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Mar 19-20 Snow/sleet/ZR/Rain Event


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Thanks guys, I don't know why I was thinking it was down more adjacent to North Conway area...but I must've been thinking of Bridgton (another oft mentioned spot on the boards).  

 

Good to clear that up.

 

Bridgton is home to Shawnee Peak, so definitely another favorable snow spot.

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Good view, thanks again.  They are pretty much parallel with me here in Stowe it looks, as I'm on the same line as BTV-BML axis.

 

 

That map more than anything reminds me how ridiculously far north the rest of Maine gets...they are a different world up there. In the context of just the state of Maine, Sunday River looks pretty south...but then you line it up with the rest of NE and see that its the same latitude as your area and the NH panhandle and you think "damn, Maine goes pretty far north". :lol:

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That map more than anything reminds me how ridiculously far north the rest of Maine gets...they are a different world up there. In the context of just the state of Maine, Sunday River looks pretty south...but then you line it up with the rest of NE and see that its the same latitude as your area and the NH panhandle and you think "damn, Maine goes pretty far north". :lol:

 

We really have to avoid using the term "north" at all because very little of our population considers themselves as living in northern parts of Maine.

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That map more than anything reminds me how ridiculously far north the rest of Maine gets...they are a different world up there. In the context of just the state of Maine, Sunday River looks pretty south...but then you line it up with the rest of NE and see that its the same latitude as your area and the NH panhandle and you think "damn, Maine goes pretty far north". :lol:

 

Its true, haha.  To think I'm one county south of Canada, and similar to northern NH (north of the Presidential Range), and that this latitude is still only the southern third of Maine is pretty wild.  I took a class at UVM about small community ski areas and their operations, so we spent a few weeks visiting spots in Maine from Rumford/Black Mountain in the SW, all the way up to some spots near Caribou and Fort Kent.  Spent a week in Fort Kent and that was a pretty cool little town.  For one, the snowpack was huge as we went in March, but the vast open spaces was impressive.  Tons of fields and treeless areas with incredible blowing and drifting.  I just remember the fields would be almost bare but the woodlines would have like legit 20 foot waves of snow drifts.

 

Very cool country up there...but man you are a long way from anywhere.

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Its fun having you up there Ginxy...adds some more interest to the event than what we normally have.  And nice that Will is going up too, as he has a vested interest in what happens too.  More lively discussion than a normal NNE type event.

 

 

Yeah, I've been feverishly rooting for a nice paste bomb for SR out of this one and the big one last week...its easier to do also when you don' thave much of a shot at anything at home. Though even if ORH had a shot at 6" in this one, I wouldn't root against a north trend that much since I'm going to SR in 2 days and want to fresh snow there, haha.

 

Saturday looks like a nice classic NNE clipper too...with a stripe of 2-4/3-5 from your area over to SR. I'll be out skiing in that one, so I've been following both.

 

 

 

 

This system is interesting anyway though even if I wasn't headed up...its almost convective. You look at the radar and it doesn't look like anywhere in New England is snowing...it looks like a May or June late season upper low moving in from the west firing off thundershowers and heavy rain.

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Yeah, I've been feverishly rooting for a nice paste bomb for SR out of this one and the big one last week...its easier to do also when you don' thave much of a shot at anything at home. Though even if ORH had a shot at 6" in this one, I wouldn't root against a north trend that much since I'm going to SR in 2 days and want to fresh snow there, haha.

 

Saturday looks like a nice classic NNE clipper too...with a stripe of 2-4/3-5 from your area over to SR. I'll be out skiing in that one, so I've been following both.

 

 

 

 

This system is interesting anyway though even if I wasn't headed up...its almost convective. You look at the radar and it doesn't look like anywhere in New England is snowing...it looks like a May or June late season upper low moving in from the west firing off thundershowers and heavy rain.

 

That's going to really produce some high rates at times. Just convective look to everything, and that first batch proved 2-3 per hour is totally a possibility.

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That's going to really produce some high rates at times. Just convective look to everything, and that first batch proved 2-3 per hour is totally a possibility.

 

 

Yeah seriously.....the radar is pretty sick looking for a snow event.

 

 

Every now and then, a blind squirrel...err the NAM...finds a nut.

 

 

I guess if the NAM was gonna score a coup, it is fitting that its a convective system like this.

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Out of curiosity, where exactly is Sunday River located in the GYX CWA? My ski resort geography fails me in NH and ME for the most part.

Is it in the southern part of the NW most county in Maine? Near the NH border? Where those yellow/moderate echos are?

Right where it's ripping on radar. Lol

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oh no  when I thought things were looking so good, mixing with freezing rain  28.6F

 

I'm not so sure that a permanent thing. Dual-pol shows it is just a patch of warmth aloft, maybe associated with a drier snow growth zone. But that's not to say you don't occasionally taint tonight.

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