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Well, you might get it, although these spring coastals seem to favor NH/Maine usually. I will never root against snow. It's just not in my nature.

AC cranking?

Not uncommon here in April per the Randolph records. Classic NNE stat-padder. Should at least let me finally put J. Spin in the rear-view mirror on the NE snowfall tracker page!

You and your fake snow. It's spring time, dude. LOL

I doubt anyone up there wants this. LOL

I use stone. I hate mulch.

Someone showed me some pics from Randolph April 2019 and the pack was still deep. Hopefully one of those kinds of winters shows up soon. It was a lousy winter for snowfall and really not good for pack.

That would be fun to watch play out. Hope it verifies. Gotta pad my stats.

Already back. Just opened the pool today. LOL Mud, sticks, and 40s is all that is going on up north right now.

Pending the rest of April, I will end up about 22" below last season's total, which itself was about 25" below average, so it wasn't a good winter on that metric. It was real winter pretty much just from mid-Jan through 10 Feb and that was it. Cutters galore after that. Hopefully next winter is a good one.

We aren't holding our breath. But a mid-April blue bomb is fairly common for my backyard so it wouldn't be a shocker. I am in spring mode so I really couldn't care less at this point.

Maybe they were, I didn't check then. But the lower part of the mountain is really melted out and spotty. So you get some nice powder for about 500 feet and then it turns to crap. That's just not really my cup of tea, I have shifted into summer mode. I know there are people here who hunt that kind of thing deep into May. Don't worry about me, just feeling grumpy. LOL

They are closed, so no. Looks like they are reporting 5" new at the summit so I guess they got in some snow. That's neat for sure, but if the lower half the mountain is still bare not sure what good it does most folks.

The ski places around here haven't really benefited at all from any of this. Maybe the very upper reaches of the Whites have done OK. That doesn't do most of us around here any good unless we hike up there to find it.

Winter ended in NH a while ago but for a portion of the Greens it is continuing a little longer, it seems. None of what has been happening over there the last few weeks has made it over here, aside from some flurries.

I suspect that list would be the same just about everywhere in America. We buy a lot of trucks.

Yep. 100% chance if you asked this lady who was almost killed by her muddy road if it should be paved, she'd still say no. It's a thing over here too, and I can only imagine there is even more of that in VT since you guys tend to be the crunchier kind of granola. Everyone here has a lifted truck or SUV though. I couldn't imagine dealing with this mud in a Subaru station wagon.

So far Randolph Hill road hasn't had any issues. They paved it right before I moved up here in 2020. I would be fine with the unpaved roads if they properly graded them and put down ledge pack or some other tightly binding stone. Instead they just dump fill dirt on it and pack it down. The plows definitely do a lot of damage to these unpaved roads. They push off the top layer.

Like most of these kids of articles, about 20% of it is vague descriptions of what actually happened with no clear conclusions and the rest of it is soft news human interest stuff about how grateful she is to have recovered... I agree with the premise hinted at in the article that she got out to push her car up the road, slipped and fell all over the place, dropped her keys, and then tried to get back into the car through the window. She was freezing so she was wrapped in a sleeping bag. Knee deep mud is definitely enough to be an issue for an older person. Seems likely her muffler went under the mud and she couldn't keep the car running. Probably a small Subaru... People always forget when they are in situations like this to simply stop and stay put if you know people are aware of your location. Some of these really bad mud roads need to be paved, but if it's anything like over this way, it's these same older locals with a green conservation bent who block it time and again. That's what happens in Randolph, at least.

Light rain/snow mix.

Screaming for Vengeance and British Steel.

It was beautiful today. Full sun and 60. Dry. Perfection. Working outside in a t-shirt and sweats. Being north of the Presidentials seems to yield more sunny days than other spots.

You guys certainly lucked out over there. No meaningful snow here since the March 12th event. Hopefully it hits 70 soon.

Little different look over here in NH right now. The snow you guys got over the last couple weeks was pretty localized and helped extend things. It's clearly the end of the line over here. Still some decent corn snow at BW but it's getting thin.

Mini-splits. They are here putting them in now, actually. The layout of the house with the big windows all over facing south means a lot of heat builds up. I could shut the blinds and try to reduce the heat, but it's hard to escape the humidity, like you noted. It's nice in the dead of winter for sure. Not so much when it is 85 out. There are 3 or so weeks a year where the AC is really needed. I plan to use them to heat as much as possible too. The oil heat here isn't efficient due to the radiator layout. Some rooms get really cold and there is not enough radiator surface area to properly get them to set temp so the boiler just runs forever. The heat pump will be able to assist, in the shoulder seasons at least.