powderfreak

I’ve never heard of them being required anywhere. Some require them for children’s ski school lessons or junior programs though, that’s gaining popularity.

Not ideal. Riding the probabilities but on the low end for NNE.

This reminds me of why U-Wind Anomalies are so important. Strong southerly flow is a moist torch… if that wind direction was more easterly (instead of S/SE), it advects moisture deeper into the cold pocket. As it happened, it was just a very robust S/SE jet streak rotating through…not transporting moisture into the cold sector.

Ahhh to be in college again…

Have seen it on a couple runs but this place will be real lively if a couple suppressed mid-Atlantic sliders roll through.

There have been excavators going up and down Nosedive to get to it.

See I would say we had by far the best start to the season since 2018’s record November. It all got completely reset though. Theres still snow too… its just that it’s all a block of ice. If we got a foot of snow, the snowpack is still there to open natural snow terrain. But we are in a holding pattern now. The irony is that the official record will show the Stake depth is just back to normal now . But there's still "snow", just in the form of a glacial ice pack. Luckily wasn't a true total melt out.

lol. You get so defensive my man. It was a joke. With that said, Tamarack has been around for a while, probably one of the most level headed observation oriented poster on here. Tom has seen a lot of winters if you’ve paid attention to his posts. If he says it’s desperate, most of us are inclined to believe him as he’s never had any reason to shape a discussion outside of facts. The guy knows more about Maine climo than anyone on here. It’s on another level than just anecdotal snowmobile experiences.

Part of me wonders what it would take for Wolfie to acknowledge it being not ideal, lol. I feel like Bananas could be harvested in Fort Kent in December and it would be “yeah it happens, I saw them growing while snowmobiling 22 years ago. No biggie.”

It’s rare to have a winter rain event raise the lake level on the “6th Great Lake” to a level above the spring melt. December never gets the highest water level of the year. Add it to the list of things we haven’t seen in a minute of history. Its been a wet year overall.

Just imagine how warm the rain would’ve been without the Atlantic’s help. That assist might have been what marginally tipped the scales pasty to the north.

It’s made the white coating the past couple days at home feel like deep winter. We need to get back in the flow. It was a pretty good 3-week stretch in the NNE mtns.

But if we get snow in April or October we count it? Does it make them winter months? I don’t disagree with you but the logic doesn’t float completely.

That Cliff trail damage on Mansfield is one of the crazier things I’ve seen on that mountain and I’ve seen a couple crazy things over the years. Heard there was an excavator heading up there today. That is a key trail connecting the Gondola and Quad. And that won’t get fixed with snow. That flash flood dug a trench in the ground for like a half a mile down that trail.

Snow is back. Nice light snow and we white again. Rebuild one half inch at a time.

Pretty much every major snow event prior to this was high QPF… there was one fluffer but multiple 1”+ SWE snow events sat laying in wait east of the Spine. Then strong SE winds brought a huge wave of moisture into those same areas that harbored the most SWE. Many big QPF events have occurred in the past month, but we lucked out by 1C each time. This one wasn’t even close though. Pattern has been very wet.

Flooding has been high-end in NNE. Inches of rain is one thing… but add in a very significant SWE melt and this is a big disrupter. How many times can places say “this is a once in 100 year event?” A friend/coworker’s view in Waterbury, VT. RT 15 in Johnson, VT, on the way to Smuggs from Stowe.

90mph at 600ft is absolutely wild though in the larger scheme of things. Don’t care if it’s a bit exposed. It’s not like it’s got 2k+ feet of prominence. Stack like half a dozen tall trees on top of each other to get there.

We are one lane to and from the ski resort now. This photo was earlier today before the culvert failed a second time and ate the entire northbound lane of RT 108 heading to the ski area. VTrans installed temporary traffic lights to keep the road open unless it fails a third time. Stowe now has two traffic lights.

Culvert failed up near the ski area on RT 108. Sounds like employees have left via small one lane passage on side.

We are flooding in Stowe.

I’ll add a hat tip too. I’m always going to lean against high-end events but think there’s a lot of value in admitting when my thoughts are wrong.

So many places around here have water like a foot from major roads. Just so much water. Small streams, drainages, big rivers.

That’s nuts. A 70” calendar year is w(e)ttt.

Yikes.