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Yeah that map was older. I’m sure the updated one will fill in the entire state much more! .

Yeah the Canadians look decent but Ukie is showing a bust for the southern half of the province including Halifax. Although looks like so far the system is west of what the globals have been tracking? Will be interesting to see what the short range models show in the morning.

Yeah I am eating a little crow but I don't mind that

We had another cold January Saturday on our hands today, but temperatures were certainly up a notch from what we encountered last weekend. Instead of valley temperatures hovering around 0 F for highs, they were up around 10 F today, so I headed up to the mountain for a ski tour. The temperature was still only around 0 F when I arrived in the Bolton Valley Village around midday, and it was busy, but not “holiday weekend” type of busy, and I was able to get a parking spot right in the backcountry access lot. Thanks to Winter Storm Fern and the subsequent systems that have come through the area, we’ve had over two feet of new snow in the valley over the past week, and the Bolton Valley snow report was indicating 30 inches of snow at the resort in the past 7 days. The powder is still deep and plentiful, but the powder quality certainly isn’t up where it was right after Winter Storm Fern. That storm cycle concluded with a period of incredibly dry 1-3% H2O powder; that champagne was so incredibly light and dry that it skied like a dream on any sort of pitch. Powder of that airy nature would naturally settle rapidly on its own, and it’s easily been crushed by the snows of these more recent storms. The powder from this week’s smaller systems certainly wasn’t too dense, with snow densities in the 2-7% H2O range, but the tail end of our most recent one did finish off with some fine-grained flakes that came around 10% H2O. In combination with the powder settling on its own and under the new snow, I even encountered some areas of wind slab out there on my tour. All told, the combination of depth and density in the powder out there today couldn’t support good turns on low-angle terrain, so you had to hit mid-angle terrain or steeper. I toured up and around the Bryant Cabin today at elevations in the 2,000’ to 2,800’ range and settled powder depths were typically 14-15” on the low end, and 21-25” on the high end. So, I may be dissecting the finer points of the snow density, but there’s absolutely some fantastic powder out there. I initially descended through Gotham City and did a bit of exploring on new terrain, then I did another quick ascent to get a descent through Gotham in the Gun Sight area, which yielded some of the best turns of the day. There really hasn’t been a ton of traffic in many areas of the Nordic and Backcountry Network yet, so as long as you find those areas with appropriate pitches for the deep powder, you can get in some really nice turns. The resort looked like it was actually getting a little busier when I was leaving in the early to mid-afternoon period – the sun was coming out and the temperatures were climbing a bit, so that was the little extra nudge that people might have needed to get out for a few runs.

March 18 will find a way to happen again.

I measured 6 inches in December, A guy literally posted 5.5 inches a mile north of me and NWS Wakefield posted the map and we were 4 inches.

8 1/4" Snow in Dry Fork. Still snowing but the heaviest is over i believe. What a Storm for so many!

My wife is barely surviving NS winter, Newfoundland would break her

The Canadian model runs today and the UkMet have been pretty good showing the storm closer to Nova Scotia.

9", should be about wrapped up

Nice little clip of light snow again in Winston Salem. Somewhere near 8.5 inches now

HRRR new snow

Again...agreed on the fast flow. Said that a few times....but if you are getting stuck in forcing patterns that destructively interfere with east coast amplification, you have two options: 1 The storms develop and amplify elsewhere....great leakes 2 You get a storm on the southeast coast in a cold pattern that can't amplify enough to clime the coast until it's over Atlantic, and becomes a Maritimes storm. I agree I don't think it's permanent...Mother Nature will find a way.

I do think parts of that map were old like around Lancaster. We absolutely got more snow between 3 and 6pm but the report stayed the same.

When 1979 2010 patterns pop up the same time as cyclogenesis you end with snow to SC

temps have leveled off here - 16F at DCA, 18F here.

Give me a pure Miller A with the low forming in the Gulf and going up the coast next time lol

Things appear to be winding down. Very cold and windy. Going to be blowing snow all night. Probably will end up with 3 inches here.

YES..absolutely agreed,...we have had extended periods of unfavorable forcing. I'm not saying this is anything that hasn't happened before, but I just think the CC is enhancing it a bit this go around...just like it will enhance the snow the next time we get croacked. The west pac warmth is enhancing the MJO in the crap phases, an making it averse to the favorable phases.

Sheesh. Yea, the Caribbean is like that. Very little difference between high and low temps, and when it rains it's like a heavy mist.

Rgem ticked north

Yup. It always has to be a CC attribution with some of these people…what a dam joke.

You should have moved to Newfoundland, they seem to be ground zero now. Could this F'n storm disappoint any other regions? 87 pages and the entire northeast US may not see a tenth of an inch out of it.

Was an epic tracking week. Honestly this storm could have been a monster. It’s rare to get snow at these temps and ratios.

But that is why the fast flow narrative is flawed…when it is used to say that’s why no coastals for SNE. Because if that was the case, there’d be zero coastals, and there’s a nice one going on tonight. The reason it’s not getting to us is more than just one single thing. And those things at some point will correct themselves, and put us back in the coastal business. You’re right, It’s not permanent. And it’s not the (only) reason why we haven’t had a good coastal. And Of course it’s happened before.