Hoosweather

Eyeballing snow from pics is tough but if you want to guesstimate that’s 6 inches on the table that’s fair, but please remember that pic is at 2pm and preceding a 4 hour period of easy 1-2 inches an hour snow. That’s the period that shut down every road on the mountain. Again- being there for the storm it was easily over a foot. Really incredible stuff. But also- to your point- wind went crazy that evening/night leading to big drifts like what I showed in the above pic so you have that factor too. I was a member of this board for years under that old username. Long time reader. Hope folks found this interesting. It’s not a giant conspiracy theory…to accomplish what I don’t know. Just a big snowstorm at the top of a mountain. And it was awesome to experience.

Are you guys serious? It’s just snow. It’ll be ok. FYI I used to be a member here under username rmcwahoo. It snowed a lot at Wintergreen. And lots of people were there for it and documented it. I don’t know how to help ya around that one. Also don’t know why it would bother anyone? Just to drive you even crazier here’s a cool pic from the next morning

Not letting me add multiple photos but this is a pic from beside our place at around 2pm. This is before the heaviest snow which fell from then till about 6. Now it also was windy but that’s roughly 8-10 on the seats already. Long and short- as crazy as it sounds (and in the valley 3000 feet below they got a dusting!)- this actually happened at Wintergreen. I don’t know if it was a perfect spot for upslope or what- but it was easily over a foot. Incredible to witness!

Hey guys so I’m very late to this as I’ve been awaiting approval of my account but having been at Wintergreen for the storm last Sunday, and having been a long time reader of this board and a poster back in the old days, I just had to get a new account to weigh in. The mountain absolutely received over a foot of snow, and I have no doubt of the 15 inch report. At 7 am we already had 3-4 inches on the ground. It then snowed the next 12 hours straight with snow becoming heavy by noon and from 2-6pm coming down at a rate of 1-2 inches an hour easy. I cleared my car off to try to leave the mountain at 3 and by 3:30 it had another inch on it. It was that kind of snow. We ended up not being able to leave the mountain as at around 3:45 we got stuck on the main road down and they then announced that road, and all roads on the property, were closed. We were able to turn around and get back to our place to spend the night. Everyone at the ski resort itself had to actually stay on the property until roads reopened at 6. I didn’t officially measure during the day- we Skiied all morning and by evening the winds were incredible, but, as noted, at 7am it was already 3-4 inches deep and that was well before the really heavy snow that followed. It’s laughable to say the mountain only got 6-7 inches- there was easily that by midday! Our neighbor did measure in the evening and reported 13 inches. Resort of course said 15 by morning. I’ve been through a lot of big snows. The rate of snow up there from noon to 6 ranks amongst the heaviest I’ve ever seen. It was a remarkable micro-climate moment I’ll never forget! I’ll share some pictures in a bit when I get a little more time.