Ginx snewx

38 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Euro is pretty easy to identify as an outlier now. It sucks.

Did well in Feb when the other models were either in the GL or England.  Anyway you shake it pattern recognition >models . Fine details inside 36 is all you get

8 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

You’ll get a 2ft snowstorm in BK before that happens. 

Guaranteed our local salesmen will hype every fart spinning as our big one. Should be an interesting year none the less.

I remember when I was a kid in 1970 it was NBD just don't look at it. But money and hype has to be made. I guess some are looking for some out of body experience. Don't get me wrong it's way cool  just it isn't life changing. 

3 hours ago, radarman said:

i felt nothing and liked it

4/20 was a different story.  Woken out of a sound sleep that morning.

Bong?

Just now, CoastalWx said:

One thing is for sure. Euro is glue. We can stop whacking off to it now.

Just like who is the DH in your lineup it changes from storm to storm. Hopefully salesman learn their lessons about the horrid God awful plus 24 hr NAM runs. Again the RGEM was pretty rock solid 4 days out.

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Lots of tree damage from the last 2 storms around exit 18 toward my way. Trees and trees sawed off at the breakdown lane.

Just saw a literal army of utility companies headed up 395 in Ct

12 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Wussification

22 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

1982 wasn't bad. Little lighter for BTV, much bigger for SNE. 

Yea I lived that one starting on the back of  a Jon boat a mile up river on opening day. Forecast down in SRI was rain in the afternoon.  Yea it started raining a little then an explosion of Dendrites.  To add to the angst the trolling motor shit the bed and we were downstream mile from any semblance of road. We had 3 inches of snow on the boat by the time we rowed back, soaked, hypothermic but had some nice frozen brookies. Anyways yea great for SNE but I was wondering about NNE 

Somebody do some research but maybe biggest overall geographically April snowstorm in NNE recorded history?

18 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I’ll say one thing, as fun as it would’ve been to watch it happen I’m glad I didn’t wake up to a foot of snow on the ground this morning.

The highest totals up north are not far behind my entire season total.

Would have been awesome and a once in a couple decades occurrences but I totally get it, especially the power loss which sucks no matter who thinks it's cool.

8 hours ago, J.Spin said:

I was too busy to get up to the mountain for turns this morning, but in terms of lift-served skiing at Bolton, that’s not an issue because their current midweek lift schedule is 12:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. It’s pretty cool that they shifted to that schedule, and they aren’t even using the lights for it because daylight simply lasts so long, and their expansive western exposure really plays into that.

I did have time to get out for turns this afternoon though, and despite the substantial snows that are being deposited in the mountains and even all the way down to the lowest valleys, the road conditions have been quite nice with April sun intensity and temperatures near the freeing mark. It wasn’t until I was up around 2,000’ on the Bolton Valley Access Road that the road held any snow, and even then it was just a bit of slush with the help of plowing and salting, etc. It was snowing hard when I arrived at the mountain, probably in the inch per hour range, but nothing too outrageous, then it lightened up a bit as the afternoon wore on. There was some wind at times, but at other points it would be nearly calm, even up to elevations just below the ridgeline. Temperatures were in the upper 20 s F, or maybe a little lower than that in the summit areas, but it was definitely comfortable.

And the skiing… wow… what a resurfacing. I’m starting to lose count of the number of huge resurfacing storms we’ve had up here in the Northern Greens this season, but a quick look through my storm data from here at my site suggests the mountains have had at least 10 of them with an inch or more of liquid equivalent. That’s pretty impressive for a season that has been struggling to reach average snowfall around here, and it really gets one thinking about what an above average season can produce, since I don’t think we’ve had a solidly above average one since ’18-’19. In any event, I guess average to even a bit below average snowfall is certainly appreciated when it delivers like this.

So we’ve had a decent number of these resurfacing storms this season, but this one… Winter Storm Tormund, it really put down a shellacking of the slopes. As soon as dropped into my first few turns off the Vista Summit, I knew; there had to be at least two inches of liquid equivalent in that snow. This wasn’t just your typical “nice, this is definitely keeping me off the subsurface” type of snowfall, this was on that next level. This snow laughed at the thought of you getting anywhere near the subsurface. We’ve had about an inch and a half of liquid equivalent in the snow thus far down here at the house, and with the way that snow skied on the mountain this afternoon, they’re obviously well above that.

