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The large evergreens are completely caked, just wet snow frozen solid on them. Wind is blowing here and they are barley moving.

10 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Maybe an inch or so?  Not like 3-4”.

ALY had less than 1" here mid day. Some of the mesos did look good, but they can overdone at times around the mtns. ALY throw up a WWA after 3-4" were already down.  

4.7" with arctic dust falling now.

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Wow! 4” there?!  That’s a great changeover.

2 hours of near whiteout.

Road is closed from Manchester up to the Stratton/Bromley area.. That almost never happens.

16 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It just started dumping here too.

Quickly turning white in areas that melted.

HRRR looked pretty snowy for NVT.

Had to triple check to make sure, but almost 4" here new since 4pm, getting windy with some blowing snow too.

Total freakin' whiteout... down to 30F

18 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

70mph at BTV

11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Wow 70 at BTV.

 

Fairly typical stuff here, but was fun for a few.

2.5" SN.   1.65" total snow/rain precip. 

Winds almost calm now- 44F

Depth was 14" yesterday morning and 11.5" this morning at 7AM

7 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah western slopes already getting 40mph gusts well in advance of the strong LLJ.

Up this way this is a prime home station to watch, owned by a NWS member.  Gusted 39mph past half hour.  They come right off Bolton Valley area down to 800ft elevation.

https://nashvillevtweather.net

Snowing outside in Stowe, maybe an inch?

Green Mountain Power crushes it down here.  Power was back in 2 hours even during peak winds last night.  

Interestingly, only gusted to 29mph on roof mounted Davis after power went out. (peak was 39mph).  Probably had 10 windier downslopes events in the past 3-4 years. Seemed like peak winds were in the far western part of SVT more removed from the tucked in Western slopes. Almost off the Taconics it seemed or further downwind from the Greens Spine--at least down here.

Power already out before the big winds even get here. Gusted 30-40mph past several hours. Ughh.

37 minutes ago, wxmanmitch said:

Pounding snow, +SN. Good growth too. Probably 1.5-2" down so far, 28° F.

Nuking here as well. 1.4" on the board. Temp steadily creeping up over the past hour even during S+,  up 30.9F. Just a matter of time....

31 minutes ago, tavwtby said:

didn't that season start with boxing day storm, iirc, melts were epic leading up to that too, far different scenarios yeah, but I hear ya, if it ain't cold and white for Christmas, it's a bummer...for us old enough it's a reminder of those 80s Christmas winters where it's 50 and raining, last good Christmas I can recall I think was early 2000s I remember thunder snow on Christmas, believe ALY area got crushed, maybe there's one more recent I can't recall...Will??

'17 snowed xmas day, more up here then down in your area of CT.  Was a little nuke though, 4"/hr early that morning.

27 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It even has 54kts at MHT. We’ll see if it’s more wedgy as we get closer, but man that’s impressive.

Going to be an impressive downslope signal off the west side of the Greens. Mitch blown into The Hudson river. 

Lol. BTV going all in on a big time wind event for the mtns and western slopes.  Its going to absolutely rip in my backyard, always does in these setup, and this looks pretty high end. Damage certainly in play here I feel like. 

41 minutes ago, mahk_webstah said:

It’s amazing how that changes mood, perception, etc.  Quite a scene

For sure. Great day at Bromley with my kids over the weekend, and another snowy day out the window today. I'm at peace with that hideous cutter, is what it is.

3" new today. Long lasting streamer overhead, perfect snow growth.

32 minutes ago, greenmtnwx said:

Except the power is out here in Wardsboro day 3. GMP had not done a great job on this one. 

This was larger than normal power outage throughout SVT and CVT.  Im guessing you are probably pretty isolated in the backwoods by the looks of it? They take care of us city folk first..lol.

Picked up 5.2" between 8pm and 8am.

22.1" for duration with some lingering snizzle.  19.5" OTG. Got power back after only a few hours, always pretty quick it seems.

44 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Another 2” here at my house 1,000’ takes us to 12” of cement. Still no power.  Probably another 4-6” above 2,500 so Getting to around 30. Anything the rest of the night brings this one higher on the all time list for the SVT Mountains 

I'm out too here, ughh. 

Just now, CoastalWx said:

You’re close enough to the spine to not get much of an issue there. Good spot haha. Near Bromley?

Yep, about 5 mins door to door.

22 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

We were just discussing this at my house. Every time It looked like a break was headed up from the south it would just fill in. My theory is the upslope component is so strong it fills in the gaps of the synoptic snow.

Im impressed your doing so well on the west slopes. I heard downtown Manchester was mainly rain!

Yeah your right, kept rebuilding when it looked to shut off.

Downtown  Manchester was rain to tart, but they had prob 6"ish when I was there around 4.

23 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I thought you downslope from the east? That’s really good.

I do some, SE is worse than E and some events are different than others. Not that anyone cares, but I'm tucked in pretty close to the spine and the higher terrain, may negate some of the downsloping effect? I dont know, its weird. But I'm pushing prob 1.5" QPF, so not drying out too much..lol.

Roughly where that pin is...

4 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

So far about 10” of pure cement at 1000’ west townshend SVT. Moderate snow continues, a few more inches here.

The big snow is over 2500’ with an estimated 20” at Stratton for last run. Snowed various levels of SN+ the entire day. Wouldn’t be surprised if 30 is in reach. Elevation and east slope upslope for the win.

30" up high prob is within reach. Haven't had a long duration event like this in a while it feels like.

28 minutes ago, Zeppy said:

Aha, that makes sense, I thought I heard earlier that the Berks we're a bust and hadn't heard anything from VT.

Yea, think you had to pretty high up in the Berks to get anything substantial.

Man, what a paster here. Definitely the largest event I have seen here of the non powder variety. Super dense stuff. Been 30.3-32F all day

31.9F now. 16" with SN.

29 minutes ago, Zeppy said:

I don't know where to look for observations, but I'm hearing over 12" for most of the higher terrain in Sullivan county, could be the phase 1 jack?

For NH jack? Could be for sure. VT and MA already have reports of 18". 

Just now, alex said:

Omg just got back from Whitefield - no snow at all there, just a dusting! Bizarre. 

The Bennington of NH.  I think that was probably expected there with the screaming east flow though..