powderfreak

Only one exclamation point though, needs two or three.

It’s going down in Utah right now.

Nice crosshair of DGZ and best lift.

The rain runnels in the snowpack are the crazy part. Rare to see it like this… some Pacific NW stuff.

Yup. Great squalls moving through town here.

Really nice squalls moving through town on the backside.

They’ve been multiplying lately lol.

This forum has become something else when people who get 18” of snow are bitching and moaning incessantly within a week of that event.

Haha. Truly not trying to make anyone jealous, just like photo observations. This is an underwhelming event.

Pasty. But going to sleet now.

If the ICON showed a bomb instead of the widespread light 2-4”, would it move the needle for you? ICON is a model where if it hits good, it’s a crappy model so don’t trust it. If it shows a less than desired outcome, it’s probably correct.

Today was a good day on the hill. High Road plot picked up ~1” yesterday afternoon and 3” overnight. 4” total added in 18 hours. We like to clear the board sometime in the AM and sometime in the PM if it’s snowing. Round to the nearest inch, up or down. Today the new snow seemed to dry out the crust a bit. Ski Patrol dropped a variety of ropes. 4pm. Cleared. 9am.

Whooosh.

Japan is a bucket list snow spot on the north island. Cold air from Siberia, crossing the Sea of Japan, then plowing into high topography… it’s a dream set up. Theres a reason some of these towns average like 400-500”. 26” overnight in Niseko, Japan a couple days ago, with rates to 6”/hr. The culture plus snowfall and ski terrain… would love to visit someday.

Someone put up a map of Dec 2003. Feel like that had 18”+ in BTV area and BOS area… which is a hard thing to do.

That would get it done.

Can always start there and go lower if need be.

Very strong flow. At the right height. The downslope was probably past/beyond them to the NW. It’s like rocks in a river. Sometimes the water level is shallow and the water falls sharply/immediately behind a rock, other times if the flow is deeper and stronger, the rock enhances the wave to max out downstream of it… and the resulting crash downward is even further out. It’s all about where the wave of moisture maxes out. Upstream of the barrier in shallow flow, over the barrier, or beyond the barrier in deeper flow.

We’ve got a solid foot of water logged snowpack on the ground… the water runnel patterns are like a topographic map in the snowpack too. This event surprised me. Local observer had 7.3” on 0.90” water in town before it went over to all rain. Solid net gain in SWE, while increasing depth by several inches. Hopefully another attempt at building a true snowpack. The last multi-week attempt got wiped out by the December flood.

Yeah I don’t know to be honest but thought the summit is a precipitation can… like an 8” diameter opening? That’s what they used to use on Mansfield to capture snow on wind swept rock. I always thought it still under-caught.

I believe it falls into a precipitation can up there vs a ground based measurement?

Yeah, especially as it changed back to snow above 2,000ft back at around 9am. 3,000ft saw a net gain of 10" of water soaked snow. This will freeze and essentially raise the base level a full 10 inches for any future snows to fall on at upper mountain terrain (2500-4000ft). A thick layer of concret.

Finding 10” at 3,000 foot snow plot at Stowe. Poured rain on it, then changed back to snow at 9am. Massive net gain of snow/water on hill.

Had 7” on the ground at the base of the mountain. Grooming said 8-9” at midnight but 7” was the morning observation. Seemed pretty similar in town but more like 6.5” at 4:30am. Peaked at like 7.5”.