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  1. powderfreak
    I’m happy for the vacationers. Almost every holiday period for multiple years has included rain it seems like, ha.
  2. powderfreak
    Just keeps fluffing out.
  3. powderfreak
    Incredible. Mountain has picked up another 6" so far today. Gonna be closing in on 18" past two days.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. powderfreak
    Yup I was wrong as usual, ha.
  8. powderfreak
    What a morning. It’s still snowing nicely too.
  9. 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.
  10. powderfreak
    We had 5” at 6:30am and feels like another 5” in 3 hours since.
  11. powderfreak
    The clipper is coming through. Probably going to hit double digits. Snowing very hard. Rare photo of myself this AM.
  12. powderfreak
    It is crushing at the ski area. Low vis, great snow growth. 5-6” new.
  13. powderfreak
    Snowing pretty hard. Eyeballing at least 3” overnight in town.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. powderfreak
    Take the opportunity, if it presents itself. You can move to wherever you want to start anew. Go somewhere you think you’d enjoy on a personal level.
  17. powderfreak
    My barometer to good upslope periods is rooted in the 850mb temps. If we can average -12C at ridge level, during waves of moisture… it will fluff out. When the thermal profile is such, it snows up north. This upcoming clipper seems terrain sensitive as well, with H85 temps of -8C to -22C over time, and lift averaging in the crosshairs.
  18. powderfreak
    Pinnacle Sports and Ski Essentials create great content. Love the stoke, wasn’t great but was needed and put the fire back in the “Stowe Family.”
  19. powderfreak
    Today was a fun day. Just the surprise of it actually snowing. A reporting morning for me, so to wake up to snow on the ground, having to clean the car off, then heading up to find the number folks are interested in at 5:30am… after like two weeks without a decent little snow, it felt like we finally got a win .
  20. powderfreak
    Cold front and ULL came through. 5” overnight and snowing.
  21. powderfreak
    You aren’t taking a chance on relying on “Morch” over say December. It statistically has more high-end events and average snowfall than December. Thats the statistical play. The emotional play is that if December sucks, you know you have months leading up to and through “Morch” to lean on. Seasonally, one likes the dark winter months for snow (regardless of climo temps), but March can bring the big totals.
  22. powderfreak
    We are all slaves to the models. Guess it goes down as a positive bust? No sense upgrading when it’s mostly done… just eat the verification scores and move onward. When it’s coming down at 2-3”/hr in a mesoband, no sense in trying to verify it through updates as a forecaster. At some point, you just let the forecast ride. If the system happened like models showed 24-36 hours ago, that deform band snow ends up over HubbDave or SNH.
  23. powderfreak
    That sums up the winter overall. Huge minimum departures and clouds, moisture.
  24. powderfreak
    Damn what lake/pond is that? I’m now curious. This looks starkly different than the reports around E/C CT.
  25. powderfreak
    Congrats. Nice videos of the storm too.
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