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“Our”? Seems ok to me.

Today was a pack destroyer down here, no doubt. Lucky that it was such a moisture-packed glacier, holding onto about 3-5 inches of actual pack. Piles still going strong, that’s gonna take a lot more to melt through. Back down to 28f.

Growing up in central NJ, 60-61 was unbelievable. Three major snowstorms of a foot plus, The first, starting on a Saturday night (maybe Dec 9th) and ending Sunday closed schools for the whole week. The other two storms were in Jan and early Feb. Afterwards, I wondered why we did not get storms like that every year.

My wife and I headed up to Bolton Valley for a lift-served session this morning, so I can pass along the conditions updates. We planned to spend our time on Timberline and arrived there right around the opening of the Timberline Quad. Being a holiday weekend, we were a bit worried about how busy the resort was going to get, but the Timberline Quad remained at pretty much walk-on levels of traffic right up through noontime when we were done. So, skier traffic was relatively light, but the snowfall from the larger storm earlier in the week was really spread out over the course of multiple days (Tuesday through Thursday). So, with respect to lift-served terrain, that storm’s powder has certainly been skied. Therefore, on piste areas and easily accessed off piste areas are mostly packed at this point, and we had to travel a bit farther afield to get into untracked lines. We did pick up another inch or two of snow today down at our place in the valley, and it snowed lightly all morning on the mountain to add similar amounts, so that added another layer of freshened up snow. In general, the powder was in excellent shape, albeit with a bit more settling that what I encountered on my ski tour yesterday. We actually encountered a bit of sun/melt crust on some southerly aspects down around 1,500’, so be aware of that possibility if you’re planning to hit a any low elevation terrain with substantial southerly exposure. On piste conditions were excellent packed powder aside from the usual areas that have a manmade base, so it looks like the holiday weekend will continue to roll on with great midwinter conditions in the Northern Greens.

From 54 to 34 and dew does not rise

This storm is crap

yep I lost 3 plus inches in my front yard today

-Slightly on the lower side of climo snowfall for PWM, but season-to-date is still considered AVG. -Relatively persistent cold ---2 weeks in Jan AN but not a torch and no f*kn cutters. -Plenty of days with sun and little or no wind. Oh boo hoo it was only 12°. shh. -P-sure Xmas was white, too.

Everything going to shit Not our winter

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I want 80 more at SLK lol

Temps 22-54 today, with sun. Significant range. Did some shoveling , but ice on the north side remains impenetrable even though meltwater ponded on top. Have been using old rubber mats and wood ash to keep walking paths safe. Not much longer I guess .

She sold her soul to the junk man….

It just snowed south of Tampa. Islip NY just had 19 consecutive days with a low temp of 19° or colder, the longest stretch on record, going back to the 1800s. It snowed 10" in Florida last Winter, which was the most on record for the state since the 1800s, previous record 4". There is meteorological reasoning, it's not because Donald decided to drive his car today. I'm not arguing with you global warming in general: There are macro states that explain it well. I think it's more about you complaining and not wanting to concede that this was predicted 8 days ago, by methods you disagreed with. I'm not really engaging in your tangent about "where have all the borderline storms gone". I said it before, and I'll say it in the future, the Pacific with +450dm is extreme, and a fast Pacific jet disconnects the northern stream, and floods the US with low level warm air. A storm like this gets cutoff from the freezing line. It's not a borderline event at all: Our average high temp in the heart of Winter in strong -PNA is mid 40s. I don't care if 6% of the examples broke the trend. I know in 97-98 we had these "perfect track rainstorms" all the time.. I think 72-73 too. etc. I know the average statistics, and you are riding hard on anomalies, it usually won't work out.

Here are some that I got. One is the lunar eclipse from March 2025...if you look closely, those are actually stars to the right in the photo. The normally bright full moon would have totally obscured those, but during a total lunar eclipse, it is very muted. The others include: a double rainbow, an incoming storm near sunset, blood-red clouds near sunset, and mammatus clouds at the edge of a storm (maybe from the same storm that @Bob Chill showed above??). I always like the sunset colors, the sky and any clouds change color constantly.

I'm starting to catch your angst over this and I don't like it, lol I'm gonna just pretend a better PDO will save the day...and or simply believe the next Niño will finally deliver our HECS

I'm kinda impressed at how well the Euro AI did: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=ec-aifs&region=us&pkg=mslp_pcpn&runtime=2026020718&fh=192

maybe lock it until the first flakes lol

Today's split EWR: 47 / 28 (+3) NYC: 46 / 29 (+2)

My suggestion...ride that thing into the ground until jeep prices come down. Those engines and transmissions can last unless you're off-roading on the regular.

Lock the thread, and models come north, unlock thread models go south ... Hmm

Nam and rrfs are worse Looking like a inch to 2 inches for NYC. I was looking back at some model runs of the Ukie , gfs and euro and they had a big storm at one point. I think the CMC never showed a big storm.

Let's make it two more days so it's a clear #2.

Strong -PNA's and +EPO downstream effect is underestimated in the medium range by all models.