1st avi Advidsory...

[Affix Snow]

http://tuckerman.org/avalanche/index.html

Im curious what has happened since saturday....?

Summit is say 41.5" this month....

[M@]

It was last year that we got a "HIGH" avalanch danger in october right? I printed it out but have since moved offices and dunno what the date was.

M@

[pulverschwein]

Strange - I've been checking daily and right up til this a.m., I saw the May 28 advisory. Guess this (kind of) explains:
We are having problems with our website so please bear with us as we will do our best to get out the Advisories until the issues have been resolved. This advisory is posted as 6:55 Saturday morning.

I like the BC conditions report - when that one goes up, you know it's winter throughout the whites and not just on the top of the rockpile.

[skituxnoob]

Saturday morning saw snow until 12 pm or so at Hojo's. Shorty turned to ice and rain within about an hour. Rained at that point until 9 pm or so. Sunday saw a light flurry and it didnt stick to the ice

[surf88]

Mount Washington posts 2nd-deepest October snowfall
By RILEY YATES
Union Leader Staff
17 hours, 11 minutes ago


Where this weekend's storm was probably wet in your neck of the woods, on Mount Washington it was white.

The Mount Washington Observatory tabbed the second-snowiest October on record yesterday, with nearly 40 inches of snowfall, including more than 10 over this weekend.

That's compared with the shattering record of 78.9 inches, which was set last year when lower parts of the state were overwhelmed with flooding.

This weekend, temperatures dropped to the lower teens at times and winds peaked at 144 mph.

"It been quite a harrowing tale," said Jim Salge, an observer atop the 6,288-foot mountain. "I've been here four years, and this is among the strongest days we've had."

Visibility over the White Mountains was squelched by fog and snow that swirled with the gusts. Sight distance went from "nothing to just above something," Salge said.

So far, much of New Hampshire has yet to see snow. Up in the North Country, some has fallen, but not at levels that are abnormal, said James Brown, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.

But lower elevations have seen a lot of precipitation, which translates to the white stuff at higher levels, Brown said.

He noted that parts of Maine to the east of Mount Washington received an unusually high 3 inches of rain this weekend.

"In most places, it's been a wetter October than normal," Brown said. "This was a very wet storm, and it's cold enough on top of the mountain to get snow."

Both observer and meteorologist attributed the weather to freak conditions in the past two years.

The previous snowfall record for October on Mount Washington was set in 1969, with 34.4 inches, Salge said.

"We just happened to get a storm at the right time," Brown said.

[M@]

James Brown, a meteorologist

Is it gonna snow!
(YEAH!)
It is gonna be wet!
(YEAH!)
Are we gonna see some wa-TAHHH!
(YEAH!)
Will it make me sweat!
(YEAH!)
Well... well.. well...

(Saxa-ma-phone solo...)

M@

[brakeformoose]

With a beautiful clear blue sky today I walked outside and saw Mt. Washington way off in the distance. Seeing the snow capped mountain really got me excited for the season.