ORH_wxman

Yeah he’s trying to move the goalposts based on some moron media members playing up a historic snowstorm angle. He’s totally ignoring the airmass part now. He will likely try and claim that when it hits mid-40s for a high, that the same thing happened last year even though it was onshore flow and sheet drizzle (and will ignore the low temps).

All in the last hour

Measurable on winter hill from the heavy snow last hour

Typical May observation. Not sure what all the fuss is about KORH 091248Z 29022G32KT 1/4SM R11/2400V4000FT +SN FZFG VV009 M01/M03 A2953 RMK AO2 PK WND 29032/1247 P0000

We tried to tell him

Just your normal below freezing snow ob at ORH. Typical Annual May occurrence.

KORH 091238Z 28016G25KT 1/2SM R11/4000V5000FT SN FZFG VV012 M01/M03 A2953 RMK AO2 PK WND 28027/1211 P0000 T10061028

Ripping fatties in this band

Too bad this CCB couldn’t wrap up like we saw on some runs a couple days ago. Legit cold to tap.

Snowing here. Nice. Lol

Had a pair of pileated woodpeckers yesterday out back in the woods. Unfortunately all I could get is a couple blurry Ginxy cell phone pics of one of them....still pretty cool though. Love those birds.

Too early to get a good handle on the low. We need to wait until mid/late June. Jaxa (and Area) at this point in 2012 was higher than 1996 (the highest min year on record).

Pileateds hang around our woods too. I don't think I've seen an oriole since we moved into our current house, though I've heard them on occasion. We saw a scarlet tanager though which was pretty cool. We've also had a Great Horned owl nesting here for 2 of the last 3 years.

NApril 2020 style

One of the all time greats in interior MA. Had around 27” in ORH but officially I think the airport reported 22”...but that was during their ASOS outage snow disaster years...their final report came like 12 hours before the snow ended. Lol. Despite that, it was actually a mild underperformer if that’s possible. Mets were going 3 feet plus here. Still, can’t complain about a storm that breaks 2 feet.

DMI volume is a bit suspect....I'd prob use PIOMAS and then definitely Cryosat2 when that updates more fully later this spring. PIOMAS has volume currently 5th lowest. Still low, but not dead last like DMI. 2017 is pretty far alone in last place at this point.

Some pretty cold systems moving into the PAC NW....definitely not Cascade Concrete in those storms.

65 knots at 850mb and about 50 knots at 925mb....so yeah, def some big gusts up there tomorrow.

Not sure those qualify as CNE/SNE which is what hippy was talking about.

Yeah it's too far for eastern MA relative to places in NH or even VT...you can drive an extra half hour and be at a much superior mountain to the western MA places. But those western MA mountains are nice in that they are rarely crowded and a lot of them keep the old school New England trail vibe too with the narrower trails. I love that about them.

Back in 2015, I was skiing on my 3rd and final day of a 3 day trip to Killington and I had gone the entire trip without a spill...last run of the entire trip (after 4pm now as I caught last chair up K1) I am coming down the run-out Spillway below the Canyon chair in full tuck so I can make it past the superstar chair over to Idler because we were parked down in the snowshed lot...the fading light gives the snow that tinted blue look and makes any bumps hard to see....all of the sudden as I'm in full tuck at high speed on spillway run-out, I start hitting some small bumps and then a bigger one sends me about 6-12 inches in the air...not very high but I wasn't expecting it at all...I couldnt see the bumps in the fading light...so now I'm in trouble as I land trying to correct myself and my edge digs in and that's it...full-on cartwheel with both skis releasing and I slide forward on my stomach about another 30 yards on the flat run-out. My initial impact had been my hip and I swear it felt like someone hit it with a sledge hammer the next day and it lasted for a few days. Luckily it went away and it was nothing serious or long term, but holy crap. Reminded me how quickly things can go south when you're seemingly in total control. Just talking about that trip makes me want to get out there now...what a great trip that was with amazing snow and the entire mountain open.

I didn't get out last season. Was tough thinking about it. My oldest son will be turning 4 late this winter though so I'm gonna get him on skis for the first time later this season.

When I was up in Rangeley in the summer of 2015, all of the locals were terrified that the mountain was not going to open the next year. (They were right...4 years running) They kept saying how important it was to the local economy. Glad to see they will be back.

They're gonna be able to build a huge base the next two weeks. Should be some really cold nights where they can become very efficient versus the more marginal nights. Good news for the World Cup there. Hopefully no 12-18 hour tropical cutters 2nd half of month. That's really the only thing that can ruin it.

Yeah this is wipeout city. But luckily the pattern looks pretty good for snow making coming up. They'll be blowing a ton of snow in the next two weeks.