jculligan

Calling it 6.0" on the nose here. I'm going to ignore the numbers to my south and be content with two 6" events in the books prior to Christmas In all seriousness...what an incredible, historic event for central VT/NH. I can't imagine there have been many 36"+ events in the Lakes Region of NH. I know the March 2001 event has been discussed in the larger observation thread, but that moves too fast for me to keep up with!! Does anyone here know of any historical events that even remotely compare to today's event in the southern Lakes?

4.8" of arctic dust as of my last measurement, but that has now been topped off by an inch of pure fluff. Decent flake size in these final bands, so I'm thinking we'll just squeeze out another 6-incher before this is done. 8" OTG with a temp of 19F.

Calling it 4.8" as of 12:30pm. We had essentially one hour of what I would consider moderate snow from about 9-10am, then it's been a pretty steady 0.25-0.5"/hour type pace ever since. Currently 16F with steady light snow and barely any wind.

1.0" last hour, 4.0" total.

0.5" last hour. 3.0" total so far. Holding at 12 degrees. I'm jealous of the epicness of what's happening south of here, and I'm living vicariously through those of you in the Lakes region!! Still a very nice wintry morning up here.

0.7" last hour. 2.5" new.

2" so far in Jackson NH. Considering it was 15/-6 at 1AM I'm happy to see we're getting into this. Congrats to those of you getting crushed in the death band!!

It appears that the mid-level banding set up farther north than where even the northernmost model (RGEM/Canadian GEM) had it. These things are so tough to pin down. Yesterday I was thinking the jackpot would be along an axis from AQW-EEN-CON-SFM but radar trends would suggest it'll be more like a VSF-LCI-GYX axis. We'll see how things pivot over the course of the morning. Southern Lakes region of NH is getting crushed.

1.8" down so far with a temp of 11F. Happy to see we've overcome the dry air. Unbelievable numbers coming out of New York state - 40" in Endicott which is where I lived from 2007-2009 lol.

Dewpoint has dropped 11 degrees since sunset this evening. Currently 15/-6. I can't imagine that bodes well for the incoming event. Hoping we can at least scrape a couple inches out of this.

Didn't quite hit the negatives here, but 2F was cold enough for me. As the clouds arrive in advance of tonight/tomorrow's event, I'm thinking today will likely be the first day that fails to reach 20F here. It's hard to project exactly how this event is going to break in my area. The Canadian/NAM continued the pronounced northward trend, and both deliver a solid 6"+ event here. The GFS/Euro halted the northward progression, and are much leaner overall with about 2" give or take. The RGEM shifted south a hair, but still has a solid event. In my operational forecasting days, it would be hard to dispute a GFS/Euro consensus. The EC Ensembles do yield a higher mean total here than the operational run, while the GEFS is pretty consistent with the op. It I were to go public with a forecast for my hood, I'd probably start with 2-4" using the Euro/GFS blend as my minimum value while allowing for somewhat higher totals to allow for a last minute tick north based on the EC ensembles. It's pretty obvious that the real fun will be south of here. Models (particularly the Canadian/RGEM) have been suggesting some mid-level fronto banding, and if that comes to fruition someone in the AQW-EEN-CON-SFM corridor could really cash in.

Very cold day in these parts today. The "official" high will be a midnight high of 28F, but we bottomed out at 17F this morning and only recovered to 20F for the afternoon maximum. Currently down to 11F with a biting wind. Optimistic looking at the model trends regarding Thursday's event. A couple/few inches to freshen things up would do wonders. 2" of cement at the stake.

Managed to maintain a solid snow cover here, in spite of the thaw over the weekend. I have about 2" of crusty stale snow on the ground which will almost certainly be the foundation of the seasonal snowpack at this point. Currently 31F and snowing lightly as we get fringed by the anafrontal wave. Even though the Wednesday night/Thursday deal will almost certainly deliver the bulk of its snow well south of the White Mountains, it does look like there is room for some very light accumulation on the northern fringe of the precipitation shield. It would be nice to pick up an inch or two to freshen things up and make it pretty again. Waking up to a fresh accumulation of light snow with temperatures well down into the teens Thursday morning would be a win at this point.

Euro ensembles are surprisingly bullish with the anafrontal wave on Monday. The ensemble mean is actually spitting out 3-4" of snow imby. No other guidance seems to be suggesting this right now, so I'm not quite sure what to make of it. The op run is suggesting an accumulating snowfall down in SNE, and the gfs/ggem say the Euro is completely out to lunch. Something to watch...

From a pure synoptic standpoint, I don't anticipate we'll be looking at much snow south of the border with this one. Mid-level temps are simply too warm. CAD-prone areas in NH/ME could be in for a bit of glazing late Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning, however...so I would anticipate slick travel in the usual spots. I'll let the Vermonters speak more to the upslope potential on the backside of the system Sunday night into Monday, as I would imagine there's the potential for at least light accumulations of snow in the Green Mountains and perhaps in Alex and Phin's hood as well.

