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Just need to Kevin to pop in and "shut em down, shut em all down"

HIE only .17" in the bucket looking at the hourly obs. Pretty much a heavy drizzle there.

Wunderground doing a nice job of showing the classic Bennington country downslope zone on the estimated precip. Just checked my gauge and its .65" So peeking at PWS precip amounts, looks like most eastern slopes spots are .70-.95" then slides down to .65" at my place on the immediate western slopes, the fades off to .25-.50" a heading west a few miles from the spine. Definitely been gusty, but considering how many high wind events there are here, pretty meh overall.

Phin going to be putting the heat on Will soon if he isn't waist deep in snow..

We torch. Got a nice bike ride in with my daughter, although not sunny, nice enough for a quick pre turkey dinner ride.

45/43. Borderline muggy

Just to look at the difference 1 week can make...I posted yesterday the graph that showed average snowpack for the local COOP for 11/24. It was 38% chance for greater than 1" depth. Go out just about 1 week from now on 12/3 and it jumps to 66%. So again shows how quickly it can ramp up and NOV normally isnt a good starting point for contnuous snow cover.

Yeah, massive cutter that just kind of sits and spins over the Ohio Valley/Great Lakes with a firehose of moisture coming up from the gulf aimed at NE. Ugly, get that out of the way and move on to hopefully some snow chances.

Snow depth data on 11/24 for Peru VT COOP at 1700ft that is really good retention spot( 80 years of data) Lot of 0.0 depth data looking at it year by year. 38% chance of 1" on snow OTG on 11/24.

I moved up from West Chester in 2014, albeit permanently. Can't speak for NVT, but around here rentals and long term leases are scarce and most that are available are pricey. But since it seems your young and no attachments(kids, etc) maybe able find a smaller place--studio/1bed, but again not sure about BTV market, but assume stuff is high demand.

Small blessing I guess with COVID is the flexbililty to be where you want to be for long stetches. (As opposed to weekend warrioring it) Is everyone just homeschooling their kids? (Don't know if you have any or not, more a general question) My wife's cousin has lived and Brooklyn for 10+ years and bought a 2nd place in Manchester recently and will be here reomtely until they are needed full time back in the office. They enrolled their only child in school here for the year.

Also, maybe in the past when people have posted data they may have just cropped out the address bar and side bar so you just see the table and don't see where it's coming from?

Don't think so, pretty sure Xmacis has been available for a quite a while( although not totally sure of timeframe?). What's cool is that it has COOP and cocorahs data combined which is nice.

Similar temp ranges here. The 43F is at 850' and the 56F is around 1130'

Well, Phin is certainly driving some chatter..be it political or snow driven...lol. Plus there are some other newer posters also making the subforum worthy of more than just collecting usplope radar shots.

Ha, for sure. When I moved here I didn't have even the slightest clue about how extreme the microclimates were. It totally fascinates me, you can spend hours and hours looking at topo maps throughout NE and trying to figure out what pattern and wind directions works best for what area. ( myself for that one) I came from an area in PA where there was just such minimal difference in topography and microclimates that I never even noticed it outside of some elevation events where at 500ft someone had 3" and at 200ft maybe you had .5" of slop. It was pretty simple really, the suburbs got more snow than Philly the further W and NW you went and that was that pretty much that. ..lol.

I love the every once in a while subdued, dry JSpin SNE burn... Had an epic one a bunch of years back aimed at Scooter and Weymouth...I cant remember the details, but it was pretty funny.

Yea, that is what I expected with those depths. Your probably not going to get those same depths, maybe a shady northside of the house nook...lol. Obviously it will still be impressive.

Got it. Right, Tamarack probably has a similar average depth on half the snowfall. So it's still somewhat "fake"..ha.

Pulled up JSpin...

Max depth actually looks pretty impressive say compared to the Underhill/JSpin zone. I feel like 40" range give her take is normally the max there. This guy is a little higher than Phin's spot and not sure how wooded it is. Phin's is pretty wide open which will lead to some wind scouring I would think.

Oh yea, absolutely. In those snowy upslope zones you can lose a lot of reported accumulation without diligent measuring because of the frequency of snowfalls. We talk about that from time to time in here and why there can be decent discrepancies across close areas. You really don't know if someone is measuring the second the snow stops and every 6 hours or if they are just waiting to 7am every day like some COOPS do. The Randolph guy is obviously meticulous ala JSpin. Even down here while we don't get as many snowfalls as NVT and NNH, we still get a lot of smaller scale squalls/upslope stuff and i try to get everything measured and recorded as some as I can.

2018 was just nuts, Bromley had 30-36" on the ground above 2500ft when I was up there at the end of NOV. Even down here think I had around 30" for the month. What's funny is you had the kind of epic reverse bookend---March 2018 in SVT to end winter of 17-18 and then epic NOV 2018 to start 18-19.

Obviously a small sample size, but this fall (10/1-11/15) is actually the second highest snow total for the Randolph cocorahs guy outside of the freakish 2018.

Agree...you cant have draconian-esque lock downs AND have Congress continue this absolute Pelosi/McConnell partisan bull and have nothing passed Stimulus wise via PPA/PUA and or direct one time stimulus payments. Many on here have voiced their opposition to lockdowns and shutdowns, that's fine, but they are happening and probably only going to get worse before the vaccine is widely available. Small businesses and many individuals have already been struggling even with the previous stimulus passed, another shutdown without any help will be really, really bad especially considering many individuals unemployment has already run out or will at the end of the year. Small anecdotal thing I noticed locally is for whatever reason pre-covid a lot of the 1 story ski motels here seemed to have changed hands with them being "spruced up" a bit and made more updated and modern. Just horrible timing for the new owners as COVID hit and they have seem to be mostly empty since March outside of some weekends over the summer when restrictions were pulled back a bit.