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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.
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21” storm total in the mid-slope hardwoods. Mansfield stake depth increased 24” up high. This was a good storm. The wind was incredible as well. This would’ve been a 40-inch storm if it was true fluff and not wind-packed. As it was, it was a great shot of frozen QPF (1.50-2.50”) for the mountains.
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Hey I’ll give you credit and NWS. I’m not stubborn or trying to prove anything, was just my gut feeling given the elevation, but 8” is on the ground here at the end and it looks like winter. The storm total got me. Saw the 9-10” on NWS map and thought it was aggressive for the village.
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That’s likely exactly what it is. The elevated snowboards are great at times but in windy events they will get wrecked. The same reason why your car’s roof can only have a few inches on it when there’s boot deep snow on the ground all around. I give the Bush props for sticking with it though. They are trying to do it in as controlled a manner as possible. The ground based floating board is the way to go though, just shows the new snow/pack increase from the last time it was checked.
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Mansfield stake recovered 24” of depth in this cycle. 41” to 65”. This is about 800ft higher than our High Rd observations.
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Really need a protected spot. This one was found by a patroller like 30 years ago. You go in there and it’s like, this is where we need to measure, ha. This is what 21” looks like… the depth in the woods just came up a full, even 20.
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21” for Stowe at 4pm. Documented and measured. 8” yesterday morning. 1” yesterday 4pm. 9” this morning. 3” at 4pm today (rounded up to make up for a couple rounded down earlier). 8 + 1 + 9 + 3 = 21”. Due diligence in accurate totals, ha.
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9” new overnight and this morning. Storm total 18” for Mansfield so far. Nuking sideways.
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A comparison of the same location at Barnes Camp over the past couple days. Stowe Mountain Rescue training the other day in one photo. Then early this evening as the upslope started. Bare and dusty ground to winter. The change in scenery is nice. Friday was full late-spring vibes. Today is winter. Moving from late April back to March. More winter over the next 24 hours too.
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Sad stuff. The price of admission can be very high. You need to know what you are getting into. 600 vertical feet is a terrifying fall. This isn’t making light of it, but the temperature is a full degree or two different from the starting and stopping points. Thats a long fall.
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It's wild. It hasn't snowed decently in at least 3 weeks. And it has been an utter torch. That was a long stretch without a decent snowfall for this area in peak climo time of year for snowfall.
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I hadn’t heard about that. Tough for everyone involved.
