jculligan

Classic CAD day here on the eastern slope. Started the day at 10F and we've crept our way up to 26F as of 1pm. Looks like the SNOTEL site at Hermit Lake (3900') is up to 35F, so a pretty solid inversion. I'm envisioning many days like this.

22 degrees at 12:15pm. Hard to believe we were pushing 80 a little over a week ago. Solid negative departure on the day today, that's for sure.

I logged our total as 0.3" overnight, but at least there was a somewhat whitened landscape to wake up to this morning. This brings my total up to 0.6" on the season lol. The synoptic storms will come. Last night's Euro is trying to throw us a bone the night before Thanksgiving. La Nina winters tend to be active up here, so I think my patience will ultimately pay off, especially (as others have mentioned) I'll have a little bit of immunity to cutters in this CAD-prone area. Once the snow is here, it's going to take a lot for it to go away.

Actually managed to get into a little streamer of sorts, and we've had some pretty decent snow here for the last 45 minutes or so. I'll take an official measurement at midnight, but this is the most solid dusting we've had so far this season lol.

After a round of morning show showers left another immeasurable dusting, we ended up having a mix of sun and clouds most of the day. Still waiting for our first inch at 1500' in the eastern Whites.

Just the very slightest of dustings here - not enough to measure yet, but it's a snow globe outside at the moment. If this continues to another hour or so I might be able to log a couple tenths ha. I'll take it this month!

Couple of decent opportunities for snow on the not-too-distant horizon. As a backcountry skier, I'm happy with snow even when it's confined to the higher terrain...and I'm watching Sunday night as it does have the "sneaky" potential to be predominantly snow in the alpine. Not a major event, but just a few inches of snow followed by next week's cold weather could mean we are finally laying down the foundation of the seasonal snowpack up at 4k feet. At lower elevations (including my place) I think there could be a couple/few hours of snow at the outset, but this will definitely favor the CAD-prone regions on the eastern slope versus those of you in VT and western NH. Next we watch a potential WINDEX event with Tuesday's arctic front, followed by limited upslope potential for the Vermonters in its wake...but I'm becoming very interested in the Thursday night/Friday timeframe next week for a true regionwide light to moderate event followed by a re-loading of the cold air next weekend. I think we've turned the corner, folks...at least for now.

Euro putting down 1-2" of snow in the White Mountains with the weak wave progged to move through tomorrow afternoon. Boundary layer looks questionable, so I'm anticipating little accumulation below 2500' but always hoping for a surprise ha. The higher peaks should have a more wintry look to them this weekend anyway.

We "only" hit 67F today but the temperature is really holding up there tonight. I dare say it's even a bit muggy out there. Currently 65/60 which is the warmest it has been at this hour during this entire stretch. The Euro has completely flip flopped in the long range, and actually has a promising look to it here in the North Country with even some synoptic snow chances later next week. I'm not confident that will verify, but at least it looks to return to typical November chill if not below normal for a couple/few days. Let's hope this pattern has reached high tide.

Clouds rolled in and curbed our temp at 67F. At least it looks more like November out there now.

Last day of outrageous departures up here. Started out at a balmy 52F and as the sun crests the hill behind my house we are already up to 58F at 8am. This will almost certainly be the fifth day of 70+ at this elevation, which hasn't happened since 9/25-9/29. Looking forward to getting back to somewhat more typical November temps from tomorrow through the weekend, and then perhaps some negative departures next week. Wildcat bumped back its opening day from 11/13 to 11/20, and I think they'll get a several day window for snowmaking next week so that should be achievable. Not dwelling too much on the super long range ha.

High of 78F up here today. I almost began questioning my equipment, but there is a thermometer at 1483' in Jackson that hit 77F and another thermometer in Jackson village that also hit 78F. So deep mixing allowed locations from the valley floor on up to 1500' to spike into the upper 70s today. This has to be all-time record territory for November in this part of the state.

Definitely the most pronounced inversion I've seen up here this morning. 38 degrees in Jackson village (863'), 53 degrees at my place, 59 degrees at Hermit Lake on Mount Washington (3875'). That temperature at Hermit Lake is about 10 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. Today could be a run for all-time November records I think.

