powderfreak

Snowpack is solidly below normal on Mansfield… about 50% of normal for this time of year. Probably got another week or two left.

58F dim sun. Looks like we are reversing our fortune after the past couple days.

So chilly but with summer daylight well past 8pm, it feels like it should be warmer.

I just read “The Last Traverse” book about a winter death and rescue on Lafayette and that was a good read about that area. Rescuers find two bodies on the ridge frozen. One is barely alive and they save him, lowest body temp recorded in the U.S. to survive…. One survivor to tell the story, and those National Guard guys are cowboys in the blackhawks up there in 70mph winds at night. I’d recommend if anyone is looking for a quick but intense read.

I didn’t realize how cold this trough would be. It’s been flurrying and spitting snow all day out of slate gray skies around 40F at 1,500ft with steep lapse rates. I figured it would try to warm up but not really at all.

I’m in sandbar mode too. This is like November but with twice the daylight length. Nothing is going to accumulate but just spitting snow showers on May 8th, with a backdrop of sticks. Not a lot of value here, ha.

Did I miss something?

Ha, it’s like legit snowing now.

Light snow/flurries up here at 1,500ft base of ski area, ha. Phenomenal.

Yeah we have started with some stuff and it was really just this week, but still largely sticks especially just out of the valley floor above 1,000ft. I can tell it’s about to explode though. Feel like we need another 1-2 days of sun and mild and it would go full green everywhere.

32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season. Weird with the long daylight though. Bring back the 70s.

79F yesterday to this disaster is cruel. Ashamed to say had to put long pants back on today as 43-45F was not cutting it in shorts.

44F and about an inch of rain. What a day.

37F to 79F… what a day.

Had 37F for a min and already 64F. Just straight up temperature curve.