powderfreak

We've started reporting them to Parrilla to increase his data sets. We sometimes put them on the report and also started an IG account mtmansfield_snowobservations where we only post photos of the readings as a way to archive them. We have been taking photos of the readings and keeping data for over a decade and honestly, its a shame we didn't start archiving it more in the past. We are just looking to keep things transparent and to preserve the idea of measuring snowfall and depth in the same locations as often as possible. Regarding High Road depth... this is the first season I've seen that site stay with the fabled stake and even slightly exceed it at times. In all other seasons, that spot can run even a foot or two below the stake. However, we have done snow survey analysis there with the 60" Adirondack Snow Sampler (when the snowpack was a bit lower) and the numbers checked out. It appears to be legit. I have a few hypothesis, primarily going back to the November upslope snows that really built the base up... and that is that the Gondola terrain for whatever reason seemed noticeably deeper than the Quad side after a few of those storms. It has generally felt a lot snowier from like the FourRunner Quad northward towards the Notch, and I think that's normal, but it has felt exaggerated at times this year. Its definitely interesting, but man, there is still some areas of open water in there and that whole High Road zone from Rim Rock across to Cliff Trail and Perry just has a ton of snow on the ground. When you see the open water spots, its a legit like 6 feet down. Its sort of creepy at times, ha. We were skiing the Strawberry Fields below Upper Perry/Cliff intersection and there's a drainage in there with holes that look like they are 8 feet deep wells. It's impressive but certainly not something you want to fall into head first. The depth stake was stuck in the mid/upper 60s for what felt like two weeks, but finally have movement upward after this last cycle. Ticked from 68” to 70” and then 74”. One skier from MLK weekend found there way in here and left a track just behind the depth stake… not a fan of it but it’s filling in again.

I'd lower that by 30% to be honest. Even a widespread 8-12" would be a noteworthy event.

It’s a wall of precip moving north.. with easterly low level flow.

I don’t know, a half inch+ of QPF in this environment will be plowable. The best mid-level banding often follows the QPF gradient or just north of it. Might be another chance for a BGM-ALB-DDH-CON-LEW fluff factor band.

Why are people so afraid of any sleet? Damn, that means you are maximizing WAA and precipitation. Take the QPF dump and if you nibble some pellets, so be it.

Yeah in most places… but it’s been squeezing out low level moisture ahead of and behind the front. WSW flow entraining moisture from the Great Lakes, then NWN winds wringing it out… almost like a standing wave.

Mansfield Magic morning… I swear the top of the Gondola terrain gets 50% more snowfall than the snow plots a lot of the time. This is what 2” edited to 5” looks like on the snow report, ha. Could’ve said a foot up top and people would’ve believed it. But we stick with the standard plots.

Arctic front. Been snowing steadily here too, harder than radar indicates.

Your kid will teach you, haha.

General public is all in on it too though. I mean even up here all people are talking about is a storm of the century.

Been getting dumped on. 3” yesterday morning. Another 3” during the day. 5” overnight.

Yeah, guess it’s hard to tell seeing as it’s only 84 hrs. Euro and GGEM looked more juiced at same time frame I thought.

Seems to exit stage right quicker?

Crazy squalls. Had thunder and lightning at the mountain and shut down for 30 minutes like the summer. Even in town MVL with the rare M1/4sm visibility. METAR KMVL 222000Z AUTO 25004KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV009 M03/M05 A2983 METAR KMVL 221955Z AUTO 30010KT M1/4SM +SN BKN012 OVC038 M02/M05 A2984 RMK P0001 KMVL 221954Z AUTO 31013G25KT M1/4SM +SN BKN012 OVC038 M02/M05 A2985 RMK AO2

True whiteout conditions. Just had thunder and lightning at the mountain. 2.5” in 30 minutes. That was a legit squall.