PhineasC

Yup, mixes me easily and scours out the CAD. Pack will be really beat up by the time the cold front finally clears a long time from now.

50 and melting. DP is 39.

Couldn’t ride out this storm, I guess. LOL

My pack is at 22" now and I expect to be around 12" at the end of this. Maybe more if tail-end snow materializes. I'm never too confident on that until it happens. A meltdown followed by a flash freeze will make the natural trails pretty crappy around here for a while. This thing is bringing about 12 hours of solid dews and rain; it's not just a 34 degree drizzle fest the pack can shrug off. Luckily the copycat storm for next week the models had for a while dampened out.

Already 41 here. LOL Pack will be decimated. About 22" now.

For a while it looked like there would be back-to-back nasty cutters but the second one dampened out and looks more like a mixed or snow event now. Our packs will survive this thing at the end of the week, but a second one soon after would have been tough.

Cold fronts always take forever to get here in these events. Weenies in MD will be getting snow while I rot at 47 for hours and hours.

Is that a good thing or bad thing for retention with this rainstorm (the SWE I mean)?

Good for them! We need snow down here or the spring season will be a bust outside of a few sloppy ribbons.

At 90", I'd feel bad for her too. LOL

BW was awesome today for a go-fast guy like me. The groomers were very firm and very fast but no ice. Had a blast carving the hell out of the groomers and racing the kids. Bone-chillingly cold though. Didn't venture off the groomers, but it looked kinda rough on the natural trails. Icy ruts.

I'm not really that bummed; skiing has been good. I just get kinda annoyed by these damn cutters followed by arctic air that freezes the mud and slush patches. Then it goes bone dry. Give me a firehose pattern at 30 degrees, please.

185"-ish but the records only go back to 2009 so a short window. The yearly totals vary between a cluster around 200-250 and a cluster around 100-150. So it's a feast or "famine" setup it seems, usually. This winter and the last clearly in the latter camp.

I need 90” to reach average.

Funny to see NW Maine border so below normal. The models have hammered that area with digital snow many times but I guess it never worked out.

Hopefully the cutters dampen out a bit and we can limp into late month for a turnaround. Would be nice to build a pack back up to ensure a decent spring season with something other than just a handful of manmade groomers.

It seems like this winter none of these events drop upslope after they pass either. So you can't even get the 3" of fluff to cover the ground as the arctic air moves back in. That hasn't really happened much this winter at all after any of the events so far. A little spotty stuff here and there.

CMC looks better for Friday. GFS remains hideous through the end of the month. Ugly runs.

Two warm cutters could wipe out all natural trail skiing in VT and NH, IMO. The pack is not that robust at the ski places. I have basically the same amount of snow on the season as Wildcat/BW/Cannon (if not a little more) and the pack here would be really decimated if we get two 47 degree atmospheric river jobs back to back. The rest of Feb looks pretty hideous to me. I am expecting to be down to just a little snow if the current progs pan out. Then we see if we can rebuild in March to save the spring skiing season.

Frozen solid and suddenly back to winter. This is when a 2-3" upslope refresher would be nice to freshen up the pack. Those have been hard to come by for a while now, it seems.

Wildcat's main lift definitely feels faster than most other quads. It must be at a slightly higher speed than the BW lifts at least. It also loads earlier in the cycle than other lifts typically do.

Nope, where's that?

I’m sure, but I am not seeing many good signs for second half of Feb. Can literally change overnight tho.

Hideously ugly GFS run. Endless warm rain. Pack annihilator. Might be close the shades until March time. Hopefully we can get a legendary March/April.

40 with flurries.