powderfreak

Only matter of time until the Canadian starts to suck in the NNE crew.

Got a nice 3-4” in squalls at the hill early AM through now.

In my mind, the atmosphere is fluid. So I look at all of the terrain generated snowfall like rocks in a river. The inversion is the depth of the water, in the river scenario, and that’s what matters IMO. The inversion height can explain most mountain snows. In this case, it was a light flow overall but with a 900-850mb inversion. Maybe some acceleration of the flow over and down the lee side, only for speed convergence to occur as the flow slows down slightly on the lee side. The air was being squeezed out around the peaks. A void was created downstream of the peaks, air rushed in to fill the void and where it collided (convergence) when wrapping around a peak, it created a narrow band of snow on the backside of the higher peaks. Some turbulence and convergence (atmosphere is fluid, Iike water over rocks), brought localized narrow WNW to ESE bands of snow over 12-24 hours.

It was honestly one of the weirdest snowfalls I’ve seen in this area. I know no one cares and there’s other stuff going on, but for an area used to mesoscale differences, this was on another level. Forge Gym and Country Club of Vermont looked like 4-5” in Waterbury, while Cabot Annex to Cold Hollow Cider to Micheal's went to bare ground with a trace. The drive to BTV was brown after Waterbury, and the crazy thing was it seemed to snow on just the north side of I-89 in Waterbury. The south facing trees had snow on them, but the north facing ones were bare. Super weird. 4-8” along Mountain Road that you could walk out of. I walk the dog on a 3 mile loop and can essentially punch out of the zone.

Saw the sun for the first time since before Christmas up here. Bluebird and fresh snow. Winter wonderland vibes.

Life goal achieved… had to go to UVM medical center for routine check up and the wife and I park and get out of car and this guy goes “where are you coming from?!” noticing the half a foot stack of snow on the roof. Not a single car on the interstate or in BTV area with snow on it and we drive in frozen and pasted. It’s shocking the different scenes around here. Even the west side of the mountain itself doesn’t look that white while the east side is blinding.

Always want to be on the NW side of the QPF gradient. Agreed.

Can’t worry about future events. I’ll always take snow today over whatever might happen in the future. Enjoy the present. If it snows and it’s a wintry vibe, don’t worry about what days later might bring. It’s all about having snowy days in the present time frame.

Big shift south/east towards the other guidance. Old: New:

Hope you guys can cash in and get the monkey off your back. El Niño and blocking… should deliver for someone down south.

God those were the best forecasts. So simple, but yet so captivating. There was no feeling like seeing the big snowflake with his little buddy and the word “Snow” on the screen.

Feels like that’s no biggie at times during strong cutters these days, ha. Maybe 60F, but 50s in a cutter at BTV is like a common occurrence these days.

The localized snowfall is a new level, even for around here where localized snows are not uncommon. Drove to Waterbury and it’s literally like a half mile for grass to turn into 3-5” near the Forge Gym and to Guptil Rd. Making a bunch of local news for Stowe too.

Still fluffing decently. Snow globe snow.

7.5” and coming down on mid-Mountain Road. Not fluff… pasty stuff. Theres some QPF in this.

Just keep the snow coming. 11pm. Still coming down on RT 108 in Stowe.

Song has been a big hit since summer. The male struggle to provide for his family is a big burden for many. Why don’t your links imbed? About as wintry in that video as the past couple weeks.

Couldn’t imagine a more picturesque snow. It’s just stacked on every little twig. For something 100% unexpected, it’s an interesting event. Model probability had to be 1-5% of the seen snow amounts.

There’s going to be 8” at some parts of RT 108 in Stowe and 1” a mile or two north/south of it .

Just keeps dumping snow. Standing wave going on almost 24 hours now. What a weird event.

It is still snowing.

Oh yeah there was some freezing mist and drizzle. Last night my car was coating in like two-tenths of ice. I didn’t notice a ton of it today. But just super weird localized event. And it wasn’t like fake fluff. It was dense cake.

lol 6” caking snow at Topnotch.

Barely snowing at the hill. If you are familiar with Mountain Road... it's from Matterhorn downhill into town.

Negative. Half inch at 1500ft. 6" at 800ft, ha. Its more of a latitude thing than a elevation. It's dumping like 2-3 miles SE of the summit.