powderfreak

Yeah agreed, those 30-foot anemometer readings show the 30-foot wind speeds. Above that it likely increases. Depends on what height one wants to measure winds. If 100-200+ feet off the ground is the forecast value, then free air readings are definitely different animal than the ground level 2-M. Like I said who cares what the value is, if tree branches come down. 35-40mph at 2-M or 60mph off the deck.

55-63mph will uproot trees in any season. That’s some absolutely legit wind for inland zones. 40mph can uproot as well with wet thawed ground, it’s just not as sexy a number. I dunno, just witnessed a lot of weather over the years while monitoring the wx station readings on the Mtn. In the end, does the MPH value matter if the excitement and damage is there? If 40-50mph is very disruptive, does it matter if folks want it to be recorded as 60+mph.

Thanks. That’s always been a great scale. 55-63mph “seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage.” 40mph is much more impactful than folks think.

So how would you know what you gusted too? Not trying to be an ass but if you say you’ll gust to 65 (or whatever), how do you know what it is? Hear the roar and if branches come down it was 65? IMO wind is the most over-estimated weather observation out there. There is a lot of tossing locally measured values in favor of the highest measured values elsewhere. Gusting 40mph in the interior forests is very strong. That’ll bring down some stuff. But 60+ seems overblown. The NWS forecasts look good. People under-estimate the damage that can occur from 40mph with warm, wet ground.

On your Davis? Or what?

Unreliably it can gust that high in many wind events.

Agreed. It seemed 15-20 years ago you’d get the ETA and MRF to be too tame and something bombs and hugs the coast or is a super deep low with stronger winds. Now it is almost always the models are going too far in the strength side of the system. Maybe it’s a quickening jet, or whatever but the vast majority tend to become less impactful as H+0 approaches.

Eventually the wolf shows up. The boy can cry wolf over and over and over again. But eventually, the teeth will show up. And then he can claim victory that he knew it first, and no one listened. A shepherd boy repeatedly fools an internet forum into thinking wind is going to attack their town. When an actual high-wind event appears, the boy calls for help, the forum members think it is another false alarm, and their villages are eaten by wind.

Picked up 4” in squalls today at the Mtn and looks like even a couple inches in town. Enough for them to plow the driveway though that might have been overkill.

Right? We are closing in on 4” at the Lookout Plot since like 6-7am. 2-3” in the parking lot.

Same here. Low vis big flake squalls.

Details aren’t as important.

Gonna be tough for us to pull another rabbit out of the hat on that one.

Love this. Shows the parking lot vibe. The black and white shots on these days show what is important. White is snow, non-white is everything else.

Friend's photo... out that way they had 6-7" of paste last night. We had half that. This photo is from Elmore or Wolcott, on the line.

Nope, you're right, bad typo. Woodbury, VT. The Elmore, Wolcott, Woodbury, Cabot zone has done very well. Friends from the ski area who live out there have gotten dumped on in all of these.

Yeah, been lucky up here. Even though here under 1000ft has been tough at times relative to the local higher terrain, still up to 24” on the season. And all of it has been impactful it seems, which has added to the overall “feel”. Without even looking at amounts, one can pick up the seasonal zone… interior central-northern Vermont. Yellow to red is essentially 20-50” on the season. The Woodford and Greensboro sites already 40+ inches on the year, on December 11.

Nice quiet Monday on the mountain during a snowy day. Empty chairs coming up at 11am during a storm. Love Mondays.

Still coming down this evening at the ski area. Don't dare drop anymore obs in the main thread, lol. Getting dire outside of our little pocket in VT it seems.

When we are barely cold enough to snow up here each week, doesn’t bode well elsewhere. Upslope is ripping right now. Heavy snow again. Maybe best of event lol.

Ratios 6:1 not 10:1. What would be great is if you could use a sliding scale on the snow maps. They had the idea, you just need to know how to use them. Loved the positive depth increase maps in this.

I can’t remember so many beautiful paste events. One a week now for three weeks.

About 3” of paste of like 6:1 snow down in the valley. Looks nice outside considering this was going to be a hot multi-day cutter last week. Moving east wasn’t the worst thing, at least it didn’t go back west and torch for another 18 hours.

Looks like 2-3” of heavy paste and trees bending way over again here in town. 3,000ft about 6”.

Yeah as expected the snow level is about 1,000ft lower on the west slope due to upslope/forced parcel ascent. That extra 0.5C matters in the isothermal column. Now it looks like it’s snowing there. But reports of snow to 500ft on west side into Champlain Valley. Past few events have been the opposite with SE wind.