March Madness

[tunafish]

Night 1 of 2 chaperoning a school adventure club camping trip in the Whites.

Low of 9.5°F outside according to the weenie thermo I brought.  Temp in my tent stayed right between 26-29° all night and with the proper tent and sleep pad, the <0° bag was almost too warm at times.

Pack is still anywhere from 8-18" generally.  Got that rotting spring look with a bunch of stuff from the trees on top even though it was fresh at the start of the week.  Definitely more glacial than soft, at least this morning.

Looks like tonight will be warmer but more windy. I think I'd prefer to radiate.  Possibly some exciting squalls later on the hike.  LFG.

[SouthCoastMA]

Flurries around this morning. 

[CoastalWx]

7 minutes ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Flurries around this morning. 

Congrats white horse beach 

[Henry's Weather]

27 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Night 1 of 2 chaperoning a school adventure club camping trip in the Whites.

Low of 9.5°F outside according to the weenie thermo I brought.  Temp in my tent stayed right between 26-29° all night and with the proper tent and sleep pad, the <0° bag was almost too warm at times.

Pack is still anywhere from 8-18" generally.  Got that rotting spring look with a bunch of stuff from the trees on top even though it was fresh at the start of the week.  Definitely more glacial than soft, at least this morning.

Looks like tonight will be warmer but more windy. I think I'd prefer to radiate.  Possibly some exciting squalls later on the hike.  LFG.

This is awesome, what grade levels?

[CoastalWx]

28 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Night 1 of 2 chaperoning a school adventure club camping trip in the Whites.

Low of 9.5°F outside according to the weenie thermo I brought.  Temp in my tent stayed right between 26-29° all night and with the proper tent and sleep pad, the <0° bag was almost too warm at times.

Pack is still anywhere from 8-18" generally.  Got that rotting spring look with a bunch of stuff from the trees on top even though it was fresh at the start of the week.  Definitely more glacial than soft, at least this morning.

Looks like tonight will be warmer but more windy. I think I'd prefer to radiate.  Possibly some exciting squalls later on the hike.  LFG.

Need one of those tents with a stove 

[Brewbeer]

30/10F with a persistent breeze, good indoors day

[Baroclinic Zone]

In the 20s this AM. 

 

[CoastalWx]

Nice snow near @SouthCoastMA

[Damage In Tolland]

Today sucks 

[CoastalWx]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Today sucks 

Nice sub freezing seabreeze for some lol

[SouthCoastMA]

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Nice snow near @SouthCoastMA

Yeah now a steady light snow. The type that would bring out the Templeton buck tooth snow emojis

[dendrite]

Clouds came in right at sunrise.

23.6° at 10am 

[dendrite]

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Clouds came in right at sunrise.

23.6° at 10am 

“Came in”

Haha…more cloud BS up here today

[DavisStraight]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Need one of those tents with a stove 

When I was in Boy Scouts I had one of those Coleman propane lamps, that thing would heat my tent right up.

[tamarack]

12 hours ago, rimetree said:

Last freeze...

2021: 4/22

2022: 4/18

2023: 5/18

2024: 4/27

2025: 4/10

I think the long-term average here is 5/10 but I'm sure that's moved back a few days. But I'd think this year will be some time later in April.

Last frost/freeze at our frost pocket:
                Frost     Freeze
Year:       </=32   </=28
2020         6/2       6/1    Only 2 of 27 years had a freeze in June.
2021         5/18      5/8
2022         5/19     5/9
2023        5/26     5/18
2024        5/11      4/27    Only year without a freeze in May/June.
2025        5/13      5/1

[CoastalWx]

40 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

When I was in Boy Scouts I had one of those Coleman propane lamps, that thing would heat my tent right up.

I have one of those. 

[CT Valley Snowman]

Up to 34!  

[HoarfrostHubb]

Skiing at Wachusett was actually very good.  Firm. Bare spots showing up but still a lot of snow. 

[HoarfrostHubb]

Monadnock off in the distance in that pic. 

[OrangeCTWX]

Found a tick crawling on me while doing some yard work today. Was hoping they would come out until April 

[ineedsnow]

2 hours ago, SouthCoastMA said:

Yeah now a steady light snow. The type that would bring out the Templeton buck tooth snow emojis

[CoastalWx]

44 minutes ago, OrangeCTWX said:

Found a tick crawling on me while doing some yard work today. Was hoping they would come out until April 

Already seen them here for a few weeks now. Only a nuclear war can erase them. 

[powderfreak]

5 hours ago, tunafish said:

Meant to post this reply earlier but sill sitting here as a draft... 

I really love this post.  It would sound lame to a non-weenie, but this kind of data collection and maintenance must be a huge point of pride.  There is something so gratifying about being a steward of records, and thats coming from someone whose observation task involves about a tenth of what yours does, so I can only imagine the feeling of accomplishment. 

It's honestly why I hope I never have to give it up unnecessarily.  So great. 

We have a great small knit crew that diligently takes care of it throughout the season and we do really enjoy it.  It’s nice to see what it is actually at the ski area, vs just estimating snowfall and throwing numbers out there.

You really see the importance of taking a measurement at the same place all the time and as a skier, you start to be able to guess pretty accurately what you’ll find there based on observations elsewhere on the mountain.

No matter what, as long as one continues to record obs in the same manner over and over, it makes for fun data comparisons.  

[OrangeCTWX]

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Already seen them here for a few weeks now. Only a nuclear war can erase them. 

Yep cold winters definitely aren’t enough anymore. Little bastards 

[tamarack]

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Already seen them here for a few weeks now. Only a nuclear war can erase them. 

They'll get active here in mid-April, and except for the odd 6-week late summer hiatus, will be hunting for blood until snow cover arrives.  My unfavorite-est arthropod.

[Typhoon Tip]

6 hours ago, dendrite said:

“Came in”

Haha…more cloud BS up here today

You have me as a witness...   Seems there's been a bit of a + anomaly with that standing wave cloud materialization phenomenon going on this early spring.   

We had nape sun earlier but have since denigrated the skies to a virga blizzard with blotches of dark exploded CU ...corpuscular rays blasting out around the edges as they made sure to eclipse any hope of penetrating sun.   Nothing reaching the ground of course... Reminds me of that first winter like cold snap in mid November you get.   Maybe if your lucky while raking you'll see a single flurry flake catch the corner of your eye.  

[Typhoon Tip]

I'm highly confident that when the March temperature anomaly is made available by NASA in a couple of weeks it will reveal the 6th consecutive month where a cold sink hole's apparently anchored over the NE' U.S.