The long awaited cold temperatures and snowfall have arrived in New England and much of the rest of North-eastern North America.
The region has been suffering from warm and wet, or dry, weather which has left ski slopes brown and made snowmaking challenging.
But snowfall on Friday brought up to 14 inches (35cm) of snow to ski slopes in New York State and Vermont and there's more forecast. At times and in some locations snow was reported to be accumulating at up to two inches (5cm) per hour and blizzard conditions were reported at times as strong winds blew in at the same time.
The snow is expected to continue through to Monday with temperatures in the range of 5 to 15 degrees below freezing. Some areas may end up with totals of several feet (60cm) of snowfall, although for most it will be a third to half of that.
The weather is then expected to stay very cold through Christmas weekend.
It's cold further north in Eastern Canada too, where the area has been suffering from the same lack of snow.
It's an improving picture here as well although less snow is falling.
Up to now ski areas in the Eastern US have been carefully staging ski slope photography to show happy skiers
(Killington pictured below, Sunday River top, on Friday)
