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Stay safe out there! (In there too)

Weird to have this coming in and the air is dead calm.

Yeah that was a nighttime storm of yore. We’ve missed these.

Hopefully we can do this again this evening and again on Thursday. Summah of yore! T-storms on a regular basis.

This line coming up from Fall River is putting on a hell of a light show. Usually passed out by now, but sitting on the back porch watching this come in is awesome.

Looks like round 2 is forming to my sw...

Crazy light show here still as it pushes NE

With the conclusion of the lift-served ski season around here, I put together the north to south list of available 2024-2025 snow totals for the Vermont ski areas: Jay Peak: 475” Burke: 176” Smuggler’s Notch: 368” Stowe: 362” Bolton Valley: 375” Mad River Glen: 248” Sugarbush: 281” Pico: 233” Killington: 252” Okemo: 138” Bromley: 168” Magic Mountain: 127” Stratton: 166” Mount Snow: 145” The resorts along the spine of the Northern Greens all reported 350”+ of snowfall on the season, with Jay Peak approaching 500”, so it was certainly a solid performance up here. It looks like snowfall totals were in the 200”-300” range for the Central Greens, which is probably in the decent/average range, and then season totals were in the ~150” range for the Southern Greens. It’s a bit tougher to find season totals for ski areas in other parts of the Northeast, but I did find that Whiteface reported 191” on the season, Cannon reported 174”, and Sugarloaf reported 167”. Many resorts either don’t post their season snowfall total or don’t have it available once they switch the website to summer mode, but everything else I found in a quick search had totals <150”: Wildcat 113”, Attitash 84”, Mount Sunapee 68”, Crotched Mountain 59”. There may be some areas out in the western New York lake-effect zones that had some decent season snowfall totals, but nothing popped up in a quick online search Along with all his data on resorts in the western U.S., Tony Crocker’s website has a specific page for scoring the quality of the ski season in the northern half of Vermont. I put together the powder-adjusted scores for the A-tier ski seasons over the past couple of decades to put in perspective where this past season sits. In the list below, the first number is the overall powder-adjusted season score, and the number in parentheses is the number of A-tier weekends. This past season was around the middle of that pack with respect to its score, and it’s not too surprising that those other three snowfall seasons for which I’d been plotting our site’s snowfall data for comparison (plot posted below) are all in the list as well. All three of those seasons beat this past season in terms of overall ski season score though, with 2007-2008 being the standout. In terms of A-tier weekends, this past season did seem to punch a bit above its weight with 9 of them, and that’s clearly a nod to that stretch of winter weather consistency from the beginning of January right through the beginning of March. In Tony’s full table, you can clearly see all 9 of those A-tier weekends solidly stacked together as a solid block during that period. 2000-2001: 70 (13) 2007-2008: 62 (9) 2014-2015: 56 (11) 2010-2011: 56 (10) 2002-2003: 54 (7) 2018-2019: 54 (8) 2024-2025: 49 (9) 2012-2013: 47 (7) 2013-2014: 47 (7) 2017-2018: 46 (7) 2016-2017: 46 (7) Looking at Tony’s full table of Vermont snow conditions, it was interesting to note that this past season was the first A-level ski season in quite a while – that stretch of five seasons prior to this one is actually the longest period in his records without an A-level result. Checking the snowfall data for my site, it’s not that snowfall was really all that low during those seasons (the mean snowfall for that stretch was within 5% of average), but presumably the winter weather consistency just wasn’t there for A-level status to be obtained. Using the snowfall data for our site as a reference point, A-level ski seasons can certainly be achieved even with snowfall dipping as low as ~10% below average, as revealed by the 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015 seasons. So, consistency in wintry temperatures can apparently go quite a long way. If you can combine both decent snowfall and solid temperature consistency, that’s when you get into some of those really high scoring seasons.

Not like the other day . That was direct hit. But there were maybe 5 very close. Those ones that light up everything instant crash . Whole house was up. College girls frightened , dogs freaking, dad on porch not caring

Most t-storm activity in a while... maybe a decade or two. The storms on 7/3 was strongest stuff since I was a kid...

Hell of a week there

Getting smoked here. Decided to fire up RadarScope on the TV lol…

Close strikes?

Recorded .78” in 20 minutes

Big boy in me fanny after this one

But Kevin, we need to sit you down and make sure every storm is not always the best storm.

Yep. Big boys around.

That's our hope as you know ,with the rest of the PAC in a -PDO Regime. Hopefully those SST'S go well above Normal there.

I think it’s done decent overall. I look at trends not exact placement.

This is huge reason why dews are what we love . De dew dew dew .. da da .. da da

It was developing for awhile. Now a nice line

It finally got one . That thing blew up right over us here . The one last week did same thing with the lightning . Shorts pulled back up now

Crazy light show here

Hrrr ftw

About the same here. Didn’t even make it through the trees. Grass is browning. The south shore summer flash drought is a real thing. People who do not live here just do not get it. It’s a micro climate seasonal desert.