I see people from the southern states saying they would like NH but they cant deal with the winters. Sure it snows and sometimes it snows a lot but dealing with the snow is a small price to pay for these postcard picture scenes of this beautiful winter wonderland.

Hmmm, how did that river get it's name? Are there lamprey's in it? (This is a legit question...) Nasty looking creatures from the looks of it...

Edit: Hah! According to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_River) there ARE lamprey's in the river. I'm not getting in that water, sorry! :)

Oddly enough it apparently gets its name from an early settler John Lamprey though.

I saw that. I wonder if John's family were named after the fish.

The river was named after John Lamprey. There are Sea Lamprey that spawn in the river. The lamprey doesn’t feed while it is in the river. In fact spawning lamprey lose their teeth and eventually die after spawning. The juvenile lamprey migrate back to the sea. I have heard numerous people talk about their fear of lampreys.

Seriously. I moved here from Miami and it’s so worth it.

Our winters also just aren’t that bad. We pale in comparison to the northern plains states.

People definitely overstate how miserable winter is, plus, as you say, it’s absolutely beautiful some days! But hey, to each his own, and more for us.

It's getting worse though. I loved winters in NH when that meant snow that stuck around and lots of good skiing/sledding. Now it's mid-30s all season so nothing is frozen and most of the precipitation is rain/sleet.

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The snow on trees and bushes has lasted longer than usual. It's so pretty. I enjoy it if I don't have to drive far.

That snow, combined with tonight's mess is going to create problems with power outages I'm afraid.

Beautiful, looks like your are almost in my backyard. neighbor? https://i.imgur.com/wpm1afM.jpg

Totally possible! This was taken from the bridge on Wiswall.

Notice how warm the ocean is right now compared to a few decades ago? The temp off Hampton Beach is 42 degrees. That's insane. It used to be 33 degrees when I was growing up in the 1970s, right on through the 1990s. Then pond hockey tournaments started getting canceled because the ice wasn't thick enough, the ice races on Milton Three Ponds got canceled year after year and can't happen now because they don't freeze enough to have them, no rime ice at the shores now. In about 20 more years or so, we'll be experiencing Southern winters of 50s-60s through the winter and zero snow at all at this rate.

People who complain about the cold and snow and talk about moving South and I tell them hang in there, it's coming this way. So, enjoy beautiful scenes like this while we still can because they aren't going to be around forever. Global warming is accelerating at a rapid clip.

Anyone that laments the loss of New England winter's didn't live through never ending snow from October to April. A snowblower then was an expensive luxury and the worst part was all passenger vehicles were rear wheel drive. Even with studded snow tires or chains driving sucked. A normal twenty minute commute turned into an hour long white knuckled drive. Yeah, it's nice to wake up to a winter wonderland now and then but also nice that it's gone the next day.

Gorgeous! 😍