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Mount Snow was excellent yesterday! It looked and felt busy but most lifts were ski on. They got about 8” of new snow the previous couple days and it really helped conditions. Natural snow trails and woods skied very well. I managed a nice loop around the hill hitting both on map and off spots from all lifts until I had to jet to go get my youngest at school. Great day overall! I’ve been so busy lately I haven’t really been able to go anywhere else besides what I can access around here but I will say it’s been excellent. Hope we can get another storm or two in February and avoid any big warmups and or rain. .

Swwwwww lovely hiking weather. I'd love to be up there Tahoe for this entire week. Those accumulation look nice and slow. On the Tug they'd get all that snow in about 5 hours and then the sun would be out. Next day.. it's does it again lol.

Surprisingly made it down to 21.0. Just like every rainfall for the last 6 months, the expected amount has trended down all week. Hopefully, I can pull out a half inch of rain. We need it!

A similar experience for me as we must be around the same age, I was in 5th grade. We lived in Fishkill at the time and I wasn't sure it was ever going to reach up there, it finally did in the evening. Woke up to around 18" the next morning and thought it was the greatest thing ever. And I vividly remember getting the combo sun/wind burn while playing outside in the following days. I also remember getting a headache because it was so bright outside.

Outside of the 12k nam the mesos have zero interest in this event. Thats a red flag that leans against a snow event imho. Not sure i trust the globals at this range.

Doesn't look great rest-of-the-month. Hopefully, we can have one more forum-wide storm to track before spring. I'm enjoying the winter break for sure, but not ready to say goodbye entirely.

Because I’m not a vampire

Imagine being in a nice cabin in Tahoe this week. Dailylurker would hike in this Washington's Birthday Snow. High near 33. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible. Monday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 16. Southwest wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches possible. Tuesday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 26. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 9 to 13 inches possible. Tuesday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Cloudy, with a low around 12. Wednesday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 26.

Why?

The northeast and mid Atlantic are nearing some of the lengthiest snow packs in decades with near records in some cases. And most of it stemmed from an event 2-3 weeks ago. Was not aware climatologicaly how much easier it is for our area to retain snow cover versus them. Here, a 2-3 week cover from a 10” event in mid winter is standard. Heck, this pack were melting off is basically from a duster train and lake effect event. I figured it’d go poof. Not so. But another day of 50’s will end it. Bring on a salt washer. Of course we’ll probably follow that with an 8” tree snapper.

Definitely a trend to speed up that southern stream though allowing that northern stream to dig and partially phase.

The storm that will devastate the Sierra with high winds and brobdingnagian amounts of snow Sunday night thru Thursday next week, ORIGINATES FROM ALASKA. It will be a frigid storm laden to the gills with enormous amounts of Pacific moisture. It will smash into all the California mountains and be forced violently upward condensing into ridiculous quantities of torrential snow that will simply pile up, feet and feet maybe meters. High winds will pile up drifts and cornices at ridges that will result in severe avalanche dangers. In short, this is not the weekend to go skiing along the Sierras. Travel will be impossible. This storm is so cold that it will snow on the valley floors. Every mountain in California including the coastal ranges will be utterly demolished with snow. New records will be set. Models are depicting up to 7 inches of pure water. Snow to water ratios will increase to 14 to 1. This is going to be BAD. THIS STORM WILL TAKE NO PRISONERS. This storm is only the first in a classic Pacific Set.

Looks pretty ok for a light 1-3in snowfall for the Lehigh Valley with 2-4in around Bucks/Phillg areas

Not gonna be happy if I end up with clouds out of this Monday

Seemed like one bad run at 00z . With that cold high up there and - NAO. Cold should be the thinking

I'll take the 984mb low over the cape

This was my thinking as well. Bummer .

9z SREFS have a few fun members Well north of 3z

The bigger picture has been how we can’t get much precipitation of any P-type with the expanding drought across the U.S heading into the warm season. We had the one major system in late January with very high snow ratios before the mixing began. Even the clippers in December started out higher ratio before the mixing and dry slot arrived.

It's certainly possible we may not get much of anything out of this one but chances for something is at least better than 24 hours ago.

06z runs did look a bit colder again for late week. It’s like 00z all saw something to go warmer and then ticked it back a bit at 06z. Still need to wait and see on that.

Recent trend is not our friend. Let’s see if 12z can flip it back

Maybe this is our icestorm?

Wet ? Nah it’s been talked about as snowy period on all ensembles etc. A rainy week seems unlikely