Layman

Am I seeing right that Killington is opening this Friday 11/15? Got a text from them but not sure if they're going to be servicing any trails. Looks like Superstar may be rideable on the cams.

Got hit pretty good with the late day storms yesterday. Not as much hail as Dover but got a good dose of dime-sized stuff that accumulated about a 1/3 to half the amount in the pic of the Subaru that was shared above. Rain really came down for a bit. PWS claims just over 7" per hour rate. Went from zero to over 2" real quick. Branches and leaves down everywhere but no real damage. Left the house just after the 7" per hour rate was recorded and saw a guy riding his bike on my road. He looked angry. Probably a wet and painful ride to remember!

2.5-3" on the ground. 33.4 and seems white-rainish. Winds have been crazy but anemometer STB in a big gust this morning so not sure what speeds we're dealing with. Likely not over 40mph but with branches and precip blowing around it's got more oomph to it. Power still on at least.

36.5 0.12" Rain with Pellets mixing. Gust to 22.8mph earlier but reasonably calm now.

OVC. 40.6/35.5

Curious about this - what kind of system were you replacing and what did you go with? Assuming you replaced a traditional oil burner boiler?

1.52" overnight. 3.61" so far in March.

Lots of bird activity down south so far. Definitely sounds like spring when they all get singing. Saw some RWBB’s last week and we’ve got the murder of Starlings going crazy here today. Thousands upon thousands of them. Here’s a small grouping of them moving from one perch to another.

Wind really picked up over the past hour or so (seems to have subsided now) and my PWS registered a 43.4mph gust. It's poorly sited for most winds but it does pretty good in W/NW winds like today. It was cranking when that gust hit:

Bright sun here aaaaaand....44 degrees. I love the coast but sometimes she just won't let you enjoy it!

I enjoy reading about the lost/abandoned ski areas of New England and found this one to be relative due to the reasonably extensive coverage of their struggles throughout the 1980's due to lack of snow. Everything now seems to be hyped as the "most", "worst", "extreme", etc but some of us have lived through so much of all this before. Snow lovers in the 1980's = snow lovers in the 2020's. Mt. Tom, Holyoke, MA: https://www.newenglandskihistory.com/Massachusetts/mttom.php This was a fun quote from the page: "Though the 1984-85 season started on December 9, there was no more skiing until the day after Christmas. The holiday skiing too was short-lived, as temperatures soared into the 70s and melted the manmade snow. Manager Dave Moore told the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, "If Mount Tom depended on what (snow) was on the ground, it would have been out of business 25 years ago." The season likely ended after the first weekend in March."

It looks like someone was able to grab a nice pic of it with their "backyard observatory". Not sure exactly what that is or entails but I'm guessing I'm not the only person who doesn't have one It's the 3rd item down on this page: https://spaceweather.com/ Also curious if the X1.8 class solar flare yesterday mentioned on that page caused the massive cellular outage across the US...Interesting stuff.

@WhiteLawns@AstronomyEnjoyer I stumbled across this in a recent article - seems like a comet may be very visible on or around the eclipse on April 8th. You both have posted some interesting pictures and figured if you weren't already aware of this, it may be a good opportunity to try and capture it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12P/Pons–Brooks

BJ's and CJ's and nary a Kraft reach-around to be found. Difficult times indeed.