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  1. powderfreak
    Congrats man. Long time coming.
  2. powderfreak
    Nice!
  3. powderfreak
    3” past 24 hrs from yesterday’s little fluffer at 1,500ft. Depth 31” at base of Mansfield. Snowpack is solid and robust even at that 1500ft elevation making great skiing to the road/108.
  4. powderfreak
    About 3” of fluff here. More than I expected. Probably only a tenth of QPF.
  5. powderfreak
    It’s above average over the last 20 years for mid-January. Plenty of QPF too. We have had some tough seasons over that time. Just like SNE. But this year has produced somehow.
  6. powderfreak
    28” snowpack at 1500ft this evening. This is a QPF heavy, frozen snowpack too. I scraped an additional inch off the Barnes Camp board. The snowpack is respectable in both depth and frozen water at the Stowe base area.
  7. powderfreak
    Almost as impressive is the next day max of 19F on that MOS lol. A nice 70 degree rise.
  8. powderfreak
    Had 2” when it ended at 1,500ft and 5” at 3,000ft. 3K depth went 63” to 68”. Skiing felt even deeper above 3000ft. Top of Gondola might’ve had 6” but we don’t measure up there.
  9. powderfreak
    Flipped to snow and a sporty drive to work this morning… greasy, saw one vehicle in ditch.
  10. powderfreak
    This thread is one of the best and it’s only a few hours old.
  11. powderfreak
    I think 2/14/07 takes the cake for me. We had 6” in BTV before temps hit 0F.
  12. powderfreak
    But that doesn’t mean there can’t be region-wide fun winter events though still to come too.
  13. powderfreak
    Feel like this is easier said than done for many folks here …
  14. powderfreak
    Yup, would rather be around that than eyeore.
  15. powderfreak
    Yeah it’s all been made through orographic means with general prevailing southwest/west/northwest flow. Great Lakes and mesoscale mountain areas.
  16. powderfreak
    Yeah there’s about 8-10” in my yard. Goes to 30” at 1500ft a few miles up the road at the office, then doubles again to 60” at 3,000ft. Its a very sharp, microscale gradient of orographic precipitation.
  17. powderfreak
    I’m outside in the cold quite a bit, but I have started to enjoy the warm season more and more. There are also life things that play into that… winter life vs summer life. But man, late sunsets when it’s 80 degrees and what feels like two hours of twilight from 7-9pm… that’s what I love. Hate 84/68 at 1:30pm lol. Anyway, looks like we’ll take the 15th event and turn it into a nice refresher up here.
  18. powderfreak
    Today in the Ranch Valley of Stowe after 1-3” on like a half inch of QPF. Just keep adding SWE to the pack.
  19. powderfreak
    Surprised you don’t think your area can do as well as anyone, even the mid-Atlantic.
  20. powderfreak
    Were you torching yesterday? We only saw 1-2” decreases in snow depth during this “thaw”… quickly working to make it back up now. I do think it’s much less snow at 1500ft on the west side of Mansfield, maybe even half that 26”. This SE side locks in cold on those warmer south flows for sure.
  21. powderfreak
    Sitting at a firm 58” today at 3,000ft after last evening’s rain and freeze. Not all fake, has decent water content in it. Hope you guys can hit on the 15th threat.
  22. powderfreak
    Steady light snow up this way. Be interesting to see what happens tonight.
  23. powderfreak
    Interesting you are down to 9” at 1500ft. That’s about what the valley is around these parts. 1500ft in these parts (the base of the ski area) is a frozen solid 26” pack that you can walk on this morning.
  24. powderfreak
    Cold air hung on all day here, mostly low to mid 30s. Until this evening. Spiked from 37F to 47F in past hour with SW winds gusting over 30mph. Fully mixed out adiabatically. BTV just had two hours of 20-25 sustained, gusting 35-45.
  25. powderfreak
    Recently the ice covered branches have been leaning over the upper mountain study plot… catching snow and generally infringing on the 360 degree opening in the forest canopy. Would be nice to melt the ZR… makes skiing through the woods easier too.
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