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Nice steady snow in Methuen..good snow growth...bordering on moderate at times!

i now wait til june 1st. tired of cold snaps late in the season, and the plants produce well into the fall these days, so no worries. get plenty of everything waiting til the first, and still sometimes get cold snaps....

Good points. By the way, the DCA February 24th temperature data are still officially missing. During that day, I noted a temperature range there of 27 to 40 and so used that to calculate my averages, but that range could change marginally. I'm unsure whether the weather station at DCA is having equipment problems or what's going on there, but missing data has been reported there several times in recent weeks.

#wedged

It was getting late before I had a chance to post, so here’s yesterday’s report from Bolton Valley: I hadn’t been up to the mountain since Sunday, and I hadn’t followed the temperatures too closely over the past week, but in terms of powder preservation, it looked like temperatures had remained below freezing through the period. Our highest temperature here in the valley had been 36 F, which meant that 2,000’ should have remained safely above the freezing line. In terms of new snow, it hasn’t been a particularly snowy week – there was a decent storm with about a foot of snow at the beginning of last weekend, and then a clipper system with a few inches midweek, but that was about it. Driving up in the early to midmorning period, it was already approaching 40 F in the valley and in the Bolton Valley Village at 2,000’ it was just above the freezing mark. As I was gearing up for a ski tour, the winds picked up and light snow moved into the area, and the snow continued for roughly the next hour. My ascent was via the Bryant Trail, and on the ascent it was tough to tell exactly where the freezing line was, but by 2,500’ I was definitely above it. I continued on the Catamount Trail and up to the Catamount Trail Glades, topping out around 3,200’. The higher elevations had definitely remained below freezing all week, because there was some excellent dry powder out there, but you had to pay attention to aspect and wind exposure. Even up above 3,000’, areas with southern exposure or areas touched by winds had seen some notable degradation to the quality of the powder in the form of wind and/or sun crusts. They were relatively minor, but definitely enough to change the surface snow texture and make the turns more challenging. Outside of those areas though, the powder was dry and the turns were great. Without much new snow in the past several days though, the powder had settled, so that did play into terrain options. Although the settled powder wasn’t as good for tight lines on steep pitches as we’d seen last week, it was definitely an improvement with respect to its utility for moderate and lower-angle pitches. I caught some fantastic lines through the trees in spots I hadn’t visited before, including a new glade route into Gotham City that was quite fun. I can’t say that it was a perfect descent all the way back down to 2,000’ however, because the freezing level had begun to rise. Like a light switch, as soon as I hit the 2,400’ elevation on my descent, I reached the freezing line and the powder changed and became wet and sticky. It was essentially unskiable at that point, so I returned to the Bryant Trail and finished my descent there. That was at midday, so I’m not sure if the freezing level moved any higher than that, but any snow that did stay above the freezing level should be in good shape heading into next week with temperatures staying below freezing for the next few days.

Blizzard conditions

Chickens are done with snow. Best snow growth of the year lol

I had a truck totalled due to high snowbanks, not this year, early 2000s. I was inching out on a blind corner and some guy came around the blind corner and slid on ice and TBoned me.

Solid 1/2S. Nice to cover the brown snow for at least a little while.

Good snow now. Too bad it lasts an hour.

Bump for the ( learning impaired + asshole)/2

The next period starting to show up on the ensembles. We will see if its cold enough tk het CPK to 50 inches.

Thanks, Mitch. Although we have to take this CANSIPS run with a huge grain with it being so far out as @snowman19correctly reminded us, it is at least encouraging from my perspective to see this for two reasons: -decent chance at a much less active ACE hurricane season vs recent years in 2026 -next winter’s E US cold potential Regarding next winter, this run for Jan 2027 is colder in practically the entire lower 48 vs the run from one year ago for Jan of 2026: Current 2m run for Jan ‘27: N America has the largest and most intense area of BN on globe and is slightly colder than last month’s run: One year ago’s 2m run for Jan of ‘26:

Not a single measurable snow for the month.

My TWC forecast has a chance of showers or rain from the 3rd through the 15th. Only two days of sun. Yay for spring in the NE. With we could just jump to June.

Can I beat Feb's 0" of snow?

17 years ago, the Nor'easter that kicked off the great 7-9 year stretch of storms:

Light snow and thin coatings in Armonk, NY:

Still snowing moderately and starting to stick on pavement, temp 33F

I'll take 45 and rain if it reduces these snow banks. . I want my two way streets back. Enough of this shit.

i thought the same thing to myself. Reminded me exactly of the way Jan 25-26th started, about the same time, first started off as small dense flakes, roads were cold so the first bit of accumulation started filling up the roads and wisping around not melting at all...then 20 min later the roads were just wet. Bout to come to an end here shortly.

Going to be awesome

Yeah, the wind I could certainly do without... dammit.

Oh wow we pray