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Bury The Northern Pass. The grid will eventually be underground, expensive upfront, more costly to repair, but immense savings across the entire life cycle.

I've enjoyed wildcat this season, it's lots of fun with all the natural snow but I'm equally glad to have started on opening day because ice is naturally occurring and just knowing the spots help all season long. Now shopping for new skis for next season! Hope you are having fun out there!

$555 for a season pass with unlimited access to wildcat and attitash works for me as they nearby. Next season while this season peaks!

About 10 inches in Berlin. It snowed all day but didn't account for more, but the last couple hours and now its starting to accumulate. Definitely feels like snow country!

Just high level clouds in Berlin New Hampshire with temperature at 26.

Solid thunder this morning, followed by a portfolio of falling things from rain to frozen to snow flakes, then the cold poured in for a quick freeze of all water, making for a crisp sunset walk through the trails, now in the mid teen's and feeling like winter.

Wildcat skied well this morning with little crowds and lift running at good speed. Conditions were groomed frozen granular with just a ver few predictable ice sections. Lynx was my best lap run. --- I'm only skiing weekends for the rest of the season, but so far its been great! Grateful I can still do it.

A couple of weeks ago snow mobiles really started to experience their season and then this weekend I'm seeing people get their kayaks out of storage getting ready for the spring. It all depends on how you find the best way to enjoy the seasons and experiences. Sitting at 25 with moderate NW winds this evening, heading into the teens.

Driving from the shoreline in Rhode Island up to Coös County in New Hampshire it feels like many zones of weather, too many to count! After passing Concord and entering the lakes and mountain region is where I get the sense that NNE starts to begin. However, the northern part of Coös where not too many people live, is definitely in its own rugged definition of NNE. It is pretty amazing to cruise up that way in the continuous hills and mountains and then enter Canada and it is flat as a lake (after going downhill!).

Did the afternoon shift at Wildcat and it skied well, generally loose snow and the normal sections of frozen, and a bit slow (but fun) in the high-sun areas. The high speed quad was in low speed mode, so while it took 15 minutes to get up top, it helped even more so to keep the crowds to non-existent which allows for a complete cruise downhill without worrying about people. Winter and Sun, awesome!

Toggling between -19 and -20 and winds are moderate with strong gusts.

-19 in Berlin, NH for about the past hour or so. Frozen pipes but the heat and electricity are working, so a long crawl coming up for water resolution. Probably the coldest I've ever felt and the wind is howling indeed!

Making the weekly commute this afternoon to Berlin and looking forward to seeing ice on the androscoggin river, and hope it stays around into April!

I skied Wildcat this morning and the snow conditions were packed powder on the groomed trails with nice stashes of fluff on the sides. I only did 6 runs, but never did I scrape ice or anything frozen. In talking with people who went off trail, trees, or ungroomed trails, they mentions that it was really good it was already skied, but untouched areas did have a firm layer in the middle of the mountain, presumably because rain froze at some point. Overall, the report of 40 inches of snow in the past week is confirmed in my book, just riding up the lift you can see lots of snow covering vast sections of rocky terrain. --- I'll be back tomorrow morning and then heading to Milan to watch the ski jumpers at the Nansen Ski Jump!

Took in a few runs this morning at Wildcat, good to be back on the hill. Compared to early December, they have opened up most of the mountain and conditions were quite nice. By 10am the Saturday crowd had the lift lines approaching 10 minutes and I headed home and will check it out again tomorrow or next weekend. Didn't get any pictures, but the Presidential Range is definitely looking winterish!

Just cleared the driveway and I'd say there is about 7 to 8 inches of new snow and fairly light in Berlin, NH. Looking forward to hitting the slopes tomorrow! It will be interesting if I arrive next Friday evening and there is 10-20 inches of new snow, I'm going to need a bigger shovel!

I had a fly come to life yesterday in the house. I guess all they need is just a bit of warmth!

Hope everyone feels better amidst this thawful! new years eve!

Locally in Coos County there are upper 30's near the river and low 50's at the drivable 2000 foot peaks. Definitely melt weather for natural mountain snow, almost feels like frost heaves on the road!

It will be interesting to see how cold of an airmass develops in New England (rooted in the snow cover from the previous storm) and whether the current modelling resolves it in initial conditions.

great picture!

Wildcat definitely got a big dumping of snow, but down the road in Gorham they got a solid result with what appears to be close to 18 inches and up my way in Berlin it was above 12 inches and full of water. I need to get some actual equipment at my place as the liquid equivalent was certainly plentiful! What I found interesting is that on Friday afternoon in Randolph on the trails there was almost 6 inches by sunset but on the nearby roads and homes it was just an inch, so temperature was indeed a big factor. As of this evening, this light snow is accompanied with 30 degrees temperatures and about an inch of accumulation. So far I'm enjoying the NNE country!

Almost four inches of accumulation since 5pm and the bulk of which has been in the past two hours with temperatures ever so slowly approaching 31.0 - should be interesting how much the night brings!

Nantucket buoy shifted from all day easterly winds to S/SW for the past few hour and holding steady at SW with the pressure still dropping just a bit, so the surface low is still getting its act together. Meanwhile, Mount Washington has finally rotated from 110 easterly to 80 degrees easterly. Long story short, the next phase of this system for the NNE region is about to get underway.

The White Mountains Community College down the street from my home has "College Closed" listed on their big sign, so I'd have to think the surrounding K-12 schools will likely be closed. During my evening walk around Berlin it was evident via trucks, gas stations, and backyard operations, that folks are gearing up to officially start the snow mobile season with this storm. It is quite impressive to see "snow" in the forecast for over 36 hours, bring it on!