powderfreak

LIGHTNING! Walking the dog, solid thunder snow.

Actually Lookout cam near 5” in 3.5 hours.

Let’s do it. Jay took a bit of a hit today on the webs for that snow report. Multiple reports of about 5” from people. I mean 10-14” overnight is like 35dbz snow ripping for 10 hours. Snowing hard in town in Stowe now. Lookout Cam averaging 1”/hr past 3 hours. A lot of convective graupel in this too.

Boston just had like two decades of very snowy winters in the means didn’t it?

Hey Jay Peak reported 10-14" overnight... not sure how, a friend says it skis like maybe 5" new, but maybe someone got dumped on?

Past two mornings the system has been maxed out. The snowmaking team has been dumping some serious frozen water on the hill. Just like QPF in a natural snowstorm, the goal is to have temperatures low enough to allow the system to max out its water equivalent side of the curve. Cold drastically lowers the compressed air side of the equation. Last night was 10F up top and 13F in the base. We always talk about 14F being the sweet spot. Snow piles up quickly at these temps when you are moving a lot of water.

Snowy evening on the hill top.

I just go to Notepad, hold on the original link until it says “Edit Link”… then edit the X to twitter and copy that to post. Its an extra step but still works.

Give me a link to post and I’ll embed it. I’ll try to find where the disconnect is. It definitely is an extra step.

You need to change the link before posting it. I do it in the notepad app. Paste the link in notes, change the X.com to Twitter.com, copy that new link and paste it in the forum.

Big lull now after the initial push of WAA. ~2” at the ski area cam and now dry slot flurries.

Light snow. 30/20

Ha, I think Mansfield is good right now I can’t imagine another 20” or so on top of this. Crazy.

Yeah this is the Mansfield coverage right now. It’s pretty nice out there. Another 6-12” would go a long way too. About a 10-12” net gain since Thanksgiving on about the same amount of reported snowfall.

Bottomed out at 6F. Clear skies and locally decent valley snow cover.

yeah, it’s not some deep layer WNW flow… but there has to be a westerly moisture feed/boundary creating lift as the WF slowly migrates north.

That lake effect/upslope connection looks good for your area. Just run this play and the west slopes of SVT can do well.

Half inch to an inch? That car top would probably tell the story. No matter what, that’s an early Dec look right there. It’s white.

That’s a winter vibe. Congrats.

Enjoying it while it’s here. Sounds like winter will be short by these posts. Last night’s standing wave dropped 4” on about 0.30” water. 5.5” depth.

I saw 30” in 72 hours?! Holy shit gotta be thigh deep?

Thanks, it was a fun morning. 9” in past 72 hours at the plots helped a lot. Upper Hayride and Centerline were real nice.

I don’t think so, maybe a dusting? 6” OTG here, got lucky from mesoscale snow. Very localized.

Back to 1/2-1” an hour bursts after a lull. The limiting factor is the duration of the bursts. There’s a bit of QPF in it, oddly clingy to objects… maximizing snow growth (aggregation). Snow depth is passing 6”. It’s a highly aesthetically pleasing snow. .NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... As of 913 PM EST Monday...Snow showers continue in the typical northwest flow upslope areas. These will continue for the rest of the night and even though the rates will generally be light, the longer duration will allow minor accumulations to occur in some areas. A persistent standing wave cloud in Stowe was able to put down a couple inches this evening in a very localized area, but the snowfall rates with that have been declining.

That NVT QPF at good snow growth temps… mountains be looking nice.