powderfreak

32/23 at MVL in the valley. Sitting at 29F at 1,500ft on the east slope. Dead calm.

Yeah I think it’s all pretty normal to above normal for places in SNE and NNE that have seen events (outside that zone south of the Whites into adjacent Maine)... I feel for Phin, we all told him he’d be absolutely buried for 6 months... but sometimes the bigger synoptic snows don’t come until Christmas or later even. Sometimes we can nickel and dime for quite a while too. Hopefully he’s not at 40+” cumulative at the end of December wondering why he hasn’t had more than 7” on the ground at any point, ha.

There’s been a couple synoptic systems too, even stuff like this mornings 2-3”. SNE got a decent event so far. That area from just South of the Whites into SW ME seems to be the one zone that hasn’t had a plowable snowfall. It’s coming though, it always does.

Ha I love the 5am drive to the mountain. Can pretty much stop in the middle of the road in a 50mph zone and just sit and watch it snow. No tire tracks anywhere the entire drive up too. That was a fun little stat padder this morning of 2-3" between town and the hill. Keep nickel and diming it.

Wife said a couple inches so far through 8am. No more grass blades visible, solid blanket of white. Looks like through 7-7:30am a good 1.5-2" in the area. Little stat padder to keep bumping that snowfall up for November, ha.

Ha, 1” past 30 minutes at the snow cam. So 2”/hr rate on the hill. It is cranking.

Getting smoked this morning. An inch last hour. This blew up a bit.

It is dumping out this morning. Quick inch so far.

I could live off that combo right there. Scallops and haddock? Game on.

Yeah the last two November’s definitely are outliers. In 2018 it was like mid-winter right now, ha.

16F here currently. Pretty chilly for 7:30pm.

That’s awesome. They have some relatively cheap ones out there these days commercially.

Love a great fish and chip basket. Need some crab cakes too.

Yeah it's close, I was just going on that snowfall graph Backedge had posted where this year's 10" through November 15th is the highest total snowfall aside from 2018 through that date for Randolph. I also noticed that 40% of the years failed to have reach a snow depth of greater than 4" at any time through December 1st... so it seems on pace. Looks like the 13.8" at Randolph is the snowiest CoCoRAHS site in NH and ME, by a long shot. Heck its the same amount of snow I've seen at my place so far this winter, and it's seemed decently snowy. I think you are definitely seeing how a diligent observer can rack up the inches, as you seem to be implying it doesn't seem like 13-14" have fallen so far, lol. The synoptic systems will start coming though at some point. Get some real QPF as snow and lock it in with some sleet or something and it'll be there all winter.

I figured you would’ve picked up an inch or two last night, guess it never made it over there. Had about 3-4” at Stowe at 1,500ft and they had to plow...surprisingly dense, like a lot of graupel. Even white at 750ft but we only got an inch. We’ve definitely had more frequent coverings and plowable snow over here so that may be skewing my thoughts on NNE. I think 1,500ft has plowed 4 times now. If it won’t snow that’s not a bad view on the whole lol.

No this is much better than 2015-16. The reality is many of us are above normal snow to date, looks like Randolph is too based on the short record period though. In 2015-16 my largest storm at home was like 4”, ha. This isn’t even close IMO. This morning at 1500ft would’ve been a major storm for 2015-16.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. As cheesy as it sounds.

J.Spin has to be getting relatively crushed. I usually take the 30dbz yellow pixels, assume downstream drift, and then know that those echos are usually 1"/hr rates at least. That was a pretty good pulse for the Spine in J.Spin's area. Looks like I-89 and RT 2 are still just wet in Bolton, but looks like it's snowing decently in the low elevations (300ft) along the Spine. Once those roads give in to the cold temperatures tonight and salt doesn't work as well, it'll be quite slick out there on the Interstate through the Spine.

A dark time in our NNE snow history. Like 2010 in SNE watching some in mid-Atlantic rack up 80-100" on the season. It was pretty much that season's absurdity (south) and heartbreak (north), set just a bit further to the northeast.

Extremely dry fluffy snow here. Not J.Spin's inch but likely around a half inch on the wooden garden table I measure on, ha. There's no moisture in this at all, the flakes stack like potato chips in a bag. Just as reference when looking at radar between my spot and J.Spin... one can see how J.Spin is right in the max Spine axis. There's a decent amount of downwind drift, seen as the scan angle decreases it spreads eastward, but J's in the atmospheric sweet spot.

I just remember Eyewall moving from North Carolina to BTV... and then BTV didn't record a single warning criteria snowstorm at the airport for two full winters, lol. Hopefully Phin brings NNE better luck.

I’ll show him the good stuff.

Light it up. It’s dumping on the Spine. Snowing much steadier here.

You won't get the full NNE experience until it finally gets cold enough and then all the sudden the storms start exiting stage right in a suppressed pattern of "Congrats south of the Pike".

Persistent flurry up this way. Haven’t seen any accums under 1500ft... there was a tenth of two blowing around up at the hill.