PhineasC

Radar looks decent too. I am enjoying my first upslope event so far.

Nice snow now. Bigger flakes.

“When the mountains disappear, your snowstorm is ready!”

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It’s working on my end. No snow falling at the moment.

Clearing now. Picked up close to an inch there. Awaiting the next burst.

Moderate snow, 29 degrees. A little more than a dusting now.

Same mentality drove me to a town with 300 residents in northern NH.

That’s why when I had some extra money to spend I bought a house in the mountains with land. Seemed the most secure bet.

Got all the kids gear set up. Plan is to don gear at home and drive windows cracked to the parking lots. Head right to the slopes from there. Should be a breeze with 4 kids!

Quicker changeover than I expected. Still super wet but flakes definitely flying in the spotlights. Looks like mostly snow now. Radar shows nothing. Hope that bodes well.

Flakes taking over. Super nasty out there. Temp dropped fast to 35. Changeover proceeding.

38 degrees with some drizzle/mist. Nasty out there.

I thought I saw you up there when I was on my deck. LOL

3-6 in the point forecasts in Coos Monday and Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

I have skimmed that paper. One thing that I think stands out in it is the lack of good data (not NWS' fault). You can see it in the maps. Gorham is not getting more snow than York Pond in the average event, IMO. Gorham is routinely dried out in events around here when the elevated areas are getting pounded. That's something I have noticed a lot already. I doubt Jefferson is beating York Pond either. It looks like NWS had decent data for these two areas and so that's why they stick out as local maxes. The time period is also 2001-2007, prior to the current Randolph observer. It will be interesting to see, but I really doubt Gorham is going to beat me in any category this winter.

2-3" is what I am hoping to see. As always, my bar is flakes in the air.

Really excited about my first upslope event. Models are all painting a local bullseye on the northern Presidentials which touches my house, so I am taking that as a good signal. Looking forward to comparing notes with the upslope crew after this first event.

Our schedule this winter will be 3 weeks in NH, 9 days in MD. Rinse and repeat until May. We plan to switch primary residency to NH in the summer. Tough to do in the middle of the school year, even with homeschooling (which is still tied to state programs).

Wife's a flight attendant. Planes are the cleanest they've ever been. Study compared risk of covid between planes, subway, being in a car and others. Planes had the least risk and was extremely low. I am not really worried about getting the Vid per se. Just all the worry and hassle over distancing and precautions. I dislike flying in any case.

LOL puppers is finally recovering from the boiling summer heat.

I was envisioning trying to get through security with social distancing and having to touch the totes and all that, but I could see how parts of the process would be easier. If it was just me and my wife, we would be more open to it, but with kids it is harder since they touch everything and their faces all the time and also are not the best with mask protocol. Easier to just get in the car.

Flying was already a huge hassle before. I can only imagine how terrible it is right now. I'd need to have a really good reason to get on an airplane these days.

Taiwan is a very small island with a single port of entry that can be locked-down by a couple of guys with submachine guns. They also have a culture of wearing masks all the time due to pollution and dust from the Chinese mainland. They already have dealt with an even deadlier coronavirus, SARS, so they were certainly better prepared. Germany is certainly more like the US in terms of demographics, economics, and access, but it is one country in the EU. There are regions of the US that have handled the virus reasonably well like Germany, such as New England. You can certainly compare Germany to New England, but if you want to compare Germany to the overall US, you need to include Spain, Italy, and France in the equation just like you'd include Florida, Texas, NY, and California on the US side.

Italy locked down far more than the US did, for example. In parts of Italy, it was illegal to leave your house unless you were going to the grocery store at pre-designated times. More effective at controlling the spread, perhaps, but the social and economic toll is enormous. For a virus with a 99.5% survival rate, it is harder to justify the millions who will fall into poverty and hunger due to hard lockdowns. The WHO appears to be taking this stance now too. I am glad most have stopped bringing up Australia and New Zealand at least. Isolated islands with a handful of ports of entry are not comparable to the US/EU.