Absolutely. There's a thermometer in Jackson Village (863') that has logged the following compared to my numbers (again in red): 11/5: 69/26 (65/33) 11/6: 72/39 (69/48) 11/7: 76/50 (75/54) 11/8: 75/41 (70/50) 11/9: 73/34 (72/48) A 14-degree difference between my place and the village this morning, but yet a difference of only 1 degree this afternoon.

It's been fun looking at all of the mesoscale temperature patterns on local thermometers around here during this stretch. I found another site which is 180' higher and about two miles away as the crow flies, and they have logged the following (compared to my numbers in red): 11/5: 66/34 (65/33) 11/6: 69/50 (69/48) 11/7: 74/59 (75/54) 11/8: 72/50 (70/50) 11/9: 72/48 (72/48) The low temperatures on the morning of 11/7 were nothing short of remarkable around here. I am anticipating we'll see something similar on Wednesday morning as well. I think my average high temp for this date should be somewhere in the mid 40s, so to have overnight lows in the mid 50s is quite extreme.

I know it's not what most want to talk about, but from a historical perspective I would imagine this is approaching all-time record territory for the first and second week of November at this latitude and elevation. Here at 1500' this is the last five days: 11/5: 65/33 11/6: 69/48 11/7: 75/54 11/8: 70/50 11/9: 72/48 It looks like we have two more days of outrageous departures to go. We didn't have a stretch even remotely this warm for this long during all of October.

Only managed 0.3" here last night, but it's our first measurable of the season so I'll take it! 28 degrees with a few stray flakes still flying right now.

Yes, I'm a mile up the road from Black Mountain ski area...essentially near the base of the Doublehead ski trail up on Dundee Road. Definitely a high spot for this area.

Incredible wind with persistent flurries and occasional snow showers that have been enough to put down the lightest dusting so far. I'm impressed with the temperature drop here - down to 25 which isn't too shabby for 2pm on the second day of November! 03z-09z tonight looks fun. Feeling good about finally scoring my first accumulation. The snow squall parameter looks very good on the BTV 4km WRF, so I expect many of us outside of the favored upslope areas will wake up to a coating to 2" come tomorrow morning.

Actually getting some decent snow showers here now, though obviously nothing in comparison to what powderfreak is posting. Nice wintry appeal to the morning either way. 33/27 with flakes flying and a biting wind.

Jealous of the Vermonters this morning. Cold and windy with some stray flakes flying around here, but obviously I wasn't expecting much in my location. The signal continues to look good for squalls tonight, so I'm thinking we could have some fun in the 11pm-2am timeframe. Good luck to the usual suspects, and please continue to post pics!

Could not have asked for a better day in the alpine yesterday; I summited Mount Adams around 10:30am and could see clear to the Atlantic Ocean! I've been up there a bunch, but I have never seen such unlimited visibility before. It was 16 degrees with a wind averaging in the 15-20 mph, so I didn't snap too many pics as my hands got cold fast. Definitely looks like an interesting couple of days up here. Again, I don't expect much (if anything) from the upslope event here in Jackson though I am interested in seeing how the Froude number applies here in the Whites. It continues to look like there is pretty good Windex potential tomorrow night as that second impulse swings through, so if we're finally going to whiten the ground in my location this is probably our best shot. Pic below is from the summit of Mount Adams looking toward Mount Madison yesterday morning.

Impressively cold October morning here. My spot isn't phenomenal for radiational cooling, but 19 degrees is pretty good for 10/31 especially without snowpack. I don't anticipate I'll get much out of the Monday/Tuesday round, although the models do seem to be suggesting occasionally more than just your typical upslope event. It almost has the look of an inverted trough with steep low level lapse rates and a definite WINDEX component, so I think there is the possibility for some fun even outside of the usual suspect locations. That said...I'm really psyched for the northern Greens and I even think the area from Franconia over to the western slopes of the Presidentials could do quite well. I fully expect to see someone risking a season-ending injury to ski the Cog with no base on Tuesday lol. Heading up into the alpine today, but I snapped this pic from Black Mountain Road in Jackson yesterday. Starting to look quite nice up there.

About 1" of snow on the summit of South Moat (2770') this morning. It was interesting hiking from the snow-covered summit back down into the rusty orange oak trees at the bottom of the mountain, where there was no snow. Definitely a feel of winter out there today!

Ended up with a very slight dusting here in Jackson, but not enough to measure. Heading up above 2500' for a hike before work - will post pics!