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Can't speak for your neck of the woods, but if you add up each forecast for PWM and compare to actual, we're at 54.6" forecasted vs. 52.1" actual. That's pretty damn good. This is obviously unlike any other system this season w/r/t bust potential, but on the whole I'm inclined to ride the hot hand and go with their forecast.

I'm not a huge skier - usually get out 2-3x a season. Was at Mount Abram this past Friday and as @powderfreak and @Lava Rock describe, conditions were incredible. First 2 hours of the day was corduroy packed powder under deep blue skies. No lift lines made for lap runs the entire day.

One trend I'm appreciative of is the move away from dong talk towards nipple talk. To each their own, of course, but this is more preferable to me.

I have my phone set to greyscale and it's still a true statement.

Master?

How's the week of the 27th looking? Asking for an observer abandoning his post

Snow depth measurement is a conundrum this time of year, as you all describe here. My NWS stake is in a shaded area (you can see it to the right of the precip can in the second photo I posted above). I use it as a data point, but not as the data point for depth. I take a handful of manual measurements in that general-but-less-protected area. It gets tricky as I don't want to disturb the snow anywhere near the stake. I think this is the recommendation from NWS, but the gradient does become significant this time of year. At the end of Feb, when we were just about melted out, I was reporting 3-4" as a depth. As you drove around town, the exposed areas were T-1". My stake was at 5", and most of the other readings were 2-3". Apparently a member of the public contacted GYX to ask about the validity of my readings (like I said, around in non-protected areas it was relatively thin).

3.8"/0.44" | 11" depth with the 7AM obs. 32/31F, SN

You better run. You better take cover.

Up a degree in the last hour. 32/22. Dendrite/Mahk.. you guys have flakes in the air yet or are those radar returns virga? Trying to figure out if that's going to make it here before midnight.

Ahead of schedule?

31/19, OFC 43.6" STD Current depth 7"

Feeling a @MaineJayhawkjack. Maybe he fires it up.

No changes from GYX Except they did bump up the 10% probabilities

run out of my basement. coincidentally, that's where we let my alcoholic uncle stay when he got evicted from his apartment.

100% The roads were shitty yesterday morning, too. all the more reason to put the phone down. the road where it happened is full of kids walking to the high school or getting on busses to go to the middle/elementary schools.

Flipped about 15 minutes ago down here - same thing, yuge flakes.

You getting any precip now?

I've noticed on the clown maps, especially GFS, most of the QPF stays south of Maine - really sharp cutoff north of York County. What's driving that? Is it the confluence to the NE?

GYX not feeling it at that latitude (yet)

90's kid FTW. The best part about Friday night snowstorms is you could have/go to sleepovers - and do the same thing you describe. --- Timing of this looks to have slowed down a bit, and duration extended. Nature of moving towards a Miller B vs. SWFE, I'm assuming.

Finished with 6.4"

0.5/"0.09" with the midnight obs in PWM. Maybe another tenth or two on the way out. 6.2" event so far

Meaning, the system is getting its juice off the water, with the wind out of the east?

Holy shit! I hadn't paid any attention to Thursday, focused on today and Friday night > Saturday. Assumed Thursday was rain for me. Whoa!