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Light snow-slush pavement, dusting colder surfaces

It's been all snow in southern Manhattan from the start.

Car toppers in Howell

As of yesterday morning, Bolton Valley was reporting 14 inches of new snow from our latest clipper system, and 2 feet total for the week up to that point, so another visit to the mountain seemed in order. Being an early season Friday, I expected the usual spattering of early season visitors at the resort, but I was quite surprised when I arrived at the Village to find a multitude of cars – I wound up parking down in the 4th tier of the main parking lots. As I made my way toward the base of Wilderness to start my ski tour, I realized why all the visitors were at the mountain – the Wilderness Chair was running! I hadn’t checked the snow report that morning, but apparently along with the Vista Quad terrain the resort was running the Wilderness terrain on 100% natural snow. That’s certainly a sign of how thing early season has gone thus far – to have the entirety of Wilderness open for lift-served skiing before even hitting the middle of December is definitely ahead of the usual seasonal progression. I quickly shifted gears and decided to tour on the Backcountry Network. Based on my visits to the mountain so far this season, it was obvious that the backcountry had been skiable for quite some time, but this was my first chance to really see how the terrain was doing with the current snowpack. I wasn’t sure how far I was going to go, but I started up the Bryant Trail, and before I knew it I was at the Bryant Cabin. I made a descent in some of the untracked terrain between JJ’s and Big Blue, then switched over to Coyote and finished with some of the lower glades. Despite all the visitors to the resort, it was clear that the new lift-served offerings were the big draw – I saw very few people while I was out on the Backcountry Network, and untracked snow was a very plentiful commodity. Although not as intense as what I experienced on Friday, light to moderate snow was falling during my tour, so the snowpack just continues to get topped off with fresh coatings. In term of describing the snow and ski conditions, you can pretty quickly run out of superlatives, but the numbers don’t lie. I toured in the 2,000’ – 2,700’ elevation range, and the untouched areas offer powder depths of 2 to 2½ feet atop the most recent subsurface layer. Based on the Mt. Mansfield Stake, the snowpack in the higher elevations of the Northern Greens has now topped 5 feet, so even for some of the steepest terrain, coverage is getting quite good. You can tell that the snowpack is still settling, so coverage isn’t quite the same as a snowpack of that depth that’s had a couple of months to settle and consolidate, but it’s pretty darned good for the first half of December. On my way back to my car at the end of my tour, I was met by a Bolton Valley employee who was checking passes, and he was able to get me my backcountry tag for the season right there by electronically entering my pass information. The tags are yellow this year, and I’m not sure if it was just coincidence that I had my pass checked on my very first backcountry day, but it made me wonder if they are going to increase the vigilance on monitoring tickets on the Nordic & Backcountry Network this year. In any event, those who are heading out right now are definitely getting their money’s worth in terms of snowpack depths and snow quality.

Moderate snow here and 35F DP 27. About a half an inch on everything, driveway included. Gettin white out there! Beautiful! Came up from the kettle fire, twas very enjoyable.

Yikes, that 2.5 is right over me on the southern Peninsula

Moderate/Heavy band setting up over me. Sticking to all surfaces.

fyi, it's been all snow since onset here in Akron. only started snowing w/ purpos about 10pm, but now approaching an 1" and hoping hi res mods verify. Headed to bed, but I'll be up frequently....much like any other night except tonight i have something to enjoy while not sleeping. gnight all

Been lightly snowing for hours here can’t get under any heavy echos. Might be at like 1” maybe. 32.

Light snow, covering everything. 0.5".

Clarksburg, MD at 11:30 PM SN+ 30/30 1.3"

Moderate snow with about a quarter inch on grass and starting to stick on less salty parts of the streets, 34 degrees (a little NE of Germantown)

Moderate snow 1" 31F

37.7 and cl.

Same here in Harford County. Down to 33.2° though, so colder than forecast.

All coated in Westchester. Very fine snow. I was worried about the city being rain to start.

Still raining in Baltimore. Hope it changes soon. Going to bed and crossing my fingers for a nice surprise in the morning.

Towson checking in. Light snow and no rain and it's been going for over an hour now so a light coating on everything. For reference I'm about a half-mile south of the Towson University Mesonet site.

Puking snow in Pt Pleasant. 34F.

Or snow rain mix

37 up here - must be a little cooler closer to the park.

Very small flakes and 34 degrees. Everything wet

Same here. Nice baking powder before the show.

28 w/ lgt snow 1.1” otg

34.5 and raining