tamarack Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 0.6" snow before changing to light ZR about 7 AM - porch stairs were icy death (until I sprinkled wood ash) when I went out at 10. At 11 Rockland was 52 and Augusta 33. The cold will get scoured out but it's hanging tough at present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Heard on the noon news that the Dixmont Mountain stretch of I-95 (~miles 160-65) has struck again, with multiple accidents, and drivers being advised to exit before reaching that section. For whatever reason it becomes/remains icy while areas closer to Newport of Bangor are just wet. I've seen multiple cars off the road several times while traveling in that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 57F at HIE and 55F at the Jefferson RWIS while it's 36F here. Sorry Phin...NW flow upslope giveth and taketh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 11 minutes ago, dendrite said: 57F at HIE and 55F at the Jefferson RWIS while it's 36F here. Sorry Phin...NW flow upslope giveth and taketh. It's 60 here. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 My PWS says it's gusting in the 40s. Very windy out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 51 minutes ago, PhineasC said: My PWS says it's gusting in the 40s. Very windy out. Yeah you're not a great CAD spot once the inversion gets shallow. Downslope city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 2 minutes ago, dendrite said: Yeah you're not a great CAD spot once the inversion gets shallow. Downslope city. I honestly will take this over 45 and drizzle right now. Been a decent day, really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 I thought that the WAA would've scoured out the cold by now, but it's hanging tough in the low 30s here. Starting to get foggy; maybe the warm air is getting close? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 well snowblower ready to go, but 7-10 day says no beuno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jculligan Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Wild temperature ranges across the White Mountains right now. I made the trek over to Bretton Woods this afternoon around 1pm and it was 36 when I left Jackson, dipped to 34 as I entered Crawford Notch then shot up to 46 when I arrived at Bretton Woods. An hour later it was up to 53 at Bretton Woods, but still 34 in Bartlett and 36 in the village of Jackson. Climbing the hill back to my place, the temperature shot up to 46. I'm not sure how accurate this PWS is near Randolph Hill, but it logged a high temperature of 65 this afternoon with a peak wind gust of 65 mph: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNHRANDO11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Nice torch today..not much snow to lose..2-3"....but its gone. Think got up to 55F or so. Gusted low 40s last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 15 minutes ago, jculligan said: Wild temperature ranges across the White Mountains right now. I made the trek over to Bretton Woods this afternoon around 1pm and it was 36 when I left Jackson, dipped to 34 as I entered Crawford Notch then shot up to 46 when I arrived at Bretton Woods. An hour later it was up to 53 at Bretton Woods, but still 34 in Bartlett and 36 in the village of Jackson. Climbing the hill back to my place, the temperature shot up to 46. I'm not sure how accurate this PWS is near Randolph Hill, but it logged a high temperature of 65 this afternoon with a peak wind gust of 65 mph: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNHRANDO11 It’s actually down the hill from me on rt 2 so runs a few degrees warmer. Seems accurate today. I hit 61 degrees with some gusts near 60. Weird weather day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 I’ve got 39F on the car leaving the mountain. Surprised how well the natural pack is holding at 1500ft. Still patchy snow in town but I had a healthy thick 6” at Barnes Camp. 1500ft staying winter pack for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jculligan Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 Sounds like quite a wind event in favored downslope areas today. Phin already mentioned gusts to near 60 mph in his area, and a friend of mine reported "lots of downed trees" on his drive from Bethlehem to Lancaster NH this afternoon. Bretton Woods wasn't operating their gondola, which is very rare. Fortunately I went there to do some uphill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 3 minutes ago, jculligan said: Sounds like quite a wind event in favored downslope areas today. Phin already mentioned gusts to near 60 mph in his area, and a friend of mine reported "lots of downed trees" on his drive from Bethlehem to Lancaster NH this afternoon. Bretton Woods wasn't operating their gondola, which is very rare. Fortunately I went there to do some uphill. We had strong winds above like 3000-3500ft only at the top of the FourRunner Quad but no lift/wind issues. Seemed you had to get to that height to get out of the inversion of cold tucked in the east slope. Dead calm and chilly below that inversion. It is torrential rain now. Wipers on high type rainfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 We just mixed out. 39F to 46F and 30+ mph winds. Looks like the front just moved through on the summit