Trfour, I'm so glad to know that Don Kent is still around, and still doing what he always loved. As a little kid I watched Don Kent on Ch. 4 Boston draw weather systems on a chalkboard map -- and the fact that I'm only 30 (yet I remember TV weather done on a chalkboard) shows how far weather forecasting and presentation has come in a short time. As a teenage weather nut I got to know Barry Burbank, who told me Don Kent had been his own childhood inspiration while growing up in southern Maine. Barry went to college in Massachusetts and has been following Don's footsteps in the Boston TV market ever since. Needless to say, Don Kent has inspired several generations of us weather geeks and New Englanders (for the record, I think every "true" New Englander is at least somewhat of a weather geek by nature.)
DRH, great photo! The light, color, and contrast jump right out at me.
SteveA, thank you so much as always for keeping me entertained with "Yuki vs. the snowstorm."
The first photo a couple weeks ago should be a greeting card, and this most recent one pretty much puts the Valentine's Blizzard into perspective! Given the previously discussed Yuki scale it sounds like you had a Y2-level snow event there in Gilford Village! Purrhaps Yuki will someday get to meet Nin, the Mount Washington Observatory's cat.
For anyone wondering what the NH snow tallies were, here's the report from the National Weather Service. Center Harbor was my report.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
...BELKNAP COUNTY...
CENTER HARBOR 14.4 829 AM 2/15
GILFORD 10.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
TILTON 7.8 820 AM 2/15
...CARROLL COUNTY...
NORTH CONWAY 17.0 728 AM 2/15
SOUTH CHATHAM 15.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
MADISON 14.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
CONWAY 13.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
WOLFEBORO 10.5 655 AM 2/15
...COOS COUNTY...
GORHAM COMMON 28.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
DIXVILLE NOTCH 24.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
PINKHAM NOTCH SCENIC 23.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
COLEBROOK 22.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
COLUMBIA 22.0 712 AM 2/15
TWIN MOUNTAIN 22.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
ERROL 20.0 750 AM 2/15
TWIN MOUNTAIN 19.5 750 AM 2/15
LANCASTER 19.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
WHITEFIELD 18.0 1145 PM 2/15
...GRAFTON COUNTY...
LISBON 21.0 750 AM 2/15
LOST RIVER 20.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
FRANCONIA NOTCH 19.5 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
WOODSTOCK 17.0 900 AM 2/15
WEST CAMPTON 11.0 730 AM 2/15
PLYMOUTH 10.0 500 AM 2/15 NH DOT
...MERRIMACK COUNTY...
NEW LONDON 17.0 607 AM 2/15
HENNIKER 12.0 740 AM 2/15
CONCORD 8.3 700 AM 2/15
...ROCKINGHAM COUNTY...
EPPING 13.0 1130 AM 2/15
NOTTINGHAM 12.5 634 AM 2/15
...STRAFFORD COUNTY...
STRAFFOD 7.5 820 AM 2/15
SOMERSWORTH 7.2 418 AM 2/15
...SULLIVAN COUNTY...
NEWPORT 17.0 930 PM 2/15
SUNAPEE 16.0 338 AM 2/15
WASHINGTON 16.0 708 AM 2/15
And a snowfall map with colors we haven't seen on a snowfall map in a while... (bear in mind this is snow DEPTH, not just the most recent storm.)