February 2025 Disco/Obs Thread

[MRVexpat]

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah we had that in both of those other seasons too.  2016-17 had a similar stretch over 6-8 weeks, including a 26-day stretch with 100” in it at 3,000ft.  2018-19 had a run early season Nov, Dec, into January I believe of just pow.

Its nice to get back to what folks seem to call “an old fashioned” winter compared to past 5 seasons at least.

Crazy to think the last several winters up here have had +8 type departure months.  We knew once it flipped a bit it would feel ridiculously cold and snowy.

Totally. Would be nice to get a monster storm to cap things off! 16-17 had Stella, which at Sugarbush gave us 42" in about 48 hours on the heels of that huge late Feb thaw. 

[SJonesWX]

2 hours ago, jbenedet said:

The pack loss has been substantial in terms of LE. I’m down to about 2” LE vs 4” at the start of the week. The ground also completely thawed in most places with decent sun exposure. Last night was third consecutive with temps >32.

i highly doubt that. I know that you are in the banana belt of SE NH, but I don't see how the ground could be completely thawed after a couple warmish days. I could buy they top 2-3" being thawed, but not completely.

[dendrite]

17 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

i highly doubt that. I know that you are in the banana belt of SE NH, but I don't see how the ground could be completely thawed after a couple warmish days. I could buy they top 2-3" being thawed, but not completely.

Exposed areas are frozen, but under the deep pack it’s not that bad. My 4” and 8” depths are 32° each. 

[tamarack]

22 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Exposed areas are frozen, but under the deep pack it’s not that bad. My 4” and 8” depths are 32° each. 

Having had at least 6" of pack since Thanksgiving night, I'm confident that the ground under the current 19" is unfrozen.  Under our driveway the frost is probably 3-4 feet deep.

3.5" from 0.34" LE, with a trace of FZDZ on top.  Probably 5"+ in the pack now, about the median for 2/28 (though likely below average).

[40/70 Benchmark]

The February thread has morphed into the NNE CJ this week.  All of the mountain folk sittin' in a big circle in a remote cabin somewhere yankn' away to see who can shoot farthest-

[ineedsnow]

Wind is cranking with light snow / graupel

[Ginx snewx]

14 hours ago, powderfreak said:

269”… we’ll see if it makes a run at 2016-17’s 375” at that plot, or can get towards the more recent bigger year of 2018-19 max depth over 120”.

It’s not second place for late Feb.

I’m dammed if I do, dammed if don’t lol… rubbing it in or downplaying it depending on your viewpoint.  Just let the stats fall where they are… it’s a solidly above normal snow winter, but not the best in even the last 8 years.  A good winter.

 

It was in 2nd when I wrote this. Now tied for 4th

so sensy

[dryslot]

Lava and I are out riding in Eustis/Stratton stopped in at the Backstrap for lunch.

[powderfreak]

24 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

It was in 2nd when I wrote this. Now tied for 4th

so sensy

lol not sensy… just fact based, sorry if it came off as sensy.  It’s never been 2nd yet.  

[CoastalWx]

7 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Lava and I are out riding in Eustis/Stratton stopped in at the Backstrap for lunch.

Strap it on in back of the Backstrap.

[dryslot]

15 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Strap it on in back of the Backstrap.

Yeah, Weymouth style.

[SJonesWX]

37 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Strap it on in back of the Backstrap.

I think he was at the Brokeback Strap

[Damage In Tolland]

Is anyone wearing a jockstrap by mistake instead of a blackstrap ?