PowderBeard

However, still too early to say exactly where these mesoscale bands set up,
usually just to the NW of the mid level low or mid level bent back
warm front. It`s possible this heavy band of snow may pivot as far
west as eastern CT/RI into the Worcester Hills. SLR in this band
will likely be on the order of 15-20 to 1, given strong forcing in
the snow growth region.

Someone will hit 30".

Random rant. I'm so done with the bank I got my truck loan through. If we were not planning to move to Maine or NH area in the summer I would just pay the thing off but want to keep the extra cash until we are settled in a new house. The bank seemed like a great local credit union, lots of stellar reviews, and gave me an awesome rate. Planned on just doing automatic payments online, nope. In order to do that, I would have to switch banks and have my paycheck direct deposited there. It's 2021 and because of their old system I cannot even transfer from my other accounts to any account on their end. Wtf

Ok...so I will have my bank send them a check each month. Two months I get a credit alert about my account. Of course I just assumed there would be no issues, lesson learned. Login to my account and I notice the checks were sent but not cashed. Print out the info, bring it to the credit union and show them the check was sent and never cashed. So now I just drive 20 minutes and hand deliver a check.

Today, I get a phone call saying they need the title for my truck ASAP or they will call back the loan and repo my truck. When registering my truck, the RMV took the title and said they would be sending the new one to the bank. So now my morning has just gone to ____. I call the RMV, almost 2-hours on hold, the RMV rep says she can see the electronic title sent to the bank's account, gave me all the account and title number info. I call the bank back, rep says "Oh weird, I will have to keep looking on my end then."  

5 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

"There's the demon"...seems to have shifted the focus north a bit....later capture maybe....

303 unread? I thought I was bad lol

1.5" new and some bursts throughout the morning. Wintery look in the neighborhood, our front hard is a 6" glacier.

Heavier than I was expecting. About an inch down. 

Maybe it is because I don't ski the larger areas on weekends but I don't think people on their phones has ever been a real problem when waiting for a lift. The tin-foil hat side of me thinks it's because there are more pictures of lines than awesome conditions this season. 

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/vail-resorts-plan-to-reduce-lift-lines-includes-phone-free-zones/ 

23 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah that’s been my progression. I’m tentative in the woods right now.  Slow, pick your spots.  The spring snowpack is so much better for low depth woods as you are often on top of the snow not in it.  Also at this stage of life the financial implications of shutting on a couch for weeks all maimed aren’t as appealing as when I was in college or in my 20s.

A great local skier saw her season end in the woods during this storm, with 3 fractures and 2 surgeries needed from a hidden snow snake.  It’s sobering.

Sad to hear. Things happen and change too quickly. The incident at MRG a couple seasons ago when the young man was paralyzed really made me slow down in the woods in the early season. Freaked me right out. I look back and have definitely been beyond lucky. 

I saw on TGR there have multiple rescues that past few days.

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I’m not even expecting flurries here and by tomorrow, a bunch Connecticut peeps will have more than double your season snow total if they don’t already.  S of Pike Winter. 

Berkie was fun this afternoon. Temps got into the low 40s so everything softened up around 2pm. East Glades, Horace's Grove, bike paths off Outback, and the unmarked stuff off Roy/Roger's were pretty fun. Tomahawk was a bit boney, only did it once. Could barely get an edge into the bumps on Liftline but it softened up after some sun and traffic. The Jug was fantastic around 3pm, the sun turned it into mashed potatoes. Route of the day was definitely Jug - Chief bumps - over to ungroomed side of Lower Cloud which I did 2-3 times.  Could really zip then launch off some spots. I forgot how rough the landing was off the concrete piling at the top of Cloud if you hit it straight on, need to go off the corners. Just a small 4-6" event and all the ledges in the woods will be game on.

Heading to Berkie now. Excited to see how its looking. 

Power was expected back on at 9:30, then 10, then 12:30, now 2pm. Time to go skiing after making breakfast on the stove lol 

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

He is there skiing looks like 6 to 8 so far and dumpi5

I'm assuming the tracks poaching the lift line are his lol

4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Actually just flipped back to ripping pingers and flakes under these heavier returns.

Over 6"? Figured you would do well on this one.

Pretty happy with our 4" before it went over, compacted down to about 2" of slop now. 

@radarman, any idea how much at Berkshire East? First storm of the year on a holiday weekend and no report, got to love their communication! hahaha

6 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Stratton is right in the bullseye in the middle of those mountains and has the highest elevation. They tend to under measure though. 
Regardless this storm is going to make the winter. 18” with decent ratios (not fluff) will build a nice base to open things up. 

Underwhelming so far. Radar looking like Killington is on the fringes. Killington, Stratton, and Magic reporting 5" earlier. Friend at Magic said they are at about 7-8" now as the report was from 6am.

The weird stuff, Mount Snow reports 8", summit cam shows 4". Okemo reporting 0" and the snow stake cam shows no snow either.

7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

You get some better mixing there?  That's crazy, hope you get power back quickly.  Going to get cold tonight.

Yea, by the time I woke up it was sleet. Rain started around 6am. Have the wood stove cranking and will get the generator going. Given the amount of line down and tree work that needs to be done it's going to be a bit. 

WTF happened? Our hill got smoked this morning. Woke up around 4:30 to some decent winds and about 4" of cement. From 5-5:15am the winds went wild. We had a thunderstorm this summer go through with 60+ mph gusts and I would say it approached that. Multiple trees down in our neighborhood and about 200' of power wires are down lining yards and the road. Limbs and broken trees in yards. Currently have a cop blocking off our street. No estimate on power as the winds are still gusting. Rest of town has power and all good.

2 hours ago, radarman said:

Ice like this only come along every 3 or 4 years.  Definitely improves the winter grade.  Alas we hardly knew ye

Damn! Definitely beats the hard ice at Mullins or Greenfield. I had to sharpen my skates at a different level when I started playing in western Mass rinks. 

4 hours ago, snowgeek said:

Interesting seems like Killington has highest forecast totals, but precip looks heavier south of them. I’d say Stratton Okemo in sweet spot?

Killington will do well but I'm going with Mount Snow/Magic/Okemo for the jackpot. East side special.

1 hour ago, wxmanmitch said:

Eagerly awaiting the first flakes from what looks to be a doozy here. I knew those NAM runs from a couple of days ago were way too warm as it overdoes WAA in storms with strong dynamical cooling processes. It's best with run of the mill SWFEs, but not these storms.

The E to SE LLJ slamming into the Greens is a big win, giving my spot the maximum possible upslope assist. Modeling is averaging around 2 inches of QPF here from both the front and back of the storm, pretty much all of it snow. Worst case scenario, there may be some brief mix around the time the occlusion comes through here from the south late morning, early afternoon tomorrow, but the 18z 3-km NAM keeps me all snow and has a max temperature of around 32-33° F before we start getting CAA from the south tomorrow afternoon. 

Boy do we need this! This is white gold for the ski areas and winter sports around here as it's been a rather anemic winter so far.

Pretty sweet spot to be. Old Dutch Hill should get smoked.

18Z HRRR colder at the surface but warmer aloft than 12z for our area. 

11 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

the app I got says 562 but no idea how right it is     parts of town are higher some lower

I bet 15 minutes up 202 in Shutesbury at almost 1,300' gets a lot more than we do. Such a cool spot.    

20 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

yup even an hour or two will make a difference.. ill be at work tonight..  will be interesting coming home in the morning I think

Yea, I would save the time and call out for next Sun-Mon's storm lol

6 minutes ago, ineedsnow said: