powderfreak

Just got home, we are just about 5” on the level on colder surfaces and away from the evergreens. One inch less than up at the base of the mountain and a lot wetter.

I can’t remember an event that had nothing until like 12-1pm, then snowed a heavy half a foot, with brightening skies by 5:30pm.

6” in 3 hours at 3,000ft. Still heavy snow.

Almost 0.30” precip the last two hours in the ASOS gage that usually under reports, no fake fluff either, just a fast QPF dump.

Heavy snow.

Absolutely puking snow. The rare M1/4 visibility. METAR KMVL 201745Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2986 RMK P0010 METAR KMVL 201740Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2987 RMK P0008

Ramped up fast here. MVL went 36/23 to 32/29 and 1/2sm Mod Snow.

I’m still not sure what to expect. Models keep printing very heavy precip rates. Like 3 hours of 0.1”< QPF snowfall and like 0.60” in 4 hours this afternoon.

ICON with the follow up wave on Monday pasting SNE. I beat the cops and ineedsnow to it…

Feeling a bit better with the south trend for Sunday/Sunday night... figure there will be some marginal mid-level layers, so want to be on the northern end of the QPF. Some snowy couple systems for the mountains.

I always go back to Will/ORH's logic from the past two decades... might as well enjoy the weather hobbyist excitement of snowfall and root for it, because it's not going to magically be 70F and sunny instead. If the alternative to it snowing is a 35.7F degree, one inch of rainfall, it's sort of why not go for snow, provided you don't have to drive three hours in it or something. It'll melt soon enough. Either way it's going to get muddy, be it during an inch of cold rain or after the snow melts, guess the cold rain it just is muddy sooner, ha.

Ohhh GFS.

It was below zero and blustery this morning up at elevation in the northern mountains. We hit -4.5F at 3,600ft and 6F at 1500ft. That would be fun in September.

That and the person moving like they are a robot taking a shit lol.

That seems almost more impressive than the 60 dews.

Even up here we are up to a 51F dew at MVL… I’ve got the living room slider open a bit, ha. Don’t hate it but can hear the snowmelt rushing down the river.

That’s crazy.

Fake news.

From rushing water to pond ice to powder back to water all in a few days.

Another 6” between 8:30am and 4pm. Storm total 9” so far. Heavy snow. Depth at 3,000ft back up from 52” to 61”.

Upslope band is cranking. Just ripping snow on the mountains. Over 5" so far for the event.

In rare form this morning, ha.

Blocked.

A tad over 2” at 1500ft. 22” Depth.

This was a solid thaw. Noteworthy. We lost 20” of snowpack at home, and 21” at the base of the mountain. 42” to 21” this week at 1,500ft.