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Perfect weather for the season end festivities in a lot of places today. Took in some of the cardboard sled races in between soft turns and they didn't disappoint. Burgers cooking on the summit for ski patrol fundraisers. Music and rays. Great day to be alive.

Nice ones as always. Here are few going up/down... Inverness area is always pretty with open Birch forest. Much less windblown through here too. They should have spun the lift. Once at the top, the choice of sticking in the trees was obvious as you were saying. Lighter and somewhat less windblown. Exposed trails didn't hold that much snow in the face of the battering, but protected trails did. But the mounds were whipped into big, slabby crests that were tough to navigate. Could have used about 130s underfoot and just gone straight.

Ellen never spun chairs other than the park quad. Skinned up to the summit, super windblown, very dense. Deep in the woods. Tough traveling at times.

Substantial damage... Grand Prairie airport took it on the chin with many planes destroyed and a report from an anemometer (off the ground) at 95kts. An Amazon building near DFW airport lost a roof with video on twitter. A large tower folded up in Godley in what might have been a QLCS spin up. DFW ASOS measured 78MPH, 71 at Addison airport. Etc. etc. Best line since 3/29/17

Even Keene had severe flooding. All along the river was very bad, this road sign in S Hadley tells the story.

Berkshire East was outstanding this morning, probably the day of the year so far. 6" new cakeflour, powder was the theme, but some of the finest cord imaginable deserves a shout out too.

Hit 52 on the UMass wx station, maybe a top 2 or 3 event. I want to say a similar Feb 2013 overnight fropa rivalled it here. Limbs down all over the valley, partial collapse of a mill in Holyoke, and no power here locally for the past two hours or so.

Snowed most of the day at MRG, heavy early and again later in the afternoon. I'd call it a foot fresh, skied well.

while we're tossing around analogs, I kind of enjoyed the 2/2/18 like enhancement up the Pelham hills to YBY that the 3km nammy was advertising

hopefully a 1/28/10 redux, one of our faves

Felt good for Magic yesterday. Full house on a holiday weekend powder day. We waited in line but still had a great day. Hope they raked it in.

Speaking of Berkshire East they made a ton of snow in early Dec and the soft turns and mild weather on Saturday afternoon were really enjoyable. Steeper trails were in excellent shape. Gotta feel for them though given the utter lack of natural and the unfavorable forecast.

Yes. The carpet at Berkshire East (which I dislike) allows for a relatively quick moving fixed grip quad. I don't see the point of a carpet for a detachable lift that's hardly moving at loading time.

Mt Snow is 29 bucks tomorrow online, should be a real nice day no matter where you end up.

Is that Homewood?

One foot after the other on the way up, but it pays off.

Magic was off the charts great today.

Yeah it was awesome today. Goniff in November?

That's actually the wrong link I put up... that wasn't really an elevation event last March. That event had huge gradients, but a torched BL wasn't the issue as it was in March 2013.

March 2013 had a gradient like that here... maybe over the course of like 400', but still.

Not even a delay at UMass.

Went to heavy snow in Amherst, now moderate... Measurable accums already if someone were so inclined.

Over 7" even after the rain. Few pingers mixing in now in the better echoes.

Mid levels were moving quickly as it passed over Belchertown. Breezy at the surface, but no damage. Descending the east slope it looked pretty good though. That orange blip on the velocity data is not noise I don't think, it persisted along the front for a few scans in W Deerfield.

BOX was showing base velocities 75+ MPH near Fisher's Island (base vel image below) . Some amount of SRV evident, unclear the degree to which it might have been rotating, but impressive regardless.