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Down to 7.4 now come on cold you can do it!

-1.5F outside. Oven on 360°. Full rack of St. Louis BBQ ribs in oven.

Today was not a fun day to deliver the mail. Gloves and handwarmers for the win

If Saranac Lake hits -40 tonight, I’ll go there and shovel @WxWatcher007driveway I after the next snowstorm greater than 6”.

That map could verify with +1 departures and another foot of snow on the ground. Junk!

They played a hell of a game but it hurt my Tobacco Road heart to see them storm the floor lol.

I miss the old windchill chart lol

Measured 1.5” of snow from overnight. I have 13.5” of snow on the ground. All powder too, a stark contrast to the icebergs down in the city. .

It doesn't compare to the likes of Valentines Day 2016 or Feb 2023. We just don't see temperatures like that very often in this area. In the past 35 years PVD has gotten below -5F only three times. 01/16/04, 02/14/16 and 02/04/23. Overall it is a rare event and there are many winters where it doesn't even get down to zero. Hence why we are now in USDA Hardiness Zone 7A.

-18!! It’s absolutely brutal.

Winds gusting to 53mph here. Windchill was -15 at ISP last hour.

Oh man. It's one thing to be in this weather just to get in and out of the car. It's another thing to be out working in it (or even, to a much lesser extent, just waiting 15 minutes for a train.) Working by the water no less. I can't even fathom it.

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In other news... Go Heels!! Lol

Oh nelly wind blew over chip the 30ft ice cream man on 309 in Coopersburg

Down to -0.3 Thinking -6 ish for the low

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I was just outside myself for a bit, deep deep winter, embrace it. 4/-8, windchill only -7.

For those who are complaining about the cold try working on a barge or on the dock on the Hudson today. Today my men were on the dock for 45 min trying to tie up the barge and offload to it. Unfortunately with the strong winds and ice the vessel had trouble getting close enough to the dock. Eventually they were successful. .

Also I would not be shocked if the post PD warmup gets muted like all the other ones have since New Year's.

Jeb Walk

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This pretty consistent

Long range 12z EPS today brings cold back the last week of Feb

We’ve got yet another weekend on our hands with well below average temperatures, and when you’re talking this time of year in the mountains of Northern Vermont… that’s cold. Seeing the forecast, my plan for the weekend had always been to get out Saturday morning to hopefully get in a tour before the frigid air became fully entrenched. The cold came in quickly though, and there really wasn’t much hope in outpacing it today – by the time I arrived up in the Bolton Valley Village, it was already -3 F, and there were brisk winds throwing the wind chill well down into the double digits below zero. Despite the temperatures, the parking lots indicated that there were a good number of visitors, but I was still able to get a trailside spot in the second backcountry lot that let me gear up out of the wind. As of their early morning report, Bolton Valley was reporting just a couple inches of snow from our current system, but once I was out on the trail, I knew that report would be increasing – I was consistently finding a half foot of new snow in previously packed areas that had not yet seen any skier traffic. With just a couple of inches of new snow reported, I was initially debating between going with mid-fat or full-fat skis, but the decision to take out the fat skis was easy when I knew there was still going to be plenty of terrain out there that hadn’t seen a skier in a couple of weeks. Indeed, fat skis were the way to go today; between another half foot of fresh snow on top of the depth of powder that was already out there, it was clearly the call. With no big snowpack consolidation events in recent weeks, the depths of the surface powder just continue to grow. I toured in the 2,000’ to 2,800’ range today, and powder depths in untouched areas were consistently 20 to 30 inches. I toured up past Bryant Cabin onto Birch Loop and Heavenly Highway, and my initial plans to hit some lower-angle slopes on my descent quickly went out the window. With the snow a bit slow due to subzero temperatures, and 20 to 30 inches of powder to slow you down, low-angle slopes were generally off the menu. I stuck to roughly the same tour I had planned down through the Not a Trail area, Gardiner’s Lane, North Slope, Gotham City, and Alchemist, but with the available powder conditions I could dive into the steepest lines I wanted, and those delivered the best turns. So, if you head out into the backcountry around here in the Northern Greens, shoot for steep to accommodate the deep.