powderfreak

70F at MVL at 1:30pm . Average high is like 48F.

Yeah it’s a nice transition between skiing and then summer hiking season. Get a little of both for a bit.

I’m usually a one and done but depends on where. Mansfield gives 2,000 verts and that’s a good one run outing for me. Maybe two at Spruce? It’s the same as hiking but you get to ski down, haha. Therefore it takes a lot less time. In the summer if it’s an hour up then it’s an hour down too, but on skis I can pretty much go ski a lap and be back home in 2 hours including driving, etc. I hear JSpin on the not needing to ski all day, even right now with the lift running, give me two hours and 6-7 Quad laps and I’m good for the day. It’s mostly about getting outside and enjoying the nice weather.

Yeah I was thinking a bit bigger. or at least a more intense dump though it was pretty healthy. I guess in the end it did bring a nice moderate snowfall but I was figuring we had a 12+'er in 24 hours type deal left in the bank. That was more our classic 7-12" that gets there over a bit of duration. I'll count it though, ha.

What is absolutely insane to me, is that for the next 10 days on the 12z ECMWF the 6-hourly temperature up here at MVL (radiational/fake cooling spot) never goes below freezing. The average low is 26F... we could spend 10 days at 32F or above on those 6 hourly plots on that run. I'm sure some min drops below freezing but that's an impressive streak at this time of year. The EURO 7-day departure being +10F< up in the north is impressive.

Agreed and that makes sense. Seems many are going that route. That would be my personal preference if in that situation. A couple days to connect personally in a team setting, but also have concrete tasks and jobs to accomplish before the next gathering. It’s a good compromise as a company too... less office space as you just need enough to accommodate a given team on any day and not the full staff.

I don't think any company or organization truly realizes how useless some of these meetings can be. They talk about controlling expenses but then flush money down the drain over-scheduling meetings.

Why not wake up an hour before work then? Get a shower, a nice breakfast, watch some SportsCenter. Do your normal routine then transition into work. But I get it, everyone is different. Some just need the physical act of going to work to feel productive, even if you are doing the same tasks in a different building.

Sounds like what my brother-in-law talks about. He leads a team for a Defense Contractor that develops tech for a certain US Air Force aircraft and he thinks his team works much harder at home than they do in the office. They don't spend time socializing anymore, they work and he truly thinks his team has been more productive from home. They've cut out all the BS meetings that used to take place in person and mostly do short zooms to align with each other. He sort of gave me the same impression that you have... people in the office can fake it much easier than they can at home. His staff seems happier too because they can transition quick from work to not working (as easily as walking out of whatever room they use to work in). His one problem he said as a team leader is that being in a supervisory role or a boss, you do like to see your employees to know they are working. It was a harder transition at first but once he saw the work that was happening, he was satisfied with it and thinks everyone works harder to prove that they aren't just jacking off all day at home. I do think most bosses do not like the idea of WFH because they relinquish some control over their employees. They can't watch what's going on every minute of every day and that's hard for some of the more high-strung leaders who need that constant control over the workplace, micro-managers. They struggle trusting their employees.

Yeah that’s the biggest thing I hear from friends who live near Boston and are now WFH is the amount of time they realized they got back in their lives without having to commute. One friend lives north shore and works south shore, usually an hour commute each way. He loves getting two hours back in his day to do things with his two toddlers. That would be very hard to give up if you realize what life is like without that rat race commute and getting 2 hours a day back.

Some enjoy the drama of drought. Something to talk about.

Bingo. I mean it’s not rocket science to see that many companies just figured out they can have their employees pay for their own office spaces than the company needing physical space. Why should the company take that real estate burden when you can just do it by paying your mortgage? Its 100% about saving money... I have several friends even up here who have been told their job is now remote and the office is going up for rent.

A little Lurk Skiing this morning for a buddy... the original ski method was one long pole until humans decided it made more sense to hold one in each hand. Look at the Notch in the background... just completely torched of snow joining 2012 and 2016 for this time of year. It's weird though, it feels really rare but then you think it's 3 out of last 10 winters, so maybe not quite as rare at 30% of the last decade looking like this on this date.

Paging @Ginx snewx, paging Ginxy. For as long as I've been on these forums he's touted September as the best beach month. It is very similar, just like skiing... usually (not this year, ha) the deepest snowpack of the season is achieved when people have moved on to other warm weather activities. Humans get bored easily and want to rush into the next season before it's actually here. Just like the posts on here of a certain someone looking for HHH weather in like late April and winter storms in October.

Spruce trees just igniting from spontaneous combustion.

The melt slowed down dramatically... it's starting to ramp up again though as the next few days may be pushing 65+ even at 1,500ft base area elevations. Basically all it has to do to not melt is be +20 over climo, lol. As soon as the pattern went back to highs in the 40s there for a while the melt slowed to pretty much an non-noticeable rate. I think the next 4 days are going to do another number on it. We are about to get really warm again. Here's Thursday and Friday afternoon's relative to normal 2-meter temps... back to back 20+ departures.

No sunset here but a great afternoon at the snow beach. Mild, full sun, soft snow and a fun posse. It was a good day.

Nothing like “raw” damage. Wife and I can sign up on Monday. Time to send it and get poked.

Yeah for sure, should be enough to get some standard deviations on snowfall too. There’s no doubt that area of New England was about the absolute shaft relative to normal. Did you gets get into that December band?

71/1 at EWR now. That’s wild. 6% RH.

It may never rain again.

Ahh ok so not *that* long ago. But long enough. Sort of like setting temp records at the MVL ASOS, ha.

Yikes. What’s the POR?

Phin's area must've had a sharp gradient... don't see any snow on the cam there but his neighbor up the hill reported 2.3" with 3.0" fresh depth this morning. This time of year you can get those sharper rain/snow lines over even 200-300 feet.

“I’d wear a mask to respect others”... I respect that view even if I’m not sure I’d pack myself into a stadium. Once poked, I’d go.