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51 here. Never even got close to advertised highs in mid 60s 

2 hours ago, MRVexpat said:

I'll be up there Saturday! Certainly anticipating it being a crazy day. 

Yes. Get there early 

Tucks and Boot Spur gullies still loaded up as of today. Incredible weather today and no crowds. I’m sure this weekend will be the gong show Tucks is famous for.




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3 hours ago, tunafish said:

Hopefully it's encouragement to get out and talk to your fellow humans in real life.  A good reminder that the divide is only how one perceives it, especially if your perception is driven entirely by what you see and read online.  And, a really good reminder (as someone said earlier) that we're (us, individually, right now) a microscopic spec of dust in an ocean of space and time and the human plight means nothing in the grand scheme of things.  If you don't get that perspective through psychedelia, this is as good and as close as you'll get.

Great point. The eclipse experience was an open door for millions to share in our collective humanity. That’s why people love it so much, largely because that door is rarely opened in our current society. Imagine if responsible use of psychedelic drugs was the norm. World would be a better place. 

1 hour ago, MarkO said:

I noticed that too, a fraction of a second before totality. My brother and I simultaneously yelled out "what the f... was that?" The only thing I can think of was maybe some impact from whatever miniscule moon atmosphere refraction of sorts. 

Another poster identified the phenomenon as shadow bands. Worth googling, had no idea about it prior. 

8 minutes ago, Angus said:

won't be going into the ravine this year. given the late February/early march warm up I'm not confident in the snow. Skied Saddleback on Sunday and it was ... outstanding. Mostly stuck to the terrain off the Kennebago lift. if you skied the sides of trails, there was lots of loose fresh snow. A few runs in the trees including chute 3 and 4 in Casablanca were great. The pack is not super deep - stumps and rocks protruding from the steep entry sections of Supervisor, Black Beauty and Warden's Worry but easily avoided. Day started with upper parts of mountain obscured by clouds, ended with blue skies. Not sure if that was it for me this season - really hoping for one more day - but if not, my best day of spring skiing will have been Killington in early February!

Maybe some small D1 wet slab issues with this next system but then it’ll go isothermal this weekend and you should be good to go. Those buried weak layers will be gone. Spring time hazards will start appearing next week and the lower parts of sherb are probably numbered days. 

4 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Bridgton?

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Upta Upton 

Well that was cool. Also saw some weird light wave effect happening on the snow in the field just before and after totality. Can’t post videos or else I’d share.




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3 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Thats what he said…17-18 was great for you guys. 

I think those photos were from 16-17 but I’ll let lava confirm. Both good but 16-17 better locally. 

We don't get many 20 inch storms although in 2017-2017,we got 26" and 22". That was a banner season at 132". Serious meat in the pack. 38" depth for awhile

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13” Bridgton 33 degrees

Been dumping here last hour or so. Lots of tree damage.




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9” Bridgton just got to SR maybe 6”. This is gonna bust low here. Not snowing here currently. 

Already pasted up pretty good. About an inch or so 

3 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Yes. I think the western ULL ended up overpowering some of the height bulges out to the east that we were seeing yesterday on some runs. It’s a bit less prominent today so it’s taking longer for the storm to turn the mid-level winds easterly…and as you said, pretty hard to get monster totals when you are relying too much on WAA precip. Someone a little further north may benefit more though. I wouldn’t mind being near my summer vacation spot on Moose Pond in Denmark for this one. Pleasant Mountain FTW 

Hey there, will let you know how it goes! 

first flakes, 36 

Kieth Carson says to round up to infinity for me




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40 mph gusts plus a foot+ of 8:1 snow is concerning. Gonna be some outages if those winds verify. Probably some outages even without the winds with those ratios. Not really sure about chasing this to SR on Thursday - unfortunately the local hill is now closed midweek. Lifts go down at SR when a moose farts. 

foot+ on positive depth change is no joke. Think it's safe to say the Whites into the Mahoosucs about to get wrecked PNW style. Next Monday Eclipse chasers trying to find a place to park off the road in NNH NW Maine should be interesting. 

Wow GFS. That's like a NVT bread and butter pattern transplanted 100 miles SW. Toss the clowns and the 40 spot over my head but it's amazing how consistent the GFS has been with this signal. Just days and days of this without backing down. 

There will be more in the way of wind impacts with this and wherever that mixes with low ratio snows look out 

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Its a stout block so escaping ENE is on the table or even a push further south.

Ya it’s a much different system than last weekends. If I had to guess I’d say the winners will be further south than the last one 

I know it’s been a historically warm winter but it didn’t start that way in November and has ended that way in March/early April…so ya I’m running out of firewood, burned a ton of it this year 

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

At this lead, There's going to be a siggy system on the EC, Details still TBD going forward.

Writing has been on the wall. GFS was locked onto this thing before the last storm was over. 

I just want to get to climo. Will need 17" to do it.