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If this pattern materializes in summer I’m worried the pavement will turn into molten magma

And you're way too hyperbolic--your sarcasm doesn't come across clearly on here. You have emotional sports takes on here sometimes so it can be hard to tell when you're serious and when you're not. And I'm not so sure...4 of the 10 players that have left went to play for Harbaugh, and we know Lindy left for a deal we would've been insane to make. As for the other 5...maybe. But will find out for sure tomorrow.

Our warm spring temperatures continued today, and the morning was starting off with crystal clear skies, so it was another good one to get out. My colleague Mark was in town for one more day of his work/ski trip, and in terms of our schedules, we both had enough time for a longer session on the mountain. He’s been wanting to get in a longer tour to learn the route that would bring him from Bolton Valley’s Nordic & Backcountry Network right up to the top of the Wilderness lift-served terrain, so that was the goal of today’s outing. We started off fairly early, around 8:30 A.M., so the snow was hard in many areas from the overnight freeze. But with the timing of the tour, we didn’t expect to be starting out first descent until mid-morning, and by that point the snow should have softened. Indeed, another round of temperature cycling has helped consolidate the snowpack further, and compared to yesterday, snow travel was easier to manage with the areas off the packed trails not quite as soft and bottomless. Our tour today took us up the Bryant Trail, past the Bryant Cabin and onto Birch Loop and Heavenly Highway. Since we were so close during part of our route, we took a few extra minutes and looped out onto Stowe View so that Mark could take in the scenery from that local apex of the trail network. We then connected to Paradise Pass to get us back to Heavenly Highway and reach the Wilderness lift-served terrain. We finished our ascent at the Wilderness Summit, then made a descent on Wilderness and finished off the day with a few Vista lift-served runs since Mark wanted to use up the free lift rides that came with his Bolton NBU season pass. With another round of consolidation, I’d say today’s on piste snow conditions were the best I’ve encountered this week at Bolton. We were also making our descents earlier today, so that played into getting firmer snow as well. There were still sticky areas of snow out there, and the usual springtime ski rules applied, with high-angle terrain and terrain with manmade snow offering some of the best turns. We skied runs on the steep slopes of Spillway and Hard Luck, and those offered far and way the best conditions – steep turns with great spring snow and nothing sticky to worry about. Even moderate angle terrain like Beech Seal was excellent as well though, so the spring conditions are clearly settling in better each day with consolidation and grooming. I did also spend about 45 minutes prepping my bases yesterday evening with multiple rounds of cleaning to get off the spring gunk that had accumulated from my previous sessions, then a coat of regular wax and a finishing coat of Zardos Base Boost™. That certainly helped on any stickier areas of snow, but on those steeper areas of good spring snow, you’d all set with whatever condition your base was in.

Asterisk because I think the snowfall total was a little inflated, but still very impressive.

You love it dry anyway.

I’m 37/33 with clear skies. Wondering if I can actually freeze up a little bit tonight?

I think this is more like 2015, just one month forward. February looks like it's going to be the last month of the cold pattern in the East, just as March 2015 was. I get the feeling that April will torch in the East, and finally see a cool down in the West, like May 2015. We never get a cold winter and cold spring in the same year anymore.

Man, Italy has to be wired after all the espressos they are drinking in the dugout after this USA debacle.

Line looks to be slowly strengthening as it crosses Lake Michigan

No sense breaking the 10 year streak now.

The rubber band had to snap back. I’ll take an early mid 80’s in March if it’s seasonable and below for met winter. That said, since some are grading winter here, I’d give it a C, but mainly because the last six or seven have been far less.

Yep. Looks about right.

Nobody knows what's happening. I love it.

I heard either the tornado or some nasty straight line winds. But thankfully no damage to the house. I was going to get out and see how close it got. But unfortunately right outside the neighborhood there’s already tree and powerline damage so I’ll have to check in the morning. Power’s out and cell service is jammed and slowwwww. I can’t even load Facebook and whatnot to see what people are sharing locally.

Wow you guys hit 85 today? That is THIRTY DEGREES ABOVE THE AVG for Dale City! Man this is gonnabe a super HOT summer! N VA beat us in the high temperature department today, 85 degrees, Buda only eked out 82 lmao

I have had my share of luck with Analfrontal in the past. You need to move NW.

it's kinda funny that this is basically treated as the record, because everyone knows Wilt's 100 point record will never, ever be broken.

lol Team USA looks like shit tonight. If they play like this, teams like Venezuela, DR, Japan will wipe the floor with them.

Supercell is making another go at it just south of @sbnwx85before the line overruns it in a little over an hour or so

Glad to hear you're okay! Current plan is for me to be on the survey team in southern Kankakee tomorrow. We'll have another team heading into Newton and Jasper. Hope everyone else from the area that posts on the board is alright and no friends or family were significantly affected.

Well, hello HiResW FV3!

And we’ve gained anafront “snow”. What a reversal

Wait what the fuck is going on here.

I would give it a double D here. Pretty brutal.

Do you know when the last day was where the US as a whole was below the 1991-2020 average? It seems like it's been weeks.