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Snow has picked up again

Would not be a bad week if this verified: Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. West wind 5 to 10 mph. Saturday Snow likely, mainly after 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 32. Northwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible. Saturday Night Snow. Low around 21. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Sunday A 50 percent chance of snow before 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 25. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Sunday Night A 30 percent chance of snow after 3am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 8. Monday Snow likely, mainly after 7am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 24. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Monday Night A chance of snow before 7pm, then a chance of snow showers after 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 17. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Tuesday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 27. Tuesday Night Snow likely, mainly after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 18. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Wednesday Snow likely. Cloudy, with a high near 24. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Wednesday Night A 30 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 8. Blustery. Thursday Mostly cloudy, with a high near 16. Thursday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 8. Friday A chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 33.

I had never thought about it that way... brilliant! So true.

Lol I just made a similar comment on the train wreck thread for the weekend threat. People somehow talk like NNE has been having a banner year while I think relative to average SNE has been doing much better.

And the weenies are all "oh yeah and it's definitely happening because the models have been so steady with this"

Winding down after another 0.7", making it 1.1" for the day.

Really, you could get rid of storms and give me a moist NW flow all winter and I'd be just fine! Another half inch tonight, stake up to 10"

It's pouring snow again

Measured 0.4" from the daytime stuff. Light hi steady snow continues

1.8" overnight, 3.2" total from the ULL/upslope part of the storm. Unlike the previous cement, very scenic way to start the year!

Squalls to start 2020. 1.4" so far

Hard to measure but 3.5" seems a good average for the overnight plus daytime yesterday stuff, bringing the total to 5.9". 8" at the stake

Lol. Wakey Wakey!

2.4" overnight. Dense snow but no sleet or freezing rain. Currently moderate snow 25/15

I know what Darwin would say...

Thank you all. It's a struggle. I want to let him be and grow confident and unafraid and do the crazy things I've never had a the courage to Do, but at times the price you pay is a giant heartbreak. I still struggle with the memory of seeing him screaming in pain, I'd never seen him like that and it was agonizing. But he's doing much better and yesterday he had his smile back which meant the world. Thank you all for your support!

Yuck. I hate ice. And fortunately we don't get a whole lot of it in my spot. Merry Christmas to all. Been a rough few days - my 5 yo broke a femur skiing on his first day of school breaj, had to be sent to Dartmouth for surgery. Came back home yesterday. It's really hard to see a kid suffer so much and be unable to do anything. Today he was in much better spirit, and that was the best Xmas present. And on that note, a solid 5" cover here but just down In Conway it's bare ground. I have to believe a brown Xmas is a pretty rare occurrence in North Conway.

Which is what pi$$es me off (read thread on NNE) when they state they have 88” of snow season to date. Sure, maybe that’s what fell in some ravine on the wind protected side, but from an average skier perspective, it’s a bogus number.

Interesting discussion especially with the boring weather. And for the record I do find it “duping” to report from the very top when 99.9% of the trails that a skier can access fall below that. It’s in no way representative of the experience one can expect But back to snow data - Where does the Wikipedia data come from? They claim 222” as the seasonal average for Mansfield. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mansfield

Not sure about Stowe, but I was personally at Jay when they reported 9”, and it was no more than half of that. We talked for hours about how disgusting it was that they’d do that. Wildcat was pretty bad too. A dusting would be reported as 2” on a pretty routine basis (that was my home base for 2 winters).

Once again, though, how do you reasonably justify that Mansfield averages more snow than a mountain that’s subject to very similar weather patterns but 2500 ft taller?

That seems much more reasonable. I also don’t buy Bretton Woods’ “over 200” average” - in the couple of years I’ve been here we’ve been 150-170 and those I’m pretty sure are pretty good years, which means we are bound to have some 90 inch years that would require the really good years to be above 300 to make up for it. I’m just skeptical of that. Problem is, most of these reports come from ski resorts, which have a strong interest in pumping those numbers. When I see Mt Washington at almost 7000 feet averaging 280 (from a reliable source), I don’t see a ski resort even at 3500 ft consistently averaging above 200. And the same goes from Mansfield. It gets marginally more upslope, and marginally less synoptic snow than Mt Washington. Add in 2000+ feet of elevation difference and I don’t see Mansfield averaging more snow than Washington. But I could be wrong. I would just want to see data that’s not coming out of a marketing department of a snow related industry to believe it.

I don’t buy that. Official reports (not from a ski resort) I’ve seen for Mansfield day the average is around 220”. I don’t see how Mansfield averages more than Washington given the elevation difference. And Jay Peaks reports are a joke.

Anyone in the northern Greens or Whites above 4000 ft with a slanted stick

0.4" from last night's light snow, fluff factor off the roof