The early morning report from the resort was 6 to 8 inches of new snow, so I was surprised with how deep it was when I was up there this afternoon. I routinely measured 16 to 20 inches off the Vista trails, with 24 inches common in some areas. I even got some 30 inch measurements, although those could easily have been in hollows or due to a little drifting. Bolton is reporting 24 inches as their top measurement as of this afternoon, and I’d say that’s right in line with what I found out there. The snow isn’t wet, nor is it super dense, but it’s dense enough that you are well protected from hitting anything below. As is typical with this type of snow, the best powder skiing required substantial pitch, and this type of resurfacing just begs for you to ski the steep stuff anyway, so I obliged and hit the really steep lines off Vista. The super steep sections of Devil’s Playground were a hoot – I always forget just how steep they are, but with this snow you can simply drop in and fly with reckless abandon.

With the amount of liquid that’s already gone into the snowpack with this storm cycle, this is a major boost for the spring skiing season – at least with respect to the natural snow trails. The snowmaking terrain always lasts no matter what we get for spring storms, but having storms like these just opens up more natural snow options for much longer. And Winter Storm Tormund isn’t over yet according to the forecasts - it looks like it continues right into the weekend, so the storm totals and contribution to the snowpack will hopefully increase further over the next couple of days. Bolton was at 324 inches of snowfall on the season as of this afternoon, so it’s at least shaping up to be in the average range at this point.

Woah nice pitch on that last pic. Excellent report as usual.

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Can't wait to dew it. 

Yea have fun. You and Kevin can argue about mulch bed readings all day every day. Snòoooooze

Just now, OceanStWx said:

I was having a real hard time buying an additional 6" after 12z for a lot of locations yesterday, but it is looking like it is going be pretty widespread.

Hate to do this but the whole setup was so so familiar to me I didn't understand the angst about after 12 Z. But great job 

Just now, OceanStWx said:

Listen, no snow forecast is ever going to be perfect in all locations, but this is going to be a pretty great forecast for a difficult April storm. We'll see what the map looks like later today (though our phones are down, so we may have to delay until we can talk to all the Coops, etc), but I think it's going to look pretty good compared to even our Tuesday maps.

Excellent job Chris. Hope all you Mainiacs  get power soon. 

5 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Bad forecasts need bad measurements.

Chris already told you it was an estimate.  Stop breaking ball's 

Oh boy the dews talk is  probably the worst part of this forum.  Still months away thank God. Warm springs rock. Let's sunny dry.

17 minutes ago, MaineJayhawk said:

In the neighborhood of 18-19".  Power out, no cell service, all sorts of trees entangled in power lines in my neighborhood, the power line to my house is laying in the road .. this will be a long-duration outage and as it's the weekend we will get a hotel room til Monday.

Drip your faucets shut off water.

2 hours ago, eekuasepinniW said:

14 hours in and my house is down to 56 already. 

Time for a wood stove,generator?

6 minutes ago, CCHurricane said:

Looks like Mt. Mansfield COOP station stopped reporting data to NWS database in 2017, but the prior 20-year average was around 20 inches in the month of April. Judging by the Snow Stake monitoring (at elevation), this is just about the amount of snow to fend off the cliff of melt season...

Stake probably at 100 by now

10 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Anyone who talks to Phin know what he’s got out of this.  Cut-off E/NE flow with some moisture seems to be his bread and butter.

20 plus so far and dumping 

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

E flow upslope spots in E NH getting pounded

Is that Phin?

The "They never come back south storm" After this post DIT said ballgame these never come back south. Ah Nammy

@CoastalWx think we had a sting jet this morning around 7 ish. Lots of reports of damage at that time and I know you had damage an half hour later.  Looked like it anyways 

3 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Interesting point in this regarding sun angle. 
also, Dover NH

https://x.com/robwrightimages/status/1775928717232984554?s=46&t=096JqkIpgJTvSWddnDYqdA

 

Pope bent Dover