KoalaBeer

Congrats. And I gave you crap yesterday about being on the northern fringe zone and being grumpy about it haha....can’t wait to get up there, hopefully tomorrow if I can skip out of work. I’ve had a few storms tickle 30” when I was in Methuen for 20 years, we can spread the love every so often.

https://raggedmountainresort.com/Mountain-Cam/

I got porked in Hampton but can live with it looking at the totals up north. Please no cutter before X-mas, this I shaping up to be a good season on the slopes, 30+ at Ragged I bet. That webcams been fun to watch.

Damn that thing is flying across the bay. Not often you see a PDS tornado warning for Tampa...luckily the rotation is weakening on radar.

Funny, I was just talking with a friend yesterday about heading out there and doing a little backcountry riding. Anyone have recent knowledge of temple or how overgrown it is? They should do real well. Hoping the goods make it far enough north to Ragged mountain as well. No work Friday so I’ll be heading somewhere...

Plenty of things that can be learned spending time outside in nature. You sound like a grumpy old man, or maybe just mad your area is on the northern fringe zone.

I mean I was definitely out playing in the snow in high school still....maybe I was smoking dope while doing so, but who’s asking? My mom used to try and hide me keys when I got my first car because she knew she couldn’t stop me from driving to Ski Bradford to go snowboard on snow days. Radar presentstion is looking juicy, I wonder if the NWS puts up there new radar page today for the storm or holds off.

That weenie tail pointed to the sky can sense the blizzard incoming.

I wasn’t here in early December last year so I missed that. I was stuck in Providence for weeks due to work and the winter was dookie after that. I can hit OC studios with a snowball from my place in Hampton on Ocean Blvd though. As a snow lover it’s almost like I keep moving to less snowy climates. Like I dipped out right after graduating high school in ‘07 to be a ski bum in Steamboat CO and boy did I get lucky that I feel like I should never complain again, but the weenie in me always does. Edit: having said that I never lost my appreciation for an epic coastal in New England. The best Nor’easters are on par with anything I’ve seen out west and they hold a special place in Meteorology.

Haha agreed! I think I moved to the seacoast not long after the whole 31” debacle and my jackpot in Methuen took over his measurement in Wilmington which I fully trusted...but I got a kick out of it on the spotter page. Still have yet too see a warning criteria event on the NH seacoast and I’m thinking of moving north once my lease is up end of January. Still holding out hope this delivers up here.

Finally looks like a got a chance of a decent storm here on the coast....since I moved in last December I've measured under a foot of snow total in Hampton. Quite the difference from my old spot but last year was last year....enough said on that sad winter already. Really hoping the mountains don't get screwed out of this. They desperately need the snow to open new terrain but these cold temps will help snowmaking efforts tremendously. Also @DTWXRISK I appreciate your insight and posts. The more insight from mets here the better, but seriously what's up with the space bar in your posts man? I am genuinely curious.

Pretty sure I measured 28” on the west side of town. Used to have a good yardstick photo of that one....but some spots on the other side of Rt 213 and into Haverhill/Bradford had some 30+” reports. Ski Bradford with the jackpot that day lol.

Haha I never noticed a difference in snow totals elevation wise in my 20+ years of living in Methuen. Every once in a while there was a pretty sick gradient between the west side of town bordering Dracut and the east side bordering Haverhill though. I used to always take the dog up old Methuen ski hill during some marginal storms looking for a difference in snow with a little elevation but never found it.

Absolutely ripping snow on the coast in Hampton now and is sticking to the grass and cars. Wasn’t expecting that so soon let’s go!

Flipping over now to snow in Hampton quite a bit ahead of schedule. I have to think that’s pretty good news for folks in the Merrimack valley and interior Rockingham county if I’m switching already.

Friend in Westford basically said the same thing. Said it was absolutely pounding out but little in the way of new accumulation. Got to think that changes quick as the sun sets as well.

Speaking from experience patience can be key there. It’s tough to watch everyone rip to your SW but the best is yet to come for SE NH.

What an absolute paste job on the Wachusett cam. Looks like an easy 1-2"hr type stuff. https://www.wachusett.com/The-Mountain/Media-Center/Web-Cams.aspx

There’s some great little breweries in Londonderry you could probably kill some time in if you wanted to and are a craft beer guy. From the Barrel is the one I recommend. Good luck though! I’m very familiar with the area and you should do just fine there with snow totals. That area often does very well.

That’s an easy little 20 minute drive for me. Love that place and the beer selection on tap is always good. i wonder what I end up pulling on the immediate coast from this. That gradient on the GYX map looks like it goes from 6” to Portsmouth to 1” on the coastline.

Oh ya! I told one of my best friends in Westford to be prepared for a paste job with no power. He's in the woods on a little lake house surrounded by massive pines as well...if not for Covid I'd be asking him to stay the night.

Jackman Jackpot. You won’t hear me complain one bit if NNE gets 2ft and we are the sacrificial lamb in SNE. I just want to ride and hopefully do some backcountry stiff soon with all the COVID restrictions at resorts. Still a wild amount of solutions on the table this far out.

Wonder what happened to NH in there high end map .

Haha it's kind of always funny seeing the local news a step behind the forum. They are going to use this mornings and afternoon model runs to hype up the potential for a significant warning criteria storm in NH, while we watch this evenings model runs live shunt this east and possibly give more significant impacts to SNE. Not that I'm ready to jump ship for CNE or NNE on this as I alluded to in my last post....I just get a chuckle watching the local news rely on previous runs while mets on here are starting to discuss entirely different scenarios. Showing old data certainly adds to the "weatherman get paid to be wrong" mentality I hear the general public gripe about all the time but I also get why showing the most recent model runs on such short notice on a live broadcast is problematic especially before the meteorologist on staff hasn't had the time to fully analyze those said model runs.

I'm certainly going to trust the 12z Euro solution and consensus of the globals over one run of 18z NAM....especially at the time frame we are talking (~48-60hrs out) but a weaker and more east solution would certainly suck. I'd rather the system be amped and more west drenching me with two inches of rain if that means ski country gets crushed. I'm going to be pissed if the major mountains in NH and ME smoke cirrus on this one. This is a big opportunity for resorts to be able to expand terrain and spread everyone out before the holiday rush, something that could prove vital to them saying open with recent COVID statistics.