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  1. powderfreak
    Snowfall and snow-on-the-ground will always trump temperature departures. If it’s snowy at +10, no one cares. The minute positive departures mean rain, the vibe changes drastically.
  2. powderfreak
    I’ll agree… the real cold days have been about normal. Normal is pretty damn cold in January and February. But a -20F summit windchill is like what one might expect in Jan/Feb at 3k+ feet, a couple counties within the Canadian border. We averaged low single digits for a long time, even now it needs to hit 6F every night to have a shot at below normal. Its only hit 6F once in 17 days. 14 of 17 days have had mins of 12F or more when the average has been 2-6F.
  3. powderfreak
    It’s not great. Getting lucky this winter means closer to normal.
  4. powderfreak
    To me, it’s actually been an incredible winter given the departures. I don’t think most folks understand what sustained +8 is for a departure. February currently sits at +11.2 at MVL. People die in July at +11.2 and here we are running snow cover daily at a “departure torch.”
  5. powderfreak
    Snorkeling tours go out daily during vacation week. Hasn’t been a great winter by any means. It’s had a few periods of fun though. I guess the Mansfield Stake sitting at exactly average for this date and this graph is pretty normal.
  6. powderfreak
    We had about an inch and it shut off, looks like it’s right along the border from west to east.
  7. powderfreak
    The observations leading to the 21" total. It's important to be transparent.
  8. powderfreak
    It wasn’t the deepest for me, ha. Just some of the youngsters. But there’s just a certain feel when the snow is like washing over your head on every turn. Could get 100” but if it’s dense snow it doesn’t feel the same as 20+ blower. Wildest part was it even really snow a ridge over today. Sterling Ridge was in the sun today. Mansfield was getting smoked in the low topped fluff.
  9. powderfreak
    It was so ridiculously deep today in the woods. Just thigh deep fluff blowing overhead every turn. Picked up another 6” after 8:30am. Folks talking about the deepest day of their lives into the Notch. Was even deeper out that way, probably legit two feet. Just a screenshot of one friends photo but this is what 21” looks like. Just thigh deep trenches around the hill.
  10. powderfreak
    21” storm total at Mansfield’s High Road Plot over 48 hours. I’ll make a pictogram later of the 3 measurements. It’s so deep out there. The photos and videos on social media in the woods off the Gondola is just snorkeling stuff.
  11. powderfreak
    I’m happy for the vacationers. Almost every holiday period for multiple years has included rain it seems like, ha.
  12. powderfreak
    Just keeps fluffing out.
  13. powderfreak
    Incredible. Mountain has picked up another 6" so far today. Gonna be closing in on 18" past two days.
  14. powderfreak
    Everyone is starving. Winter hasn’t been great. There is food to eat following a long dry spell. It’s a holiday weekend. It’s going to be a busy period, as it should be for these businesses. There’s definitely chances of fluffers, as a few rounds of lift attempt to move through.
  15. powderfreak
    This new snow at the ski areas is going to make things go nuclear for visitation. With a couple days left of snow showers possible from SVT to NVT… I’d expect heavy inbound traffic to the state and ski towns. Presidents Weekend is the apex of ski vacations.
  16. powderfreak
    Looks like around 5” here in Stowe down the Mtn Road. 7” is a great total for non-Mtn. Hill got a very nice shot of snow and it was still snowing steadily when I left at 5:30pm. One of the better powder mornings of the season.
  17. powderfreak
    Yup I was wrong as usual, ha.
  18. powderfreak
    What a morning. It’s still snowing nicely too.
  19. powderfreak
    -12C at 850mb with light QPF (the 0.10” light blobs on maps) is the ticket. If we can average -12C at ridge top, it fluffs big.
  20. powderfreak
    We had 5” at 6:30am and feels like another 5” in 3 hours since.
  21. powderfreak
    The clipper is coming through. Probably going to hit double digits. Snowing very hard. Rare photo of myself this AM.
  22. powderfreak
    It is crushing at the ski area. Low vis, great snow growth. 5-6” new.
  23. powderfreak
    Snowing pretty hard. Eyeballing at least 3” overnight in town.
  24. powderfreak
    Yeah J.Spin, you know how it goes. The inches of snowfall don’t matter, the LE does when we have a boilerplate layer to bury and make more fun. 20” of 0.50” water is the same as 5” of 10:1 in terms of how it affects the surface conditions.
  25. powderfreak
    Yeah I like 3-6” for the mountain through noon tomorrow, then another 2-4” into Sat AM. Say 5-10” by 7am SAT. Can apply that to all local mountains. I’m a little skeptical of 8”+ by 1pm tomorrow but when am I not? If ratios are 25:1 it’ll get there.
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