The Big Nothing Storm of 2010

[jeffatsquam]

Originally Posted by Lakegeezer

Lots of wind and little snow in Moultonborough, till the early morning hours. Then the snow started piling up. About 5" by 7AM and now snowing hard with a tenth of a mile visibility. The wind overnight broke the 4-5" ice away from the shore so there is a ribbon water to refreeze - while yesterday, great ice skating.

lg
Am I reading into your post that your area of the lake is not safe for riding?
You always seem to have a good perspective on local ice conditions.
Thank you.

[Soapmistress]

I thought it was an OK snow storm, but was sure disappointed that we didn't get our blizzard Only been in one true blizzard, and it was an awesome sight to see. Of course snow storms are only fun if you're prepared

Rick is gonna teach me how to plow, so y'all keep an eye out

[Lakegeezer]

Originally Posted by jeffatsquam

lg
Am I reading into your post that your area of the lake is not safe for riding?
You always seem to have a good perspective on local ice conditions.
Thank you.

Monday was not a good day for being on the ice. Today is a different story. The soft and open spots are frozen again, having been exposed to a 10 degree night. The surface water seeped back into the cracks. However, the wind blew much of the foot of snow we received off the lake. There are large portions of ice showing. Somewhere, south of here, there must be some pretty big drifts. This morning, the sky is clear, but there are still big clouds of snow blowing by. Nobody has snowmobiled by here yet, but they'd probably get away with it.

10:30 update: when testing the ice, my ice poker found open water right by shore. The areas that had pulled away from the shore during the wind drifted over but did not freeze. It just looked that way. Had I stepped first, I would have had wet knees. As always - use caution!

[chipj29]

This snow was very difficult to measure, due to the heavy wind and blowing snow. One part of the yard has 3", while another has 2'. I estimate that I ended up with about 10".

One thing I noticed about this storm is the very fine flakes, not big puffy flakes. My guess is that the wind was blowing the flakes around as they fell from the clouds, and when the flakes smashed into each other, they got beat up. Had we got the nice big fluffy flakes, no doubt we would have gotten well over a foot.

[gtxrider]

If you want snow come to Joizee. 2'+ in some areas cars were stranded on the Turnpyke and Parkway for hours. It's a good thing I like to use the snow blower.

People don't know how to drive.

Babes on Sleds, move the dance further north!

[AC2717]

Well just outside of Boston I received over 2 feet of snow, not to mention some snow drifts up to 7 feet because of the 35 plus mph ouf wind. It was crazy was up for almost 30 hours straight. FUn time, now to send out those bills