MarkO

Just rain and some wind, flashes of lightning. I think the hail is going to stay to my west.

Have you thought about installing solar? I had 19 panels installed in December, added 4 more on my own in early April (didn't think I was going to cover my bill). But even for the months of June and July, I'm still overproducing, despite the AC nearly being always on. If I do end up overproducing for the year, I'm going to install a mini-split for heat. It's going to take me as little as 5, but not more than 7 years to pay for system. My new meter hit 565 kW in February, but it's now nearly 1 mW in the negative.

Looks similar to last night. Nice gust front for the folks a little south of me. Last night had a nice wall/shelf cloud structure.

I have a tendency to see radar as 2D, but I know it's more complicated than that. Just trying to understand what's going on in the vertical shear, like the horizontal movement, just trying to envision the vertical rolling dynamics.

I'll admit, I have zero knowledge of summer weather and thermodynamics. As seen on current radar, what is causing the streaking, striations of radar returns moving to the SSE, yet the main bulk of rain seems to be moving to the ENE on the current BOX radar?

Forgot to post, but skied the loaf on Sunday, April 21, and Monday the 22nd. Soft snow Sunday with wall to wall coverage on nearly every upper mountain trail, some bare spots on trails below. Was in the mid-upper 20's Monday, so fast and furious. Made the mistake of taking a steep bump run. It was bulletproof. Had the mountain prettymuch to ourselves on Monday. There's a reason they call it "king of spring". They had 110 trails open, I think Killington had 16. I'll make my way back over to K Mart in a few weeks.

Secnds before totality we saw a bright flash. My nephew got it on video. Still have no idea what it was.

I noticed that too, a fraction of a second before totality. My brother and I simultaneously yelled out "what the f... was that?" The only thing I can think of was maybe some impact from whatever miniscule moon atmosphere refraction of sorts.

Haha, that's awesome! That was my original plan (so wait it out until totality and ski down Jay). Glad to see someone pulled it off!

Left Thornton once I saw things were starting to slow down going through Franconia notch. My plan was to take the Kanc west from exit 32, which added 15 minutes, but avoided all traffic. Decided on Burke and I think it was a better plan than Jay, or Pittsburg, NH. I can honestly say it was a more incredible experience than expected, and that tends to be the general experience of those who were fortunate enough to experience totality. Google maps was useless. I took as many back roads as I could including dirt, and it still took me 4 1/2 hours to get back to my cabin. My buddy that went to Pittsburg didn't get back until 3AM! The most interesting thing happened a fraction of a second before totality. There was a flash of light going from what appeared to be from northwest to southeast. Almost like when an airplane shadow passes over you, except the opposite. I'm still trying to get video of it. Video from my drone at about 3000' as totality approaches:

I'm in Thornton, and the evolving plan now is to leave here tomorrow around 7AM and just get through the notch around 7:30 to try to beat out the Boston metro travellers who leave at dawn. Once through the notch, you're just about at totality, so even if the highways are packed (which I don't expect at that time, or am I being too optimistic?), there will be back roads we shoudl be able to take to get further into the thread f totality. Initial plan was Jay Peak, but I think a 1/2 day at Burke may be better. I think once at Burke we can decide if we want to travel further north. I'm just not sure what to do afterwards. Hang out and grab dinner and hope to make it back to the cabin by 7pm?

Been spitting show showers overnight and this morning bringing my total to 11". There was a very brief period (maybe 15 minutes) of sleet, and a littl graupel last evening. Temp starting to ramp up from a steady 31 prettymuch throughout the event. Lost internet for about 12 hours yesterday, but maintained power. I think this puts me at 93" for the season, about average.

warm layer above. Flipping over to sleet. 33.9/31

Just got up north. 93 was wet roads, but there were some wet flakes mixing in Lakes Region north. Found my ski (lost it in the 24" last time I was up) at 1500' where it was snowing/sticking and temp at 33F. 34.1/31 here and light snow, no accumulation.

Nice, I appreciate the update, leaving Lowell now.

This event deserves it's own obs thread. Whoever started the last one should start this one for good luck.

sprinkles in Lowell. 41.9/35.9. Heading north in about 1/2 an hour for the event. Expecting a lot of sleet until about midnight.

It's about 1:45 minutes from my cabin to Jay Peak. A few friends may come and ski for a day trip, but most want to stay local and ski WV, but they're expected to max at 98.5%. I think it'll be worth the drive. Hopefully dont' encounter much traffic on the way up, but I have a feeling it's going to be a nightmare getting through Franconia notch afterwards.

Crappy winter. Not sure what I got in Lowell, but probably close to Ray's totals. But I'll be closing in on 100" up north after this storm, which is more than average.

North Conway area get's crushed with that track on the GFS. Break out the 3 footer bong reports.

24" snow, no sleet. Let's see what round 2 brings.

Snow, then snow showers for days up north. Won't be producing many kW with the new solar system in Lowell.

This is true. I think my high for the day was 29.2. It did feel like we almost tainted with sleet, or more specifically a partial melt/refreeze at around 10AM just based on the sound and sting of the snow, but it flipped back to dry snow by the next run. I wish I had done a core, but I'm guessing ratios were probably in the 12:1 ratio. Epic event.

Holy wind! Anenometer muxst be stuck, but house creaking

Surprisingly dry, i think my high was 29.2