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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.

The radar has looked ominous but even though it shows moderate to heavy rain over me it is not raining very hard. Only .10" in the past hour. It's lucky you didn't have the 2 foot snow fall like we did or there would be a ton of snowmelt coming down the mountain.

56F Light rain. Only 1.25" so far but second batch to arrive soon. Just took a ride at 1245pm. Almost total snowcover remains down below my elevation but warm wind has melted 25% of the snow in my fields although woods remain snow covered. I assume that most snowcover will survive in the lowland woods.

55.1F Light rain about .80" Snowcover is about 75% except my large south field which is now 60% bare. Heavy rain incoming.

A bit windy a top of Mt Washington. From their site Winds will continue to ramp up overnight, and into Friday. Winds will remain sustained above the century mark through tonight until Friday morning. Gusts at this time look to be tapping into the 160s and 170s and some models are indicating that as a low-level jet passes, a few gusts could surpass 180 mph. However, most models have this jet passing to our south, so it is likely that gusts around the 170 mark seem more plausible

Temperature is now rising fast. Up to 47F. I got a 11" pack to melt. It's fairly dense as it started off with 24" or so the other day and there has been limited melting. Let's see what 2.75" of rain and 30 hours above freezing can do. I hear that roar starting in the trees.

Up to 35F here we go... Few musings I have watched Alex's cam for the past few years. From this period through the next 60 days I have only seen partial bare ground a few times. So even if this storm wipes the pack out, snowshowers will return Saturday to recoat. Not a great pattern but some more snow Monday. We will not mention another potential cutter later next week. My pond has not been full since last June. It will be interesting to see if a foot pack can melt plus 2.5" of rain will fill it up. Some extreme runoff tomorrow morning down my hill. Ground should be frozen so it all has to run into my culvert into my pond. Will be fun to watch Alex, I erased your PWS out of my favorites. I have your cam but do you have the link? Phin do you have a PWS that uploads to the web? Merry Christmas to all NNE Peeps! Gene

It is also probably because it upsets the fewest people.