NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[Ginx snewx]

54 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

True, but I meant below zero down II my in CT. Here we may be able to pop a below zero number as far out as early April? This has been a big year for below zero temps. I love it.

-1.5/-5 here right now. -8 at SLK. 

Ah I see said the blind man

[amarshall]

Feb break for the kiddos. Headed up to Danforth ME to ice fish start of the week. Mild temps up there. mid 30s is shorts weather. Rented some sleds.  Sugarloaf Wed-Sun.  Anything on the horizon next week snow wise for the north country? 

 

[alex]

9 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Thought you were all done with below zero?  Never know up there 

I wish. -13F this morninb

[WxWatcher007]

-9 here this morning 

[dendrite]

9 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

True, but I meant below zero down II my in CT. Here we may be able to pop a below zero number as far out as early April? This has been a big year for below zero temps. I love it.

-1.5/-5 here right now. -8 at SLK. 

I liked SLK’s -29 on St Patty’s in 2014. They did -25 a week later too.

Not too many mornings below 0° in April during the ASOS era though.

[tamarack]

52 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I liked SLK’s -29 on St Patty’s in 2014. They did -25 a week later too.

Not too many mornings below 0° in April during the ASOS era though.

Our coldest March here.  We had -17 on 3/25/14, though the Month's coldest was -21 on the 6th.  Had 30.8" and the pack reached 43".

Ah I see said the blind man

The way I heard it:
"I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."

[WxWatcher007]

58 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Our coldest March here.  We had -17 on 3/25/14, though the Month's coldest was -21 on the 6th.  Had 30.8" and the pack reached 43".

Ah I see said the blind man

The way I heard it:
"I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."

What's your coldest April low?

[tamarack]

1 hour ago, WxWatcher007 said:

What's your coldest April low?

Here's the coldest for each month, May 1998 on, contrasted with Fort Kent, Jan1, 1976 thru Oct 25, 1985.

Month   New Sharon   Fort Kent   Month   New Sharon   Fort Kent
   JAN             -36          -47              JUL               37          32
   FEB              -29         -32              AUG              35          28
   MAR            -25          -32              SEP               23          20
   APR                5            -7               OCT               11            7
   MAY             21            20               NOV              -4         -12
   JUN             27            28               DEC             -31         -42

 

[klw]

Frost heaves are starting to get noticeable now.

[SJonesWX]

31 minutes ago, klw said:

Frost heaves are starting to get noticeable now.

they've been heaving down here for a few weeks now. some side roads are brutal

[das]

6 hours ago, klw said:

Frost heaves are starting to get noticeable now.

Even here in the valley. Offloading on pavement…

[J.Spin]

Our most recent system was one of those classic setups when an Alberta Clipper interacts with the Northern Greens and turns into a 12”+ event. I didn’t have time to get out for turns yesterday, so I headed up to the mountain this morning for a ski session. The Wilderness Lift has been closed for the past couple of days per its usual weekly schedule, so I toured via the Wilderness Uphill Route this morning ahead of its Friday opening.

As I mentioned in my Wednesday report, the first half foot of snow from this system came in fairly dense, with snow in the 9-10% H2O range, but the next half foot or so was in the 4-6% H2O range, and then then the final rounds of snow that came through yesterday finished off in the 2-3% H2O range. So all told, the storm cycle played out beautifully by delivering an excellent gradient of right-side-up powder.

And indeed the powder skiing today was as one might expect with those numbers – fantastic and bottomless unless you were on terrain that had been groomed during the storm. And even then, you were touching a subsurface that is of very high quality due to the rounds and rounds of snow we’ve received in the past few weeks. I last did powder depth checks during my Saturday outing on the Bolton Valley Nordic & Backcountry Network and was typically finding powder in the 20 to 30-inch range above the subsurface. We’re getting to the point now that it’s getting hard to put numbers to it – the overall powder stack is getting deep enough that it’s crushing and settling the lower levels of powder into denser snow beneath it, and it’s getting hard to assess where the actual subsurface sits. Oh well, that’s a great place to be in midwinter, so let’s just say that the powder out there in off piste areas that haven’t been touched is 20-30”+, and it’s got a beautiful density gradient in it that has set up naturally over time. On a related note, I see that the snowpack depth has now jumped back up above 80” according to the Mansfield Stake. So right now in the Northern Greens, the powder is deep, the overall snowpack is deep, the forecast calls for seasonable temperatures, and the modeling has 2 to 3 smaller systems with snow over the next few days. My recommendation is to get out there and enjoy it.

[mreaves]

22 hours ago, tamarack said:

Our coldest March here.  We had -17 on 3/25/14, though the Month's coldest was -21 on the 6th.  Had 30.8" and the pack reached 43".

Ah I see said the blind man

The way I heard it:
"I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."

I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention but I wasn’t really expecting light snow today. It’s nothing huge but always welcome. Well, at least until mid to late March when the golf jones starts kicking in. 

[tamarack]

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention but I wasn’t really expecting light snow today. It’s nothing huge but always welcome. Well, at least until mid to late March when the golf jones starts kicking in. 

Radar says it's snowing here, but the dry air is eating away, and no flakes have reached the ground yet.  Hit -3 earlier this morning.