It's Baaaack... (winter)

[ChrisB]

Those of you who love winter will be greatly uplifted by this comment from Monday's Weather Observer atop Mt Wash.

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[mtnmama]

You gotta just love it!!!!

 

[Waumbek]

The cloud cover was down to about 1300-1500' in the Franconia mountains today but I've heard that the snow cover starts at around 3000'.

 

[sardog1]

Words fail me. Probably a good thing that I wasn't offered some Faustian bargain for the chance to have watched all that at the Obs ...

Okay, words are working again: YEE HAW!!!!

 

[patrickbrusil]

That is unreal!!

I can not wait for some winter adventures. This seems early for 34 inches fo snow - anyone know if that is a large amount of snow in october?

 

[Tom Rankin]

That is unreal!!

I can not wait for some winter adventures. This seems early for 34 inches fo snow - anyone know if that is a large amount of snow in october?

WOW!!! And it's not a typo, he repeated it, and described the way it formed.

 

[Haystacker]

Boston Globe Article....

http://www.boston.com/news/local/ne...unt_washington_beats_24_hour_snowfall_record/

 

[blueZ]

sunday, 10-16, caps ridge trail.

 

[Waumbek]

This seems early for 34 inches fo snow - anyone know if that is a large amount of snow in october?

Yup, it's a record-breaking amount, according to the AP report:

[start quote]Mount Washington beats two snow records
October 18, 2005

MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. --While most of New Hampshire continues to enjoy a warm fall, it's like the dead of winter on Mount Washington.

A weekend snowstorm on the highest peak in the Northeast set two records for October.

The 6,288-foot summit got 34 inches of snow between Saturday and Monday, beating the record for the most snowfall from a single storm in October. It also beat the record for the most snow in 24 hours in October, with 25.5 inches falling between noon Sunday and noon Monday.

"Basically, we've had white-out conditions for the last three days," weather observer David Balfrey said Tuesday morning.

He said it looks like January or February, with 12-foot drifts and tons of ice that has to be chipped off their instruments. That means climbing weather towers and smashing the ice with crowbars, hammers, "anything heavy and blunt," Balfrey said. "It's not the most scientific end of our job."

Balfrey said he and his fellow observers are confident they will beat the record for October snowfall. They are only 5 1/2 inches short of the record of 39.8 inches set in 1969 and more snow was on the way.

"We are pretty sure we'll get another four or five inches before the end of month," he said. And he is keeping his fingers crossed for a lot more.

"We definitely enjoy this kind of weather," he said. "That's what we sign up for." [end quote]

There's a nice story here about cdx during the storm. As Mr Lareau notes, it means absolutely nothing (predictive) about the rest of the winter.

 

[hikerfast]

hmm...4000 footers after work are going to be more interesting. curious to see if it will melt pretty quickly though.

 

[forestgnome]

I saw it!!! The high peaks were white. It looked like the snow went all the way to bottom of Huntington Ravine, as seen from Intervale.

 

[Artex]

Sweeeeeeeet!!!

Time to dust off the crampons and snowshoes for sure! Awwwwwwooooooooo!!!!