powderfreak

3” of paste and ripping with branches drooping.

Wedged in pretty good. Tamarack with 12+ OTG for Thanksgiving there.

9 years ago… one of the fakest storms in a long time hitting BUF south towns.

Opening day and spring bumps just like we left it in April/May.

Wonder if they are aware of exactly where Massachusetts is for starters?

One of the tighter inversions in a while. It’s like 20F warmer just a few hundred feet up. The Stowe Country Club golf course is 28F at the bottom and 44F on the hill behind it, ha.

Ha.

I’m not sure what MADIS says for a trend, but definitely noticing a warm trend all the sudden at MVL. The MVL ASOS, out in the field, has never strayed far from the local PWS spots in the valley. But recently it’s broken off from those PWS readings by up to several degrees at times. 36F when the valley is 32-35F.

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.