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My inspiration for "Day In The Life" was actually borrowed from Easternuswx - in the NYC thread there was a poster named Earthlight who used to do one of these for his forum. I remember looking forward to each annual installment and literally crying with laughter. Then again - he had a lot of people to use as his targets up in that area.

In hindsight: Missed the daily nooner parade - I probably shouldn't have penned this during a, well...nooner Should have added some @Mount Joy Snowman national high and low data Always a challenge to incorporate those who heavily contribute, keep it funny without being hurtful, and capture the essence of who we are. Honestly, I probably should have given this more than the 10 minutes it took me to write. I had no intention of doing this today, impulsively it came to me and I went with it within the time I had. @Blizzard of 93 you were the one who specifically asked for this a few weeks ago. I sincerely hope you understand that my comments were 100% intended for fun. You are an optimist extraordinaire - and there's nothing wrong with that at all.

A Day In Our Thread - January 10th, 2025 2:38am: MAG writes an essay all about our slim to no chances of snow over the next 10-14 days. He also includes a pic of snow falling on snow with roads caved in his development 5:53am: Blizzard of 93 posts a graph showing that the tellies should be turning in our favor by early March "Way too early to give up on snow, LOL" 5:58am: Anotherman quotes Blizz and reminds him that it hasn't snowed more than 1" in 4 years at MDT since 2022 and that it's not too soon to give up 6:02am: Blizz quotes Anotherman and says "LOL, I know we've had a rough 4 winters, but MDT is only 94" behind the 4 year cumulative average snowfall, and if we get 4 historic storms in March, we'll be back near normal" 6:17am: Bubbler86 reports an overnight low of 31, which is his first sub-freezing temp since the winter of 2023-24. 13 people "like" his post 6:31am: Mahantango reports a low of 14. He's been below freezing nightly since September 17th. (September 16th was his last day over 90 for the season) 6:44am: Bubbler86 shares that the 6z GFS shows 384 hours of warm and rain followed by warm and dry. 7:26am: Superstorm posts a picture from Watertown NY while traveling for work. It hasn't snowed in Watertown in 2 years 8:02am: Sauss reports that his fire call overnight was hampered by strong winds 8:08am: Canderson quotes Sauss and says that he lost another tre...sidin...shing...well, he pretty much had already lost everything that could be lost in strong winds previously 8:36am: Maytown reports a low of 35. He then mentions exactly how many hours he's been above freezing. 9:14am: Pasnownut posts a link to some webcam in Sweden. No, it's actually in nothern PA but labeled as Sweden. Regardless of whether it's in PA or Sweden, there's still no snow to be seen 10:18am: Paweather posts that it's going to be the biggest 12z runs in a long time. I wonder about paweather. 11:22am: Bubbler86 says "The GFS is not inspiring" 12:54pm: Blizzard of 93 quotes Bubbler and says "LOL, we can fluke into something as soon as 5 days from now. Patience is required" 12:55pm: I read Blizz's comments, spit out my soup, and then have 9 different office people knock on my door asking if I'm all right. A few of them ask "is it Blizz again?" 1:12pm: Voyager posts a picture of a snow plow. I get excited, until I realize it's plowing streets in Phoenix. Man, we really do suck at winter, I say to myself 1:43pm: Bubbler86 reports that there's nothing good to see on the 12z OP Euro. Somehow, the Euro control shows a swath of 2' plus of snow over the LSV 2:00pm: GrandmasterB says that hopefully, things will change for the better soon. I'm thinking, is he talking about snow chances, or Love and Marriage" 2:19pm: Atomix simply says "It's Still Over" - which receives 17 laughing emojis 3:48pm: paweather shows the 18z NAM's depiction of a bomb cyclone just off the coast of OCMD. Unfortunately, it also shows temps in the mid 50s for all of us 5:52pm: It's assumed that the 18z GFS was ugly 7:02pm: Blizz starts a volley of 17 consecutive posts. He even pulls up a map from the 18z Euro that shows snow "close to some of us" - in reality, the closest snow on the map is in Quebec 9:14pm: Canderson offers tickets to a show in NYC that he wants to ditch due to the bomb cyclone 9:34pm: I go back and notice that this is the 46th NYC show that Canderson has tried to ditch over the past year. How many has he actually gone to, I wonder? 11:23pm: Bubbler86 reports that the GFS still sucks 11:25pm: Blizzard of 93 quotes Bubbler and asks why all of the negativity? Eventually things will turn in our favor! 11:58pm: Cashtown posts...he's already getting up for the next day on the links. He shares that he's mowing the course 2 times per week. 11:59pm: Blizzard of 93 quotes Cashtown and says "LOL...what is it with some of you and your mowing. I haven't mowed in 3 months" *And on and on we spin...*

I might be glued to one such particular resort... Edit: today is the 2nd time in the past 2 weeks that they've shut down operations due to too much snow. Another 3-4' coming today, 2 more storms coming over the next week. They're going to be at about 350" or so by that point. I'm getting giddy.

Very good point - and likely a lot of truth as well. Roundtop still has good coverage on some of their open trails - they benefit that almost the entire ski area faces north - not sure about Whitetail, but Liberty has some terrain more exposed to direct sun.

Amazing to me that the 3 ski resorts in this general area are still operating considering that some of the big boys in much snowier areas of the northeast and mid-Atlantic have had to shut down.

I remember every winter back to 1972-ish. To this point, this has been horrible. And yes, we could still end up with 90". Doesn't change or make people's perception wrong now.

Wouldn't it just be peachy if we ended up with a (horned) frog strangler rain storm.

It's a matter of really bad vs horribly bad. And what makes the perception even worse is that it looked to some like we'd be rocking in December.

I mean...you're not totally wrong either.

I mean...you're not totally wrong. But for a lot of your friends to your southeast, it's been nothing short of ugly to this point. And there's nothing super promising anytime soon. Optimism is good, for those who are at 0" and could still be there for another couple of weeks...optimism wanes a little quicker.

That's what I've been saying - parts of Lanco has been a total shutout.

It's uncanny how the 12z Euro picked up farther east from where the 6z Control left off.

Oh shoot! Well, this will be interesting to see what fell at the tarmac.

I'll be surprised if they report more than a T - I saw no visible signs of snow along the river route this morning.

Here you go - forecast is for 31-37" of new snow during the daylight hours today - and it's supposed to snow through tomorrow night... https://www.mammothmountain.com/on-the-mountain/mammoth-webcam/the-village By the end of the day, they'll be at about 300" for the season. On January 9th.

Oh I understand completely - I just had to laugh given I had just posted about parts of Lanco being still shut out on the season, and the first map to follow was...well, more of the same. In an extreme fashion.

That...would be a very cruel joke. Total kick in the nut job there.

Usually when the Sierra is getting blasted it's just the opposite on the east coast. And holy cow, is the Sierra getting the goods...

I was wondering about how you made out-there was/is NOTHING visible my entire route this morning along the river south of Rt. 30...there are still areas in SW Lanco that are shutout for the season. Even up here on the hill at work...nada.

1.5" for the season, but this is the first I've seen.

.5" here.

May snow is more exciting as well!

Yes it does. Only difference is that any area that gets 1" might see it last until 10am instead of 8:30am.

My forecast is for a mix of rain and snow with a low of 34. Not terribly excited at this point. Then again...if see a trace, that will be the first time this season I've seen snow on the ground.