ORH_wxman

Tied the record low from yesterday too right before midnight. Pretty impressive.

Record low for ORH at 13F.

Back in 2015, I was skiing on my 3rd and final day of a 3 day trip to Killington and I had gone the entire trip without a spill...last run of the entire trip (after 4pm now as I caught last chair up K1) I am coming down the run-out Spillway below the Canyon chair in full tuck so I can make it past the superstar chair over to Idler because we were parked down in the snowshed lot...the fading light gives the snow that tinted blue look and makes any bumps hard to see....all of the sudden as I'm in full tuck at high speed on spillway run-out, I start hitting some small bumps and then a bigger one sends me about 6-12 inches in the air...not very high but I wasn't expecting it at all...I couldnt see the bumps in the fading light...so now I'm in trouble as I land trying to correct myself and my edge digs in and that's it...full-on cartwheel with both skis releasing and I slide forward on my stomach about another 30 yards on the flat run-out. My initial impact had been my hip and I swear it felt like someone hit it with a sledge hammer the next day and it lasted for a few days. Luckily it went away and it was nothing serious or long term, but holy crap. Reminded me how quickly things can go south when you're seemingly in total control. Just talking about that trip makes me want to get out there now...what a great trip that was with amazing snow and the entire mountain open.

Yeah tomorrow is like a seasonably cold day in mid-January. But that is really hard to get in mid-November. That's why almost everyone is going to set record low maxes tomorrow and prob some stations get record lows as well.

Cape and SE MA ahead of most of us on the measurable list. Models did show the potential pretty well for the cape and adjacent areas to take the most advantage of the anafrontal precip.

Radar ptype algorithm is very unreliable. Especially in a rapidly transitioning system. Edit: PVC on outer cape is down to 30F. It's def snowing everywhere and has been for a while.

He's actually in Harwich. But it's snowing everywhere now. Even ACK flipped.

Extended looking better and better. Maybe we can sneak something in during Tday week.

I didn't get out last season. Was tough thinking about it. My oldest son will be turning 4 late this winter though so I'm gonna get him on skis for the first time later this season.

Downslope FTL. Once east of the mountains, it seems you really need big ML forcing to overcome the NW BL winds.

R/S line nearing Hubbdave's 'hood on dualpol.

Pack retention was pretty crappy...definitely '80s-esque....ORH had about 55 days of pack last winter and 10 of them came in November with 0 in December and only 9 in January. Average for the season is about 74-75 days.

Should be ripping at Gene's

We did basically go the entire month of December and the first half of January snowless. That's pretty bad. We did make up some ground after that but it wasn't enough. If you were closer to where iceberg was, they didn't get the brunt of the 3/4 storm either so they didn't have that signature 12-16" event to hang their hat on like those near BOS did.

That sounds weird to me that they might actually lose a lawsuit because someone claimed they slipped on snow at a ski resort.

Nice Alex. I forgot...what did you guys get in the event a few days ago?

Just no pics of the heated sidewalks. They make me angry. Angrier than pickles posting about a random 35F rainstorm in winter.

Gonna have to watch for some freezing drizzle over interior MA tonight. Esp N ORH county over to Chris's hood but even N middlesex county may have to watch out.

Seems like even the gefs are trying to reload somewhat around the week of Tday. But that's getting pretty far out.

We actually had a pretty nice pattern in early December but squandered it while Roanoke and Richmond VA got buried. The Scooter streak got us. Once that pattern was gone after the 12th or so the rest of the month took a steaming dump.

Unless there's a huge short term shift in guidance, it is almost a certainty. Not just break it, but obliterate it. Record is 32F. There's at shot at the record low min too...but a little tougher. 15F is the record.

Yeah. Models always overestimate sfc temps when midlevels are warmer than low levels with a sfc low tracking SE. I suppose if the sfc low keeps ticking NW then it could be warmer at the sfc but it won't be wet snow in that scenario. If it's mainly snow there it's gonna be powdery.

Never bet against moose fart upslope

Doesn't look pasty at all up by PF. Low level temps are really cold. Any ptype issues that would happen up there would be like 23F sleet.

Yeah I'm not counting on much from that. It's probably going to dry out pretty fast. If the trough was digging more then I'd be a little more bullish on that.