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1 minute ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Anyone heard from MPM?  He take a toaster bath in Bathe?

Check back in a bit. We still have few hours of waiting to go.

The show haven't start here yet. 27 F at DAW.

3 minutes ago, tunafish said:

PWM at 8", i'm gonna sell that 

 

 

Agree it's a bit high. I like 3-6" range here and there.

1 minute ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

I'm in Nashua, so I am in GYX's CWA

I knew you're in GYX's CWA. I probably should've word it differently to "they were like this..."

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Sometimes, Its better to make less adjustments rather then yo yo the grids.

Yep. GYX's adjustments between shifts are more aggressive than anywhere I've been to. GSP office (covering mountains of North Carolina) would start conservative before working their way up or not changing anything. GYX like to be aggressive and stay on top of current models rather than working their way toward the solution slowly.

1 minute ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

The lack of consistency between shifts is amusing. I went from 7" to 4" to 8" in the last 3 updates (that I saw).

GYX was like this with the flip-flopping at times last year too. Hilarious stuff.

Feeling comfortable with 3-7" for Dover. Nothing too wild. 

12 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

I'll take this and run.

20*

Sometimes I still can't believe I live in an area where this is a regular stuff. That said, 6-8" would be a very impressive start to the season!

7 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

NAM drops a general 8-12” in SNE 

I'd bet most of that is clown maps doing clown map things. Look like there's some mixing in there that could exaggerate the total and I doubt it'll fall as 10:1 ratio.

5 minutes ago, dryslot said:

We will give you another year to get upset about warm november's up here.

Honestly, I don't think that'll ever change especially after days of cold rain 

This is ideal for me in New England. Warm November so we can switch over to chilly pattern in December. Funny thing is, I'd be upset if November torches in North Carolina because 70s/80s is not my idea of fun to enjoy autumn weather there. 50s/60s is perfect for this time of year.

13 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Is paint.NET compatible with a MAC?

Anyone?

I don't believe so. Didn't realize you're a MAC user.

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Town of Stowe itself is mostly 700-800ft where all the restaurants and bars are on Mountain Road and RT 100.  

On RT 108 towards themountain you hit 1,000ft at like the Matterhorn Bar only a couple miles from the ski resort.  

So on Sunday the flow was unblocked, so we actually were seeing the light upslope precipitation from Mansfield.  Despite being on a WNW wind, the most consistent precip (still just 3-8sm -SN/--SN) was falling on the east slope.  Snow showers were going well downwind of the mountains in that set-up with not much on the west side actually.

Huh that's interesting! I think calling it "downslope" was clearly poor choice of word, but you know more about your own area's geography than I ever will in my whole life. But I figured at least the snow was coming from Mt. Mansfield's orographic effect as the wind was WNW. I was a research assistant for a study on orographic effect snow in mountains of North Carolina so I had some idea on what was going on.

5 minutes ago, eyewall said:

Thankfully now they put a stop to cars parking on the bridge itself. There is a pull off just after with a trail back to it. You have to hike up onto a rock nearby to get the above shot. Two hurricanes, excessive rain, and the Sept/early Oct death ridge all did it in this time. 

That's what I did. I hiked up about quarter of the mile to that spot you're talking about for the famous angle (the second picture from top). 

I don't remember how good NC fall foliage was last year (I was up here), but 2016 was awful because of the wildfire smoke to point it wasn't healthy to hike.

1 hour ago, eyewall said:

Here are a few shots with some enhancement (though nothing too crazy) of the foliage in the NC Mountains. It is considered a dud up there as well (worst in over a decade). That said, there were still some nice views:

 

That was a fun photography spot when I went in 2015 (aka the last decent foliage season there). It took me 45 minutes to get one shot of Linn Cove Viaduct completely clear because tourists kept stopping in middle of the bridge. You're right, I've seen way better colors there... but beautiful pictures anyway!

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Lots of leaf drop/sticks down here and those hanging on would probably come down with any amount of wet snow. There's still some oaks hanging on in the area, but at my house they're close to dropping. Almost all of the green in that pic has to be pines.

We just peaked and have a lot of leaf drop too. I'd say S NH/Mass is borderline between normal and delayed foliage season. Apparently it's way overdue down south by weeks.

41 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah that was impressive given the date and how lightly it was snowing that it could stick.  

I'm up at work at the ski resort and it's obviously snowing hard above 2,000-2,500ft with fresh white on the trails in the past hour down to a little below 2,500ft.  Trees are white up there too.  A few catpaws on the windshield at 1,500ft but it's 38F and rain in the end.

Not bad! Mountains were covered in the mist of snow showers so I couldn't tell what was going on up there. However, the town of Stowe itself (1,000 feet?) had a nice burst of flurries sticking to everything for about two to three hours. It was really impressive for the downslope region.

3 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Coastal NH is not really NNE... it might as well be Scooter's house     climo there is more mild that further up an in.

Could be nice on the coast as far as wind and rain

39 minutes ago, rimetree said:

Agreed...this is more CNE and climo is milder especially this time of year compared to up north (ocean influence). But later in the season we tend to do well especially in 128/495 systems compared to Boston, points south. As for this upcoming storm, hoping we can take a few limbs down but this doesn't look as impressive as it did last week.

I forgot the CNE definition exist. But agree we're milder than folks up north.

On 10/21/2018 at 5:51 PM, powderfreak said:

Crazy that we are actually getting the light snow to stick here in the valley now on October 21st.  White dusting on cars, rooftops and some grassy areas.

I was up in Stowe on Sunday evening. Certainly impressive to have dusting on my car when I got back to it after dinner!

Better late than never, but saw my first snow of the winter in Stowe couple days ago. It's coming.

2 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

I say this every year around this time. Do yourselves a big favor (mainly those in SNE)..and don't get invested in storms until December. 

I'm in NNE and I'm not investing into storms until then either.

4 hours ago, eyewall said:

Not this year. It is a failed foliage season in western NC for now. The highest elevations are dull and browning out with leaf drop. Below that, the color doesn't seem to want to go and is over 2 weeks behind at this point. Not sure if there will be much of anything but going from green to brown as the leaves drop off. 

I saw that from friends. That's three poor years in the row going back to awesome foliage season of 2015.

On 10/16/2018 at 3:29 PM, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Yea, far from ideal.

Someone gave me a good suggestion at the end of last year, but I didn't write it down, unfortunately

I think that was me. 

paint.NET is a good, simple, and free program. Less of a learning curve than GIMP. Got the job done when I created graphics back in my blogging days.

Download: https://www.getpaint.net/download.html

16 minutes ago, J Paul Gordon said:

I must live in a micro autumnal optimum (compared to others) Colors are vibrant here in Worcester city. Actually on or ahead a little, though I can't figure out why with all the rain and warmth. Anyhow it's very nice. Even our "bad" foliage is amazing by the standards of most other folk living in the coo/cold temperate zones. Only northern Japan, parts of Korea, and some of our own upper Great Lakes areas and adjacent Canada can compete. 

High elevation areas of western North Carolina are pretty good too.

Nothing against anyone personally, but chasing in a major hurricane is just dumb. Glad it appear everyone in the chasing community made it out.