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Yeah I was gonna do my first examination of elevated, shallow ponds today. We're getting close.

Back half of a nina isn't generally promising for the MA, hopefully they can score an event or two here in the next few weeks. And climo is favorable enough locally to slowly build the icepack even with boring, slightly AN temps. Light winds too. Reason for cautious optimism from the models last night. Hounds may be starting to stir.

We've lost track of how many times that sort of thing has happened

The best

The way those snowholes appear over this area on every model for every event it's surprising we average more than GON

Nice to see some arctic air show up in Euro fantasy land. Folks can have their blocking I'll take a cold air mass and my chances from there. Hopefully it's onto something.

Took this pic 20 years ago. 18-24" fresh on 12/31/00 @ Stratton on a disposable panoramic camera. Hell of a way to close out the millenium.

JanuBURIED part deux?

Even if arctic cold is not likely with a lousy pacific and AN heights in E Canada, maybe the heart of climo can deliver enough cold air for some decent pond ice. 09/10 was a good skating year.

Wet avy on 12/25 is less than ideal

Is there anything on earth better for kids than a snow fort? I say no

I posted this in the New England thread, but let me show an example of what I'm talking about above... https://emmy7.casa.umass.edu/umaxx/nexrad.html This is just BOX and ENX data and granted I am not generating large composites or all the dual pol products, but from a pure browser speed perspective, note the difference between generating/overlaying full PPIs vs tiling on the weather service page. You don't have to have 'map move' event listeners, nor handle tons of tiling queries.

Color maps and user interface aside, the biggest single issue is that the tiling service is slow af. And the thing about it is for single radar stuff, there is almost no reason you need to have a tiling service these days. Modern browsers, normal connection speeds ( even on mobile), do just fine handling the full images overlaid on a map. The single quickest way to get the popcorn gallery to simmer down at least a little bit would be to toss that and just generate the full radar images.

December 2011 might have been pretty awful up there, I don't really recall however. Was certainly awful down here. Maybe they scored some upslope or something. edit- Dec 2015 too maybe?

Not sure if it's happened since, but definitely was the case in Dec 06. And really nothing changed until Mid Jan, just got worse in fact.

Purely IMBY impact (winter) 1) octobomb 2) april fools 97 (lexington) 3) Jan 11 4) Feb 01 5) feb 13 Honorable mentions Dec 08 and jan 98 icestorms... I saw both firsthand but didn't get the brunt of either. Both would fight with Octobomb for #1

I threw this together a second ago... Folks are welcome to use until they fix the main page. It's not really intended for this purpose, but I'm happy to take suggestions if folks are interested. Has BOX and ENX base reflectivity and velocity. You can also view old data by clicking the clock icon in the top left corner. https://emmy7.casa.umass.edu/umaxx/nexrad.html *best viewed on Chrome

I was just trying to use it and I noticed that the tiles were painfully slow to load. At some point the browser just gave up and I have a checkerboard like thing going on. That's gonna need some attention.

FWIW, I'm seeing some friends post pics of Ragged today, and it looks absolutely spectacular. That may be the place to be right now. There or Magic.

LOL nice Catamount is known to be a little stricter about sign enforcement, although TBD I guess with the new general manager. And with not much officially open, we decided to pass. We'll definitely head on over there later winter. The new trails are straight down the fall line, maybe the steepest cut trails in MA. Just needs snow.

The big zip lines are a little further ahead in that picture, but yes. It's actually the Roundabout trail. The woods on the right are all pretty darn good, but as you mention you have to walk/ski down the road to where you can cut back into the resort. Later in the winter when there are some old snowbanks from plowing you can pretty often find a ski track on top to keep sliding rather than hoof it.

One primary reason for the radar page change was that it used flash for single radar animation, which is no longer supported by modern browsers effective a few days ago. I presume the new page is more typical javascript. Moreover, the new page is designed to look virtually identical on mobile, which is considered best practices. And it's fair to assume most users are familiar with how to use the underlying map controls these days. I have a similar radar page for the CASA network, albeit google maps based, with a composite page as default for situational awareness and the ability to drill down to single radars. It's pretty tricky to integrate all sorts of product menus, animation controls, zoom, opacity, etc., etc without getting clunky and overwhelming. I feel most sites for models or radars are definitely too much. A side panel with a million options is ok for power users but not so much for the masses. I think Levi has done a really good job with that balance on his page and it would be cool if he could be brought in to help with V2 of the new page. Or just bring radars into TT and rename it weather.data.gov

Berkshire East was very busy, so we decided to forego the lift and skin up the Wilderness side , which was quiet and beautiful. Perfect temps, no wind and light snow. But afterward we rode the lift a few times and found that the handful of groomers were chalky PP and really super good, somewhat to our surprise.

Some things never change