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18 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

It's pretty comical how thin the supplies are sometimes. Like the whole radar service life extension program (SLEP). We had like two extra pedestals for the whole country, so we leapfrogged teams around the nation refurbishing. Give CAR the spare pedestal, refurbish theirs, give it to GYX, refurbish GYX's old pedestal, give it to BTV, etc. 

It's a smart move as long as the holes are all drilled straight.  I've been waiting 12 mos for a refurbishment, with no spare

72" at this location in 13/14, well above normal, but March sucked (2"), only a quarter inch in Novie, and Jan below average.  But Feb was pretty great.

28 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

 

Yeah, about 2" here in the yard, less on the pavement because we started above freezing.  I'd call it an overperformer 

Same here

Half inch here

I probably shouldn't get the least bit excited here, but this raised at least one eyebrow. 

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

How was the tanning and swimming?

Water in the sound was about the same as Coast Guard beach in July

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

A few mangled flakes here this afternoon 

Several rounds of convective showers along 495 and the pike this afternoon.  Temps were close to 50 though so no dice on mangled flakes.  Low 40s I think we could have pulled it off.  

Gorgeous day on the Cape beforehand.  Mid Novie is a great time to be there.

Finally made it to Treehouse in Sandwich.  Nice spot, just don't try to come in the summer.

37 minutes ago, bwt3650 said:

2018-2019 was phenomenal at for NNE if i remember?

incredible... best ever...

I believe Mt Ellen had something like 90" for Novie.  And even further south, Magic was 100% open with 3-4' of pow by 11/29.

Our 1 minute update radar data has a ton of potential for training ML models.  Have hundreds of terabytes of it.  Starting to look into it now.  

Recently had a paper accepted that uses a non ML approach, run in parallel with parameterizations tweaked to produce an ensemble nowcast and converted to gridded risk for stochastic routing purposes.  Every minute produces an updated grid of risk for every minute from 1-20 mins.  (About 2 mins latent)   But a single ML based deterministic nowcast would still be better it if were accurate.

2 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

Has there been any discussion of this new model? First I hear or read about it.

 

Why your weather forecasts may soon become more accurate (yahoo.com)

I'd like them to work more on their nowcasting.  Some results are promising but it still has a quite ways to go.  The benefits if they could quickly generate a highly accurate 20-30 minute nowcast would be immense.  AI based methods *might* be able to pick up on convective initiation even without true data assimilation.  Non AI nowcasts cannot.  But AFAIK non AI methods are still outperforming AI methods right now.

Nice coating

Let's get that cold to drop in a little faster on the euro for next weekend... I'll be on the cape...  hybrid tropical system is getting a tug back to the west that run

19 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Halloween 11. 

Then there was the 59-0 Pats game on 10/18/09 in the accumulating snow in his area.

IIRC 10/18/09 was rain further inland too... good lift was highly localized right in that part of SEMA

28 minutes ago, dryslot said:

You have skiers at a ski resort skiing on snow and worried about falling on a snowy walk?.............

We could be hucking cliffs and steep trees and ice waterfalls all day but never declare victory until after we navigate the stairs to the lodge and the trek across the parking lot.  

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Was that for sure a marten or an ermine?

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Never heard of an albino marten before, but most mammals produce very rare albino offspring so it's certainly possible.  A long-tailed weasel is about 2/3 the size of a marten and always turns white, just like it's much smaller short-tailed weasel.  I think both species are called ermine when white.

Yep you are right.  An Ermine not a Marten.  A big one.  I guess they are not particularly rare after all.

I've seen a Marten, all white, from the chairlift at Sugarbush. Moving right across the trail in full view.  I didn't even realize the rarity of such til just now.

15 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Judas close to canceling …

https://x.com/judah47/status/1721250575449223425?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

Crazy that even he's abandoned the snowcover signal.  Because the snowcover signal was big.

Big southerly flow and high dews and rain are what takes out man made this time of year.  A couple hours of 50s or even 60s on low sun angle is of negligible effect on your typical early season trail offerings.  The bigger issue is the pause in expansion.

At a distance you might think the abundant pines around Quabbin were badly affected by a fungus, because the tops are so brown.  On closer inspection they're just loaded with cones.

28 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Nice finale. Snow is sticking even in downtown Greenfield.  

same.  Flipped to moderate in the last 10 mins, ground whitened.

snow mixing in here as well

10/31 final harvest before the killing freeze.  Nice run we had

30 here

How bout if you install a multi million dollar wind turbine that powers the lifts and the water pumps?  Are we good in that case?  Asking for a friend