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NNE Cold Season Thread 2022/2023


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21 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

The front came through here with a short lived snow squall.  About 1/2".  This puts me at 95" on the season.  Alex, are you keeping snowfall records?  I see that on the snowfall thread that Phin and J Spin have just under 150".  It looks like we are not over just yet.  Unbelievable that I have not hit 50F yet this year.

I am but on a Google sheet (easier to access) and not as religiously as I used to. It’s annoying to keep track of all the little 1-in her we get. Also lost a couple of weeks of data in the middle but it was a very bleak period anyways. I’ll tally it up soon. 
 

All in all, the second half was great and the ski season was after all better than the last few if I remember correctly. The spring skiing has been great and the resort is closing next weekend with 100% top to bottom coverage (and deep) and glade skiing still available. Doesn’t happen that way all the time. 
 

of course I have some concerns about the melting… there’s a lot of snow out there still. 17” at the stake in my yard. Hopefully it will happen slowly!

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While knuckle drive from North Conway to Bretton Woods. White out conditions and snow covered roads. I couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of me. Hard to tell when the road curved. Almost drove off the edge a few times. Made it out and about a half mile past the AMC Center, the snow just about disappeared. Maybe a half Inch and only light snow at the center of Bretton Woods. Attitash announced they are staying open one more weekend and will close for the season at the end of Easter Weekend. They look to have had a band right over them. Hope they cashed in. Cranmore is already closed for the season. I was there today and there are already bare patches showing up on the mountain.

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3" of snow last night.  Actually there could have been a bit more because it was still snowing when I went to bed and it was raining when I woke up and still almost 3"

Wet snow and 32.2F rain is destroying the birch.  Those trees seem to have elastic memories so if the snow melts quickly they will be okay... I think...

By the way this winter we had overwintering Bluebirds.  Lots of them.  There is one on the apple tree in the picture.

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March 2023 numbers:

Avg. max:  40.42   +1.75   High - 50, 27th
Avg. min:   21.42    +4.88  Low - zero, 1st.  Only the 2nd March w/o subzero low (2010, low was 11)   Avg. min was 3rd highest 
Mean:        30.92   +3.31

Precip:    2.85"    -0.61   Jan-Mar: 9.84"  +0.09"    Greatest day:  0.91"  4th

Snow:    27.9"    +11.0"  6th highest and only March in the 20s.   Snowiest:  12.1"  4th
Pack:   Avg. 22.8"  +4.8"    Peak: 36"   4th

DJFM temp:  25.49   Mildest, topping 25.21 in 2015-16.
         Temp       Snow 
DEC  +5.04     +4.4
JAN   +9.14     +9.9
FEB   +1.48      -6.3
MAR  +3.31    +11.0
Of course, in this wacky winter, the month closest to avg temp was the only one with BN snow.

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The system currently working its way through the area has been named Winter Storm Uriel, and it’s actually provided a nice addition to the snowpack so far.  There hadn’t been too much coverage of its snow potential in the forecasts, presumably because it was one of those systems passing well to our northwest with anticipated front end and back end snow, but mixed precipitation and rain in the middle.  I was in Burlington yesterday afternoon when the storm started up, and the snowfall came in with some decent intensity right away.  Temperatures were marginal in the Champlain Valley, so the snow didn’t accumulate very rapidly, but there was probably about a half inch of new snow on the UVM campus when I was heading home to Waterbury.

I arrived at the house to find that the boys and one of their friends had just loaded up their car and were headed up to Bolton for some runs.  My older son was on his alpine gear, but asked me to bring his Telemark equipment to switch over if I came up to the mountain later.  In my mind, I was certainly not planning to head out for a session.  It didn’t seem worth it to head up to the hill for what I thought was probably an inch or so of new snow atop the spring base that had probably gone through some freeze-thaw cycles over the past couple of days.

