powderfreak

It is and it isn't. 36F here off a low of 20F... I think the low dews of like 8F and NW 20 is making it hard for the sun to overcome right now. The real prize is tomorrow afternoon onward IMO. Monday should be sublime. Although this same set-up doesn't feel or look like it does outside in November. It's so bright out there. Sun in April just hits differently.

Nice sunset this evening. Crazy how late it happens, like after 7:30.

To me that's a wild combination. Thunder ice.

From my friend M.H. in Montreal... this looked like a legit damaging ice storm. They are actually probably lucky a lot of it was convective. They were getting thunderstorms at like 26 degrees, and probably had some runoff without getting the full weight of the QPF.

I’ve got a friend that posted a bunch of photos from Montreal, that was a big ice storm for a metro area. Tons of damage.

This is my type of movie. Just Owen Wilson painting Mount Mansfield over and over. It’s me but with paint instead of photography.

Agreed, we did have some good storms in each month beginning in November. December had a real fun run prior to the holidays too. Then the late season snows. It wasn’t a great year but we’ve seen much worse overall. I think the previous two winters were worse. We definitely may have avoided and recovered from rain faster up here… I remember several events that we pulled a rabbit out of a hat with changing over to 3-8” snows after rain. That stuff goes a long way in a ski season to keeping conditions ok. The mid-season time of mid-Jan to mid-Feb was bleak but it recovered with a few solid events. Stake got up to a respectable 90”, still 75” today. The one thing I find interesting about @greenmtnwx’s post is the lack of winter in the population centers. I have never ever considered that in a winter vibe type way. I’m curious as to how that plays into it? If anything it’s worse because it leads to more crowds. Ski town vibes don’t really change at all in my experience whether it snows in NYC or not. If anything it makes people up north antsy because they want to ski that snow and it’s going to waste in I-95 corridor. Or is it if one lives down there and spends a lot of time there… it’s hard to get in the mood? Maybe that’s what he means. Winter at home midweek is non-existent so it detracts from the overall winter in general from a personal perspective?

This shit is bonkers out there. Man, the operations excitement cannot be matched. Mid-day a slide breaks loose, crosses the highway and onto open beginner terrain at Snowbird. Employees then are doing a probe line, with Avalanche dogs searching for any burials. Immediate 1pm Interlodge (Marshal Law) was called. Everyone inside immediately.

Warm day. T-shirt ski weather. A couple dozen people skiing, ha.

50F at the picnic tables earlier and 30s down below 1500ft. Classic.

Quite the difference between east of the Greens and west of them. 53F BTV and 36-37F at MPV/MVL.

You see the size of these avalanches that buried Highway 210 in LCC? They’ll be digging for days. “Seven-day totals of snow water equivalent are 4.3 to 5.7 inches of water in the Cottonwoods.”

Will you honestly install window units in New England as early as Easter weekend?

Icing here is from 2500-4000ft. 3600ft… 27F 2600ft… 31F 1500ft… 33F Picnic table ice. My buddy in Montreal says they are getting destroyed. Thunder, lightning and heavy ice. Thunder ice, ha. Widespread tree damage starting to occur.

Good grief. Alta, Utah.

Wonder if this impacts ice chances today but dews plummeted last night on NE flow. It was 33/30 then NE flow and now 33/18.

A couple extra weeks of melt up north is a small price to pay for exciting weather in the winter. 33F

I noticed that after like 12z on Sunday, the 925mb temps don't come anywhere close to freezing up this way for the entire week. Looks very warm. Wed/Thur is just an absolute torch on the EURO... +20C at 925mb comes cranking in from the SW late on Wednesday with highs into the 70s. Wednesday PM Then it just goes bonkers on Thursday with +20C at 850mb even.

Some impressive icing on the 18z HRRR for tomorrow. I think over here it's a mid-slope icing like 1,500-3,000ft that usually wedges into the east slope with mid-30s in the valley, but over in NH and ME there's some serious QPF falling into sub-freezing surface temps on that run. Gene gets destroyed on his hill.

Congrats Ginxy… 69F at IJD. Luckily no rain here at 46F, looks like Dendy takes the toilet bowl award this afternoon.

One of the only times in the United States that civilians are allowed to operate military weapons is for avalanche control. This is the holy grail of Mountain Operations. Alta, Snowbird, UDOT and others use long-range military weapons to bomb the mountains for avalanche control. It happens daily out there in seasons like this. Thats also why Marshal Law is instigated and they will arrest you for going outside while bombing activities are happening. They’ll bomb multiple ridge lines over too, miles away. It makes the US Military very uneasy to have these weapons operating inside the country but it’s for public safety so they must’ve lost that argument. A decade or two ago the Snowbasin Patrol north of SLC missed a ridgeline and bombed a suburban backyard, but that’s the only incident I’ve heard of.

SLK, MVL, BML all 80/35 while it’s 47/46 BOS to ORH?

Sounds like the ski area won’t open today due to avalanche danger and Marshal Law “Interlodge” is in effect so it’s illegal to go outside. Wild times.

Yeah I met Dave once virtually on a zoom call during COVID, ha. The highway 210 never opened yesterday and hasn’t opened today due to avalanche danger. No one from SLC area can access the mtns so the only people enjoying it are the ones up there already. They call it Country Club skiing when the lifts run but road can’t open. Guess there was a large natural avalanche cycle last evening during the heavy fall rates with numerous paths flushing out towards the road.

42F with OVC here and rotting snow in town with areas of mud, ha. Lovely. Could go for 20F warmer.