I would argue the Mount Washington Valley (North Conway, Bartlett, Intervale) is the ultimate dud zone in New England right now, relative to normal. I believe the seasonal total in North Conway is still under an inch. Thankful that my elevation helped me to some degree last Saturday.

Too cloudy here as well, but according to spaceweather.com this is shaping up to be a "bust" either way: THE CME HAS ARRIVED, BUT NO STORM YET: A CME hit Earth's magnetic field on Dec. 10th (1:30 UT), suddenly raising the solar wind velocity to nearly 600 km/s. So far, the impact has not triggered a geomagnetic storm. There is still a chance of storms in the hours ahead as Earth moves through the CME's turbulent wake, but this is not shaping up to be a major space weather event.

It's amazing how it adds up. What would you say your depth is right now?

Are you keeping tabs on your seasonal total? I'm really curious how these little 1-3" events that seem to happen once every few days are stacking up on the other side of the Notch!

Not much to contribute over the last day as Jackson was pretty much shut out from this recent event. I did wake up to a very slight dusting this morning, but not enough to measure. This was primarily an upslope event, so I hadn't been anticipating much/anything in my area either way. Even though I miss out on the upslope, I'm seeing how great the snowpack retention is going to be in my area. We haven't sniffed freezing since last Saturday, so we basically still have the full 6" snowcover that we collected during last weekend's event. Ventured up to the summit of North Doublehead once again yesterday (2.2 miles from my front door and 1500' higher) and there is still over a foot OTG. The trees between my house and approximately 2000' are still caked with snow since it was such a wet snowfall and there hasn't been enough wind to knock the snow off the trees - very picturesque! This weekend's event looks relatively insignificant from my perspective. I think the higher elevations that really got socked last weekend will go above freezing tomorrow and pretty much stay there through Sunday...but as long as we can keep things generally below 40F, the melt should be relatively insignificant. Models have really backed off on the overall QPF this weekend as well. Next potential "big deal" synoptic threat appears to be late Wednesday/Thursday of next week, which is now showing up on all the globals.

12z gfs definitely ticked colder for the weekend event. Appears to form a triple point low over Cape Cod Sunday morning which maintains a light east to northeast surface flow for many of us through a good portion of the day. Mid-level temps are a bit warm for snow in most areas (with the exception of Coos County into Maine at the onset Saturday evening)...but I would imagine this is a problematic setup in terms of freezing rain for CAD-prone areas Saturday night into Sunday morning.

Yes...in fact I personally witnessed this at Cannon Mountain last December. It was snowing enough to accumulate at the base of the mountain...then we ascended through the cloud layer and eventually broke above the clouds with the most amazing undercast I've ever witnessed at the summit.

Just a few days back, the Euro had my area torching into the mid 50s this weekend with 1" QPF all rain. Now we're looking at a 6" snow event (as modeled) and the "torch" is limited to a few hours Sunday night. The gfs/Canadian aren't as friendly, but even with its perceived struggles recently...I'm always inclined to lean toward the Euro over the other globals this far out. It'll be interesting to see how this trends over the next few days.

Many may already be aware of this, but there are three snow plots in the northern Presidentials....two on Mount Washington (Hermit Lake and Harvard Cabin) and one on Mount Adams (Gray Knob). All three are very close to 4000' in elevation: https://mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org/snow-plot-data/ I've noticed some rather significant differences in snow depth between the Hermit Lake and Harvard Cabin sites, which is interesting because they are not that far apart from one another. Snow depths tend to be deeper at Hermit Lake. I've been to Hermit Lake plenty of times, but I've never made the trek over to the Harvard Cabin - I'm assuming the lower snow depths are either the result of wind scouring or perhaps a more dense forest canopy (Hermit Lake is rather open). I'll have to check it out this winter.

Hermit Lake started archiving daily snowfall amounts back in early 2018, but due to the Covid shut-down last year they've only had one full winter of publicly-available observations so far. They measured 190" in the winter of 2018-2019 (compared to 261" on the summit) and they were up to 175" on 4/13 last year before reporting stopped (compared to 253" on the summit). It's unfortunate that reporting stopped in mid April this year, because unusually heavy snowfall continued in the alpine for about another month after that. But regardless, based on the last two winters it seems that Hermit Lake averages about 70-75% of the summit's seasonal snowfall...which would correlate to an average of approximately 215" or 220". Again, this is based on a very limited data set...but it's all we really have to work with at the moment. I've been skiing the east side of Mount Washington on a very regular basis since 2013 and it's not at all uncommon for the peak seasonal depth to eclipse 90" in that location. It's a very impressive spot. I can't speak to the other locations you've noted, though I would imagine Hermit Lake has a higher average due to its elevation (nearly 3900' compared to 2800' at Lake Colden and 2900' at Chimney Pond). Maybe others in this thread can speak more to that!