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-12F to +30F in 15 mins. Peter Sinks gone wild. Time (MST) 2.8m Temperature ° F 4.4m Wind Speed mph 4.4m Wind Gust mph 4.4m Wind Direction Solar Radiation W/m*m Battery voltage volt Quality Control 10:00 37.3 8.5 12.7 NNE 300.8 14.91 Caution 9:45 30.1 6.1 15.8 NNE 263.5 14.92 Caution 9:30 -12.0 0.2 2.9 E 135.2 13.35 Caution 9:15 -18.8 0.1 1.7 SSW 90.0 13.03 Caution 9:00 -21.8 0.0 0.0 99.8 12.27 Caution 8:45 -22.8 0.0 0.0 23.8 12.21 Caution 8:30 -23.6 0.0 0.0 25.3 12.19 Caution 8:15 -24.6 0.0 0.0 16.2 12.16 Caution 8:00 -25.6 0.0 0.0 9.3 12.17 Caution 7:45 -26.0 0.0 0.0 3.7 12.21 Caution 7:30 -26.4 0.0 0.0 0.7 12.08 Caution

Anyway, I'm excited for a colder rain this weekend. /sarcasm Like Will said, I do worry a bit about a trend toward icier solutions up here. It's been a rough start to the season for the birches and my bamboo. The driveway is in midwinter form with the glaciating hardpack snow turning to ice.

Oh I must've been a weenie (weenie oh) I must've saw the GEM global It says we should've had some snow by now Oh Metfan, our storm Holds on, Holds on

Don’t stop believin’ Hold on to that weenie

2003 was epic. Coronas directly overhead up here.

I remember reading about an event in the last decade or so where Pinkham Notch was getting crushed and the summit of Mount Washington had sun with undercast and flurries reaching the summit from the undercast below.

Coyote? Neighbor’s retriever?

Not a lot of difference at the sfc...GFS still struggling with the CAD. I fully expect to be stuck in the 30s for the duration...a little IP/ZR and then a cold rain at best.

Phin will be angry to miss that.

That would be a fun event. Even have a CAD sig in the isobars on the d10 GGEM.

That'll be another Cleveland superbomb in a week.

That’s basically what I get now. The first time it was a good effort, the 2nd time it was a quick measure, the 3rd time it was just a pic, now it’s basically “gfy”.

These clouds the last 2 days have been a PITA...still 26.8°. Haven’t been out of the 20s since it was snowing late Sat night. I’d like the truck ice free...thx.

Water equiv

The Hermit Lake plot is technically in Sargent’s Purchase.

Would love a little sun today to melt the snow and ice off of the trees. 28° and overcast isn’t going to get it done.

It felt like one of those midday April, brighter overcast deals where it’s melting at the bottom as fast as it’s trying to accumulate on the top. These were like sleet ratios or even worse.

I can’t remember such a wide swath of 33-35° heavy snows in December where it just couldn’t accumulate. The ground is relatively warm, it was a torch the day before, we started as a decent amount of rain, and we just couldn’t bulb it down to 32° and stay there. So we rack up 1-3” of w.e. and only a few inches of snow. Maybe I’m wrong...I hadn’t been paying close enough attention after my back issues...but I thought initially there was supposed to be snow showers Fri night into Sat morning in NNE with the northern stream and when I woke up yesterday and still saw rain in N VT and BML/HIE I knew there was no cold to advect in. So when those east tics started coming I had a bad feeling being on the wrong side of the QPF gradient and west of the banding. That’s when our downslope kicks in. I at least had 3”, but Eek had a trace off the lake and 1P1 and LEB were mostly rain. It felt more like a late April event than near the winter solstice. But yeah...the clowns suck and we have fun with them, but I think most know you have to look deeper when giving a forecast. They’re a quick and easy way to see the QPF as snow when using the 10:1’s. They obviously just didn’t work too well yesterday with the crap airmass.

Hooksett damage Northfield damage Other than the cable line, nbd here. I saved the bamboo and birches with frequent shaking. The birches will hopefully recover. As for my parents, at least they’ll get more sun.

Yeah...and it hit all of those mini jack zones from ORH county to MHT. Plus the screw jobs near Winni, 1P1, and LEB.

Parents just had a large tree come down across their driveway so they’re trapped for awhile.

Not perfect, but the ICON determines its own snow:liquid ratio. This is from the 00z run yesterday evening...

Everyone from Maryland is getting pummeled right now.

Alright. So we have almost 3”...calling it 2.8” so far Stratus #1 had 0.32” of rain when the snow started sticking. I out the snow board out and just took an 8hr sample that had an additional 0.67”. Whether or not some liquid melted out the bottom and dripped off the board, I dunno. There’s enough weight to these 3 inches that the birches are touching the ground. I just shook off the hawk netting and bamboo for the 5th time, but hopefully that’s the last one. What a PITA for just a few inches. It goes to show you just how impactful liquid equivalent is.

Power went out for a minute and came back on. Lots of flickering. Fak.