MarkO

Flurries, -1F

Peak gust of 39 overnight, still gusting into the 30's, temp has been in the single digits since about 6 last night. Cabin rattling winds. Love it.

Look and feel of winter. Wind is ripping, deck is cracking, got about 6 or 7" of pack (core about 1.75"), only missing the snow banks. Nothing to stop the cars going off the mountain roads. 5.3/0 winds gusting to 33.

I hear where you're coming from Gene. I'm about 5 miles north of where you see the "Entering White Mountain Region" sign just south of Exit 27. Right after that sign, you see Welch Dickey and it "feels" like you're in the mountains. That being said, I rarely, if ever cash in on the upslope events. I mean, I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've looked across the valley to Welch Dickey or beyond (towards Tecumseh, or the back side of Scar Ridge) and the mountains are obscured in snow. I'll end up with a flurry or two and Alex and Phin report 3-4". Even though your elevation is nearly the same as mine, you're sometimes a degree or so colder which helps you with marginal events. You're 1100' is probably equal to 1200' in my hood. This winter has been an anomaly when it comes to upslope. I've been nickel and diming my way to about 15-18" since Christmas. Very, very unusual, but I'll take it. Looks and feels like winter.

Cannon's a fun mountain, but it is notorious for being cold and icy. I think one of it's biggest reasons is wind, particularly along the spine of the main part of the mountain. When it snows (or even sometimes when they're blowing snow), it just blows off to the sides. And once they get that hard rainer, it seems it's always going to be icy in those exposed areas the rest of the season.

overproducer!

I have to admit, I skip right past Tip's posts. No offense Tip. I'm not sure it it's the ADD or the engineer in me. Fox Hall, that brings back memories, especially during fire alarm induced epic snowball fights

Tough winter. Here we are at/near climo's lowest temps of the season and most haven't seen more than one storm over 6". Second half has got to be better than the first, right?

Not even an Alberta clipper. Whatever to those?

There's not even any ice around here. I just set stakes in the ground and the frost is about an inch hit or miss depending upon sunlight. Maybe it's because the average high up there has been below freezing and certainly above freezing down here. I dunno. I'm not sure the Lowell area has seen an inch of snow since Christmas whereas I've nickel and dimed my way to to 15" up north. Today's just another example where the high up there was 27 but 40 down here. Usually it's only about 6 or 7 degrees. Maybe because it's been so much warmer than average at both places.

January has been interesting. Much warmer than average in the Lowell area. If the ground is frozen, it's only the top inch or so. The temp gradient also seems greater than normal. While it's been warmer than average up north, it's not by much. I'm seeing the typical temp difference of often more than 10 degrees at any given time between Lowell and Thornton which is much higher than usual. I feel for the folks in SNE. This month has sucked!

I got another inch or so overnight. Add that to the 2 or so inches from yesterday and it's got a very wintry appeal. It's odd, because I usually don't upslope at all.

With the exception of the crowds (they actually stopped selling tickets), the conditions at Waterville were excellent, especially in the morning. I measured about 14" at 3500'. Down below about 3000' there was a thin crust layer under about 3" of powder from last night. Even though some trails were closed, folks clearly ignored the signs. Had just enough coverage on natural snow.

About 2" of slop yesterday before the flip to light rain. Changed back to snow around 9. Another 2" since then.

Phin, what's your elevation?

Drove up to Waterville. About 6" at base. Just wet roads in the valley. 1300' seems to be the transition zone where the trees are all caked.

hearing reports of lot of power outages around me. I heard Waterville lost power. Webcam shows lifts not spinning. About 4" there per friend.

Snowing but only 1/2" of slop. I hear it's accumulating 100' above me. I'll be going for a ride soon.

dusting from what is probably low level aggregates. 32.4. precip has currently stopped.

That's awesome James, congrats! Hopefully it hits the NYT best sellers list and you can move up 100' higher than Phin and experience snow.

Hitter in the shitter. That's a big dump on Phin

12hr GFS, NAM 3k and 12k seem to want to hold onto the cold a little longer. Reggie is a soaker. Ekster/ Legro have confidence in their forecasts?

I hope not. I definitely thought you would see a net gain. I'm hoping to ski BW Saturday.

I agree, you guys will net gain. I think I'll maintain the 1" of water locked in snow.

Para GFS says game-on.