#NoPoles

I currently have a ton of Robin's, Blue Jay's, red winged black birds, grackels, cowbirds, Juncos, chickadees, purple finches, gold finches, Northern flickers...add in a few wild turkeys, 2 chipmunks, and a red squirrel. 

I have gold finches at my bird feeder. The Silver and Norway maples are fruiting in North Conway. It also looks like the Birches, and Poplars are fruting as well

I'd love to go intercept totality in Egypt. Would make great pics with the pyramids. Also Australia sounds like another great choice to intercept totality

Awesome pics everyone! I drove north on rt 3 and pulled over on the side of the road in North Stratton at a big leechfield site. Super flat area, great view. Shared it was a couple in their 80s and a younger man in his 20s. The older couple didn't have glasses so we all shared. I had a blast. And when totality happened, you could hear clapping and cheering from everyone else in general area. 

A double ups tractor trailer was driving by when totality hit and it got dark. The driver immediately pulled over and jumped out to watch. He was ecstatic.

I think the other amazing thing about this eclipse is that even though there were so many people crowded in together and traffic was a disaster, everyone was really happy and positive. So weird to hear people talking about being stuck for hours in traffic but to be so up beat about the whole thing and saying how it was worth it and they would gladly do it again.

Imagine if people were generally happy or in a decent mood all the time??? I think we would be so much kinder and gentler with each other

Can you imagine how different this forum would be if everyone were happier? This thread is amazing. So different from the weather threads where everyone is tearing into each other.

The traffic jam from rt 3 from twin mountain all the way to 93S through Franconia Notch finally cleared at 4am

6 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

For srn VT and NH it worked out. I mean even Bretton Woods had a lot of sleet.

The radar Dendrite uses showed the sleet in Bretton Woods real well, while he Gene and eek had gone to snow

North Conway area eastward into ME got hit hard. Large area of power loss. 

Looks like the radar Denrite posted is showing rhem get upslope, and Attitash looks like it is getting smoked.

Cranmore is already closed for the season. Attitash is going into their final weekend of the season.

This has been a long duration storm and they are saying it will be days until that area has power 100% restored 

1 hour ago, Heisy said:

My buddy is at fox ridge resort in North Conway. Any reports out that way for totals, he hasn’t gotten back to me just curious


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Looks to be around a foot of heavy wet snow and still snowing and power is out in the entire area and eastward into ME

I'm enjoying being in the dry slot. Breaks of blue sky. Still some good wind gusts. But very happy! No snow caked trees, power still on, only have to clear around 5 inches.

Love to see everyone's pictures, but glad to be on the sidelines this time

Got about 5 inches total, maybe about a half inch of that is sleet. I'm sitting in the massive n/s dry slot and there have been breaks of blue sky and sun. I'm so excited! I was dreading this storm. I am done and want spring. 

Scalpfest in Bretton woods

WSW hoisted for my area

Bretton Woods Area picked up 18-24 inches, nice and light and easy to clean up. Same with Bartlett and North Conway. Wildcst reports 30inches at the base and more as you go up in elevation.

Sunshine and blue skies all day today. Parking lots were packed at Bretton Woods, Attitash, and Cranmore. Ski it while you can!

Bretton Woods Area picked up 18-24 inches, nice and light and easy to clean up. Same with Bartlett and North Conway. Wildcst reports 30inches at the base and more as you go up in elevation.

Sunshine and blue skies all day today. Parking lots were packed at Bretton Woods, Attitash, and Cranmore. Ski it while you can!

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Still hanging on to all snow. I thought 15z would be the time we’d flip here so we’ve hung on a little longer. 27.0°

The snow is light and fluffy up this way. 

The wind is just starting to pick up now. 

Not S+ here either, but decent. Though the surprise 6 inches we got the other night, the rate was much more intense. Also far enough north that this snow is light and fluffy, and not heavy and wet. Very hopeful that there won't be many power outages up this way

What does it look lite for Bretton Woods?

I just got my generator wired into my panel box so, I'm ready...hopefully

10 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Is it windy?

It is

Picked up a surprise 5-6 inches last night. 

Would have been great if that happened during the "winter" part of winter. I am sooooo ready to get going through spring

Well that was a surprise 5-6 inches

The snowfall rate was intense for the first 1-2 hrs

44 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

We 60 today.

We 44

@Ginx snewxweren't you posting from Sunday River? 

On 3/5/2024 at 8:22 AM, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Early lead candidate for me is 1998-1999, which woud actually be a notable improvement over this past monstrosity.

I have zero knowledge of that winter. I graduated boot camp Dec 18th, took leave so I was home for Christmas, then went to Camp Lejeune for MCT  and then finished off that winter in 29 Palms. I do remember the final few days of MCT a massive cold front went through and everything froze up. Living out in the field was brutal.

Winds just starting ripping up here in north country

13 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I hadn’t heard about that. Tough for everyone involved.

The rescue/recovery efforts lasted well into the night. There have been too many backcountry deaths. But you can't stop people from doing the things that make them feel alive.