N. OF PIKE Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 central NE and NNE continue to see plenty of winter weather threats.......frz rain in the midst of a torch .....hmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Anybody seeing any accumulation of that ice? There is some, Its very marginal at best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Although OWD just mixed out to 56 after 42 last hour. So if we can pop some sunshine...(though I think that's more likely for southeastern NH). Thanks for your thoughts. I'm actually somewhat torn, as the winter weenie in me wants to hold onto our meager snowpack while other parts wouldn't mind feeling some warm sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Up to 30F at noon. Last time I hit 32F was last Sunday. I see some breaks moving in from the west so looking forward to getting above freezing. Driveway is thickly ice covered from past storms. Snow cover is a glaciated 7" or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Arnold214 Mike Ek posted this on FB from Gray Maine, had to share it,nice Rime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Probably 4 or 5" at home ... now ZR in the valley.. I'm told the top was still snow actually this morning. The warm layer is pretty low centered at 900mb instead of the usually 800-850mb. The flakes must not have had time to melt before reaching the upper mountain which would explain the big wet flakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Arnold214 Mike Ek posted this on FB from Gray Maine, had to share it,nice Rime. That's awesome... I love true freezing fog when you get those feathery crystals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 That's awesome... I love true freezing fog when you get those feathery crystals. It is as good as I've ever seen it. And the amazing part is it has stuck around all day, since we're still at 27 with no sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 It is as good as I've ever seen it. And the amazing part is it has stuck around all day, since we're still at 27 with no sun. Yeah that looks pretty solid... those feathers look quite large. Don't even see it that good in the mountains because there's usually wind with the freezing fog and the rime just cakes on instead of building outward. Its the little things in weather that make things fun, just seeing that was worth this little crappy clipper like storm, haha. I'm up to 38F now over here to the east of the Spine. Cold air finally scouring out. Roof just released so its starting to loosen up out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Torch delayed but not denied in C NH. 34F in Northfield and now mostly sunny and warming quickly here at CON. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted February 1, 2012 Author Share Posted February 1, 2012 Well, back now after our internet being down for a little over 24 hours. Picked up 2.2" here yesterday. I was surprised to see that much. Never got out of the 20s till we hit 30 early this morning with a slight glaze from some freezing drizzle. It's warmed up though finally--up to 38F now. We've actually gained snowpack during this 'torch', lol. Solidly wintry around here these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 As of 130pm.... Light drizzle 33.7F Snow compacting slowly. Hell of a torch...not. NEK ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 January 2012 is now complete, so I’ve updated my Waterbury monthly snowfall graph for this season: Through January there’s actually an aesthetically pleasing stair step trend to the snowfall data, with a rough increase of about 10”/month. Based on my snowfall data since ‘06, both December and January average up around 40”+, so this season’s numbers are certainly below the mean, but the trend is encouraging. In fact, continuing the current increasing trend would put February up around 45”, which would be right around average for the month, and continuing the trend for 55” in March would replicate March ‘08. That would make a decent closeout to winter as we move into the spring snowfall season (while making for a very unique looking plot). That’s not to say things will go that way, but if the pattern does tend to become wintrier as we move farther into the season, perhaps monthly snowfall could gradually reach and surpass average. Continuing with average snowfall from here on out would result in a season snowfall total of ~150”, which isn’t all that bad, but we’ll just have to see what Mother Nature does for the second half of winter. Whatever happens, snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield Stake was at 45” as of yesterday’s reading, which is below average, but is certainly into that range where most off piste coverage is not an issue; thus future storms will just help to provide powder skiing, bolster the winter snow depths, and help build the snowpack for the spring. I believe I saw PF mention that snow depths at base elevation are also in good shape. In terms of seasonal snowfall, that stands at 69.8” through the end of January, which is about 20” below average, but also about 20” ahead of ‘06-‘07. I know that this year’s snowfall trends are not the same throughout all of New England, but with all the dramatizing about how bad this winter has been, ‘06-‘07 data (very recent history) should certainly be checked before big claims are made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 It is as good as I've ever seen it. And the amazing part is it has stuck around all day, since we're still at 27 with no sun. Dude where the heck are the pics, that is some of the best seen in years, pics dammit LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Sun has popped out and temp jumped to 43F. Also getting some strong evergreen shredding gusts since the sun came put. Amazing how fast some sun mixes things down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 We are trying to hold on here, Just got to 32F.