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Looks great guys. Solid event up there. I hated this event..ha. 60 mph gusts, lost a good chunk of shingles, another screwgie in SVT. Every event seems to screw us down here somehow this year. Had some OK snow once winds went calm this afternoon..total was about 5" between wind blown dense stuff and post wind stuff.. Snow growth was really never good. I think Mitch only had little over 6" and so did the local cocorahs guy at 1800' past Bromley near me as of 430pm, stuck between the forcing in Mass and the mid levels up north I guess?

Damn...kudos ALY--I sent them a quick note about the wind and they had this out like 3 minutes later: SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ISSUED: 9:35 AM FEB. 25, 2022 – NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ...Period of Strong Gusty Winds through 11 AM... A brief period of strong east to southeast winds, 15 to 25 mph, with gusts of 40 to 50 mph, will be possible through 11 AM across portions of the central and northern Taconics, southern Greens, Berkshires, and western Mohawk Valley. These strong winds, combined with the snow on the ground, will produce areas of blowing and drifting snow as well. Motorists in these areas should be prepared to encounter areas of reduced visibilities due to the strong winds and areas of blowing and drifting snow.

This is probably extremely localized, like tied into the immediate western slopes, I bet a mile or so east into the actual town of Manchester is not nearly as windy. Even the weeniest Meso wind model, which from my experience is the WRF ARW2, was showing some gusts along the Spine, but not upper 50s.

Jesus--- 58mph gust--highest I have recorded. WTF, need high wind warning, not winter storm.

Total downslope disaster here...sun is literally almost peaking through--gusting to 40mph. Barely snowing ATTM. Did snow pretty well for 3 hours of so, but right now it's more beech tree leaves blowing around..lol.

1" lost--nobody can CAD like Tamarack.

Pretty uniform 5-6" left in my yard, but that is more anomalous compared to the rest of town and the valley down through Bennington. Lots of wiped out areas with patches left.

Snowpack took a real beating today here too. Wall to wall sun and low 50s, felt great though. Prob be wiped clean here as well

Nice shots, definitely didn't see VIS that low here, meat of line went south near far NW MA. Did pick up close to 3", though more due to duration. Think Mitch over to Mt Snow had 5-6"

I think Will was mentioning something similar several days ago in a post. I think basically along the same lines of having a strong cutter in FEB that brings 60F up to NNH and can wipe out decent snowpack is highly unusual for the time of year. I haven't been on here as much so cant remember exactly what he said as I was just skimming the thread, but think that was the gist of it.

Snowpack wasn't massive to start with here after missing the last few events, but its only down from 11.5" to 8". Almost no wind for most of the event and temps were 39-42F for most of the rain portion on my Davis. It did pop up to low 50s over night and get breezy looks like for a few hours before FROPA. 20sF now and some light snow falling.

That is probably pretty close to correct honestly. There were a couple 6-8" events i think. No biggies, but then add in these little nickel and dime uplsope/streamers/etc events that can add up over time as dendrite mentioned. Little stuff that you don't even realize is happening probably where you are. For example I had 3 separate days just this past week of little less than 1" each time. These little dinkers spread out won't make for impressive snowcover, especially with with a few rainers mixed in, but the actual totals will add up. 37" is still pretty low for N Berks mid FEB with not much on horizon either.

Unbelievable scene when the sun fully come out today around town--every tree glistening caked in ice, looked really cool. Most birches touching the ground now, lots more tree damage now the second day than I noticed yesterday. Interestingly, the ZR line stopped literally about 3/4 mile north of me, just sleet and snow north with trees totally bare.

Fluffy clippers seem to be from a bygone era...

Here to report the kitchen sink. Whatever the snowpack depth is right now is totally locked in and pure glacier. Walk right on top of it.

Strangely, no. Not even a flicker. Might have not accreted totally uniform on everything because of how hard it was raining and maybe the slightest little bit of IP mixed in at times? Not sure why really, but glad to have it.

Had 2-3 hours last night of pouring ZR, then about 8 hours of scalping and then the last 3 hours or so of mostly snow with some IP mixed at times. About .4-.5" glaze and 2-2.5" sleet and we'll see how much snow..prob not much..

Yea, that's my hope..never thought I would praying for sleet.

Turning into a full blown ice storm here..what a disaster. Pouring ZR and 26F, water just pouring off the roof. Maybe a tiny bit of IP in there, but mostly ZR. Lots of sagging going on.

No chance its snowing there

I'm trying to not look at CC.......its too painful Went from mod SN to -ZR.

Yea, he's even more screwed than me being 25 miles south.

Feel like this literally happens with every event with some warm nose involved, every model run ticks warmer and warmer and warmer, and then still ends up even warmer than guidance at go time and during the event Some of these mesos have like 2-3" here of precip with alot of sleet. I officially hate this event..lol

There is a definitely a threshold where the lines get blurred on pack depth and just the optics of it. Like when you get to 24-26" I feel like it doesn't look "that" different from 3ft just from an overall perspective kind of like you were mentioning. Like even last year after the grinch wiped out 30", got back to 28-29" in FEB I think with little freshers all the time and felt like more OTG.

The Woodford measurements are not totally accurate IMO. Little bit inflated I've noticed at times, even with it being a total weenie spot and probably the best in SVT. We talked about this I think in the ski thread last year or maybe the NNE thread, the spotter is a woman around 90 yrs old or older and who took over from her husband who passed away some time ago. Amazing dedication to be doing that at that age, but seem to be a few discrepancies that I have noticed and even Mitch too I think.