powderfreak

I imagine that going about as well in your house as when you tell the family that A/C isn’t needed and they should man up and enjoy the dews.

Beautiful sunny day for some May turns. Plenty of snow with still 4.5 feet of snowpack at the summit stake. Numerous 2,000+ vertical foot routes still available. Liftline skied great and is probably going to last the longest. It's fat right down to Crossover. Nosedive still goes, Perry Merrill looks like it's about to completely melt out below the Pumphouse, Hayride still went when I skied it yesterday, Lord to North Slope and Sunrise to Standard, Gulch, T-Line, slow side snowmaking trails all good still. Takes a long time to melt all that snowmaking. Fantastic views today of the Chin and also Mount Washington out on the horizon in New Hampshire. Also had a bear run out in front of me on Sunrise; he came out one snow gun uphill of me. I wasn't fast enough to get a good photo while he ran across the trail but did get a grainy one of him in the woods on the other side. He looked at me quizzically (I'm thinking, that's a weird looking dog) as I couldn't see his whole body... then as I slowly tried to get my camera out without startling him, he took off running. They are very docile creatures and afraid of us. Good sized crowd out there earning their turns today. Perfect day for it. Probably have another two weeks left?

Top 10 day. Skiing in shorts and a t-shirt. Skinned up to the Mansfield Stake and the mountain is still buried. Highlight was about halfway up I had a bear pop out from behind a snow gun maybe 30 feet away (he was real close), thing looked at me confused and when I slowly tried to take my backpack off to get to a camera he ended up bolting. Those black bears can move, ha! Over 2,000 vertical feet of great skiing on May 1st. Picked up quite the sunburn too.

Ah that's awful. Hate to see a good legacy hotel go down. One with history from another time of NNE. Sad for all the employees and people who love it.

Every time a Fisher post comes up on here I can’t take it seriously with that avatar photo, lol. I feel like he should be rolling around in an ice cream truck creeping people out with that mustache .

Fantastic day to get out for a hike and ski. Too much snow, gotta plow it into the woods to try and open up travel routes. Wonderful day.

Seems rarer than even an EF5 TOR? That's a rare event to be throwing into a statement. Why not say 3" hail... even if someone gets a 5" hailstone it's assumed with a 3" call that f'cking large hail was possible, ha.

On an aside... holy crap at the BDL obs. Dew point of 3F for only 10% RH? That's some true dry air. Chamber style.

Odd you didn't pick the ORH obs at 52F with 20-30mph winds.

Looks like 11 of the past 14 days have been below normal at BTV... that's a solid run for that airport has been en fuego for years now. Maybe it's the "new normals" as BTV has seemed to have an easier time going below normal recently.

It wasn't a great spring day. It wasn't an unmitigated disaster. It wasn't how people would draw up this time of year... cold and windy. One could trick themselves into thinking it was nice outside with the sun, one could also not enjoy standing out in the cold wind with low RH making it feel cooler. Being in the shade up here felt like mid-winter with icicles and snow still hanging off the hotel balconies while walking to the car at the end of the day... while the afternoon sun was strong enough that if the wind wasn't honking it wasn't that bad (but there was a lot of wind).

What are the three values for SNOINCR on those old obs? I thought it was two values... new hourly snowfall/total on ground. Is it New/Storm Total/Depth? SNOINCR 2/9/12

Yeah very true. 12z GEFS initialized at like -14 degrees C below average values over a large chunk of the area at 850mb. Tomorrow isn't a whole lot higher either, still like -10 C below normal.

Yeah it's not shocking in the least. Late season cold pool overhead, some mountain snows, chilly/breezy weather elsewhere. I don't think anyone has been "shocked" ha.

Damn! Pasted. That's a healthy stack on that truck.

It’s a brush attachment on a tractor. Snow sweeper.

Looks like spring out here. The wind is absolutely honking through the plaza. Easy gusts to 40mph, blowing snow, and a temp of 30F. Could be any day from this last winter. Also had to post for ORH/Will... the heated pavers have been turned off for the season .

If this was in February all of the Maine crowd in here would be getting crushed, along with better ratios in N.NH where it's snowing now. @dryslot would've gotten smoked this evening based on the last several hours of radar loops.

Big elevational gradient this time of year. Steady snows this evening in the higher ground. Once temps dipped to 31-29F this evening the snowfall accumulation at that higher 1,500ft level took off. Radar has been pinwheeling moisture into you and the BW crew. Add in NW low level flow lift under the radar beam the further west you go on the GYX scans... good stuff for you, Alex and Diane. Probably better flake size too with colder mid-level lift occurring over there. Colder temps are higher in the atmosphere, so getting into that larger scale synoptic lift where temps are colder has probably helped. Fun late season event.

As I wrote in NNE, had dinner at the classic ski bar/restaurant "The Matterhorn" near the bottom of Harlow Hill up to the ski resort. Had to take 3-5 minute weenie drive up there on the way home. Last light just before 8pm. Photo has been edited for brightening and looks noisy due to the low light. We took a walk on the Barnes Camp boardwalk and enjoyed winter weather. 29F, windy, and snowing sideways. Small flakes, needles and bullets. Dense QPF-rich stuff. About 2" of wet frozen sand, but drifting around from very strong winds. Never know when it'll be the last snow.

Shorts on the deck with a drink in hand?

Wife and I were at the Matterhorn for dinner and since it's close to the base of the ski area, I of course had to go the 2-3 miles up the road to see what was going on. It's been snowing even down in the valley since like 3pm but hasn't stuck down at 750ft. You start to see some accumulation around 1,000ft on this side of the mountain whereas the west slope has much lower accumulation down to 500ft or lower like @Froude posted. Anyway, up at 1,500ft Barnes Camp boardwalk we took a snowy evening walk to enjoy the wind/snow/cold. Felt like mid-winter. Car said 29F. Found ~2" on the ground in that area. Roads were a mess above 1,300ft but only because it was so incredibly greasy. Only like a half inch of slush on the roadway but had very little control as the sub-32F temps finally were icing the road up. No one around though so could stop in the middle of the state highway and take photos and then drive down the middle of the road, ha. All in all, dinner at the Matterhorn and a weenie drive home. Fun evening.

Radar looks great over there in Coos County with stuff rotating into NNH from Maine. Couldn't get this in January though, ha.

Wearing shorts outside while still paying for heat inside sounds more like a calendar date flip than a warm/cold flip, no? I’m with you on wearing shorts as many days as possible but definitely won’t force it if it’s 48-52F all day.

Full on winter up at 1500ft. Everything is white…1/4 mile vis. High wind. 30.5F.