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Whoa!

Super Nino is not ideal for snow lovers but if you can get just enough cold to go with the hyperactive STJ you can get massive snows like Jan 22, 2016.

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Graupel galore! PXL_20260407_164725496.TS.mp4

@CoastalWxKnowing his measurements, he probably did come up with 2 feet.

Was there a need to measure?

I prefer GIFs to javascript-driven sites like Tidbits because javascript comes with so much baggage. Coolwx has GIF of the GFS at http://coolwx.com/ptype/movie.gif

Pretty gusty with this squall. Seems to be mostly rain but with some graupel mixed in

Snow in the south in April, that 1857 cold snap is hard to imagine.

Snowing now at 45 degrees

...about 2 feet but it will all be melted by the time you return home to methuen...

We did that coming back from Japan in 2016. Flying west, it took 8 hours for 3,600 miles, Honolulu-Tokyo. Returning Tokyo to SF, 5,200 miles, also 8 hours. According to the tracker, we reached 801 mph ground speed while over the Pacific.

January '98 had a 16 inch snowstorm at my house. It was warm before and after though. https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/weather/winter/event/?e=196

Hot start:

28 Aprils here, one (2009) had nary a trace and 2 others had only traces. At the other end, April 2007 had 37.2" - even Fort Kent never had that much. Average is 5". At Gardiner, 13 Aprils included one (1991) with zippo and another with but a trace, average 5.4". Fort Kent April average was 11" and all 3 Aprils at BGR had measurable snow. In fact, both 73-74 and 74-75 had their biggest snowfalls in April, with the 12.0" storm of 4/3-5/75 being the biggest of our BGR winters and the April average was 9". Maine totals for 54 years: 2 without a trace, 4 with only traces, 48 with measurable, average 6.2". Snow staying south so far. GYX says the CF passage with whiten things later today.

Probably somewhere in-between, although there's not a lot of analogs for a strong summer El Nino

Pinger squall .

Great shot MN. Zermatt is my old stomping grounds. My family had an exchange student from down in the Rhone Valley near Brig who worked in the Wega souvenir shop near the train station in Zermatt. She's like another sister to me and we've kept in touch for 45+ years. Through her family and friends in Switzerland I was very fortunate to get indoctrinated into the Swiss culture. Her dad used to drove the cog train from Brig/Visp up to Zermatt (part of the famous Glacier Express train route). First skied the glacier near the Klein Matterhorn in 81 during my first trip to Europe with my parents. Then a few years later lived in Germany for the first of 2 stints there. Skied Zermatt about 20 times, plus Sass Fe, Verbier, Crans Montana, and many other resorts in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France. Did a fair bit of back-country in the Alps too - I used to only telemark ski but doubt my knees could take it now. If you had enough snow to ski from the top of the Klein Matterhorn all the way into town, that's about 8500 vertical feet in one run. About the only other place on earth that will match that much vertical in one run is in Chamonix. Did you have a chance to take the run down the other side into Italy? The run from Plateau Rosa down to Cervina is an awesome run.

I would recommend using Tropical tidbits with the NAM model selected. (Here is a link https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=nam3km&region=us&pkg=mslp_pcpn_frzn&runtime=2026040712&fh=0) It will show the same thing as the previous tool. Of course, you could also change models to some other ones to help as well.

for those of us with a jet stream fetish…might make it supersonic lol

58 already at 11am probably push 60

Potential is definitely there for that to happen.

34, SN. Maybe last of the season here?

Monday and Tuesday some spots could hit 80

HRRR looks like it has a little more incoming for you later today