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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 

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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. 

9 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

yeah... April ... particularly early April is just perfectly when that is most likely to occur around here.

I'm not sure what your history is, but do you remember the 1997 "April Fool's Day storm" ? 

It was sunny, 64 F at 1:15 pm up at the UML weather lab, while the 12z model runs were coming in with a 4 contoured hornet stinger 500 mb closed low and attending sfc bomb just S of Cape Cod scheduled for 2 days later. 

The campus was abuzz with that type of passionate fever as though the prison gates were opened and the world was set free.   The energy and joy was palpable on that Saturday, mid day.

Monday we changed to snow, and that night 9 consecutive hours of S+ with occasional lightning all quadrants was on the Logan Metar.  My buddy lived in Wayland, MA ( about 20 mi due W of Boston along Rt 20).  He was describing the breath arresting wide-eye pause that overwhelmed him as he swung open the door to see that the 0" of snow on ground the previous evening was now 31" ...tenting over the cars to the point where they were completely and totally encased.  This is a the type of guy that doesn't really concern for weather forecast excpet here and there, mainly when it matters to him.  Not like us in here that track cumulus clouds ( haha).  

So I don't even think he knew there was a winter storm warning in place - or if so, only tacitly aware of it.   But then again, LOL, I don't think NWS was much better considering what happened.

By the following Saturday, it was 60 degrees.

I was a young lad, but remember it well. Much lower impact event in central CT but memorable 

Just now, Typhoon Tip said:

You know what ... it's not out the question that we end up with a snow pack than 3 days later hover 70 F over top.  With mud gully rivers flowing out it, of course.

I have seen it be 70 F with snow still on the ground due to an March or April sudden switch. 

Firstly, sell 20+" for now.   But a 4-6" late season urinal blue cookie snow aching to melt when the storm's pulling out, knowing the next day the forecast is 59 F because even though the profiles allow for 72, no one has the ballz to forecast that over a snow pack.... that's always an fun bun for me. 

 

Denver climo 

euro came around to it at 00z. Signal is strong and getting stronger. Long way to go still but you have to like the run to run consistency.