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Precip just started . Ice pellets 41/27

630pm Light rain, fog and 38.3F!!! CAD rules here time after time. I'm colder than any reporting station in NE other than Northern Maine

Seems like the best time of the year. High sun angle, comfortable temperatures and no people. Glad you are enjoying it!

Maybe it is just me but everytime we have a potential there are cloudly skies or a bright moon. Tomorrow night is a no go for NNE

Time sensitive. Look at the vis right now. (1240pm). Flow seems blocked over C VT. I have never seen this before.

29F with snow squalls. About 1/2" 2008 was a special year. Over 130" of snow in my area. Many roof collapses. We had to keep shoveling our roof. I made some videos from that winter see below. The first one is from March 1 and then there are more in March and April. Still so much snow even in April. We feed the deer that year as they couldn't barely get through the snow.

39F light snow shower We have some friends that live about 1 mile south of me and around 1600 feet elevation. They offered to share their webcam with me. They look NW over Newfound Lake as I am 500 feet lower and face SW. I am really going to like this new cam especially with thunderstorms and snow levels. Nice view even right now. Can't see my house but is around the X mark.

Sun with snow and rain showers 40F. Ending the season at 55" is pathetic. I might as well stayed in Metro Boston.

We had about 1/2" of snow and sleet early this morning. Still some on the ground. Stayed 33 to 35F all day

I have done 2 of there winter "edutrips" when you can stay up at the summit over a weekend.

Esthetically speaking MWN has always (to me) been a real nice mountain to look at and it holds very special significance in my life. The cone summit with the built in observatory and small radio towers with a single narrow cog line going up the mountain is pleasing to look at. 5800 feet is above tree line and train cars sitting up there during the warm season would make the mountain look a lot less natural and not in keeping with the Whites. Personally I am totally against this idea. People in this country have lots of wilderness experiences they can already partake in. Oh, I can just see it now. Pay $1000, book way in advance and then being stuck in the clouds for days at a time or having guests with no hiking experience wandering around the summit cone at night. As some of you know, MWN summit is a special place for my husband Bob and I. On Jan 1 2008 the first day same sex unions became legal in NH, we were married on the summit. I gave the observatory a nice donation and they made an exception to their rules. About 10 of our family and friends crammed into a snow cat and were driven up to the summit. That day a noreaster was heading up the coast. I was watching the weather very carefully the night before. The next morning at the base as we set out to go there was a high overcast that was rapidly lowering. By the time we got to around 4000 feet it started to snow and blow. If it had been a clear day with light winds we would have been married outside but by the time we got to the observatory around noon the temperature was around 5F, with snow and wind around 50 gusting to 70ish, true blizzard conditions. It was hard to tell snow intensity with so much blowing and being in the clouds. So the snow cat pulled close to the door and we all went inside and got married there. At the summit there was a group of German scientists that were staying and they were our audience as well as the observatory people and the summit cat. Is was very moving. The observatory made us all a nice lunch and then we headed back down in blizzard conditions. I have to commend the snowcat drivers. Very few people have experienced a true blizzard and zero vis. I mean not more than 15 feet. The road is marked with high stakes. We were greeted at the base with about 8" of new snow and driving home could be a story in of itself. MWN does not allow weddings in the observatory but they made an exception. They asked us to not notify the media as they wanted to keep this quiet. That was 13 years ago when things were a bit different. Another first for the summit that few know about!

Lots of closed roads around here right now. My road is closed except to local traffic just beyond our house. I made this video 3 years ago of driving up to our house. For some reason this section of the road is not that bad right now.

39F First thunderstorm of the season just passed to my SE. Quite a bit of thunder. Seems to have weakened now as don't hear anymore claps. Snow is about 75% gone.

We are rapidly loosing our winter snow cover and all the deer that yard up behind our house are having a field day. Last week we had 31. At any time now they will disperse and head back up into the hills. Here is our zoo.

Towards the tropics the yearly change of sunshine is much less than as you move poleward. I don't want this to get political but it is interesting that Mark Rubio of Florida spearheaded this effort but back then the Governor of Florida asked Congress to repeal it. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/03/15/the-us-tried-permanent-daylight-saving-time-in-the-70s-people-hated-it/#:~:text=Congress had voted on December,was enacted to save fuel.

Sunrise in Detroit in late December is 9:02am. Ouch Just wait. We tried this for a year when I was a kid. Everyone thought it was a great idea until people had to go to work in darkness. We scrapped it and went back to changing the clocks as we do now.

About 1.5" of snow last night

33.4 light snow 1/2" or so

Today the senate passed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. Now it goes to the house. Bad news for model watching in the winter. I'm old enough to remember this was tried once before when I was a kid. Everyone thought it was a great idea until people had to wake up and go to school and work in darkness. Sunrise would be after 8am in the winter. Even worse for the people in the northwest part of each time zone.

Oil down another 7.7% today to 95 a barrel. It had peaked over 120 a barrel. Gas prices should be coming down but they are always much faster to rise than fall.

44.2/30 Sprinkles just started

Diane, I hope you heal as quick as possible!

Brian, can you give me the link to this? I use to have it but can't find it. Thanks

Looks like I'm in the bullseye. Going to loose some qpf on the front side.

GFS has me in the bullseye tonight. .73" qpf. Could be quite the birch bender up here at elevation. We will see how fast we can get down to near freezing, going to waste some qpf on the front side.