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Very interesting and valuable insight, thank you both!! The upslope signal does appear to be fairly decent from Thursday evening through Friday morning, from my perspective, so hopefully the signal holds/increases as we get closer to the event. It's been a heck of a winter for the Green Mountains, so hopefully Wednesday's rain is just a small blip on the radar before the good times resume. Think snow!!!

Question for the local experts here on "blocked" versus "unblocked" flow. This has some relevancy for a ski day I have planned for this upcoming Friday. I know that blocked flow tends to favor locations that are west of the Green Mountain spine, whereas unblocked flow favors locations to the east. It looks like most ski areas in Vermont are along/east of the spine...but I'm curious about Smuggler's Notch. In looking at topo maps, it appears that Smuggs is west of the spine. Do they tend to do better in blocked flow situations compared to other VT ski areas? I'm asking because I have a ski day with a good friend that has been on the books for this coming Friday since the autumn. Naturally, we have rain coming this week...but there may be a limited window for upslope snowfall after the departure of this ugly weather system Thursday night, and I'm trying to figure out the location that is most likely to pick up a couple/few inches of snow to *hopefully* cover up the inevitable crusty/scratchy conditions that will follow the rain. Thanks in advance!

One inch in the last hour. Storm total of 6.8 inches. Still snowing, so this will likely end up the top event of the season to date (previous was 6.9" last Saturday night/Sunday AM). It's the winter of light to moderate snow events around here.

Started pouring sleet here around 8:30, flipped to heavy snow with huge aggregates about 20 minutes later then has alternated between heavy sleet and heavy snow ever since. The temp had crashed down to 23F but is now back up to 25F. Very interesting conclusion to this event. Going out to measure around 10pm.

Took a little bit longer than I expected, but the coastal front slipped through Salem as I was clearing the slush off the driveway. It was 34F when I started, and 29F when I came inside. Freezing rain now.

We stayed snow/sleet until around 1pm here before finally flipping to rain/sleet. My final snow/sleet accumulation will be logged at 5.8 inches. The temp has crept up to 34F but it looks like the CF is going to be slipping back through here within the next few minutes. Flash freeze incoming...

About a quarter inch of sleet on top of the 5" of snow now. It's been mostly sleet here for the last two hours, but there have been very brief periods where it has gone back to snow...but usually only lasting a minute or two. Still no freezing rain at this location yet. Temp holding at 24F.

5" on the nose here in Salem NH before the flip to sleet shortly after 6am. 14" total OTG. 23F with pingers at the moment.

Snow just about wrapping up here in Salem NH with 6.9" total for the event. 13" OTG at the moment.

4.8" Salem NH

0.9" in the last hour for an event total of 4.0" in Salem NH. Not the prolific rates we experienced between 10pm-12am but steadily piling up. 26F.

Very impressive burst of snow here in southern NH. We picked up 2.5" of snow in the last hour for an event total of 3.1" so far in Salem NH. Dumping.

Visible in Salem, NH!!

Well I am clearly out of the loop! lol

Good morning old friends! It's been a while since I poked into this thread. Does Phineas still post in here? With the avalanche rating forecast to be "considerable" tomorrow I'm hoping to find some lower angle glades to ski instead of heading into the alpine, and I'm curious about the snowpack situation in the vicinity of Crescent Ridge. I'm sure they did very well with the recent storm, but I'm hoping it fell on a decent enough base. Down here in the Flatlands of southern NH we picked up 6" of incredibly moisture-laden snow. Decent event for the first week of April in this climo zone, but I was definitely missing the old cabin in Jackson for this one...

1.0" new snow in North Salem NH overnight. 6.0" event total. Very light snow and 33F at the moment.

Power is back after an 8-hour outage here in North Salem. I measured exactly 5.0" before accumulation stopped around 1:30pm. It's been snowing lightly ever since, but melting on contact for the most part. It does appear that we are getting into some better snow growth now, so as we approach sunset I expect things to start whitening up again.

3.5" North Salem NH

Sleet flipped to snow here in North Salem (Exit 3 on I-93) about 20 minutes ago. Huge fat flakes coming down now, with a few pingers still mixed in but predominantly snow. 34F.

Just flipped to sleet in Salem NH. I measured 3.2" before the changeover.

1.2" here in Salem NH but definitely mixing now. Was definitely snowing at a good clip with massive snowflakes for awhile.

Another 1.4" of pure fluff since 6:00 brings our total up to 16.2" here in Salem NH. I think we're close to wrapping it up now.

14.8" here in Salem NH and pretty much stopped for the time being. Watching those interesting squall-like elements up in the Lakes Region to see if maybe we can pick up a little more this evening. Great storm regardless.

Another 1.1" last hour in Salem NH. Up to 14.2" for the storm total now. Still snowing quite steadily. This one definitely surpassed my expectations.

1.7" in the last hour for a storm total of 13.1" in Salem NH. Still snowing at a good clip.