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Countdown to May, pffff

Not the best pic but this was Berkshire East around 845 this AM

Belchertown just assumed

warnings hoisted MAC011-013-015-027-291830- /O.NEW.KBOX.SQ.W.0001.250129T1758Z-250129T1830Z/ Worcester MA-Hampshire MA-Franklin MA-Hampden MA- 1258 PM EST Wed Jan 29 2025 The National Weather Service in Boston/Norton has issued a * Snow Squall Warning for... Northwestern Worcester County in central Massachusetts... Western Hampshire County in western Massachusetts... Franklin County in western Massachusetts... Northwestern Hampden County in western Massachusetts... * Until 130 PM EST. * At 1257 PM EST, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line extending from near Northfield to near Pittsfield, moving east at 40 mph. HAZARD...Intense bursts of heavy snow. Gusty winds leading to blowing snow and rapidly falling visibility. Wind gusts up to 35 mph. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Travel will become difficult and potentially dangerous within minutes. This snow quall is expected to move across I-91. Locations impacted include... Amherst, Northampton, Greenfield, Orange, Deerfield, Gardner, Monroe, Athol, Winchendon, Montague, Templeton, Hadley, Sunderland, Hatfield, Northfield, Williamsburg, Huntington, Bernardston, Buckland, and Conway.

Managed a coating on the roads. Came down hard for a few mins. Sun back out now. But the streamer should be aligning with the pike here shortly, could get a little slippery.

Catching some snsh from this little streamer. Maybe some heavier stuff heading into Holyoke/Chicopee/Ludlow here shortly.

Only thing I caught this evening was aggressive little bluegills jigging a spoon. No flags. Love being out on the ice though. A foot thick in spots right now, awesome run of cold wx.

GFS looking great for the clipper again

All we have is like 60% of our snow climo left!

Sounded like steady rain. I still have several big standing dead oaks shedding branches on the property over time. Awful.

Many all time records fell and several other 2nds and 3rds all time. Feb 1899 and Jan 1985 were really the two comparable cold spells, both with the core of the cold focused a bit further east. But it was insane this morning. New Iberia hit 2, Lafayette 4, Mobile 6, Gulfport/Biloxi 7

12" or hard pass applies even down there for some I guess

Destin Harbor The webcams are epicosity https://emeraldgrande.com/destin-harbor-cam-emerald-grande

Congrats Gulf of Maine as now the undisputed GOM.

Got a couple days in northern New Mexico over the weekend... Angel Fire and Taos. Both really cool spots. Very low tide for snow in general, but the conditions were still awesome, especially Taos. Most of the ridge was open with stashes of light powder, and chalky pp elsewhere made even the steepest stuff totally doable. At 12k+' the snow is so dry it's remarkable. Taos is also up there near or at the very top of the burliest mountains I've ever been too.... super steep terrain everywhere. Can't wait to get back when everything is game on. And oh yeah... no lines whatsoever on a holiday weekend.

Bluebird! Go go go

Also late... like almost nowcast time

Agree on Slide Brook. Was a dumb waste of money to begin with. Unnecessary as well. Rode it twice, once over, once back, just to say I did it. Wonder if they could use that to replace North Ridge?

you're probably right to ignore the mesos at this range, but worth noting the globals haven't exactly been inspiring confidence here either

It's not really that as far as I can tell. They just have had a really hard time with lifts and staffing. And the planning has been awful. Last year was a prime example. They shutdown HG and Castlerock before the late season 3 foot dump to prep for the new lift and said they had planned that for a year. Ok fine. But then they didn't keep Ellen open and said they couldn't just ask their staff to stay a few extra weeks... when they just told you they knew a year in advance that there would be no upper mountain anywhere! They basically never run Inverness. North Ridge was down on some of the biggest weekends of the year. GMX was down this year for a bit over Christmas. They don't let you skin Ellen even as snow rots on the hill. It's just super hateable how they operate since Alterra took over. But the terrain is very good to great, so there's that. If they'd sell off Glen Ellen to a benevolent wealthy family, I'd frickin love it.

I've been a longtime SB skier, but you just gotta shake your head these days. Even the Magic ops crew is like "what a sh*tshow up there" . It's an effing disgrace how they treat Ellen too. But yet I do go back for more. All that said, I do agree that the hike to Castlerock is fine and that line gets so long on busy days anyway it's probably faster to just go over from HG

Wow, that's awesome. Where? Unrelated but nice little squall moving in

I know. Yet it goes in the books. Plus it is, at least historically, dominated by radiating nightime lows and the wind has precluded that. My suspicion is that if we had daily climo temp curves we'd find a greater area under the longterm mean than above it for Jan (2F bias aside perhaps). The max+min / 2 method is just really lame and it's so long since time to graduate from arithmetic to stats 101.

BDL might be +4 for Jan after today

Meanwhile, just another day at the beach