powderfreak

It’s a team effort to preserve the observation.

These two photos from today show the elevational change in weather conditions… of a Gondola/lift that spans 2,100+ vertical feet. Multiple seasons and climates in a 12 minute ride. Start in autumn, end in winter.

This weekend will feel real nice and warm. The past 48-72 hours is a taste of what’s to come for winter. Almost 7” now at the plot. 10” 2-day total.

Closing in on 6” (5.5”) today at 3,000ft. 3” in the last 2 hours. The clock is wrong by three hours, ha, but the image is current. Storm total would be 9”.

It’ll all be gone in a couple days, definitely by the weekend. But October snows never stick around, even up at the picnic tables. A couple of you have said it, but nice to see things happening when they should, high elevation snows in October. At least a couple good troughs getting through the forcefield.

Nice! That's always exciting. I posted that screen grab from Stowe 27 minutes ago and it's over 4" now. That's 1-2"/hr. It is cranking into Mansfield right now and the best upper level support is still back up in Montreal. Wonder if the top gets blasted by like 8" tonight.

Upslope machine is up and running. Peaks could do well tonight. Closing in on 4” today. 3” fell yesterday.

This interaction is hilarious. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Kev say it’s a good foliage year, there’s always something wrong.

About 2,500ft. 3,600ft.

I will always love snow, but also understand that things are changing. Sure, minimum temperatures continue to rise, but we are far enough north that it won’t matter as much… especially at elevation. I hate saying it as it gets categorized as political. It’s not. We just want to be above the snow level.

Snow levels dropped fast this evening. Even catpaws down at 750ft here in Stowe village. Big ol' white rain splatting on the windshield. Accums down through 1,300ft now. Snow looks fluffy up high on the cam, ha. Down to 26F at 3,600ft. I love the warm and sunny weather, and will enjoy it after this event, but the snow puts a little hop in my step. It was exciting today at the ski area. High fives and fist bumps throughout the operations crew and other staff. People get excited with the first real snow. A shot out of the real camera of the 3" outside Stowe's Cliff House.

Yeah highs at the summits back over 50F it looks like. Should be a real nice weekend.

Winter.

Yore.

2" at 3,000ft with steady snow falling on the remote snow cam. Will be heading up a bit later.

Oh for sure, I think a foot at the summits by Wednesday AM is in play. That was just a knee jerk reaction by me (my bad) as I see the 3KM shared so much on social media with people dropping pins right over the mountains and seeing 25" Jay, 20" Mansfield and then asking why forecasts aren't calling for two feet. I like the HRRR's precip scheme... however that resolves the terrain looks a lot more like reality than how the 3km NAM resolves the terrain. Check out these side by side comparisons for a 12-hour QPF total. The HRRR on the right looks more like what usually happens. Maxes over the peaks but not like 1.0" QPF next to a trace. Upslope can be pretty stark differences over short distances, but the HRRR precip spread looks more like what often happens.

That 3k is almost un-useable for the ridgelines. It turns rime and fog into into a lot of precip. I hate that model for the ridgelines . It’ll show like 3 feet of snow, the globals will show 6” and the mountains will get 12” and everyone is like see the NAM knew. No, the NAM showed 3 feet, lol. Panels like this are usually very bogus IMO…. and it all adds up fast in the like aggregate. Maybe a tenth in 6-hours but not like 0.30-0.50” on the ridges.

Yeah saw flakes on the Rt 242 VTrans camera.

SLK been under 1sm mile in snow this morning.

The Lookout plot (on remote cam) with a half inch of slush. This plot can be a bit less than the Gondi side at the same elevation… but nice to see the pace of wet snow is outpacing the melt rate.

That was a weird post by Maue. Like nothing about that snow map looks better than a bad Dec/Jan. That looks exactly what a ratter Dec/Jan looks like, ha.

The tram is the giveaway... only mountain in VT with one.

Overdone but shows potential for the mtns tomorrow…

I bet it’s snow up top. Snow level here is like 3,200ft. Im down in the base again and you can still see that distinct visibility change above the snow line where it goes from clearer to milky white above. Are you there tomorrow? I think you could get smoked for a time at 1900ft. BTV has snow mixing to valley floors. 925mb temps -1C to -2C in steady precip on GFS/NAM could get it down low tomorrow.

Right now. Dumping, ha.