But apparently, Mother Nature was going to convince me otherwise.  It just kept dumping snow down at our place in the valley, and of course, Bolton’s Webcam at their main base showed the exact same thing as we watched it on the TV.  I couldn’t quite get a feel for the amount of new snow from the webcam, but my snow analyses from the house revealed that we’d already picked up a few tenths of an inch of liquid equivalent in the snow we’d had.  Before long, I texted the boys and let them know that I was on my way up.

I was really curious about the accumulations up at the Village elevations, so as soon as I parked and got out of the car, I headed to an undisturbed location to check out the depth of the snow.  I was surprised to get a new snow depth of 6 to 7 inches, and I figured there could have been some drifting around the parking lot area as there often is, but the measurement was quite encouraging.

The timing of my arrival was great, and I caught the boys right at the base of the Vista Quad, so we all hopped on together for a run.  It continued to snow steadily, and the conditions were looking really good – folks below us on the trails were making virtually silent turns aside from the usual steep and heavily used spots like the middle of Spillway.  Up at the Vista Summit, I checked the new snow depth in the clearing right below the wind turbine and measured 7 inches.

The snow wasn’t enough for a full resurfacing of all pitches of course, certainly not the center of very steep, high-traffic trails like Spillway, but the periphery of the steep terrain was skiing really well, and mid-level pitches were great.  Based on my snow analyses back at home, I bet the mountain had picked up a half in of liquid equivalent by that point.  I’d say the quality of the skiing was just a touch below the conditions we had back on Sunday with the 6 to 7 inches of new snow that we found then; that round of snow may have had just a bit more liquid equivalent in it.

The boys were mixing things up with a bunch of runs through the terrain park on Valley Road, but fresh tracks were easy to get just about anywhere off Snowflake with the continued snowfall.  While riding the Snowflake Chair, we saw a couple of guys skiing some of the unlit Snowflake trails by headlamp, and those were probably some sweet turns because all those trails were essentially untracked.

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On 3/31/2023 at 11:03 PM, bwt3650 said:

Still holding onto snow, but barely. About 3”. The pack for what will be April 1 is unbelievable. With the torch tmrw and nothing spectacular in the future, I’m guessing tonight will be the high point til next season.

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What was your pack at after the snow last night ..30”?

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I love all the photos in this thread. I post plenty but I think the best observations are through photos.  The NNE crew comes through.

In other news, it's crazy that this past warm front and wind didn't hit the snowpack at all.  Shows just how much water is in this.  It is a legit mountain snowpack at the ski areas.  Everyone has had some big QPF events this second half of winter (last 6 weeks or so).

Snowpack has been sitting 79-83" lately after the 90" peak.  High temp today was in the mid-10s.  Different world above 3,000ft.

Daily Hydrometeorological Data
National Weather Service Burlington VT
549 PM EDT Sun Apr 2 2023

Station            Precip   Temperature   Present         Snow
                   24 Hrs   Max Min Cur   Weather     New Total SWE
...Vermont...
Mount Mansfield                     15                     79
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GYX discussion had 0.3" accretion as the 'floor' for the W.Maine mts.  Forecast has ZR/IP into the foothills, with no accretion noted but '<1/2" IP' included.  Forecast here for Wed high temp is 32.  March had but one day at/below 32, would be very odd to get another in April.

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On 4/3/2023 at 3:09 PM, wxeyeNH said:

Hey guys (and Diane).  I have not really been following the weather too closely but there seems to be the possibility of quite the ice storm in Northern sections.  It is April so even with clouds and rain I would guess ice would not accrate very well during daytime hours.  Thoughts?

How did you pan out? 

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18 minutes ago, gonegalt said:

River let go last 2 days. Down at my crossing to ITS 88. No trail riding for me!apr52.jpg.90194c763a968c1380477e6e81345fc1.jpg

My sign for riders brave enough to cross-apr51.jpg.9d7b784f75371dd54abc1dadc88dd651.jpg

Still over 2' with 4-6" tonight. Began around 1600- nice soft fluff on a packed base apr53.jpg.ef6a2857b9e88b5e0ff32bdfe136690a.jpg

Vim Toot!

Don’t you drive a barge on the river when it melts?

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