It's been a wild weekend in the western Whites and No. NH generally with heavy rain, high water, and high winds that knocked down many trees and utility poles. Some roads were minefields of "strainer" trees hanging over both lanes and downed wires. Many local communities--Bethlehem, Franconia, Sugar Hill, Dalton, Lancaster, Whitefield, all the way up to Pittsburgh--were without power from Saturday morning until Sunday evening (or later). Now it seems to be winding down with heavy snow so whatever the mountains lost over the weekend will probably re-accumulate tonight. There will be lots of new blowdowns.
October snowfall for Mt Washington now exceeds 39", making it the second snowiest on record. That means nothing about the coming winter, of course, but still impressive.
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