powderfreak

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.

I’m not sure what it is there, but I find those night live cams make rain look like snow. Easily fooled on those cams, but looks like flakes either way.

Yup it is I think. Been looking at that for decades it seems like. It stopped working for a long time but I realized it was current radar again.

It’s weird, it was broken for so long but they seemed to fix it… always out of date and stuff. https://www.wunderground.com/maps/radar/current/usa Regional view: https://www.wunderground.com/maps/radar/current/bgm One of the better p-type radars out there IMO.

I think the cold is coming in now, just dropped to 30.2F at the top of the Quad. 35F at 2600ft and 36F at 1600ft. 850mb and 925mb cold we’re pacing at similar times so once it starts snowing at elevation it should drop to 1500ft pretty fast.

Yeah, over this way as long as we've took a full on cutter and turned it into a net gain with fresh white cover when it ends, hard to complain at all about any snow amounts.

Been leaning east and weaker, have had 4-7” under 1500ft and 8-14” above 1500ft.

I still think a bit more progressive, less cold sector QPF (than that run) is more likely. But maybe it goes bonkers.

That’s very marginal. Interesting from the snow map discussion… haha. Crushed 10:1 but reality could be 3-5:1 ratios in a QPF bomb.

Don’t have it yet, what’s it get to up here? Coldest is definitely 950-850mb from NW low level flow.

Lol 1.50” QPF as snow in under 12 hours and still going. This is a huge run.

Yikes that’s amped up. Over 0.50” QPF in 3hrs of ++SN… but that line gets close.

0z 3km is nuts. 1-hr rates.. up over 0.20”/hr at times in snow band.

00 HRRR holds serve.

Is that near Clarksville? My wife’s friend here in Stowe is distraught as her family’s house just got leveled within the past hour. They had about 60 seconds to get into the storm shelter from the time of the sirens. There’s a young baby only a couple months old there and they have nothing left.

Yeah for sure, I guess that’s why I keep saying it as QPF falling as snow. Not jackpot actual snowfall on ground or anything. In a big coastal, it’ll still show you were the most QPF will fall as snow. It’s up to you to figure out the ratios. And ratios drive the deformation bands. Not QPF. That’s on the user to adjust the ratio to QPF. Its a very crude tool. Like when I see a snow map, the second image is what I see.

Ha, yeah I guess my point was do most here look at a snow map and expect that amount? I certainly don’t. I like to post them because it’s showing the most likely spot to get the most QPF to fall as snow. That’s it. 3km NAM shows 15” I’m think cool, 1.50” QPF falling as wet snow. Maybe we can grab 8-9” of actual accumulating snow.

Yeah I guess what I’m saying is it’s the amount of QPF the model thinks will fall as snow. That’s it. It just moves the decimal point. The 4-panel P-Type maps are the same thing often for precip as snow. Like if it shows 9.6” of snow, it just means 0.96” QPF is expected to fall from the sky in the form of a frozen crystal. Whether it sticks, accumulates, etc or not is up to you. You decide what to do with that information from there. Edit: Yes we are saying the same things. I just see a snow map and think in those terms… not that those inches will be on my yard when it’s done.