powderfreak
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Yeah it was just hammering snow. Very heavy squalls and even into town. Lookout Snow Cam got like 1.5” in 20 minutes. Had another healthy 2” at 3000ft this morning, probably another 2” already.
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I was pretty much in downtown BTV on College Street, next to City Market for that time period. That winter was the best comeback season ever. The first half was atrocious, then there were some big storms that rolled trough in Feb/Mar/Apr. The mountains went from awful low snowpack and crap winter to solid snowpack with fun and exciting storms. I think 5-6 feet fell in April alone on the upper mountain. Stake went from roughly 60” to 100”.
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I’m with you, like to be outside. The drier the better. In all seasons. All in on snow, but rain doesn’t do much for me.
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Another little white coating last night up high. Above 2500ft has picked up a decent little shot of frozen QPF over past two days. Dense and creamy.
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It was a cold day. 41/34 is the spread since last night at midnight at the local ASOS. Normal is 38/16. +11.5 halfway through March is absolutely insane. Has to be rivaling the top first half of March departures on record.
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He does, and JSpin has been doing it for over 30 years now online. Legend. I remember his detailed trip reports back on the SkiVT-Listserve on the UVM servers in the 1990s. Those were the days. Think I had just discovered the skiing internet in High School.
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I mean, that’s pretty amazing stuff that VT forecast vs reality. Hats off to WFO BTV. It did work out very much how the models said it would, with a touch of local knowledge added in.
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The whole time you were trying to grow grass so you could park your truck on it?
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It's at 3,200ft near top of Lookout Double. High Road Plot had a little less on the Gondola side.
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If only this winter was a couple degrees Celsius colder. Would’ve been a huge winter. Even +4 instead of +8 to +10. It would’ve snowed a lot. Just missing another one by temps of only a couple degrees from freezing.
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In the MMSP (Mt Mansfield Ski Patrol) HQ and Dispatch offices at 3,600ft… pretty funny with the +2C side note.
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Gawd damn. That night shot is a vibe.
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This was a good one 7 years ago.
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Sounds like some folks during a blizzard when they know it’s going to rain in a few days.
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I always had it as “snow increasing rapidly” and here are the values. It only gets posted if 1”+ per hour, so it’s piling up.
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Yeah you don’t see the triple number on the obs these days.
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I’ve never seen that ob before but that’s the holy grail for a METAR right there. That’s got it all.
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Yes. The Mesos have the snow for the peaks. The globals won’t see it on the larger grid. I’d cut this in half as it won’t be 10:1 ratios but it’s likely a sloppy snow above 2,500-3,000ft in our areas.
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Got down to 17F last night and I was thinking, wow that’s chilly. Then I saw it’s still above the normal min of 15F. +11.5 on the month to date here. Having a winter of only +3 will feel frigid after this year.
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I mean 7-10 days is a lifetime for a car living on a dirt road up north. Your car is clean for one pass through the road, but then spends the other 6.5-9.5 days between washes looking like it was never washed at all. Usually within 7-10 days it rains hard too, and that is incredibly effective, ha. At least we know they had mud season in VT back in yore.
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I just wait for it to rain. Seems to do that plenty these days.
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Yup that’s the one, Dunkin, car wash and gas, what more do you need? And if it’s not muddy or wet, it’s dusty and dry. There’s very little middle ground to keep cars clean here unless you want a $250 car wash bill each month or spend hours per week doing it yourself.
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I’ve got mud too and the SUV is just never clean. Can wash it but by the time you are 200 feet down the road it’s done.
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Yeah and that guy often seems to be a bit under what I get. He’s next to the Public Safety building on RT 100 which often seems just slightly warmer in marginal events. I just didn’t bother measuring the “new” and was just pacing it by what was on the ground. That first day we had 4” slop that melted back to 2” before the upslope started. There was around 8” in my yard at the end of it all yesterday evening. Could’ve had 10-11” if measuring and clearing I’d assume.
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It seems like the vibe is if it’s not 70F+ this time of year it’s not warm.
