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Sharknadoes of yore

Took this picture yesterday - some pretty cool ice formation on the wetlands as the flood waters receded

Just started flurrying here. Tried hockey with the kids -lol, we are a disaster. But fun. Skiing wasn't bad either.

First hockey for the kids

Yeah - at least the manmade snowpack. The natural will be so thin by then that its preservation is essentially meaningless

Amazing that we manage to rain with a low going over the Cape lol

I've gotta add, many times I have been surprised by the conditions in a "bad stretch." Good grooming can turn an icy trail into a really fun skiing day. I'm actually looking forward to the warmup - nicely groomed trails with 30s and 40s daytime high can be a treat in January!

Merry Christmas! Just started flurrying as we opened presents. How festive! :p

Definitely a net loss here but at least it's still white. 4" at the stake

Never mind. Lasted 4 seconds

Snowing

Flooded. Just moved everyone’s cars and made my way back through 2 feet of icy water. So fun… amazingly the renters all thought it was the coolest thing lol

I thought once the front came through we were going to plummet? Dropped 10 degrees in minutes but now it’s ever so slightly going up. Weeeeeeeird

Just went to check the river - it’s incredible to see. There is still 5” of snow in most spots but in between there are just 4-5” of slushy water. If that freezes before getting absorbed talk about a bullet proof base lol. Assume the cold front went through since this is my pws:

Down to 43 and sleet. Wtf

It’s interesting how localized my flood threat is. The Ammo starts just a few miles from my house (it comes out of Lakes of the Clouds), so what it does is really dependent on just the few miles between my house and the top of Mt Washington. So far so good, but keeping an eye on it. 44F, pack down to 7”. Would be nice to keep a few just for looks lol

Glad we got a new plow truck (Ram 2500). Tried with the F150 yet and 5” of water logged snow was just no match for it. Eeek.

That’s a bit surprising. It’s windy here but doesn’t seem anything exceptional so far

Festive

Wind really picked up here, lights flickering. Generator kicked in for a minute but power came back quickly. For now. Temp up to 38 with a mix of rain/snow. Looks like rain flout when you see it on the windows you can sss there is frozen stuff mixed in. Hopefully that will help reduce the flooding risk. My anxiety over flooding is high!

Over the rain. A little over 4” of new snow overnight

Still snow here, and quite a bit of it

Snow has started, game on. For once, really hope for some severe downsloping that limits the flood thread. We’ll see what tomorrow brings

Wind has picked up here. Some severe damage to the snow covering some the tallest trees, which I witnessed being shaken off. Gonna be a long 24 hours...

Yes I hope you’re right. I looked at 2 years ago, when we had a close call, and we had much more snowpack to begin with, 2 full days above freezing with several hours at about 60F, and about 2” of rain. Either way, it’s good to be prepared! in the meantime, amazing skiing today. The ungroomed natural terrain is just amazing right now. The resorts will suffer but with the cold temperatures they’ll get back quickly. Groom those suckers a couple of times, make some snow and voila, everyone is happy. speaking of which - yesterday some of the newer guns were set on this very fine mist - almost like vapor. It didn’t seem like they were doing anything but the trail underneath them was like fresh soft powder. I was pretty amazed. back to skiing (typing from the gondola lol)