obs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Absolutely pouring out there. Still snow cover on the lawn, I wonder if it will make it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 The 18z EURO looked like a fun little event for our NH/ME crew... Gene-Dendy to Alex-Phin to Dryslot triangle? Tamarack to Culligan foothills? But that inverted trough QPF right on the coastline is interesting too... those IVT are like lottery tickets, but it's been there on the models and who knows, maybe someone around the coast or immediately inland gets into something more significant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Temp took a nosedive. Still 42 but snow mixing in with the rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jculligan Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, powderfreak said: The 18z EURO looked like a fun little event for our NH/ME crew... Gene-Dendy to Alex-Phin to Dryslot triangle? Tamarack to Culligan foothills? But that inverted trough QPF right on the coastline is interesting too... those IVT are like lottery tickets, but it's been there on the models and who knows, maybe someone around the coast or immediately inland gets into something more significant? It would be consistent with our "inch every other day" pattern. I still had a solid snowcover at sunset this evening, but the last 5 hours have completely wiped the slate clean. Hopefully Wednesday's event pans out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I just noticed that snow is mixing in with the rain here at our place, so colder air must be moving in now on the back side of this storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 16 minutes ago, J.Spin said: I just noticed that snow is mixing in with the rain here at our place, so colder air must be moving in now on the back side of this storm. An "angry inch" at 3,000ft... very windy, post-frontal CAA always seems moody. For 15 years, I've always heard that term used to describe a certain type of snowfall. Includes high wind, dropping temps. This is an evening where the angry inch phrase is appropriate on the mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 Yeah, temp down to 33 with some flakes mixed in it looks like. Wild ride today weather-wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 33 minutes ago, powderfreak said: An "angry inch" at 3,000ft... very windy, post-frontal CAA always seems moody. For 15 years, I've always heard that term used to describe a certain type of snowfall. Includes high wind, dropping temps. This is an evening where the angry inch phrase is appropriate on the mountain. Yeah, perfect phrase for those types of post-frontal accumulations. Mother Nature seems pretty angry based on the wind – our power flickered a few times and even went out for a few minutes. On these types of nights, maybe have a beverage from these folks… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, PhineasC said: Some energy still swings through NNE and drops a few inches. Yeah, I saw that on the GFS – looks like it shows snow for a good chunk of Wednesday and Thursday on the latest run. That can be one of the problems with these coastal things – sometimes they just end up screwing with perfectly good northern stream systems by messing up the energy, so you’d often just as soon have them get out of the way and let the bread and butter do its thing in a more reliable manner. Obviously those larger coastal storms can be great, but the reliability is just so low compared to the typical Clippers we see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 Ground is white again at least. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jculligan Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Drove through squalls on my way up to skin an early lap at Wildcat this morning. Not much accumulation but Route 16 was definitely dicey and visibility was not good. In typical Wildcat fashion, the new snow pretty much blew off the trails exposing the boilerplate conditions underneath. Much different from the soft edgeable conditions at Bretton Woods yesterday lol. Only a dusting here in Jackson, and it's currently 28F with mostly sunny skies. Tomorrow's event still looks like a general 1-3" type deal on most models. The pattern of nickels and dimes continues, at least for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 1” overnight. Gonna take a while to get those glades open Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted December 7, 2021 Author Share Posted December 7, 2021 Nothing too compelling on the horizon, a few bouts of bread and butter interspersed with warm-ups and some rain. I expect a continued yo-yo back and forth over the next 10 days. Hard to really build any pack right now. Hopefully around the 20th we can shift into a more permanently cold and snowy regime better for building a pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Temps hung near 32 into yesterday evening, then popped up to 41 between 8:30 and 9:30. Only stayed there 10-15 minutes before a quick downpour and a few 30+ gusts chopped the temp back into the mid 30s. Total precip from the system was 0.52", 0.30" in the AM and the rest with the CF, plus a trace of graupel during the overnight. Currently upper 20s with full sun and gusts to 25-30. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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