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Never had a chance here. Plain plain rain.

One of my colleagues arrived in town this afternoon for a skiing/work visit and wanted to get in a quick tour up at Bolton Valley to start off his trip, so I joined him for the outing. With the late afternoon/evening timing, I suggested that a tour via the Wilderness Uphill Route would be the easiest option; we were unsure of how things would play out with respect to the availability of daylight. I also wasn’t sure about what to expect in terms of the quality of the off piste skiing based on recent spring temperature cycling. It looks like temperatures stayed relatively cool on the mountain today, since they had certainly stayed cool in the valley relative to yesterday, but I suspect it was yesterday’s temperatures that cycled the snow surfaces. On our ascent, we could feel that the on piste snow had seen at least a mild refreeze – it was crunchy and all the contours were locked in place. My colleague had his headlamp, but we weren’t really prepared for a full descent in the dark, so we decided to design our tour to head toward the Vista terrain for a descent under the night skiing lights. We did start the initial part of the descent on the unlit Wilderness terrain, and it skied much like the ascent suggested it would – the groomed snow was OK, but it was still crunchy and existing contours were locked in place. What we quickly discovered though was that snow areas that were protected from southerly exposure were far better – the snow there had not seen much temperature cycling at all, so the skiing surface was typically soft and quite pleasant. Once we joined onto the groomed night skiing terrain we got into areas where skier traffic and grooming had done a lot to push around the snow and soften it up. With the temperatures well below freezing, that snow had a good winter consistency and skied well, but it was still variable from spot to spot depending on sun exposure and levels of skier traffic, so you had to make sure you skied in the right spots for the best snow quality.

And so it begins... RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PEACHTREE CITY GA 0835 PM EST THU MAR 05 2026 ...RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT ATLANTA... A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 81 DEGREES WAS SET AT ATLANTA TODAY. THIS TIES THE OLD RECORD OF 81 DEGREES SET IN 1955.

1.40” so far.

That's a pretty beefy band of precip just north of the pike west or Worcester. Could have some moderate icing if that all falls in as freezing rain when it gets here.

0.25" here. 31.6 IP and grains

Predominantly sleet up until this point, but now appears to be transitioning over to snow. 0.6" sleet accumulation so far.

Euro seasonal going crazy for Strong El Nino later this year

Still grainy crap....oh well, at least I'll sleep safely.

Bad post

Nice car wash and street cleaning tonight.

I hope so

1.20 at my station for the day so far. Nice beneficial rain which as others have said will do some cleaning of the streets and sidewalks

At the national harbor for a 2 day work thing. Raining here but haven’t heard thunder. Of course I’d miss Frederick’s first thunder of the year lol

We're talking big time stuff, a major league blizzard the way I see it. Thanks for making this thread. One of the all time great storms and of course I-95 busts of all time. A truly long duration event too, we'll probably never see something like that in our lifetimes with this new fast flow BS. I bet schools didn't close ahead of time like they do now. The good old days, when you had to wait to see if your school closed at the bottom of the screen on NBC30.

that's a lot of rain

solid coating of sleet. mostly sleet, don't see any snow. very low 150' asl

We are starting to see the Indian ocean set up with respect to wind anomalies the El Nino like response. The kicker so far has been the lack of westerlies getting too far east and the still (weak overall) enhanced easterlies across Nino 1+2. 2023 featured a fairly broad area of westerly anomalies across 1+2 and eastern 3 around this time so it makes me think this may end up being more Central Pac oriented versus East Pac but plenty of time to discuss. I do wonder how we impact the hurricane season coming up with atmospherically we seem to be taking our time transitioning out of the Nina like state.

I would think days and days of slowly melting snow the ground must be drenched?

All snow here, just a coating.

.85” of rain today for me. .6” of that was in an hour and half this evening.

Euro weeklies say we’ve just got to deal with a chilly third week of March and then we are gold.

My initial report was off - we were mostly sleet until maybe 50 minutes ago when we switched to all snow. Currently a little more than a dusting over a thin layer of sleet. RAP has another 9-10 hours of this, which is nice -- I think we will end up with the 1-3'' NWS is forecasting. Too bad it will all melt tomorrow lol.

SOI is not budging yet 5 Mar 2026 1010.85 1003.90 13.59 10.96 8.17 4 Mar 2026 1011.34 1003.15 19.53 11.31 7.65 3 Mar 2026 1010.85 1002.70 19.34 11.46 6.95 2 Mar 2026 1010.44 1002.95 16.18 11.70 6.42 1 Mar 2026 1011.79 1003.40 20.49 11.80 6.11 28 Feb 2026 1011.80 1003.50 17.10 11.49 5.74 27 Feb 2026 1011.02 1003.50 13.35 11.33 5.53 3 of the last 5 months have been >+10 SOI, after 31 straight months under +10 (March 2023-Sept 2025). In the 2023 Super El Nino, the SOI was near 0 monthly March and April. Only in May 2023 did it have its first solid negative period, when El Nino was already happening. Almost 32 consecutive months >0 SOI July 2020 - Feb 2023.

There should be a few hour period of pretty damned strong lift ahead of that sharp height fall/dryslot. That should start reaching us within an hour or so…sooner out west. If Ray’s area can flip to snow pretty quickly during that, then def several inches is on the table. But if it stays very mixy…