powderfreak

9” overnight at High Road. 13” storm total.

It’s very deep. Snow report 6 is low. Mountain got smoked last night.

Yes you do, ha. It’s ok though, it’s all part of the forum. It’s not political on here. Its factual. If you bet above normal, your odds are high.

Soil temps and vegetation is a good barometer. That ecosystem really doesn’t care if the days or nights are hotter. The mean temperature is what matters, and it’s been high.

Don’t let it fool you. It’s April climo and look. This week has still been winter above 2,000-2,500 feet but down low it’s been brown, wet, soggy ground, mud, decaying plow piles and random dirty patches of snow. It looks a full month ahead of schedule.

Honestly, some of those dry torches have solidly lower mins than we have been seeing. The 40-degree diurnal ranges right now get colder at night despite the mild afternoon. Like 65/25 vs. 46/34.

This. I’m not scared, lol, but it’s super impressive how warm it has been since the end of November on mediocre high temps.

32F with steady light snow. Everything turning white again in the valley. Visibility at MVL is 1.25sm in snow, the upslope machine has turned on when MVL starts snowing steadily. Mountain had picked up 4" through 3pm at 3,000ft and it's been snowing nicely this evening. A decent standing wave upslope band developing. NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... As of 643 PM EDT Monday...The locals like to call this pattern bread n butter, where conditions are favorable for upslope accumulating snow showers every 6 to 12 hours, and produce free refills daily. Crnt radar is showing the areal coverage of mtn snow showers and mix rain/snow in the valleys increasing this evening associated with a sfc cold frnt and weak embedded s/w.

Bread and Butter, from WFO BTV: NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... As of 643 PM EDT Monday...The locals like to call this pattern bread n butter, where conditions are favorable for upslope accumulating snow showers every 6 to 12 hours, and produce free refills daily. Crnt radar is showing the areal coverage of mtn snow showers and mix rain/snow in the valleys increasing this evening associated with a sfc cold frnt and weak embedded s/w. As flow continues to shift back to the west/northwest in the 925mb to 850mb layer, expect upslope snow showers to prevail most of the night acrs the northern Dacks and central/northern Greens. A sharp and highly elevational snowfall gradient is anticipated from a dusting to an inch possible valleys to 2 to 6 inches mtns by morning. Temps have cooled quicker than expected acrs the SLV this evening, so have made the hrly temp adjustment and added more snow than rain. Otherwise, precip type should be mostly snow at all levels by 02z this evening, which is covered in fcst. No additional changes made attm.

Yeah we’ve seen a quick 4” at 3,000ft this afternoon. 1”/hr.

@airandrice posted this on Instagram. I think this image shows how snowy the scene and trees are. Plus the green St Paddy’s Day waterfall. 4” at the High Road plot in the past 24 hrs, but measured below this picture’s elevation. The 500-1000ft higher zones of the ski area have seen more snow for sure in most elevational event. Our reported snowfall totals are from an elevation below this location and well below the tops of the lift system. It’s been a good run up in the highest elevations. In the alpine…

Nice, J. Here are the observations from Mansfield. Zero accumulations below 2000-2500ft, but some periods of huge aggregates and convective snow making it down through 1500ft (base area) and even town (750ft). 3,000ft had two, 2-inch observations today, morning and last run of the Gondola. 4-inches past 24 hrs. Enough to be decent net gains in SWE up high. Been a sneaky snowy stretch for 3,000ft…and 3,500-4,000ft has done even better at the top of the lifts and into the alpine zone.

Had some good snow squalls today. Big fat aggregates.

Yeah it was just hammering snow. Very heavy squalls and even into town. Lookout Snow Cam got like 1.5” in 20 minutes. Had another healthy 2” at 3000ft this morning, probably another 2” already.

I was pretty much in downtown BTV on College Street, next to City Market for that time period. That winter was the best comeback season ever. The first half was atrocious, then there were some big storms that rolled trough in Feb/Mar/Apr. The mountains went from awful low snowpack and crap winter to solid snowpack with fun and exciting storms. I think 5-6 feet fell in April alone on the upper mountain. Stake went from roughly 60” to 100”.

I’m with you, like to be outside. The drier the better. In all seasons. All in on snow, but rain doesn’t do much for me.

Another little white coating last night up high. Above 2500ft has picked up a decent little shot of frozen QPF over past two days. Dense and creamy.

It was a cold day. 41/34 is the spread since last night at midnight at the local ASOS. Normal is 38/16. +11.5 halfway through March is absolutely insane. Has to be rivaling the top first half of March departures on record.

He does, and JSpin has been doing it for over 30 years now online. Legend. I remember his detailed trip reports back on the SkiVT-Listserve on the UVM servers in the 1990s. Those were the days. Think I had just discovered the skiing internet in High School.

I mean, that’s pretty amazing stuff that VT forecast vs reality. Hats off to WFO BTV. It did work out very much how the models said it would, with a touch of local knowledge added in.

The whole time you were trying to grow grass so you could park your truck on it?

It's at 3,200ft near top of Lookout Double. High Road Plot had a little less on the Gondola side.

If only this winter was a couple degrees Celsius colder. Would’ve been a huge winter. Even +4 instead of +8 to +10. It would’ve snowed a lot. Just missing another one by temps of only a couple degrees from freezing.

In the MMSP (Mt Mansfield Ski Patrol) HQ and Dispatch offices at 3,600ft… pretty funny with the +2C side note.

Gawd damn. That night shot is a vibe.