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So what exactly is it like skiing from clear skies to the base with legit flakage? If you ski and stop every 1000 feet or so does the small fog crystals just get larger and larger as you go down? Must be really interesting to be able to do this. Greens must get so much more undercast days than the Whites with more low level moisture available. Beautiful day here. Cirrus easily visible 100 miles to my south

Flakes in the air all day. About 1/4" to 1/2". Looks like it will stay below freezing for the next week. Even though I only have 4" or so it will not be going anyplace soon so is usually the case in January it is a winter landscape. Newfound Lake is now starting to freeze over. Bob houses going up.

18Z GFS. Quickly running through the model run. Not including this fish storm there are 3 more whiffs in the run. If all these storms ran further NW New England would be digging out.

1" last night. 34.5" on the season. 3" to 4" OTG

25.5F Snowing pretty good down here. Some good snow growth too. Almost 1/2"

Newfound Lake, NH's 5th largest lake is wide open. It's a deep lake but usually is icing over by now

Still snowing very lightly. 3.25" Brings me to 33.50". If I average about 85" per year seems like I'm running not to far from normal. Seems far below that. Thankfully the big Dec storm made all the difference

28.9F Last flakes falling. 3.2"

27.4F Back to moderate snow 2.5"ish

27.3F just flipped here too

26.7F Light freezing rain. About 2". Do we flip back this morning????

28.7 27 Moderate snow

28.6/27F Radar shows virga just about to come overhead.

Happy New Year to all NNEnglanders... Lets hope 2021 is a better year!!! As we wait for the next storm I thought I would post another drone flight that I made today. (Follow-up to my last one). Since the Old Man of the Mountain came down I have seen posts and video's of "The Watcher". It can only be seen from the cliff edge looking back down toward Franconia Notch. It is a arduous long bushwhacking hike that takes many hours to get up to the look out point. Last month I tried to fly the drone up to her but ended up videoing the wrong cliff. So I made another attempt today. You really cant' see her profile as I would have to get to about 15 feet of the trees and look back. I got pretty darn close thought but navigating a $1200 drone from a smartphone screen a mile away and 1500 feet below is quite the task. If anyone is interested here is a picture of her taken by some hikers and my video. Some of the cliffs are incredible in the notch.

The cutter's south wind wiped my pastures clean. Very little snow up here at 1100 feet. If I drive down my hill to Newfound Lake level at 580 feet the ground is mostly snow covered. Took much longer to mix out down blow and the warm moist south wind was not as strong.

31.2F Snowing ending. Perhaps 1/4"

31.1F Moderate snow. Probably will not last long but whitening up everything in a hurry

The 1998 ice storm was a disaster in our town. So much tree damage down here. I had the house up here but it was just a weekend fixer upper. When I drove up from Boston after the storm I couldn't believe the damage. ice events are the worst. First 6 hours without power is okay but when there are widespread events it takes so long to get power back if you don't live on a main line. My dirt road is not a priority.

Still long way off and it could trend colder or warmer. 18Z GFS pops a secondary off the coast around hour 150. Could keep more cold draining down. The Weatherbell ice forecast is more impressive than 12Z. Something to watch

Quiet weather day with a few flurries this morning. Bit of light snow tomorrow and then perhaps a complicated storm for late week. Phin....take note of the light snow you just had after the cutter. Alex, you and the Vermont gang just about always will end up white again, even after warm storms. So the snowy appeal will last for you all winter. Meanwhile the NW flow does nothing for Central NH and the Maine gang as we have to wait for synoptic weather events.

Meanwhile just on the other side of the mountains just partly cloudy. Really no weather over here till the rainy cutter on Friday...

So what happened? The models were insistant in a swath of 2-3" of water coming SW to NE through NH. I was in the area of 1.25 to 1.50" of rain. If this had been snow it would have been the 3rd big blown forecast. Yes it was a rainy 36 hour period but nothing heavy. What went wrong? About 10-25% of snow remains in the hood although my property is mostly snow free. Squirrels are out gathering nuts and turkeys are rejoicing.

This was one of the worst ones. Usually a strong cold front whips through with snow squalls. In this case our cool air is coming from the SW. I don't even think Miami hit 60F today while Baltimore was around 35F.

Yesterday the Mt Washington observatory's forecast was winds gusting into the 160's and even 170's. Just looked and their peak wind was only 107mph. That is a big bust up above!

Front came through half an hour ago. Peak wind in warm sector part of the storm was 33mph. Just had a gust to 34mph. Pretty meh winds all and all. Rainfall 1.65" which was a full 1" less than the models were predicting Snow patches from plowed areas but my guess is 50% to 75% of snowcover remains down below and in the woods.