MarkO

Mere 1/2" in Lowell, so that puts it at about an inch OTG. Might just barely meet the White Christmas theshold if it remains cloudy today. The cabin does much better with these clipper events. About 4.5" new from this event and it looks like there's about 8-10" of a snow pack with 2" of white cement on the bottom.

It flipped a couple hours ago, looks like 2" new on the deck.

Supposedly Steamboat had their largest avalanche over Thanksgiving weekend, and it's dumping now. Time to wake the boys and get their asses out of bed.

Just went for a ride. About 2" on valley floor, close to 4" here at 1100', nad about 6" at 1500'

It's dumping pancakes. It's been snow all day, but nothing to show for it. About 3" of dense wet pack OTG. If you're wondering, yeah, blew off both Thanksgiving dinners nad came up last night. Hopefully you all understand bc nobody else seems to.

Speaking of ski areas, was planning to ski Watervillle, but got word they were only going to have two lifts open up top and downloading on the 6-seat Tecumseh Express. I told one of the employees if they end up with a foot of snow, you can expect skiers to be ducking ropes and skiing to the bottom.

Gene and I typically have similar conditions and seasonal totals. But there are times when I'm getting rain, and he's still dumping snow and vice versa. I believe our elevations are pretty similar.

Figuratively, her's is! She just told me "I'm Air B&B'ing a condo in Florida in January with my sisters". I told her "Awesome, have a good time, I'll pop in for a long weekend, and oh, yeah, I just booked a week at Steamboat with Bryan." She asked me which boyfriend Brian, or Bryan?, I told her the pilot one, lol. It's just how our relationship has worked over the years. She's always been very close with her sisters, as I am with my friends. The kids are grown/independent (college junior, highschool senior). We've learned things like holidays and Thanksgiving aren't worth fighting over. We used to fight over it, but now that we've been married for 22 years, it's actually much better.

Only about a mile as the crow flies, but it's about a 5 minute drive to the beginning on 49.

When it comes to skiing and snowstorms, she know's better, lol. It's the reason I built the cabin in the first place. Plus, she's on call, so she's heading back from RI after dinner.

Screw people. I just changed plans from dinner in RI (wife's side dinner aroun 6pm) to Danvers (my side 1pm) and going to bail out of there by 2, and spend the evening up north with just my dog and a roaring wood stove

Hmm,well the American models just made things interesting with their latest run with an 990 mb low in the GOM. Might have to make some changes to the Thanksgiving Day travels.

The CMC and Reggie are consistent with the potential for 4-8" in the mountains, at least enough to cover the ground and make for some travel headaches.

I'veheard a fire is threatening Butternut. Anyone know the details?

I thought about it, but it's a 45 minute drive each way and only 1 open run.

I think Waterville has a contract with the US bordercross team for early season training. I'm sure they're funding at least part of the bill for the early season snowmaking, the BBTS ski school probably chips in a little too. I think it's kind of a win/win, but they don't open up the trails on High Country to season pass holders which kinda sucks. I've wondered why, for many years, that they didn't take advantage of the altitude of the base elevation of the High Country lift at about 3450'.

Last time I checked, the north ridge cam showed snow on the ground, lol. But anyway's small window and many warm days ahead. I hope Killington can pull off the FIS race for Thanksgiving weekend.

I gotta give Waterville credit. They're going poundtown while Killington looks on. Made a couple turns. Day 1 is in the books. https://www.waterville.com/cams-summit

Love all the photo's and vid's of people earning their turns in VT where near a foot fo snow fell above about 3000'

Lots of Punta Gorda under water now. Another couple of feet to go.

Have they announced landfall yet? Looks just north of Siesta Key.

Port Charlotte probably going to get the worst of the surge.

Considering the water is about 4' above normal at the Cape Coral gauge, I'd suspect we might start to see some storm surge in the next hour or so in Sarasota: Hazcams mobile 5-Sarasota, FL: https://livestormchasing.com/

Helpful tool to give you an idea of potential storm surge: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/203f772571cb48b1b8b50fdcc3272e2c/page/Category-3/

Fortunately, it appears shear and dry air are weakening the system, along with a possible eyewall replacement. It also appears from radar that winds along the west coast of Florida are likely coming out of a southeast direction and not piling up surge along the majority of the FL coast. But once those winds turn northerly, some of those bays are going to start filling up and/or preventing tides from leaving the bays. Still some concern for the surge between Ft. Myers and Sarasota, but TB/St. Pete may luck out once again. Of course this depends upon the final track. A northerly jog now followed by an easterly one still needs to be watched.