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Skies have become partly cloudy with constant snow flurries. Maybe another 1/4" since last night but it blows around. Coming from living most my life on the coastal plain one of the big differences is the number of days with some snow in the air. Unlike the guys in the big upslope areas where you get major accumulations, for me its just a snow globe without accumulations. Just 3-5 visibility stuff. That just doesn't happen at least when I lived in Eastern Mass. Deep Northern New England Winter......

Steady light snow this morning. Blowing around. Usually I just get scattered flurries and not 1-3 mile vis light snow. Trees remained plastered for the most part. Deep January winter

1.25" dense powder snow overnight puts me at 40.25" season 18.6F light snow grains

Thanks NoPoles. I knew some of that. They did post a few pics of snow guns at the bottom. They lost all of Dec when we had 30" of snow in the area and then lost Christmas ski week. I would have thought this would have been planned out since they got the lifts going right at the end of last ski season.

Tenney Mtn opened today. I really don't understand what they are doing. No working webpage really, just facebook. No condition reports. Just sent out a message on FB that they opened. Seems like a stupid way to open a Mtn. They don't have any snowmaking so that is tough in this climate, especially being just south of the Whites. I wish them luck.

Such a great sunset over a wide area of C/NNE tonight. Clear skies to the west with the storm passing by to the SE. These are my favorite setups for sunsets, when the sun is actually below the horizon and shinning up on the undersides of the clouds. Caught it from my lawn.

Enjoy your upslope tomorrow. I'll get my usual handful of flurry leftovers. I can never catchup to you guys in snow amounts with your upslope. Mid 30's today. A few ice pellets earlier as the storm to the SE passed by. Snowy week coming up? Looked like big potential a few days ago but now not very much. Several inches? Maybe the 2nd system (which now looks like its almost one continous light snow event?) can get going in the GOM to give Central NH some decent snow. Hired people to chainsaw apple limbs and we carted 5 truckloads of branches to our towns burn pile, plus 1 pickup full of apple cord wood. Pastures back to looking decent except for bent birches which will be dealt with this spring. With my SW expsure to the horizen, I am noticing the sun setting further north now. 2-3 more weeks and climatologically we start warming. Hope the SNE guys get some snow. Different world 75 miles south. Chow...

Thanks for the response Tamarack... I can't remember the varieties we planted. Stupidly I threw away the tags that came with the trees before making a note of what they were. I just counted and I have 18 saplings growing. Some planted 4 to 5 years ago and this summer will be year number 3 for the newest ones. I like Mac's so I know a bunch are them. This past summer Brian found a guy in PA that was selling American Chestnut 18" seedlings. I ordered a few and so did Brian. I spoke to the grower who spent a lot of time telling me stuff I didn't quite understand about how his seedlings were from old American Chestnuts that survived the blight and cross breeding etc. etc.

Just checking in. 2" of fluff last night and 2.75" of snow/sleet a few nights ago puts me at 36" for the season. Weekend storm looks to skirt by to the south but just a bit further northward adjustment might get me into precip? Early next week looks interesting. The deer have been out scratching through the 4-5" of snow. The 3" of snow/sleet under the fluff is making them work a bit to get grass. The deer come out in mass at night. Caught all these bad boys on this cam timelapse from a few nights ago. https://video.nest.com/clip/f48ac4b0395e418db8d8858863380bdf.mp4 Boy did my apple trees take a beating from the 13" birch bender earlier in the season. Hired a couple of people to come Saturday and chainsaw some of these down limbs and haul them away. Only 7 or 8 old apple trees left from the 1907 planting of them. Lots of 2-3 year old apple saplings are planted to take over. It's a race against time before I lose the old trees and the saplings start producing apples. Speaking of trees planted several chestnut tree saplings around the property too. They have deer netting to protect them from the deer. Happy 2019. Goal is 100" of snow. Was off to a great time in November but lost ground in the snow race to the guys further north with their upslope snow this past month.

