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ALY had a little write up overnight and why the relative porking with the intital WAA push. Only 3-4" here. Local guy at 1900' reported 4.5" and Stratton 5" I believe. Snow is continuing across eastern New York and western New England, however expectations of spatial coverage has not exactly met reality due to the evolution of the coastal system now currently located east of the Delmarva. According to SPC Hourly Mesoanalysis, the parent shortwave trough has pulled ahead and east of the coastal low, forcing its deepening to come to a staggering halt and stretching energy further east. Because of this, the precipitation shield has shifted to the east with very minimal northward progression. A secondary low pressure core has formed across western Pennsylvania in association with an upper trough, acting as another source to drain energy from the aforementioned coastal low and simultaneously push it further east in tandem with the pull of the upper shortwave pulse.

Yep, pretty deep easterly flow, going to be some valley screw jobs. Places like Hoosick Falls NY will be a local minimum.

Just showing the downsloping on the western facing slopes with easterly flow. Mesos normally show that on every event. Sometimes accurate, sometimes overdone.

Covering up the lush late Dec lawn..

We green still..lol

Well, this is what we have come to. Don't think I have ever seen BTV publicly post a percent chance of .1" snow map....lol.

Looks like only 2 years had 0" depth on 12/21--this year and 1969. Think there are like 70ish years with recorded depth,with some other missing years since the COOP goes waaay back. So actually reporting 0" on 12/21 seems pretty unusual.

You have just about used up your main thread photo quota PF before the first 1" falls in SNE.. Lower than expected totals here just like pretty everywhere in VT this last event. 2.5" sticky wet snow. Think I only have like 12-13" this season. Couple razor thin events where it was just too warm on west slopes. Been pretty decent early on at Stratton/Bromley, few good days have been had out there at both so far, east slopes and elevated have done relatively well here. Tight cutoff to the south for season totals as I think Mitch hasn't had too much so far.

Love when BTV puts these elevation graphics out. Cool stuff.

Yea as LongBeach said the bright banding on radar was pretty intense as that blob was heading NE, thought there could be a chance for lower elevations as temps were 33- 34ish here at the time.

Interesting-I was thinking that looking at my cam overnight. My cam doesn't pick up snow very well at night based on lighting, etc but you could see the Sierra cement really coming down. Only got 2.7" here, but more than I thought since it was mostly rain before midnight.

Yep, lots of pellets here just west of the spine along with some flakes. Maybe even little ZR too, full kitchen sink.

Some pretty decent flakes at times actually. 1.2"

I have only had 9 winters here, so not a huge sample size, but Dec has the highest average snow total here, so if you lose that , you fall behind quickly.

Always surprised how busy the last weekend in OCT usually is here with peepers. Not much to look at..

This showed up on my FB feed today... looks like Mars. All the comments of "wow", "incredible"....lol

Lawn rust looks like. Normally does not do long term damage. You can put some Fertilizer down to help it grow out.

Definitely first world problems, but that does get my OCD going too.

It's early here, but can see some red and orange starting to pop in the hill behind my house, so we will see how the Sugar Maples end up.

Got to give to Kevin, he shuts down the resorts every winter and has every Maple going from green right to brown every fall. He definitely stays on brand pretty consistently.

If its a smaller area, spring seeding can work. It becomes more difficult if the area is bigger, you pretty much have to water all summer long to make sure it survives--unless we get a repeat of this years monsoon I would go now, or next fall--again if its the whole lawn or a bigger area.

Guess that's it. Reading the local community forum stuff, seems like a war zone out there, trees and wires down all over. We had another nasty cell come through with same strength winds, etc 2 within 2 hours, honestly the strongest I have seen living here. Long time residents posting similar stuff.

Best storm in prob couple seasons rolled through around 730. Some trees down nearby and decent size hail and white out rain with big winds. Just insane amounts of TL like you said.

Haha..yea nice being in your 20s for sure for many reasons. I can promise you it wasn't 60F most years. I wouldn't be in that without a suit even at 23. I am seeing a bunch of reports of 68-70F near that area. https://www.worldbeachguide.com/usa/surf/tourmaline.htm Well known longboard surf spot, remember being here many times without a suit. 69F now.

Lived in Pacific Beach for almost a decade, that seems alot cooler than normal for August,I would swim and body surf all time with no suit, Aug and Sept I feel like were the warmest from my memory.