HIPPYVALLEY

You bringing the skins and tele-skis?

There was an April event in 14 or 15 where Greenfield got 3 inches of paste in like 90 minutes.

I'm not convinced this gets suppressed if it winds up.

I'm thinking of taking the family for a drive this weekend somewhere N of Mitch. Maybe Emerald Lake State Park for some snow shoeing or Magic Mt for some skiing.

West is best. Now cast for you but I certainly wouldn't be confident.

I envision rain with cat paws in my future.

Happy Worm Moon Goons!

Wait until the -NAO and meandering cut off L's show up.

Heh' yeah, orange pipe in a pitch black room is scary. Luckily have not done that here but have certainly seen it. I had stainless liners put in the chimney years ago, the expense was worth the piece of mind. We have a Jotul 602 in the basement in case of power out or if I'm working down there for extended periods. The old Vermont Castings are indestructible, made from melted down Volvo engine blocks is the rumor. Many people are intimidated running stoves hot but depending on the make it's worse to run them too cool. The only issue with wood heat is being cold when you go to people's houses who don't burn.

That's an intense road at night. Even coming through Belgrade Lakes but yeah, the S curves between Kingfield and Carrabassett are no good in bad weather.

Had not considered that making up for some of my paltry elevation. (400')

If I were skiing this weekend Sugarloaf is where I would be booking a room.

EPS is 3-4" here, I won't say I'm selling yet but I have my receipt in hand wandering towards the return/refunds window if the trend shifts at 0z.

Chimney guy came today, we were overdue, never got our fall cleaning so it had been almost 2 seasons of burning. He was blown away by how little creosote build up we had! He told me we were in the minority of clients they have in terms of proper burning practices. I told him I even burn about 20% pine. Looks like I at least learned something after 9 years of wood fires. It's a late 70's Vermont Castings that had very few hours on it when I bought it used. Last year after much research I realized that it's a stove that likes to run fairly wide open and not get dampered too much under 450F. Our house is small so it get's a little warm but I have no issue with shorts and a t-shirt in January.

I'm not sure anyone needs to be cancelling next week already. lol I will say I could really do without an 1"+ of rain. If this were a complete miss, Sunday would be a decent yard work day with the sunny half of the yard dry while the 6" side of the yard melts out.

Head up to PF land for the upslope show, looks pretty snowy across the N Greens as this departs.

You, Will and Tip were all reminding the Debbie's last week how in this pattern things can pop up in 3-4 day windows. Pity the antecedent air mass is rotting out before this comes up the coast. By tomorrow night we should have a pretty good idea if there is any chance to thread the needle for parts of SNE. Little shocked to see some of the regulars really checked out on this one so early.

It's unreal. 8 months of the year WNE is now the qpf jackzone.

Those 985mb members slamming into the SE Coast would be fun with the full moon tides. Slosh slosh.

Uhg, that sucks! I refuse to ski on ice now that I'm 50, too old for a serious injury hampering my life.

He's fine, just jaded from this winter.

Sure, like humidity fetishes that generate fantasies of driving a swamp bus that everybody wants a ticket to get on.

Western MA has that everywhere. Even in Greenfield, which is the largest town in Franklin Co, the town has a truck with 2 guys filling potholes 8 hours a day, 5 days a week and they don’t keep up.

I have a Subaru and some of the roads in the hilltowns around here are actually impassable.

I hope it does, I would love to be raking and seeding lawn while you are bemoaning and endless slow melt and mud.