Perhaps another steep gradient around these parts for tomorrow night. Watching the New Years festivities with large parachutes coming down. 6"ish for me? Edit, maybe a bit more than 6". Could be quite a thumping tomorrow eve. Too bad only a few of us on the boards will be able to enjoy it.

35.3F Moderate quick snow shower.

745pm 32.0F High was 32.2F. So much slush with the snow/sleet mixture and the freezing rain. I got it off the driveway this morning before it got too heavy. At least no super prolonged cold to cement it in for weeks. My Nest cam has not been working right so just splurged on their new 4K outdoor cam. Hopefully will get it working tomorrow. Should be crystal clear views of wildlife/weather

Still have not hit freezing today. 31.3F at 430pm. Trees are holding on to their glaze. Note to self... CAD always, always over performs at my location.

230pm 31.4F 1/4 mile fog. Freezing rain has come to an end

29.9F Freezing rain. About 3/4" of snow to IP earlier this morning. Trees glazing over but no big deal

Sitting at 21/7F as of 6pm we are going to need quite a bit of warmup before we can go to plain rain. 18Z GFS gives me 1.1" liquid NWS gives me 2" of snow. Seems Underdown given the potential for so much qpf and the way CAD over performs....

So many of the birch trees around my property are at low angles after the heavy wet snow we had. A few hours of ice on them will just be another blow. I don't think they will ever recover.

From the Jewish poster on the NNE forum I wish all you a Merry Christmas! 32F with a few mood flakes falling PS Alex, about the mystery precip. Could the snow guns with the right conditions carry the tiny snow molecules a couple of miles in your direction? I'm only guessing but usually when they make snow you have a W, NW,NNE flow. Could you have had light E or SE winds to carry anything from the slopes to you???

It was really nice today to be able to walk around the mostly snow-free property. Most of the woods are still snow covered but my SW exposure is giving the local deer a Christmas present. They have been out there eating 24/7 since our recent torch. Nice to see them able to get some forage after about 6 weeks of snow cover.

Torch!

1230pm up to 37.8F new Vantage Pro. 38.8F on the old one. Cloud shield about here and racing north. Snow barely got a chance to soften. By the way wind gusts are within 1-2mph between old and new station I watch the 2 weather stations near me. The one at lake side is 587 feet. Im 1100 feet. The guy reporting 46F is near the top of the ridge at about 1600 feet. Normally he's colder and lake front warmer. Without any wind the cold is hanging on below

Last 45F was on November the 8th. Quite a run we had! As of 1145am can see the wall of high clouds up to about Hartford. Any guess how much of my snow remains come Sunday AM? I say 50% on my SW slopes. We will surely see. GFS has me in the 2.5" range

I have about 5" at my snowstake and I guess 12" in the woods. Very dense cement snow. Snow otg varies greatly in my area. Some bare ground in the valley but deep snow on the hills. I always CAD more than models show so Im not expecting to hit 50F. I bet I end up with more than 50% snowcover. Im glad the deer and turkeys etc. will get some bare ground to feed on, constant snowcover came very early this year around Nov 11th. Another inside runner late this week? Tenney Mountain near me has been trying to reopen. They have very limited snowmaking and have not open. They have been announcing opening day tomorrow. Just in time for a deluge. I don't see how ski areas without snowmaking can survive anymore in NH. What a great early season run we had from about Dendrite on north...

Snowcover for 5 weeks and just as everyone comes up for the Christmas week we get a torch and 2" or more of rain. Sucks for all the winter enthusiasts and the ski areas... Alex, your back near 20F by late Saturday night. So it's really a 36 hours. I would guess your deep snow pack can absorb a lot of rain before big runoff occurs. I really think you will be fine. It's not like April when the mountains have an entire winter pack and then a week of 50's with heavy rain. Is the Ammon. susceptible for ice jams like the Pemi down here in Plymouth?

Thanks J Spin for your detailed reply. Part of the problem is that I really should be wearing reading glasses and get lazy so I squint through the posts many times. This is what happens at 62 years old. Now I totally understand why it happens and it makes sense what you do. This will get me off the couch and grab the glasses more often. Again, thanks!