Layman

Me: "Honey, not heading to Methuen this afternoon. Sword fighting practice is cancelled." Wife:

We did this a few years back and recently weened off Youtube. Back to books and actual conversation. We work from home and need lots of bandwidth so household internet is the fastest we can get. Kids still use a ton of data streaming whatever they watch. Since we essentially only have Xfinity in our rural-ish neighborhood, that's what we're tied to. We use Xfinity mobile (uses Verizon towers) and live in a black hole of cell service which sucks. Dollar-wise though it's hard to beat. Four paid-in-full phones, 10gb/mo plan where we may use half since we're primarily on wifi, runs about $75/month which I think is very reasonable.

Calling it 2.5" here. Near identical to the last event but with the colder temps prior and now rain, it made for much easier plowing. Hoping the rise into the 40's melts the driveway off to set us up for the next few potentials over the coming days.

Is this slated as a Thursday morning event? I'm heading down to the metropolis of Methuen mid-afternoon on Thursday and would prefer rain over ice/snow for the drive.

3" ish here. Looks like another super fluffy 1/2-3/4" fell while plowing. The rain prior to the changeover obviously kept totals down. Sister in Farmington claims 6". Brother in Wolfeboro is saying 4". We had an uncharacteristic late night out last night and the way home at 1:45am featured solid rates with slick and snow covered roads.

I'm assuming these averages are calculated over some rolling span of time? It's not simply year over year, is it?

Down to a cold 34 degree rain

We've learned to adapt down here and take what we can get and enjoy it.

For context because it’s hard to orient yourself in the sea of green:

37 here in my neck of the woods. Not looking good so far

Exactly. This happens quite easily. My business partner out in SoCal was wearing a sweatshirt in 70 degree weather the other day on a call. I was like "It was 7 this morning with a 22mph wind". He's lived out here and knows what that's like but once you get some time under your belt in a different weather regime, you adapt to whatever that is. As @powderfreak has been saying, so many people (understandably so) view everything through their individual life experience and think it's either a winter-of-yore in Stowe VT or another non-winter in Taunton MA. Regionally, we seem to still be mired in a sub-par regime for snow lovers. As many have mentioned, at least the mountains have been able to produce and the ski areas blow snow. Winter is always only a couple/few hours away for most of us.

Again, I don't know all the ins and outs, but my understanding is this is a flaggable offense in sword fighting and it sounds like he should know better.

I'm still learning many of the nuanced expressions in the weather world, but how does one determine if 2 dudes will be: 1) High Fiving 2) Sword Fighting 3) Slapping Dongs on the NJ Turnpike These things seem highly complex to the uneducated viewer.

Hold up...

Conditions look awesome! It's been a loooong time since I've been over there but am planning to head out that way in a couple weeks. Hopefully the weather cooperates and conditions stay as good as they look in your pics.

Another minor quake on the coast? Just had a short loud boom that shook the house. No rumble or aftershock.

Is that platform for a specific kind of weather station? Do you two have the same model? I'm looking to upgrade and would be interested in a more sophisticated unit.

Starting a new day on the slopes steps from the house:

While it's not Aspen, Taos or the Matterhorn, we took the kids up to Bretton Woods for a week in mid-January. We started at the Omni for a couple nights then moved over to a slope side home managed by @alex's company. I don't know Alex and only found out about Bretton Woods Vacations via this forum, but would encourage anyone to give them a shot if you're looking for exceptional service and a quality stay in Northern NH. I found their quality of service to be leaps and bounds beyond what we've experienced with AirBNB, VRBO, etc. It snowed every day we were up there and I believe it totaled to 6-8" over that span. Just a little something to keep things fresh throughout. We have always loved riding at Bretton Woods and now that our kids are as old as we were when we met, we wanted to introduce them to that same experience we've enjoyed. We all had a blast! It was cold and snowy, felt like actual winter up there, and conditions were excellent. The home was comfortable, ultra-convenient to the slopes, well maintained and managed. The nights in the hot tub in single digits with snow flying was fun. Getting to and from it was a shock to the system though! It's been years since we've done a winter, snowboarding-specific getaway (due to raising the kids) but will definitely be planning another one. It's really hard to beat slope side access and will absolutely plan to do it again. We woke up every morning to the car re-covered in fresh snow: Lots of snow everywhere, every day:

Apparently taken down again to 3.8 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000pmk3/executive

Thought my boiler blew up for a second there. Scary stuff. Curious what @rimetree felt since he's probably one of the closest to the epicenter. It was a big explosion and several large rumbles here.

E36 M3? Hard to tell with the mountains of snow!

-7.1 for the low this morning. Up to 15 now. Side by side was not interested in starting to help with trash duties.

Doesn’t get any more official than this - 5” on the money. Take it to the bank!