Wily Weather Forecaster Predicts Northern N.E. Snow Here to Stay

Raging tempests brought shipwrecks, floods and ice-bound roads to a shivering Europe last week. Rough seas isolated the romantic isle of Capri. Floods trapped peasants in the valley of the Po, and avalanches topped down the Alps.

And in Boston, a wily weather forecaster at Logan Airport blew his nose last night and said that the skiing snows of northern New England were here to stay.

Stowe now has its slopes open for skiing, along with the rest of Vermont and New Hampshire. Cranmore (N.H.) reports 6 to 10 inches of base, with 2 inches of new powder. Skiing on the upper trails is good, lower fair to good.

Cannon sports 16 to 20 inches with two inches surface powder. Skiing is excellent on both upper and lower. Laconia has 7 to 10 inches with 8 new inches of powder. Skiing is fair to good.

Mad River Glen is buried with 16 to 30 inches of snow. Skiing good. The present weather forecast is for snow flurries throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont with continued cold. By the weekend, our airfield prognosticator reveals, there should be more snow, but didn't say how much. Concord recorded a low of 12 degrees yesterday, and the rest of the state was almost that cold. General forecast for the rest of December: continued cold and more snow.