powderfreak

Feel like this is easier said than done for many folks here …

Yup, would rather be around that than eyeore.

Yeah it’s all been made through orographic means with general prevailing southwest/west/northwest flow. Great Lakes and mesoscale mountain areas.

Yeah there’s about 8-10” in my yard. Goes to 30” at 1500ft a few miles up the road at the office, then doubles again to 60” at 3,000ft. Its a very sharp, microscale gradient of orographic precipitation.

I’m outside in the cold quite a bit, but I have started to enjoy the warm season more and more. There are also life things that play into that… winter life vs summer life. But man, late sunsets when it’s 80 degrees and what feels like two hours of twilight from 7-9pm… that’s what I love. Hate 84/68 at 1:30pm lol. Anyway, looks like we’ll take the 15th event and turn it into a nice refresher up here.

Today in the Ranch Valley of Stowe after 1-3” on like a half inch of QPF. Just keep adding SWE to the pack.

Surprised you don’t think your area can do as well as anyone, even the mid-Atlantic.

Were you torching yesterday? We only saw 1-2” decreases in snow depth during this “thaw”… quickly working to make it back up now. I do think it’s much less snow at 1500ft on the west side of Mansfield, maybe even half that 26”. This SE side locks in cold on those warmer south flows for sure.

Sitting at a firm 58” today at 3,000ft after last evening’s rain and freeze. Not all fake, has decent water content in it. Hope you guys can hit on the 15th threat.

Steady light snow up this way. Be interesting to see what happens tonight.

Interesting you are down to 9” at 1500ft. That’s about what the valley is around these parts. 1500ft in these parts (the base of the ski area) is a frozen solid 26” pack that you can walk on this morning.

Cold air hung on all day here, mostly low to mid 30s. Until this evening. Spiked from 37F to 47F in past hour with SW winds gusting over 30mph. Fully mixed out adiabatically. BTV just had two hours of 20-25 sustained, gusting 35-45.

Recently the ice covered branches have been leaning over the upper mountain study plot… catching snow and generally infringing on the 360 degree opening in the forest canopy. Would be nice to melt the ZR… makes skiing through the woods easier too.

Going from 42" to 6" in 48 hours would be quite a feat, though I guess we saw similar after that Dec 2020 time period in CNE to E.NY. But this is presumably a pack that is dense enough to see no settling at all. That stuff would take an absolutely substantial energy to melt that fast, even with 2" of rain. Obviously some wild unlikely things in that snow depth listing.

It reads like those guys were talking about change in snow depth, not necessarily SWE. Went from 9-12” around the lower elevations from here to your area on 12/15 and ended at 2-4” on 12/20. The mountain elevations at 1500+ did see a snow depth decrease but added water and then rebuilt the depth back up rapidly. Our High Road stake dropped into the upper 40s for depth (lost a good foot during that pre-Xmas rainer) but rebounded stronger back up to low 60s again with more water than before. I agree that the snowpack is stronger coming out of these events, including what looks to happen over the next few days. The more frozen water locked up in there, the more energy it takes to melt it. Even if the gains wash out in terms of depth, the snowpack is more stout.