powderfreak

Got up to 37F today, melting out the valley fields to reveal deep green. Snow really is poor man’s fertilizer… less than a 1,000ft higher saw a high of 32F and very healthy snowpack on the ground.

Mansfield summit depth record highest shows 30" on Monday and Tuesday, with 33" on Wednesday, 28" on Thursday, and 30" on Friday. All of those could be in jeopardy. A record breaking week of snow depths?

Sleet to start.

Ha I noticed it was pretty snowy in Maine too. CAD wedge and secondary trying to get going.

Lining up to get the northern Greens another high end snow event tomorrow into Monday night. This is only through Monday 1pm and still going strong. Another 1-2” QPF snow event for the mtns.

Regardless of the maps, the signal is there for the 1500ft+ elevations from Stowe to Jay to get appreciable snow following the messy/rain before that. Also that same elevation at Bretton Woods in Alex’s zone looks just as good. Moist W/NW flow behind the Saturday night system looks to be productive from Sunday PM to Tuesday AM.

That is a crazy snow cycle... and wild melt afterwards. But 43" on 4.9" of liquid is a big cycle. Wow. Honestly, it's probably about the current cycle ratios we've seen, 10:1 or under... but with twice the QPF.

Starting off the season with a bunch of dense snow. Interesting that while 25" is more than 69 other recorded winters, as one can see with the 45" on this date in 1990-1991 that it didn't mean much for the rest of the winter, ha. I'll have to look up what happened around this time in 1990. That must've been a monster event or couple of events to go from like near 0" to 45" of depth in a week or less. Then to lose it almost as fast. It's interesting that spike in snowpack is so far above anything else in the long recorded history. 70+ years of records and that one spike is like 50% higher than the next highest season.

It’s true. This Saturday night event will wreck the surface but it’s going to be minimal melt, if at all, and will only lock the snowpack up tight. Then another 6-10” upslope over two days? The snowpack is bomber. The ol JSpin pole depth check on a 50” ski pole. Couple feet of base on Chin Clip? I’ve seen this trail open on a lot worse coverage ha.

Stopped snowing.

Oh they are on, haha. That area isn’t heated though.

Here it’s like 2 miles and you’re out of it. Last night’s and today’s snows were above 1,100 feet mainly. Wetter 2-3” depth in town compared to like 6-8” fully caked at 1500ft.

Just keeps snowing.

Already another 4” today at the upper mountain spot. Hammering around 1”/hr.

750ft down here in the river bottom.