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Nice. Up at Saddleback this week. A little warm yesterday so it was mushy late in the day but more snow overnight and hopefully somewhat colder today. First time doing a ski-in/ski-out and think I’ll probably be spoiled from now on.

I like dry summers for keeping the mosquitoes at bay but it's just really boring if you want some convection to track or a rogue tropical

Pack is sturdy enough to support my weight so I'm thinking it'll hold on until the end of the week especially if it's cloudy.

I'd love to get in an epic ski week next week at Saddleback and then let the flowers bloom the week after but that's just as likely to happen as a blizzard in mid-September. I also wonder if the US "cold pool" lingers into the summer and we end up with 2009 or worse.

May end up being the event of the winter with the variety of conditions from the kitchen sink yesterday to the winds today. Felt and looked like some of the peak conditions back in 2015.

Back to sleet. 29/27. Interesting chunk of precip over NYC moving NE...models had a bit of a burst of ice/snow later on.

Still a lot of sleet slamming against the windows at just under 34F. See how quickly those temps drop as this slug of precip moves in.

33/32 with mix of sleet and drizzle.

Snowing still. 32/31. Picked up 7".

Seems like if we change to rain here it will be pretty brief before possibly changing back to IP/ZR as this pulls away. Wonder if cold drain is under-modeled too for this area anyway. Either way, this pack isn't going anywhere, just don't look forward to the cleanup of concrete in the driveway.

And actually a fairly stormy/windy system. Haven't had much of that.

Snow winding down as sun breaking out. Just measured 9". Like someone emptied a giant down pillow over the landscape.

Still coming down moderately. Looks like around 7.5". 23/30

Started here. 28/23

Would love the GFS evolution with a big dog just before we head up to Saddleback on the 24th for a few days. Keep things quiet that week with some upslope every day and it'll be nice.