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Friday afternoon should be the coldest I can remember up here. These are crazy low temperatures when people are out and about. The cold front is through here by early morning with potential snow squalls with temps near 0F and just drops all day from there. We have a deep snow cover and that will help keep it cold. If we are going to get cold we might as well go big. It is in and out. I can take that. It is the endless cold that I hate. This is at 5pm

850mb is actually a bit colder for at least Brian and my area. Even so the min's are a bit warmer than 6Z temps. Is that a function of the wind staying up Friday night?

Euro looks about the same, maybe slightly colder as compared to 0Z

My lowest up here on my hill is -19F. That was over 20 years ago. I do remember a -13F or -14F within the last 5 years. I'm glad it will be in and out. It will be interesting to see how my electric car does as it stays outside.

Since there is little to talk about do you want to start a thread on this cold?

Snowmobilers are everywhere today. Conditions are good but they need one more storm to make conditions great. Don't see anything of significance this week more than some fast flow moisture starved systems. That signal for real cold remains for next weekend. Euro has even got a bit colder with the 12Z runs. For most of us it has a -25 to -30F morning next Saturday rising to a high of -15F during the day. In the longer range things seem amplified but even if you took ten degrees off to account for that it still would be crazy cold. EDIT: I posted this before I even read the forums. I now see it discussed in detail in the Feb thread.

GFS looks out of it's mind for the end of next week. It always seems to do this in the extended. Amplify things. I can see our first true shot of arctic air but these temperatures? Seems very extreme.

Yeah compacted to 4" here. Trees are glazed but snow is deep. We had a nice layer of sleet so it is powder underneath

Finally at 8:15am I have hit 32 Snow to sleet to end as freezing rain here. I didn't not measure during the storm but now it is an ice crusted 4"

21F Moderate snow. Sleet looks to be 5 miles south but really slowing it's advance north.

21.1/18 Heavy snow. Temp and dew continue to drop.

I am waiting till AM too. Interestingly the strong wind has stopped. No more roar in the trees. Temp and dew still at their lows

22.7/19 Moderate snow, blowing snow It is kind of interesting that the temperature still inches down and the dewpoint has dropped from 22 to 19F. Maybe that doesn't mean anything. Decision time. Do I snow blow the couple of inches I have now so it is easier in the morning if it gets sloppy or wait till then? I think I will wait. I kind of am envisioning a powdery snow with a top thin sleet and freezing rain glaze vs some heavy rain soaking into a 6-8" pack making snow blowing difficult.

22.8F Light to moderate snow and blowing snow. Winds are cranking. Didn't expect this much wind. Serious cold too! I can't measure with the drifting, maybe 1.5"ish so far.

24F +SN blowing and drifting too. Came in like a wall up here after a few hours of very light snow

28/19 Snow started 1pm Blast from the past. This just came up on my face book feed. How many years ago, Alex?

1:10pm 28.3/18 Although radar doesn't show it snow has started up here.

Just saw this 14" this afternoon.

Hum.... for the first time we have wintering Bluebirds. Also Newfound Lake is ice free which has never happened this far into the season. Many in CNE and parts of NNE have not even had a 0F night. Weird stuff.....is it just the weather pattern or greatly enhanced by climate change? Anyhow that is a discussion for another time. This storm looks like it will be totally frozen here in my area of Central NH. CAD always over performs so it should stay below freezing. By the time it rises into the 30s Thursday the precipitation should be over. Then a 12 hour thaw.

I "only" have around 9 1/2". Just measuring by putting a ruler down on a clean surface. I have not been doing the 6 hour snowboard clearing. Are you Mark and Brian doing that or is it I am just a bit too far NW to be in the best snow. On the other hand my ratios should be better as my temperature has been around 28F for the whole storm.

8.5" 29.1F Moderate snow

28.8F Moderate snow. Approaching 7"

27.8F Light snow 4.25"

Here you go. 18Z vs 12Z 10;1

25.9/22F Light snow has begun