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That’s my actual house, right across from it. Also looking pretty good tonight. 

6 minutes ago, BombsAway1288 said:

 

Yeah that truly looks like a fantasy. 

You sir have an awesome house in an awesome place with an awesome job. I envy you but am happy someone here with a passion gets to live it out 

Ha thanks. I have no complaints for sure. For the record that’s one of my little rental cabins. Anyone can live out the dream, at least for a few days. Although the people checking in tonight haven’t arrived yet, sloooow going

Starting to look like a winter of yore

About 3-4" here. Much heavier than I was expecting. It's gonna be a great week for skiing as long as you're bundled up Michelin man style

26 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

More to come for you guys, hope its cold like that when I'm up there.

Eew why? 20s is perfect. Give me 18-28 and a few inches of upslope every day and I’m all set

-1. I believe it’s the first below 0 of the season

These past few storms have been like an IV to a dying ski season. Bretton Woods has opened up a ton of terrain, including glades and the T bar. Looks like West Mountain will be opening soon as well, making the entire area accessible. Surface is a bit firm - the snowpack is DENSE but we do have 3-5” of fluffier stuff in the forecast, should be great in the upcoming days. 

8 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I wonder how it will look after this ...   For the record ...I suspect this 18z run is kind of bonkers overall - no trolling intended. 

I think we are headed for a reload interlude of yet unknown amplitude - but either way, I'm not sure we're sending 582 dm heights to the Del Marva to get that done.  We'll see... But just J. H. Christ here.  This also hearkens to what I've been saying ( for years really - ) that when the cold air shuts off we seem to almost spring loaded bounce into this outre warm plush across the mid latitudes - or tend to do so. It's been so reproducible over the last 10 years, regardless of whatever discrete or voodoo combination of indexes were doing corrections to unicorns, that I begin to think massive oscillatory behavior is the new norm.

I have all the respect in the world for those who attempt to predict anything beyond 3-5 days but I’m a data guy and it seems like these time frames are completely voodoo. I don’t believe it when they say cold and super snowy, I don’t believe it when they say bring out the shorts. One day the show one thing, a few days later they show another - in either direction. I’m sure there are metrics out there but empirically they seem close to random chaos 

About 2-3” from the squalls

Finally reach a foot of depth here. Heavy, dense snow except for the top few inches. Good start, just a month or two late

11 hours ago, powderfreak said:

The rain runnels in the snowpack are the crazy part.  Rare to see it like this… some Pacific NW stuff.

We had those with the last storm. This time was mostly snow and not much rain so it’s a pretty standard looking snow cover. But those were kinda cool to see lol

Kids loved the new swimspa. Wanted a pool but this so much more usable up here

23 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

 I’m encouraged by the snow this week. Don’t know if it’ll be enough to snowmobile Franconia notch though 

Franconia Notch didn't get much during the last storm but it looked like they were getting ready to open in Bretton Woods and theyre open in Bartlett. Cross country skiing also opened yesterday in BW

Some good plastering

This week has really helped Kickstart the snow pack. Several new trails opened at the resort, including some all natural 

It's turning into a birch bender here. Huge flakes of wet snow at 32 degrees - everything is plastered 

It's dumping 

Also, not as much snow but also a lot less rain that the last storm which is a win. 

About 1/2" or so since flipping back to snow. Most have power back but not all areas. Such a crazy day

Blizzard like in Bretton Woods and no power. Amazingly though you drive 10 miles north and it's just drizzle in Whitefield lol. Here's a picture of route 3 in Twin Mountain Vs 7 miles up in Whitefield 

Second time this week with blizzard conditions. I'm sick of it. Can we just have regular snow?

Our temperature spiked from 15 to 29 in a matter of minutes 

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Very strong flow.  At the right height. The downslope was probably past/beyond them to the NW.  It’s like rocks in a river.  Sometimes the water level is shallow and the water falls sharply/immediately behind a rock, other times if the flow is deeper and stronger, the rock enhances the wave to max out downstream of it… and the resulting crash downward is even further out.

It’s all about where the wave of moisture maxes out.  Upstream of the barrier in shallow flow, over the barrier, or beyond the barrier in deeper flow.

 

Makes complete sense

2 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Agreed . I thought Bretton woods was gonna have like 5-6” . Maybe you benefited from more of a SSE/SE flow than SE/ESE ? You mentioned the next town Over from you (Carol) had only 5”. I wonder if Powder freak has some insight into what about the flow allowed Bretton woods to Crush and not downslope 

I’m not sure. Franconia also got mostly rain, and they’re not too far. Must be something with the nuance of the wind direction vs mountain ranges to our south 

6 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

This event got better and better for NNE and elevations in CNE and CAD hub in Conway area basically until go time 

Impressed How long the General Conway - Madison - Glen corridor held on for 10-11” . They do heavy wet snows of 10-12 inches there pretty well 

I think it’s even more impressive that an area so prone to downsloping as mine got 12”. That front end meant business, and the cold air hung on remarkably well

Amazing gradient here. Goes from a foot in Bretton Woods to a sloppy inch in Carroll less than 5 miles away