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What a beautiful day in New Hampshire. Took a 125 mile ride through the Whites. First north through Franconia Notch. Snow line was around 3000 feet. Then NE around the Northern Whites to Gorham and south to Conway and over the Kanc to Lincoln and south to Plymouth. Presidentials and Franconia Range were snow covered above 3000 feet. Driving over the Kanc the ground was snow covered at the top of the pass.

J Spin, I agree with you. Even with cutters the upslope always leaves the Greens and Whites with snow on the backend. That second system looks interesting. Not often do you see a sub 960mb over New England,

42F Light to moderate rain shower just passed. Looking at the Cannon NH cam it's snowing pretty good at 4000 feet. White Mountains should be snowcapped tomorrow above 2500 feet or so. Weather wise tomorrow looks like the last good day for awhile. I have not been on the boards today and haven't read any comments but a quick look at the 12Z GFS does show the second cutter trending east. 960mb low over New England is very impressive although it is 200 hours out

38.1F Light to moderate rain. Vis 1/4 in fog or low clouds. About .70" so far with last batch coming through. Dark day up in these northern latitudes. Nice to have the wood stove cranked and turkey in the oven. Very cozy Happy T Day to all NNEnglanders...

CAD rules. Finally hit freezing around 6am and now up to 34.4F. Just missing the heavy rain sliding off to the SE. Eyeballing around .55" so far

Up to 30.0F Dusting of snow on the ground is just sitting there. They salted roads here but just drove south 5 miles to Bristol and there was very little evidence they got anything earlier this morning. Another .25" down in my yearly snow total. Ouch on the Euro for next week. 5" of rain? Good for the drought. A nice deep soak into the deep roots of trees before the ground freezes up. Not so good for winter enthusiasts.

26.8F CAD rules here. SW to NE valley drains the cold right down to me. Many times I have been warmer than Alex in these types of situations. Let's see how long it takes for me to get up to 32F

20.8F Light snow. Vis 2 miles looks to end soon. Less than 1/4"

Alex, sure blame it on the kids. I think I remember you talking about this the first year you guys moved up here from Mass.

Yeah, guess that was a bit of an exaggeration. 2 years ago we started with snow cover around Nov 8th. I guess I meant the first snow that falls and never melts in the shady areas up at my elevation because of low sun angle. That is not really a pack...

For NNE it's the track of the storm. In another couple of weeks even with cutters you will start as snow then go to rain and back to snow or squalls. One way or the other you will not have bare ground.

Cutter for early next week? How far into the season can we keep NNE bare? I'm usually building a snowcover up by now. Maybe Phin moving up here has started climate change?

Turkey for 2 this year.

I only got .60" of rain. A few snow showers at the begining yesterday PM and some freezing drizzle in the evening. Axis of heavy precip seemed to be further SE than modeled. Good for the most severe drought areas.

Yeah, that storm blasted areas east of me. Eastern NH had extreme winds with tree damage. We were a bit too far west to get into the brutal part of the storm

32/25 Very light freezing drizzle. Few snow showers past couple of hours. Meh but could surprise a few people with slippery decks if freezing drizzle continues we we slip below freezing....

Coming from Maryland myself and first moving to Metro Boston and then up here in 2001 I use to get really excited for every snow event. You get use to frequent snow events very fast and pretty soon small 2-4" or 4-8" events are no big deal. Some of the most exciting stuff are the heavy snow squalls when visibility drops to a few hundred feet. Noreasters with lots of wind can be pretty impressive although cold storms with lots of wind means flake size is quite small. Big wet spring storms with wet parachutes are a lot prettier. Below is a pretty typical noreaster day when visibilities can be in the 1/4 to 1/2 mile range for hours. https://video.nest.com/clip/5913c751eeca4a4c9c125c3695668d1d.mp4 March 14 2017

32.7/21 Radar shows echoes over me but the ceiling is pretty high and I can see 40 miles to the SW so nothing is even close to reaching the ground. What is more exciting, a straight 25F snow event or being close to the changeover line with lots of chances for flipping back and forth? Although being close to a changeover line is much more of a messy cleanup I think I enjoy trying to figure out what is going to happen.

33/22 No virga yet just mid level overcast. Echoes about 40 miles SW Husband was exposed to Covid on Friday so we have to quarantine. No big deal on a cold overcast day. Good day to stay in and work on a jigsaw puzzle of Stowe views. One of the best pictures ever from PF. Puzzle wasn't hard to get the top part done but all the spruce laced with snow is a bitch to do.

Noon. Overcast getting thicker. 33.2/21F Dew low enough that we will start as light frozen later. Maybe I can score an inch?

Governor of NH is on TV. NH is finally issuing a state wide mask mandate. Long overdue. Biggest new case numbers today since spring. Positivity rate is jumping. Up to 4.5%

Yes KN95 the way to go. Mine have the tent design so they don't press up against your mouth. Even my local Staples was selling them. Didn't like the white one's so just ordered black on Amazon. Got to man up in NNE

NH Governor to have a news conference at 3pm. Perhaps we will finally have a state wide mask mandate. Good thing is that I am seeing near 100% compliance now. It was only around 75% in my area around Labor Day

Edit 1603 today

Today's death toll looks like it will be 1572. (Johns Hopkins site). That will be the highest since Mid May. (There was one day Aug 1rst it jumped to 1800, not sure why). So deaths are starting to tick up for sure. As I have stated on this board my brother is a doctor in the DC area that treats Covid patients and is on his hospitals Covid Committee and also advises for the State of Virginia. He says deaths are way down as compared to the spring because hospitals know so much more about Covid and how to treat very ill patients. He feels the next couple of months are going to be devastating but then with the 2 vaccines coming out Covid will basically be a thing of the past in the US by this summer. His hospital (Inova Fairfax, 1100 beds) expects to have all its medical staff vaccinated by Christmas.