December 2007 set a Nashua record for snowfall with 39.6 inches of snow falling during the month. This tops the previous record of 36.3 inches which was set in 1970.
The last winter storm of 2007 – a system that dumped six inches of snow in Nashua between Sunday night and Monday morning – made local weather history, according to meteorologist Doug Webster.
That storm pushed the total December 2007 snowfall to 39.6 inches, a preliminary figure that bests the December 1970 record of 36.3 inches, said Webster, who writes a weather column for The Telegraph.
While the City of Nashua feels the pinch of snow removal budgets going bust, farther north ski resorts had one of the best Christmas-New Year holidays ever.
Cannon Mountain has had one of its best Decembers on record, receiving 106 inches of snow, breaking the 2003 record of 96 inches.
Yesterday, hundreds of skiers greeted New Year's morning on the slopes, enjoying packed powder runs before the storm moved in just before noon.
On Sunday, parking at the mountain was at a premium for several hours, with visitors finally being directed to the Echo Lake parking lot.
The early season snowfall and colder temperatures have generated a significant increase in the number of season passes being sold over the previous season, according to general manager John DeVivo.
"We have certainly had some very happy skiers/riders rediscovering Cannon this year," he said.
In Jackson, cross country skiers were enjoying the deep snow, and all 144 kilometers of trails at the Jackson Ski Touring Foundation are now open.
"This is the best start-up and holiday period we've had as far back as I can recall," general manager Thom Perkins said. He said many were out on new equipment taking first-time lessons.
I wonder if more folks will begin notice the utter absurdity of Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. Note to Democrats campaigning for president: Your disappearing middle class has been found -- they went skiing. And if you don't find them on the slopes they probably went out to dinner.
Something got too warm elsewhere and caused all this snow. Yeah... that's it.
Posted by: Teresa | January 02, 2008 at 10:54 AM
No doubt.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | January 02, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Concord also set records, and I am sure Goffstown's fall was well above anything I'd seen in 30 years.
Funny. I was sort of looking forward to global warming. It's less trouble than moving, y'know? Much better to have the warm weather come here, rather than have to go someplace with a bunch of furriners to find it.
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot | January 03, 2008 at 09:48 AM
The melting of the arctic ice cap reduces the planetary reflectance of sunlight off earth. This amplifies global warming, but it also increases water vapor in cold northern latitudes. Hence, very possibly, more snow in North America. Global warming does not mean all locations at all times, equally.
Posted by: harrold rufus wertmuller | January 23, 2008 at 09:31 PM
You could also make the opposite argument, that the increased water vapor would very possibly increase cloud cover which would have a cooling effect.
Isn't it fun to speculate on the possible result from a possible increase or a possible decrease in a variable that might possibly affect temperature in one way or another. It's such a departure from our certainty of disaster at the prospect of an atmospheric component increasing from .0275% of the whole to .0340%. That is if we really can rely on ice core samples and tree rings as an accurate gauge of CO2 levels in the atmospher thousands of years ago.
Posted by: Tom Bowler | January 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM