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Insanity. Does Okemo allow big mountain snowmobiles? I mean I don't know what else you could do with all that over there.

I didn't see anyone venture into the woods today, but I was gone by 1230. Maybe some late arriving powder hounds might have been lured in, but it was a bridge too far for me personally.... plus we'd had plenty of untracked already. So it'll be powdery in there, but I'd be pretty careful. On trail I think you'd get powder on Hemlock, but you may have to hike it out. That whole side was closed and I didn't see any tracks in that direction. My guess is they'll definitely groom Big Chief and lower Comp, maybe War Dance, and *possibly* even Flying Cloud?? And there will be some nice cord early on. But if you want pow head to Catamount or run the gauntlet up north.

That's awesome. Is that at J Oyster? Helluva haddock chowder

Beast did quite well. Was already skiing in great by noon. Had enough meat in it to cover stuff up.

Catamount powder day tomorrow. We were skinning by 7 and I haven't had a chance to check how they even did down there. But it'll probably be good I presume. Heck, even the beast will be good again with the human groomin. Reports of 30+ in the S Greens are tempting, if you don't mind running the gauntlet... we'll likely stay local.

Wasn't really blower. 15-20+ at the Beast and every trail more or less fine. We skied UMass, Grizzly, Jug, Liftline with nothing underneath with only very light damage. I'm on 111 underfoot. Granted, we weren't throwing weight into big turns... skinny down the fall line, keep em floating. By noon it was skiing in well across the hill and we could be set up going forward.

Same here. Small but fluffy. Not baking powder.

Catamount just announced opening Friday. Berkshire summit pass FTW

Feb reported 3"/hr type stuff in Lancaster PA, with 6.8" before a flip to +IP

You've got the graupler observing humans

Beast-ly Fat skis

Poor kids might not even get a snow day out of it, they'll have to cheer for damaging ice storms now... talk about externalities

I'm a little skeptical about the ability of models to accurately depict subsidence holes, especially small ones. This will be a good test. My feeling is that this will be by and large a people pleaser in SNE... Perhaps not as evenly distributed as say, the Superbowl 2015 storm, but without the huge sucking sounds we sometimes get, like say, last storm.

March '13, I had almost 8" at 740' living on the hilltop in the valley, and at 300' was a slushy coating.

Interesting calling for more on Old Silver Beach than in GC. But they probably figure dragons won't call in totals anyway.

If you're looking to take a road trip, Magic is planning to open on Thurs.

Whereas the east flow could be problematic for some in this area (hi!) due to terrain downsloping, I'll be pretty surprised if mid level subsidence is a major factor.

Agree, certainly not calling for #1 all time at BOS (at the time) but that was another weak ass lp with a big high to the north. I know the setups aren't precisely the same, but saying totals are limited to 8-12" just because it's high 990s instead of mid 980s raised an eyebrow for me.

Tell that to PDII

Nice to have some buffer for the shuffle

So much pow, so little time

bullseye!!

How bout this Thursday?

couldn't possibly care less about central mass holes on guidance. Boxing day had us at 18" or something and we got a slantsticked 3". The fact the surface LP is relatively weak here works to our advantage IMO. We don't need giant banded nukes pushing the 970s, winds shredding the dendrites to pieces. At any rate, it's ski season. Berkshire East was on the verge of nil 36hrs ago, now looking like an opening day powder fest.

The areal averaged soundings on TT are a pretty nice tool. I note that the 3km nam and the gfs are pretty similar off the coast... around hr 54 the GFS really starts racing convection ENE off like VA beach.... If anything convective parameters for the nammy are a little better in that region (approaching 200 j/kg SBCAPE, mid 60s/low 60s, a ton of helicity) and yet it's not nearly as aggressive as the GFS in actually generating ^(organized) thunderstorms.