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Down to 35.8F after a high of 38.8F. Not much damage to the snowpack, if any at all. The driveway is still snow/ice covered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWxWatcher Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 High of 44.7F at 1:30pm with .20" of rain. blech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Still hanging in the upper 20s, but I can see some breaks in the clouds to the south of AUG. Temps in SNE/CNE are impressive - 56 in Nashua at 3 PM, probably even warmer right now. GYX afternoon update is predictably boring - 6 days of seasonable temps and zero precip, then a mention of the phantom low next week. Better than a torch-deluge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 LSC wx station reads 35.4F currently at 1,150ft off a high of 36.1F...some surfaces down on campus at 1,050ft still iced over...so current observation as of 5:15pm: Light rain/freezing rain 35.4F/35.0F Snow depth still at 6" even with the rain. Overall a 1" gain over the last 2 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Down to 35.8F after a high of 38.8F. Not much damage to the snowpack, if any at all. The driveway is still snow/ice covered. It's amazing how different your location is from mine despite not being that far geographically...I hit 50.1F today in the Monadnocks and there is nothing remaining of the snow except for piles and isolated patches, mostly in sheltered areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 It's amazing how different your location is from mine despite not being that far geographically...I hit 50.1F today in the Monadnocks and there is nothing remaining of the snow except for piles and isolated patches, mostly in sheltered areas. I was thinking the same earlier, for a while today I wasn't far behind him but right before sunset it torched to 44.7 dropping back now slightly with a temp of 42.5. Still about 95% coverage here just areas that get the most sun and are sloped have been decimated. Couple areas in my yard that get zero sun but are clear enough not to have the trees collect the snow instead of it falling to the ground still have 4-5 inches(on side of my above ground pool) but open areas are down to around 2 or 2.5 inches of glaciated snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Temperatures were amazing today. After being in the 20's this AM we finally busted into the warm air around 1pm when I had a 10F temperature rise in an hour. High got to 47F up here on the hill. I could look down and see the cold layer below. Even at 5pm I am at 45F and Plymouth airport about 7 miles to my north and at a much lower elevation is 32F. Even Dendrite 20 miles to my south only made it to 38F. Ground is totally snowcovered and glaciated so the snow is not going anyplace fast. I posted this picture in another thread earlier today. It was taken around noon. You can see thetop of the cold air below me ( low clouds and lower vis) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 What a strange day temp wise around here, I only made it up to 33.1F and am now down to 28.9F with what looks like a line of either zr or IP heading this way on radar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 funny read in the Sunday River snow report, they said bizarro world , winter conditions at base , spring conditions at the Summit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Temperatures were amazing today. After being in the 20's this AM we finally busted into the warm air around 1pm when I had a 10F temperature rise in an hour. High got to 47F up here on the hill. I could look down and see the cold layer below. Even at 5pm I am at 45F and Plymouth airport about 7 miles to my north and at a much lower elevation is 32F. Even Dendrite 20 miles to my south only made it to 38F. Ground is totally snowcovered and glaciated so the snow is not going anyplace fast. I posted this picture in another thread earlier today. It was taken around noon. You can see thetop of the cold air below me ( low clouds and lower vis) You made it 2 degrees higher than I did, kind of interesting the difference between me and you with dendrite in between being the coldest. He is in an awesome spot for CAD for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Radar shows rain with that line coming out of the foothills and transitioning to mix when it reaches the coastal plain, Low level cold FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 It's been raining steadily in the village this evening at 36F so I just drove a couple miles up the road and sure enough it's dumping up by the ski resort. Snow level was around 1200ft with road snow covered above like 1300-1400ft. Full on wet snow raging at 1500ft sticking to everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 I think I've got more snow now than before the "torch" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBRI Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Great be there Sat morning with the gang. It's been raining steadily in the village this evening at 36F so I just drove a couple miles up the road and sure enough it's dumping up by the ski resort. Snow level was around 1200ft with road snow covered above like 1300-1400ft. Full on wet snow raging at 1500ft sticking to everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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