ORH_wxman

Usually Bethel is a great spot but the last month-plus has sucked up there. So many of my March trips will have a big snow pack increase between about Windham and North Waterford/Stoneham and then it usually levels off with maybe a small increase toward Bethel and SR.

Yeah there might be a solid 8-10 day window there. EPS still has a decent look at the end of the run that looked like it would go for a few more days. Lets get a 70F Tip Tulip day and then a 18F powder job for St Patty’s day.

Yes. He’s the crazy good skier sometimes people reference (name is pete) on here when discussing past ski GTGs. He sometimes goes up to alaska and jumps out of helicopters to ski.

Yeah the historical snow climo shows this too...there tends to be a pretty sharp dropoff in snow climo though once into the final week of March but that 3/14-3/22 period or so is not too difficult. Then there is another pretty sharp dropoff in snow climo after about 4/12-4/13 in the historical record.

I remember a couple events close together in Mar 2002...around 2-3" on 3/18 or so and then we had 7" on 3/20

Bored is a relative term in the context I used it. I’d rather get “bored” skiing a mountain than most other activities. I’d still be happy as a pig in shit.

BW has a few decent pitches, but yeah, I’d get bored there probably if I skied it several days in a row....esp if it’s a cloudy/low ceiling day where you lose the spectacular views that mountain gives. But I love doing the occasional cruiser day up there. I’ll go there anytime on one of those March/April corn snow days where you get snow-blinded if you take your goggles off. I love those days. MWN looks like this bright white menace against the blue sky on those types of days. Cannon/Wildcat are def way gnarlier. They have some sick terrain. Ill eventually get over to powderfreak’s mountain. I just haven’t done Stowe yet for whatever reason over the years. By far the biggest name mountain I haven’t done in New England. I’ve done Bolton valley nearby and then Jay Peak a few times.

Ive always loved BW for the cruisers. Prob best mountain in New England if you want well-groomed cruisers with stunning views. A couple of my best ski days were March/April days just cruising corn snow on one of their 25 or 30 dollar late-season specials. If you are looking for super gnarly stuff, def better to head to Cannon or Wildcat in your area which I’m sure you’ve figured out by now after nearly a full season there.

We actually had some pretty good icing for a time during that storm in the ORH hills. It was well into the event that the cold air drain came south enough to flip our area to ZR. Esp above about 700 feet. I recall above 1000 feet having some pretty decent damage and some power outages, though not like the 2008 ice storm here.

Yep. I believe BOS went into that storm with like 7 or 8 inches total on the season. But then that storm turned what could’ve been futility into a more mundane 17-18” dead-ratter season.

No. It was pretty cold for several days afterward, highs in the 30s. I think we had a refresher of about an inch too overnight on Mar 19-20.

Yep, I had 13" and that included some sleet on top. Pretty solid storm....cold too. Spent most of it barely above 20F.

Lets get a 2007 St. Pattys redux.

No, that will start showing up on the 84 hour NAM when it gets in range, and we'll all dismiss it as the NAM being the NAM and when it stills shows 38F with Tip's northeast-facing screen door slamming shut at 48 hours out, other guidance will start coming on board.

Last a solid 3+ days it looks like. Hopefully it is correct....pretty good multi-guidance support today anyway.

I almost always agree, but in this case I'm kind of 50/50 on it. It's become pretty ugly and not conductive for the kids to do anything with.

Snowpack absolutely rotting/decaying/sublimating under the March sun. It's useless when it gets this bad. I can walk on top of it without sinking in. It had become littered with debris too after the big wind a couple nights ago/yesterday. The playhouse in the back yard was once buried above the color demarcation from dark brown to tan.

Yep, I had about 7.5" in ORH and when I got into BOS that morning for work, I couldn't believe how much they had. It was like a solid 10"+, lol. The band had just missed me to the northeast. I had a really good pack after that one though....the firehose storm had torched/compacted down a lot in the week after it, but we still had about 8-10" OTG before the 3/19/13 event. Took until early April to melt out.

It does look like there could be some shenanigans mid month or a little after....pattern become a bit more favorable for a winter threat.

I'll believe 70F if we can get it inside of day 4.

Post-Ides of March though might bring a last hurrah chance for a winter storm. That's probably our chance if we're trying to squeeze one more into the stat column. Pattern isn't exceptionally good, but there's a pretty decent cold supply lurking and some western/Rockies ridging tries to pop

I'm planning it being more like the OP run where we get CAD'd with 39F rain/drizzle.

Wow I still had like 6-8” glacier that year. There was a little bit of CAD on the front side of that cutter...you must have warm sectored a lot earlier.

Yep. I prob had over 1.5” of qpf in that storm. Too bad it doesn’t really matter at this point. It will melt out soon with no other snow threats imminent. I was hoping we’d start March on a solid note to add to the pack and seasonal totals but doesn’t look good now. At this point I’m just hoping for some stat-padders mid-month and beyond since it’s prob not going to be nice. The alternative is usually garbage.

Yeah I PM’d him some prime spots within ORH (north or northwest side mostly) and then told him if he was ok being one town outside then pick Holden or Paxton. Best looks north but it’s possible.