PhineasC

Hope this pans out down here.

Above freezing for the first time since Saturday.

I have another nest cam for that purpose actually. I will get that set up next time I come back up on the 21st.

Sounds like that makes Dr. No the post-lunch work coma.

14" or so pretty consistently around the area, after last night's fluffy snow. It is a layer of basically solid ice, then some harder packed snow, then fluff on top. I have some spots that will clearly be huge drift areas. It is nearly chest deep next to my barn already in some of the low spots from the snow blowing up the field. I was told that last winter at one point the drift piles in front of the house topped 6 feet, and I can see how that could happen. The snow there takes forever to melt and the wind piles it up against the house. And the biggest icicles I have ever seen. Comically large. More like ice stalactites really. I understand why houses around here do not have gutters. It just wouldn't work.

What I consider to be the official Randolph Hill total so far is 31.6". Alex is likely in the same ballpark.

I'll be back in MD from the 11th through the 20th so hoping we can sneak in a storm. Maybe I can bring some good snow vibes with me. Been snowing every single day here since last Friday. About 16" OTG.

Looks like I picked up some snow last night. CoCoRaHS guy reporting 1.8” and looks similar here. Freshened things up.

Yep, was thinking the same. I was getting more snow when the forecast was partly cloudy with nothing on the radar anywhere nearby. This little impulse basically did nothing here but a few mood flakes. GYX says the upslope machine turns back on overnight.

Randolph still received close to 100" so it's nice to know that's probably the floor here.

Nice!

I was thinking the same thing today about it becoming “old.” The weather up here is just so interesting I don’t see that happening. Since May, I have seen big heat, solid cold, heavy snow, amazing leaf colors, flooding rain, desert dry air, a possible nearby tornado, an historic drought, major wind, and snow falling under sunny skies at 20 degrees. That’s like 50 years of MD weather events right there, and I’m just getting started! We have really fallen in love with NNE.

Light snow on and off. Not much to speak of yet from this event, but it whitened things up again with a sparkly dust and it’s ALWAYS nice to see flakes in the air. This has been my overall combo snowiest and coldest week in a long time. Since the Feb 2010 back-to-back HECS. The HECS in Jan 2016 got warm soon after and melted down.

Picked up to light snow now. This one is a little slow to get started but looks decent now. I can't find any reason to complain, however. LOL

Appreciate the detailed info, as usual. I am not very familiar with this uphill stuff at all because it just doesn’t exist down south as far as I am aware. Or if it does the community is much smaller and unknown to me. I pictured you guys trudging up thousands of vertical feet in waist-high snow and was pretty confused as to how that was fun. LOL Sounds like skinning takes a little finesse and technique but once you have it down it makes the work easier. Definitely did plenty of hiking with the kids before the snow set in. We are slowly working our way up Madison in each hike, going a bit further each time. Takes time with the 4 and 6 year old but they love to see the progress.

Flurries at 26 degrees.

Metfan inspires such creativity. He is your muse.

The CMC was really insistent on the last coastal. It held the same basic track for days while the GFS and Euro jumped around.

LOL now that is dedication right there.

It definitely sounds fun, just a major cardio workout is all.

Walking up a ski slope and then skiing down sounds downright exhausting, not gonna lie.

I started to take it as a really bad sign that climo is super hostile to snow down there now when it seemed like the models couldn't even bring themselves to show digital snow. We were just so far off from what was required to get a good snowstorm that model errors and biases couldn't even get it done. When I look at the GFS and Euro for MD now, it is such a dreadful snoozefest.

My utility lines are still covered in snow and hanging about 5 feet off the ground but zero power issues here so far. The Randolph power distribution system is ironclad!

Just more of the seemingly never-ending flurries here right now.