PWMan

Winds have died down here for the most part. I’ve certainly had my fill.

Ripping here now. Best-looking snow so far.

Damage done. Fortunately no cars or humans were in the driveway.

Just kind of a flizzard here at this point. Best banding north of here as noted.

I always get a kick out how CMP’s public messaging pivots from the pre-storm “we’re preparing so we’ll be ahead of things and can efficiently restore power” to “this was an extreme event and we’re scrambling to assess things but it could be days before we fix everything.” I know it’s a huge, challenging job and I wouldn’t want to trade places with them. I’m guessing this could be a longer recovery than the recent ice storm since the damage seems much more widespread across NE (as opposed to the relatively narrow band that saw significant icing).

Snow and wind picking up again. Will be interesting to see how much accumulates during daylight with these marginal temps.

Classic April snow - everything caked, birds chirping.

32, -SN. Eyeballing about 3-4”. Winds were really roaring most of the night, but seem to have backed off a bit. Lost power at around 4:30.

34, going over to white rain

37 with light rain - 0.18 so far. Taking the under on those beefed up coastal snow totals from GYX.

36 with rain. Howling

38F. First drops/pellets. Wind picking up.

I was tempted to spam my friends and family with the 1-in-10 high-end map showing 21" for Portland. That BTV precip onset map really is something. And of course the whole purpose of products like that is to help the general public plan. Yikes.

My favorite part of these threads is people pretending to be rooting against snow when they sense that model trends might be going against them.

I'm not worried about sitting in traffic for a while. I do it for ski weekends, sporting events and occasionally driving to/from Boston, and this is a obviously a unique opportunity.

Thanks for the feedback. We have our glasses and live within a fairly easy drive of totality, so I don't see myself passing it up.

What are folks' thoughts on whether it makes sense to commit to a 6+ hour round-trip drive if it looks like it's going to be cloudy? I'm willing to take my chances on a partly cloudy day, but if we're buried under an ULL with no hope of sunshine I'm wondering if it's worth the effort. Has anyone here experienced totality under overcast skies?

We're planning to drive north from the Portland area Monday morning. My wife is convinced that we're going to end up stranded in apocalyptic gridlock, Walking Dead style. There's been a lot of hand-wringing about potential crowd impacts on northern Maine, similar to the Vermont Facebook post shared earlier. One of the go-to analogues has been the Phish concert in Limestone which brought in hordes of people who overwhelmed the local facilities. My take is that this will be different since it won't be a situation where everyone is converging on one focal point. I'm sure there will be some traffic and that destinations like Sugarloaf and Rangeley will have crowds, but my biggest worry is weather.

Blizzard-like conditions at Jay yesterday. Went from sticky/wet on Sunday to legit powder. Of course the Tram and Flyer were closed, but the lines still weren't too bad.

Heading to Jay this weekend. I'd planned to meet up with my twins (UVM freshmen; spring break starting) and ski Sat-Sun, but we shifted to Sun-Mon based on the forecast. I'm guessing we won't be the only people trying to get in on fresh snow.

Truly amazing. It has been nice to see the sun this month though.

The 24th will absolutely happen because we're scheduled to fly to Key West that morning. Our one big snow event this season was when I was trying to get back from Chicago on 1/5.

Rain and wind have definitely verified here this season. Snow, not so much.

3-5 seemed bullish, but I figured 2" was in the bank. What a winter. At least the sun is coming out.

Another bust. Was forecast for 3-5 overnight, and barely have a dusting. We can’t even pull off a simple clipper anymore.