powderfreak

Charts.

Been spitting light wet snow for past hour or two. Nothing really on radar though. 33F. We’ll try to stay safe.

All I knew was they were on pace with their timeline of having the new lift operational before the Xmas-New Years holiday week. Looks like the towers were flown in today. I don’t know the status of the terminals but usually those take the longest to build. Things like the towers, while big, get put in fast due to the cost of the helo. String the haul rope, then test it, carriers go on quickly as long as they are on site, etc.

That’s a nice streamer. Looks like something that would drop an inch.

A half inch of dust. Maximizing those few hundredths of QPF, ha.

We open Friday.

GFS looking snowy at 18z. Just gotta tug that SE a bit.

Nice white coating out there. Good flakes. 30F.

-1.2F at MVL here. -2.2 at MPV. -3.1 at BTV. I still feel MVL is drifting a bit warm compared to local PWS (relative to how it’s been in the past) but it’s still within reasonable.

Radiators and elevations mount up. Already at our coldest reading of the season at 20F. But also 19F up at the ski resort at 1600ft. 15F summit. Not inverted yet.

It's hard to say but its usually measured in acre feet. There are so many variables that go into it, but production with many of the low-e guns maxes out in the 12-14F degree range. Lower teens is sort of the sweet spot for pumping water with very little compressed air. It's really just water and air combinations, like when its warmer you are heavy on air and light on water (thus not making much snow)... while colder temps are heavy on water and light on air (more QPF/more snow, ha). You can do feet in a pile overnight at 10-15F. The irony is that it can get too cold and you start losing water to evaporation and into the air at a certain temperature... some of the crystals don't have enough mass to fall to the ground and get suspended in the air. You get the big snowmaking cloud over a mountain, which is essentially water that isn't finding the ground. You still produce plenty of snow but you are losing some of the water to the atmosphere at those single digits and lower temps.

Mansfield is still weak down in the lowest 300-400 verts… the top 1,600 vertical is pretty stout. That’s the problem with top-to-bottom openings… the base area runout is usually the hold-up at 1500-1800ft elevation. While above 2,500ft looks like this.

Mid-winter vibe up high today despite only 6” of cover.

Nice wintry afternoon with scattered snow showers in the valley and mid-winter cold up on the mountain. 6” of dense sandy snow above 2500ft.

What’s not fake is pulling into a parking lot and zero snow on any vehicle… but there’s that one car with snow on it. This guy looks like he came from like 1500ft+.

It’s inverted profile. Little known fact only on this board is that unless there is wind present, the real feel temperature is actually incredibly warm on those nights. Sometimes the wx apps will say like “Clear, calm at 19F. Real Feel of 47F.” That’s why DIT said folks are sweating despite the low temps.

The cold front is moving through, maybe bringing a quick couple inches at the mountain. This would bring this current WAA and then CAA event to 6” at 3,000ft over 48 hours.

No AC for sure. Just a bedroom fan.

Bravo sir! Well done!

Man what a classic web cam image that would be. Dendy just push mowing through that with snow and grass getting shot out the side.

I do wonder if opinions or posts on here would change if real money was on the table. I believe TanBlizz would still be all in on warm/above normal temps… but I would be interested if Wolfie was all in on cooler temps in the long range, once money becomes involved. Odds would also be interesting. It’d sort of be putting your money where your mouth is and see how that changes the tone.

I wish Draft Kings or something put odds that folks could bet on and settle the cold vs warm back and forth discussions. These probability maps make me think someone should put odds the anomalies.

Fully expect an EasternMassWx blog about it over the weekend.

Can always look forward to a possible upslope event before the torch. I know many would be waiting on the edge of their seats, ha.

There’s definitely a hangover effect too from the past season. Weather or sports even… have a fun season previously, people give a lot more latitude before going totally pessimistic. Have a rough past season and that start of the next year is not getting any benefit of the doubt. Like a pessimism hangover.