidated a bit more today with the current system affecting the area, but as of yesterday, fat skis were still definitely the way to go. There were some areas of deep, unconsolidated snow that could really throw you for a loop. To that point, I hit one especially deep pocket that was 2 to 3 feet of bottomless fluff, and even on my 115 mm boards, everything just dropped away from below me and I wound up going head over heels into deep snow. It was a chore to extricate myself from that. In general though, the skiing just offered more sublime powder turns that would rank right up there with the best midwinter days.

It’s been a while but extremely good high end chocolate

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East Asia gives you some insight of the pattern ahead,yes its never gonna be right because we have different teleconnections,sorta speaking.But honesltly 1,E,you see a ridge building into Mongolia into maybe even Russia,nothing but a trough in a few days as we head towards T-GIVING

.07" here. A deluge, indeed.

Didn’t matter if it was the NWS broadcast or a radio station but the excitement when the forecasted accumulations jumped up! I agree on the info overload nowadays, it’s not nearly as exciting.

Yes Eastern sections had a nice winter

Is it too early to start looking at December? Unfortunately it seems like strong east coast ridging will kick off meteorological winter for us. Still far away, but most long range ensemble guidance supports temps reaching the 50s-70s. Thankfully short lived though as a really cold air mass will advect eastward by around December 5th. EPS Weeklies support a weak SER around this time, so maybe some overunning events next month?

Urging caution when going out beyond 180hrs in a Nina. But alas, majority here are already aware of this.

Welcome to Nina December reality.

Nothing questionable that the Orioles do surprises me.

I am surprised the Orioles tendered an offer to Mountcastle.

For those of you that like to reminisce: Some good memories here. If you watch till the end what do you prefer? The information overload of today or the way is used to be. For me the information of today is great but there was something "magical" as a kid (70's and 80's) with just evening newscasts, scanning the radio dial (1010, 880, 1130) and my little radio shack weather cube. Personally I'm glad I grew up in that era. If you are not old enough to remember any of that you missed out on great times in my opinion. Who can forget the Winter Storm Watch being downgraded to a Travelers Advisory???? Always a great disappointment.

Thats a bummer. Some feel the Mid Atlantic will do well because it is a Nina and its December, however I think we end the month below normal snowfall here, which by Dec. climo is not that much anyway, as far as temps its up and down. Basically nothing remarkable down here. Winters are not great anymore for cold and snowlovers in my hood.

Of course it's not impossible.

Dec 6th it is !

Same page with him on that, but I think we see a reversal in February.

It’s the exact same thing every year for the past 5 years or so. Welcome to our new normal of Pacific warm dominated weather pattern with a sprinkle of flat ridges from the warm Gulf of Mexico and southwestern Atlantic this the cause of your erratic rainfall amounts and very little snow.

I was thinking similarly. If it stays warm up north and doesn't build serious cold early when it's dark, what's left for us later. Considering the warmer background state it seems that as the cold degrades winter will struggle to stay.

December will be very good for us...it's the mid Atlantic that will take the shaft. Not worried in the least. My December analogs show this well.

I think I'll do fine in December.