PhineasC

The weather today is nice. I’m sure a chilly cutter or two is still in the cards for my “extended winter” but this was a nice change.

52 now and full sun. Water free-flowing on my driveway. If it isn’t going to snow, might as well melt and bring on spring.

47 now. Warmth is up high, clearly.

42 here. Torching.

I got down to 20 for the low last night, up to 34 now.

Holding at 30 tonight. Not the temp bloodbath I expected yet but tomorrow should start the meltdowns.

Been waiting for that since November. Hope it verifies...

Real nice warm cutter on the 18z GFS to end the mini-drought.

Not exactly what I would call warm today. 32 with an icy west wind.

33 here.

This is all I am saying. I don't think it's a climo issue. It isn't like all of NNE is crushing it except for Randolph. LOL

Seems hard to believe Wildcat will even be able to have any trails open with the lack of snow.

Yep, looks realistic to me.

That engrossed in your work? LOL

Really stoked about conditions this week. BW has done a great job with keeping things in shape so far and this week should feature some great “spring like” conditions. I do wish they would run the Zephyr lift every day. When it is not running it cuts off easy access to half the mountain and my favorite terrain unless you want to wait in line for 30 mins for the gondola. Hate those things.

I am hoping my place in Delaware becomes waterfront property in the next 30 years or so.

I’m figuring next time I get a 200”+ winter with big snow bombs followed by “atmospheric river” cutters that destroy the pack and ruin skiing conditions I will come to appreciate the value of a stretch of nearly two months with temps in the mid-20s and 30” OTG without any big storms.

I think retention has been more than I expected, uplsope has also been more than I expected (I figured it was being way overhyped). Temps have been warmer than I expected by quite a bit and these 30-40 day stretches of mostly dry weather have been unexpected. Based on the historical record (albeit short), I expected more meaty snowfalls over 2”.

I don’t necessarily buy the CoCoRaHS numbers as the long term average verbatim. But this seems like an abnormal stretch of dry, boring weather. Basically every time there was a solid storm up here I had the highest totals in NH and rivaled most of the inhabited places in NNE (other than the weenie-band storm in mid Dec). So if precip gets here I tend to snow well. There just has been a near total lack of decent lows transiting SE to NE in the GOM lately. I guess I just figured those were more common having watched NE weather from a distance for so many years.

I think it will take me a few winters here to really put this one in proper context. It hasn’t been exactly what I expected in a couple ways.

It isn’t like I have been just missing these storms or they were rain here and snow nearby. I don’t think it’s a climo issue. There has just been nothing synoptic that was notable for well over a month now. Retention here is definitely godlike, however. I can’t believe how much snow is still out there.

It is kinda crazy at this point. People keep hitting me with snarky replies that "winter lasts until May there" and "it snows upslope every day there" but this has been a crazy dull stretch by any metric. I think the monster liquid is coming in late April. Should be a fun mud season.

I asked the question I did because it is interesting to see the responses to a realistic question about how you would invest that much cash. I have noticed that there is a class of "stock nerd" out there that is similar to the sports stat nerds who track every single stat for fantasy team purposes, but never played the sport themselves and barely even watch it on TV. They are just obsessed with the numbers and the mechanics. I'm sure you all know people like that. Anyway, it's just a question I ask people sometimes when they are ranting about "the Fed this" and "interest rates that." It is interesting to see the response when they are confronted with a real-world scenario with actual risk involved.

The models haven’t even given me a fantasy digital snowstorm in like a month.