Large Snow Storm hitting northern New England 1/28/2009

[roadtripper]

Cheers to awesome skiing & snowshoeing conditions in the days ahead!

 

[Waumbek]

It's snowing and blowing so hard that I wouldn't hazard a guess about amounts. There was a brief period of freezing rain, followed by power flickering, which seems to have stopped now.....

 

[rocket21]

Well, it's hard to tell what we picked up here at the foot of the Sandwich Range, but I'd venture 18-20"...the winds came in last night and blew things around decently.

 

[Mattl]

Not quite as much snow as was forecast, the snow was very icy and dense. Here in Lebanon, we got 13 inches which blew around. Highest amount I saw was Alexandria, NH at 17, and Sunapee at 16.5.

-Mattl

 

[rocket21]

After doing a bunch of shoveling, I'd say the the depths ranged from 0" (wind tunnel of sorts) to 3'...on average 1.5-2 feet. The bottom half of the snow was a lighter powder, while the top portion was denser, a la windblown. No noticable sign of any non-snow (sleet/freezing rain/ice).

 

[Cath]

Snow

Gunstock 19"
Waterville Valley 14"
Loon 21" (gotta check that again.......)
Cannon 11"
Attitash 15"
Cranmore 11"
Wildcat 12"
www.skinh.com/Snow_Reports.cfm

Saddleback 16"
Sugarloaf 14"

Hermit Lake 14"
Mt Washington summit 12.2"
www.tuckerman.org/avalanche/indes.html

 

[rocket21]

Gunstock 19"
Waterville Valley 14"
Loon 21" (gotta check that again.......)
Cannon 11"
Attitash 15"
Cranmore 11"
Wildcat 12"
www.skinh.com/Snow_Reports.cfm

Saddleback 16"
Sugarloaf 14"

Hermit Lake 14"
Mt Washington summit 12.2"
www.tuckerman.org/avalanche/indes.html

Great post! If the snow layers were at the base of the Sandwich Range are any indication, your early avalanche posts are particularly relevant.

 

[Amicus]

Gunstock 19"
Waterville Valley 14"
Loon 21" (gotta check that again.......)
Cannon 11"
Attitash 15"
Cranmore 11"
Wildcat 12"

Saddleback 16"
Sugarloaf 14"

I wondered about that 21" at Loon myself. You omitted, perhaps inadvertently:

King Pine 15" (near snowshoeing gems Green, Foss and Prospect Mtns. and Toll Hill)

Shawnee Peak 14-16" (Pleasant Mtn. in Brownfield, ME - a snowshoe/views mecca)

 

[Quietman]

Attitash is now claiming 22"(had to keep up with Loon!).

I was able to sneak out to Sunapee on Monday, but really wish that I could be on the slopes today. Instead I'll be shoveling my roof for my lunch break.

 

[weatherman]

Dang! Wish I could get up North this weekend. We had 5 inches of about 10,000% water content snow/ice. I know, because each shovelful weighed a ton.

Enjoy it this weekend. Early indications are that we could get a pretty big rainstorm next Mon night/Tuesday that could ruin the fun.

Weatherman

 

[Quietman]

Early indications are that we could get a pretty big rainstorm next Mon night/Tuesday that could ruin the fun.

Weatherman

The models seem to be trending colder, with the storm potentially comming up the coast, so I am thinking big snows.

Someone will have to start a new thread!

 

[roadtripper]

This ol' map is looking just gorgeous these days:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/nerfc/graphics/snowmaps/html/snow_depth.html

 

[weatherman]

The models seem to be trending colder, with the storm potentially comming up the coast, so I am thinking big snows.

I REALLLLLLLLY hope you're right, but there are a few meteorologists with IQs of about 300 on another board I lurk on who say no chance. I don't have the background to say with any authority.

Someone will have to start a new thread!

Well, that's for sure, no matter what!

 

[Mattl]

As of right now, the storm Tuesday is going to be a huge mess of snow, sleet, freezing rain, then plain rain, all the way to the Canadian Border. It's a large storm, depening to 968 Mill or so and lasting about 2 days. It needs to be watched, but at this point, have very low hopes for much White.

-Matt

 

[Waumbek]

Franconia @ 1200' got about 12" although it's very difficult to measure because it blew and drifted so. I drove the length of I-93 today and it looked like there was more in Campton than further north but very hard to tell.

For us up north, at least, this is the first January I can remember in a long time with no thaw.

 

[Mattl]

The models are trending east for Tuesday, hmm, blizzard?

-Mattl

 

[weatherman]

Huh. Yeah. Still loads of variability in the models, but a big flood is looking less likely (whew!) Now I just need the models to predict that somehow I will get 3 days off from work, and family asking me to take an impromptu trip to the Whites.

...yeah, I know, somebody's gonna say that you're asking for trouble if you start hanging around with models...