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Yuck. I hate ice. And fortunately we don't get a whole lot of it in my spot. Merry Christmas to all. Been a rough few days - my 5 yo broke a femur skiing on his first day of school breaj, had to be sent to Dartmouth for surgery. Came back home yesterday. It's really hard to see a kid suffer so much and be unable to do anything. Today he was in much better spirit, and that was the best Xmas present. And on that note, a solid 5" cover here but just down In Conway it's bare ground. I have to believe a brown Xmas is a pretty rare occurrence in North Conway.

Which is what pi$$es me off (read thread on NNE) when they state they have 88” of snow season to date. Sure, maybe that’s what fell in some ravine on the wind protected side, but from an average skier perspective, it’s a bogus number.

Interesting discussion especially with the boring weather. And for the record I do find it “duping” to report from the very top when 99.9% of the trails that a skier can access fall below that. It’s in no way representative of the experience one can expect But back to snow data - Where does the Wikipedia data come from? They claim 222” as the seasonal average for Mansfield. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mansfield

Not sure about Stowe, but I was personally at Jay when they reported 9”, and it was no more than half of that. We talked for hours about how disgusting it was that they’d do that. Wildcat was pretty bad too. A dusting would be reported as 2” on a pretty routine basis (that was my home base for 2 winters).

Once again, though, how do you reasonably justify that Mansfield averages more snow than a mountain that’s subject to very similar weather patterns but 2500 ft taller?

That seems much more reasonable. I also don’t buy Bretton Woods’ “over 200” average” - in the couple of years I’ve been here we’ve been 150-170 and those I’m pretty sure are pretty good years, which means we are bound to have some 90 inch years that would require the really good years to be above 300 to make up for it. I’m just skeptical of that. Problem is, most of these reports come from ski resorts, which have a strong interest in pumping those numbers. When I see Mt Washington at almost 7000 feet averaging 280 (from a reliable source), I don’t see a ski resort even at 3500 ft consistently averaging above 200. And the same goes from Mansfield. It gets marginally more upslope, and marginally less synoptic snow than Mt Washington. Add in 2000+ feet of elevation difference and I don’t see Mansfield averaging more snow than Washington. But I could be wrong. I would just want to see data that’s not coming out of a marketing department of a snow related industry to believe it.

I don’t buy that. Official reports (not from a ski resort) I’ve seen for Mansfield day the average is around 220”. I don’t see how Mansfield averages more than Washington given the elevation difference. And Jay Peaks reports are a joke.

Anyone in the northern Greens or Whites above 4000 ft with a slanted stick

0.4" from last night's light snow, fluff factor off the roof

And in the meantime, some very light snow falling

Some snizzle overnight, enough for a heavy coating.

Last night they postponed my kid's Xmas concert to tonight - stupid move. By far the scariest drive I have had in my entire life (he goes to school in Whitefield, so not far, but not around the corner either). My phone was screaming bloody murder "SQUALL ALERT" (Or something like it), and for a time I just could not tell where the road was - front, sides, back looked all the same. Just pure white. My weenie mom was in a panic. But anyways, made it back safely, and measured 4.5 tonight. That brings the total for the past 24 hours or so to just about 9" - hard to complain when a few days ago we thought we'd have to watch SNE get all the snow again. Skiing was fantastic and it's still coming down moderately out there. It's winter in NNE, and all is good.

4.5 from the squalls, 44.3 season total

Snowing nicely here, big fluffy flakes, but not of the squally type. Just your regular garden variety upslope

What's the expected time frame for tonight's extravaganza?

1.9 overnight, 4.4 total, 5 at the stake. Light snow at the moment.

1.3” at this last measurement, for a 2.5” total so far

Oh and 1.2" so far. Nickel and dimes, make us rich...

Actually not sure! It's not print, it's an actual commercial, but I don't know the target market

Heavy snow falling on my deck in preparation for the shoot

I think you’re right, though we ended up get some really nice snows tonight - looks like a couple of inches. I’ll measure after the kids go to bed. it’s good for the heart to get rid of those lawn patches, 8 hours of bare ground in December is 8 hours too long!!! Drove down to Concord today, it’s crazy how little snow cover there is in NNH. Patchy (at least before the upslope kicked in) north of the Notch, and literally nothing from Lincoln on south. Seems crazy for December

Upslope has been pretty limited so far... just some lights stuff, enough to whiten the ground but pretty pathetic. Kinda like December as a whole

Ah! Yes that makes sense

Downsloping??? I wish, at least it'd be dry. It's raining from Florida to the St Lawrence. That'd be one big area of downslope!!! More worried about downsloping on Tue/Wed but we'll see. December to remember my a$$

Heavy squalls made it here