The "superstorm" currently bringing blizzard conditions and major disruption to the Eastern United States is being welcomed as good news for the region's ski areas which, local media reports, have been so far enduring a 'lacklustre season.'
Accumulations of nearly 90cm (three feet) have been reported on ski slopes, the biggest so far in Massachusetts where Wachusett Mountain Ski Area in Princeton reported 80cm/ 32inches.
The snow has been falling right across the region however and although falls at resorts further north have been small, they've still been significant. Killington in Vermont, for example, the region's largest ski area, reported 30cm/a foot in the past 24 hours.
The new snow has been particularly good news for people living near Big Squaw Mountain Ski Resort in Maine which re-opened at the weekend three years after it last operated.
The ski centre ceased trading in 2009 due to operating costs outstripping income but the owner leased the centre to a non-profit community group for a dollar and it's that group which has re-opened the hill today, Sunday, 10 February, 2013.