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9 minutes ago, PowderBeard said:

That 600' base and 1,500' summit always bite them. Upper half of the Thunderbolt should be great. 

This. 

Unrelated to this event, but it's also almost like the east west running valley funnels in warm layers aloft sometimes.  It'll be pinging there and snowing north and south.  I suppose it probably relates to some relative lack of orographic lift locally such that cold air is not dragged down through shallow warm layers.  It's weird though.  Have always wondered if somehow the channel could extend off the ground.

At any rate I'm not too bullish for them.  S VT peaks moreso.  Glop for the base.

New England has a million great places to live.  Just ask MPM.

Fairly chilly day here.  26/16 OVC.

9 hours ago, radarman said:

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

Ice in Petersham was plenty safe.  4-5".  Several skaters although the surfaces were partially snowcovered and a bit less than ideal.  Some warm rain would help.  Ice fishermen on some of the bigger ponds.

Gorgeous afternoon up at Stone Cow too.

47 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I did see people ice fishing and playing pond hockey in Rutland and Spencer.     That’s ballsy

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.

35 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

One of the worst model fails I have ever seen. Up there with the NAM back in mid Feb 2014 when it had like 12-18" for me on the 18z run and I got 6".

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

Just now, CoastalWx said:

I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a radar so shredded like this. It’s not meant to poo poo or anything like that. From a met standpoint, that’s hard to do. Usually you have a solid band of rather moderate or greater echoes. 

20 hours ago, GCWarrior said:

What a glorious winter that was! Freshmen year at UNH, massive piles of snow everywhere in Durham. 

The best

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

This includes today's, And still going up here at hr90.

This

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.

19 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Wow the west will be a winter wonderland with the roaring jet

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.

52 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

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? 

On 12/22/2020 at 8:59 AM, PowderBeard said:

Right? They haven't even opened the Flyer or any woods this year. MRG has only had the Practice Slope open. No Castlerock at Sugarbush or Madonna at Smuggs. When is the last time that happened in a December? Wildcat is essentially one way down from the summit. They all typically get close to 100% open for a weekend or two before a melt-down at the end of the month. 

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

19 minutes ago, geo1 said:

It’s not going to be any better for you. It reminds me of Windy which is far better for wave information but also their radar looks similarly. Are there any other options without a paid subscription?

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

Just now, Hoth said:

WTF is up with the NWS radar page?

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. 

21 minutes ago, PowderBeard said:

Got it, thanks.

 

Did you get to Catamount? Kind of curious about those new trails. I remember Off Stage being a pretty fun little bump run to finish off your legs.

 

Reminded me of these. I was probably 12 in these pics, was after a 2-3' dump in the early 2000s. Some amazing memories with @MBRI

Off Stage

 

In the process of sliding 100' down Catapult and ending at the old fence that was at the top of Catamount Chair. 

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.