powderfreak

Yeah for sure, not the most impressive compared to upper 20s to low 30s below zero C, but that would be a noteworthy afternoon. It would fit the bill for this stretch of noteworthy cold but nothing even close to record books high-end memorable cold.

This looks chilly on Saturday for 1pm in the afternoon. 925mb at -23C to -24C all the way to the Long Island Sound. SFC at 1pm Sat.

Like an injured fawn limping through a field while a wolf salivates from the wood line.

That’s a good point. I’m not super familiar with Lake George but it’s weird it froze behind schedule, given most other lakes seemed ahead of normal or with larger than normal ice extent. I do know that area is gusty and downslopes on NW flow off the southeastern Adirondacks… was just spitballing for ideas as to why it could be delayed. A lot of wind would lead to more mixing and upwelling, and the water surface is rarely calm.

Yup! That was brutal going to and from classes all month. And BTV doesn’t do calm cold, the wind is always blowing up there on the hill. Those were rugged days.

-9F Not bad with OVC029… but we left a bunch on the table the past two nights with wind and/or clouds.

There’s nuance to everything… and CC is a charged term that leads to a visceral reaction more than other factors. One could imagine a situation where a variety of factors influence the rate of something occurring, but doesn’t stop it from happening all together. The debate of “no coastal storms anymore due to fast flow and CC” vs “its snowing in the deep south on the coast” is severely lacking in nuance on both sides. It’s binary thinking that ignores context and oversimplifies the issues at hand for both points of the argument.

Been a while since we’ve seen 20 degrees it seems like.

Sun angle is ever so slightly higher than it was yesterday .

Yeah car was covered this morning in the very small flake Arctic upslope stuff this morning… where it feels like the flakes are forming like 500 feet overhead.

That is weird. Lake Erie by contrast has the most ice in late January in like three decades and is almost fully covered. Wonder if the persistent NW flow causes a lot of wind there and water movement at Lake George?

-3F Never cleared, never went calm, haze and very small crystals suspended in the air. This radiator did not mount up.

Is that 128F by NYC? lol. I’m assuming it’s two sites next to each other.

We’ve clawed our way to 0F here at the base of the ski area. MVL ASOS has been bouncing around 1-4F all afternoon, with 4F being the high.

Is that really *that* big of an error margin at that lead time though? Has huge impacts for an area of population but it’s like 50 miles between BOS and ORH… is getting like 50-100 mile swings on 126 to 150 hour total maps all that surprising? Its frustrating but seems within reason…

Deep winter. 3.5” more last night. 78” on the ground.

Haha all joking aside, history seems to have these come in bunches… with a lot of hand wringing in between the clusters. Can think of numerous examples of the same swath getting smoked by biggies several times in a row.

Your climo is to get blanked for like 5 years at a time, then rattle off like 4 monsters in 6 weeks, before going back in the shed. I could see you with 36-40” in the yard in like 10 days lol.

DGEX jackpot up here every time. Miss that model, lol.

Love the Jiminy Peak stoke. Growing up, that was our Sunday spot into the evening night skiing.

Up to 45” depth at 1,500ft.

Jesus christ.

I bet we’ve averaged 20-25:1 up here. 16” now and I’d wager the models were pretty close with 0.75” water. It hisses when you walk through it or shovel it.

That’s sweet, those big QPF dumps are key to laying down the base for weeks to come. Cannot overstate how important it is to have it skied in well like you said.

Yup! Awesome to get a widespread storm like that.