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Hard to tell without much data from places like St J, Littleton, Jefferson etc but you may be right. The terrain here is also different - more rugged than the Greens in general, which maybe leads to more localization? There are some spots here that are really impressive for their ability to get no snow - Rt3 right after Cannon, for instance, and even Twin Mountain just 5 mile s west of me

Yep, it's pretty pathetic! There's probably more if you went into the woods and took cores, but I go by my stake and either way, it's not great. 80" of snow to date, and 6" on the ground on January 27th. Our torches have been brutal!

That's correct. The entire area between Hart's Location (Crawford Notch) - St. J, VT - Jefferson - Berlin gets SOME, but the more intense stuff is usually quite localized to just about the snowmobile parking area at the start of the Lower Falls trail in Bretton Woods up Base Road and Rt 302 about 1/3 of the way down the Notch - not much past the 2 waterfalls as the elevation decreases significantly. When speaking of upslope, though, one also needs to keep expectations in check. Down here in the valley, with a few exceptions when you get a foot to as much as 30" (I believe that was 2 years ago), upslope just means days on end of flurries that at times turn to moderate snow and gives you a couple of inches - usually 1 to 3, sometimes 5 or 6. It's a very similar pattern to what JSpin reports from his house. To find the higher amounts one needs to go up in elevation - and I never go up and measure what it's doing at 4000 feet (nor do I really care), unlike some of our VT friends who are in similar partterns but may give a perception that upslope means 6" every day. It doesn't - at least not here; if it did, instead of my 170" or so average, we would have 300". In a normal winter, it adds up to a significant depth because there is little melt. This year, not so much - and I think that's where some of the difference (and disappointment) comes from. Our snowpack (at least, my snow stake) is currently at just over 6" and it's never gone higher than 14" if I remember correctly. That's pretty pathetic for end of January at 1500+ feet

Hope to see him back on his feet soon. Give him a hug from me and Aaron!

A little bit but not too bad. I believe SW is what cooks me.

I'm very confused by this coming storm. P&C has all snow, AmWx has bridge- jumping and rain to Quebec, AFD says freezing rain or sleet... Essentially anything is possible?

Definitely agree on that one! The cutters have cut.

For all the complaining, it seems most of New England is pretty normal (although the Rainers have been bad)

-14. Brrr

Just 3 more months to mud season...

Very true! Ive been telling that to Diane when she complains that it's 0. In past years negative temperatures were a daily occurrence. And we haven’t been anywhere near the -30s of yore

Want mine? I have no use for them yet get a plethora

Went on a weenie walk in my yard with Diane and my mom

Yes this totally sucks. It’s -6 at 6 pm. Not right.

Pretty amazing upslope rates tonight. Equally amazing is that Diane says that 5 miles away there is absolutely nothing falling.

Some of the upslope tonight is really intense

Nice snow tonight. Not heavy but big flakes

It was interesting driving around today. First time I've ever seen Littleton have more snow than Bretton Woods! Looks like they stayed pretty cold down there, with a solid 3-4 cover everywhere and even snow on roofs! Goes away quickly as you rise in elevation in neighboring Bethlehem, where it's just patches (as all elevated areas). Microclimates are so fascinating.

Lol and now it's flurrying

We spent the entire night in the 50s and even 60+. Pretty amazing stuff - we are usually in the mid 40s even in the summer. It was also interesting to see today how the entire elevated area around us was in the 50s while everyone else was slipping into the 30s. As you said, elevation stood up like islands above a colder layer. Pretty fascinating.

That’s a very cool setup. What do you use to make it?

I take the over. Forecast is 51 and we often go over those forecasts. Didn't warm up as fast as the forecast had it though, hovered around freezing till about 6 am. It was interesting when I woke up to see how much dripping was happening at 37 degrees because of the high dewpoint. Out West 37 degrees is pure powder lol

Probably not completely - pack is at 12" and the bottom layer has survived it's fair share of cutters, but it won't be pretty. That said, if things worked out the way the 12Z GFS has them I couldn't care less about the current snowpack - ready for snowpack-V2

Some nice moderate snow falling; probably looking to say goodbye to our snowpack

But let’s dream on, we are not even half way through winter up here and we’ve had snow cover for over 2 months. Happy birthday!!!