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Hey, some snow in March.... and now sun's back out. Ha. March snoozer down this way.

Follow up at 7am..looks like around 10" in this spot, maybe little less. Lots of bare yards around town and others with patches. I'm all for some more snow events, but no use for a 10" glacier.

Yea, totally different animal. Had 1"+ of rain and dews near 50 or higher with howling winds in the grinch-- and much less liquid equivalent in the snowpack than now.

Certainly wasn't any snow to melt in Bennington, mostly gone for a little while now. Dipped back down to 56/57 here. Right, those dense evergreens also help with those below 80F summer time highs. But also come with a side dish of mutant black/deer/horse flies..lol

Bennington VT up to 71F...what a torch. 63 here.

DDH up 68F

Full sun spots at 12.5" at noon at 64F. Will see how much is left at 7am tomorrow. Shady spots are 16-17" -ish.

What a furnace....wow. 60s and sun. T-shirt weather for sure.

Lost a total of 2-2.5" inches the past 2 days of snowpack. Actually get a lot of sun in half my yard this time of year, but its totally flat and gently slopes north, so not a ton of loss even with 7 hours of sun. South facing hills taking a beating though around here and in town locations also melting out-- almost nothing left. Snowpack beat down comes today though with mid 40's dews and sun and warmer temps. Kids had their Junior Ski program through school at Bromley yesterday afternoon, definitely springs like conditions with Bromley's southern exposure and lots of sun. Pretty much everything was soft by afternoon. I'm good with melting out my yard at this point and keeping some snow up high and then hopefully we get one or two more bigger events mid-late month.

Think your right for the most part. 17'-18' was actually top 3-5 all time in SVT (snowfall wise) in the mountains and #1 in the valley. I don't think it was on that level down by your area though? Most other years probably closer to average with an all time rat in 15-16 by a good margin.

Get your advisory events while you can... .. Not sure if this was posted already somewhere. National Weather Service set to drop advisories by 2024 - The Washington Post

Congrats Moose fart zone.

Guess there were some higher gusts than I thought on the other side of town.

Wow, that's a solid pickup from squalls--nice. Nothing here but a dusting. NW winds just don't do much here, feel like MAYBE gusted to 40. Had no problem sleeping.

Nasty looking band rotating through N NY

Well, it really is completely different microclimate than most of VT. Not that this is breaking news. You could get a string of late blooming Millers B's that leave most of the VT posters with a few inches of sand or cirrus. Some years, the wealth is spread more evenly, this year little different obviously.

By a long shot. I made a totally innocuous post couple years ago to someone who was moving to VT (or getting a second house maybe) with some general info on climo and a link that I thought would help and someone posted right after "don't get why people from different regions are still coming in posting". Something along those lines. I certainly wasn't popping in to rub in some big snow dump.

He did give it an A+ in the other thread. But yea, even at this point with 120" that would be an all time best for like 95% of this forum.

It would have been great if Phin didn't have this forum as a resource and his own personal topographic tour guide (Will) and ended up in Whitefield or Bennington.. He would be doing some serious complaining....lol.

Still hanging on here too..although Phins looks "cleaner" more pot holes forming on top here in the pack..looks kind of ugly.

32" Missed 40" by 5-6 miles..lol.

Oh, yea not sure if he means depth or snowfall. 2 different metrics obviously.

It's also easier to be much more above normal by now here since the average is lower than those guys further north.

Below average depth looks like. I don't think Phins area has been better than most of VT. He looks below normal to date. I think JSpin is above normal to date(he can confirm)Figure all of Maine is well below average? Not really NNE here, more CNE but no one is probably more above average here than my area, Im already prob 25-30 inches above seasonal average, not even to season to date-- prob more like 50 inches above normal to date. Anyone else can chime in. I know RUT area is also prob near seasonal averages or above too before March even starts.

Going on 38 straight days of 12"+ here, not much in the pipeline so will be dwindling. Grinch takes away A or A+ here, but I would go solid A-. Top 3 all timer in DEC and pretty consistent and above normal snowfall and snow cover. If March is totally punted, maybe down to B+.