ORH_wxman

Nah the cutter precedes the trough...we prob have a couple shots in the d6-10 range though. Extremely anomalous. We’ll see if the look moderates or not.

11 inches new at the Randolph cocorahs site. You can already start tracking.

Might have multiple shots at something. That trough is ridiculous. EPS is 3 sigma trough over the lakes at 144 hours...that’s hard to get on an ensemble mean at day 6.

Yeah they are nice. They don’t look quite as “big” as the Presidentials but they are pretty jagged. Some of those views of Avery peak and little bigalow have that western flavor. Others are correct about Katahdin though its s little different from my description since it’s a single mountain...but still a western feel. Katahdin reminds me a little of Humphries Peak in Arizona. Kind of just sticking out on its own compared to the smaller hills surrounding it. Both are near 4K elevation gains.

Looks like NWS GYX PNS hasn’t even updated since 1050pm...Ginxy what site shows those amounts?

Destruction

Man, this is classic midwinter CCB look on a rapidly nuking storm

Yeah that isn’t ending any time soon. They’ve got another 3 hours minimum. That CCB has backbuilded nicely into NH

That said, it should ramp up some more in Jackman after 00z.

The later guidance seemed to be hitting about sugarloaf southward the hardest.

Rapidly forming CCB. Just classic.

Yeah anything over 6" is going to be a problem...and many are going to exceed that.

Ripping up near Sunday River

I was telling Phin in a PM that the Presidentials are really one of a kind in the east. They remind me of views out west staring out at more imposing peaks than you typically find in the east. But the Presidentials are pretty amazing to look at. Even though I've been up there a ton of times, I'm always awed when I see them....very picturesque.

Congrats Phin. Excellent spot....within 20 minutes to Wildcat, half an hour to Bretton Woods, and 45 min to either Sunday River, Cannon, or Attitash....or Cranmore. You are now likely the snowiest location for a home on this forum. Prob prob a 175ish average. I think Jspin is in the 160 range. Mitch might be close...maybe 150ish?

Prob gonna be a big elevation component. You'll have 33F paste down at 200-500 feet and maybe 31-32F paste over 1000 feet.

Too bad this wasn’t even two weeks ago. Climo gets really tough even in ORH after about 4/14-15. The only two warning criteria events at ORH post 4/15 are 4/28-29/87 (17.0”) and 5/9-10/77 (12.7”). 4/18/65 got close with 5.5”. But if there’s a pattern that can do it, it’s this one.

That airmass later next week is pretty sick on most guidance. What a sick pattern for mid April. Better snow thicknesses than we saw half of winter. Lol.

I haven’t skied Bromley so it’s nice to hear some feedback on it. I love old school New England trails narrowly cut into the trees. S VT definitely has some nice options. I would not be afraid of it from PhineasC’s perspective of looking for a place there. But yeah, heed the advice of making sure you clear 1500 feet since snowfall on location is a big factor. Luckily there’s a ton of options above that elevation as me and powderfreak discussed further upthread.

I’ve always loved driving through S VT. I don’t do it often at all but each time I’m reminded how nice it is there. If I was looking for a place there, a big pro is I’d really love having the backup option of Magic Mountain during peak days where Stratton or Mount Snow are overcrowded. Or Bromley if you are more family-oriented with less gnarly ambitions.

3200 feet just east of First Connecticut Lake would certainly be about as snowy as it gets.

Yeah that location is truly ratter-proof. Fairly similar to some place like powderfreak described on the southwest slope of Jay. Garbage winters there are probably like 180-200”. Theres gotta be a few spots to the east or northeast of Diamond Pond that do even better. Prob average 250-300”. If you go a little further northeast, you cross into ME where literally nobody lives northwest of Mooselookmeguntic lake over to just south of Coburn Gore. That terrain just sticks up from the flatlands of southern Quebec. They must get destroyed but there’s nobody there to record it. I think dryslot said he had been snow mobiling up near there a few times and it’s ridiuclous depths that even places like Rangeley-Eustis can’t match.

Laurentian Plateau in Quebec is always one of my favorites. They’ll have like a 5 foot snowpack in mid May well after northern Maine has already melted out.

I’ve often searched the topo maps and real estate listings to find the weeniest snow spots in New England. One of my most underrated is the highlands east and northeast of Diamond Pond in Coos county NH. The Diamond Pond coop itself was only around for like 10 years or so but they averaged like 230” of snow. Yet there is more favorable privately owned terrain to their east and northeast. Some of those spots must be between 250-300”. Not much of anything out there either including ski resorts (the failed Balsams not withstanding), lol. It’s gorgeous country though.

Lol nice. Yeah that spot could be one of the single snowiest annual averages in all of New England for private livable property. All others that are higher would prob be land over 2500 or 3000 feet that isn’t buildable or own-able.