mreaves

As the crow flies, I am 8.91 miles away from W. Topsham. Seems like we have pretty similar observations a lot, though in my mind I think of your area as snowier.

I remember you posting that and was roughly what had in mind thinking about Champlain lake effect. 18.6°/10.5° with .75" - 1" of new snow this morning. I had to go into the office and had almost forgotten that an inch of snow could make the roads somewhat crappy. Likely had to do with the temp crash below freezing overnight.

Somewhat marginal here too. It all depends on how blocked the flow is.

I thought last year was poor for retention. It seems like we had the snow but we had some melts that kept us from a really good pack. My unscientific, superstitious self always thinks winters come in packs. I remember how 2007 turned heading towards VDay and then 08 was good too. This seems like we are continuing on from last winter’s crap.

I just find my grill uses too much gas when it's cold. I have a decent Weber only a couple of years old too.

Anyone who rides needs frigid. Water crossing and ground need to freeze solid.

Short lived here. Maybe a tenth but it was accompanied by some gusty winds.

About 3” overnight and still snowing lightly. I guess we were on the southern edge of that axis PF pointed out. Back to a wintry look for a few days at least.

You try way too hard.

Will just threw his Commodore 64 out the window.

Decided to set up the PWS off the corner of my deck using some brackets and a shelf. Bonus there is it’s a smooth, white board so it can double as a measuring board. It’s about 10’ above ground and about 10’ away from the house. Not optimal so I’ll likely mount it to a pole in the yard this summer. I think this location likely messes with wind direction and speed. Now I have to figure out how to hook it up to the WiFi and join Wunderground.

My wife got me a weather station for Christmas. Nothing fancy like a Davis just an Ambient WS-7078 but it will be more than good enough for my already decidedly unscientific observations. Amazingly, this is my first weather station. I’ve always been too cheap to buy one. I’m going to set it up today. I think I’m going to do it, at least temporarily, on my deck rail. It’s not the best place as it will be less than 10’ from the house and will be 12’-15’ above ground. I have a spot in the back yard that will be better but I want to clear some brush and a couple of small trees before I put it there. It will be interesting to see the comparison with KMPV which is on the opposite hill about 5 miles away.

If you measured with snowmaking, you’d average 750” a year

Wow, I’m not in a particularly good wind spot but gusts are shaking the house. We will still have snow cover after midnight so it goes down as a white Christmas, bittersweet but officially white nonetheless.

I took advantage of the snow we have before it goes away. Went down to Woodstock, which is unbelievably classic New England with snow and Christmas decorations up, and did a 60 mile snowmobile ride. Still lots of snow from there through Plymouth and down to Ludlow. Caught a couple of glimpses of Killington but none of Okemo while we were down there. At least we got to play in the snow for a little bit.

He’s posted pics. That thread moved at 100mph though so they are probably buried, like his house.

I was going to say Riddle Pond. I’ve seen them towards Groton on 302 as well. Near the Butterfield parking lot.

Lol was just going to post the same thing for here. Looks like we will likely have similar obs this season.

It is nice having an NWS employee live basically around the corner from me, their measurements always track well with mine. A colleague of mine actually used live next door to them. I guess they transferred to BTV from CAR. Anyway, here is the PNS for Washington County

My son just went out and measured 6"

Pretty wintry obs at KMPV

Because my expectations were so low, I'm pretty happy with 4"-5" we've received here. If it had been modeled to crush us and then we only got 4" or 5", the story would be different.

3.5" here, which is better than I expected. Looks like some good stuff down in SVT. May need to head south to ride

And the locals pronounce it Staahk

We have made it up to 10°. The forecast high is 18°, that may be a tall order to get to.