TheMainer

I'll take my 3-5 inches and let the southern Maine guys have the fun, I think we're in a slightly better position as things play out in the longer term

Feels like a weaker 2023, also on a Friday, also our company Christmas party, also rain and wind. Pack is definitely taking a big bit on Dryslot land, hoping when I return home around 7pm I have a few inch pack left that will turn into a glacier tomorrow

Nice 50 mile ride from the house today, trails were actually pretty decent, another 6 inches and they would have been perfect, oh well, I'd be surprised we had any snow Saturday morning, the bullseye is right over our heads ..

I'm praying for a 18z GFS scenario, almost all other guidance has us well over 1 inch of QPF. Maybe it'll have a clue. We can survive 0.75, our snow is light and fluffy and will compact and we'd be back in business with another 6-8 inches. Riding from the house tomorrow afternoon for a quick 70 mile loop with some buddies in case Friday goes real sour.

Euro with over 1.5 inches of QPF over my head the last two runs for Friday...

Fingers crossed CAR has the right idea in their AFD Rainfall amounts of one half to one inch are most likely, with a small chance of local amounts to around 1.5 inches. Significant snowpack loss is expected Downeast, with less snowpack loss and more compaction for central and northern areas. The snowpack will absorb most of the rainfall, so flooding is not a significant concern. The low level jet will also produce strong to possibly damaging winds, especially along the coast. Further inland, cold snowpack should act to strengthen the surface inversion and limit mixing towards the surface.

I had no doubt it was coming even up here, right now looks like the weenie 1 inch QPF band will be directly over our heads, hopefully we can trend that down to 0.5 inches and our pack will be intact come Saturday.

If I never saw 0.25 or more of ice again it'd be too soon cause I'm the guy who has to go clear our trail system after, 98 was pure devastation up here, you can keep that all south of the Pike as far as I'm concerned

Looking at the Euro and GFS runs we'd be right on the line of wintery and rainy even way up here, but overall not terrible. Looks like all the events will be close so plenty of time to trend those all south a bit to get everyone else in on the game.

Little over 4 inches at the house when I got back from the snowmobile club meeting, closing in on 6 inches at the groomer barn, I don't expect much snow tonight but maybe the radar will fill back in.

About 3 inches down and snowing at a good clip, half way to my Wish-cast of 6".

First flakes starting here. Looks like around 0.5 to 0.6 of QPF, hoping for some denser 10:1 type stuff so we can build our base to withstand the next couple weeks.

We'll see how this plays out, we're going to be close to the edge at the house for sure versus the groomer barn which should do better

I think we're riding the razors edge at the house, groomer garage should do 2-3 inches better I think based on what I've seen, there is a change 6 miles north of here where they split the county for the NWS purposes and it's almost spot on overall as there is a few hundred feet gain in elevation between here and there.

Our average high is 27F Christmas week, so that wouldn't be brutal here, unless accompanied by 2 inches of rain...