powderfreak

-11.6 in the first full week of December is a significant departure for MVL locally. That doesn’t happen often. It’s been cold. BTV is -11.3 to start December. For a location that seems to run warm.

It's not wrong... the early season snow has been tied to the upslope regions on the whole. There was one or two decent synoptic snows for the time of year, but the highest anomalies have been in the Greens, north of the I-89/Winooski Valley. MRG, Sugarbush and Killington zone has not seen nearly the snow that Bolton, Stowe, Smuggs and Jay have seen. The forum has a decent posting contingent from northern mesoscale snow areas, along with the central New England zone that can get raked with synoptic snows. The anomalies max out further north, but it's been a cold start to the season, with snow cover, for a decent aerial zone.

That’s awesome. What a start to a season to move to the northern Adirondacks. You just saw a half a foot of dry powder from a clipper. At cold temps. That has to be such a different experience from CT, in terms of weather interest.

Nice burst of moderate to heavy snow with the cold front. Probably translates more to an orographic nature following the band. METAR KMVL 080220Z AUTO 36009KT 1/2SM SN FZFG BKN009 OVC018 M07/M09 A2990 RMK P0002 The small flake WAA steady light snow that dropped a couple inches on the front side, transitioning to CAA fluffy/breezy snow.

The previous seasons do not help, I think most of it is rooted in that. That’s how I was for a while in the 2010s when SNE was pulling bombs left and right. 12-24” grew on trees it felt like 2010-2015 down there and we couldn’t do 6+ in a single event. Even 2015-16 sucked overall (all-time bad up north) but CT was getting stripes of 15-inch events through the heart of the state. We’ve all been there. It ebbs and flows.

This was like 10-15 hours ago? Had no idea the vibe shifted so hard. But after reading the past two pages… I now understand the responses.

Damn, already almost 4” there. Yeah, hand up, didn’t read the room. Had a busy day and didn’t check in since last night.

I swear last I read was some good chance coming up, Ray (last night) saying a storm is coming, not looking at models till Wednesday… second week of December, etc. Wasn’t that very recently?

Ha I haven’t read the thread. Thought a storm was coming this week. How much you got so far over in SLK? Models seemed to jackpot that region of the Dacks heading into the High Peaks.

Nice snowy evening with the clipper. Should get a 2-4” refresh.

Normal for today is 36/18 here. Today was 19/-10 (hi/lo). After 26/6 and 26/10 days. The warmest in these first 5 days of December was 37/10 (-4 departure). The first 5 days have been -10.5 Short sample size but high-end cold for this time of year.

Have to watch the clipper for a little regional refresh.

HIE and Alex the early leaders tonight out of the gate at -4F .

9F

-10F for a low so far.

3am and -6F. What a night. SLK at -20 already.

It’s so bright outside. 3/-8 here. -1F at 1,500ft and -10F at 3,600ft. Also feels like the surface of the moon.

On Christmas Day.

SLK at 5F… haha @WxWatcher007 in a different world now.

Car said 9F leaving the mountain and 11F at home. Windy. Light snow. Not fake.

All joking aside, these are some truly rugged conditions outside at the mountain. Full-on whiteouts and howling wind. Even the ASOS in the valley is registering the rare M1/4 under quarter mile vis… METAR KMVL 041825Z AUTO 34015G21KT M1/4SM +SN VV009 M08/M11

A far cry from 2015-16 worst winter ever when everyone was telling us to stop bitching lol.

Yeah 3-4” of fluff and still coming at the Mtn.

Ebb and flow of climate is interesting. We were not on a heater there in some of those SNE 2010s seasons. But it’s been a run the past two seasons.

Crushing snow. Mansfield stake depth at #1 all-time (since 1954) for the date at 47”.