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For SWE? I've seen 30". The scale goes all the way around once and starts a second round, ha.

Yeah for the most part it did. There are just some prominent drainages that can blow out in high rainfall rates. It poured for a time last night, like 0.20"/hr rainfall can get some of the drainages going and it's all ice dammed up. A patroller took this of like a 15 foot debris pile at the bottom of a steep gully. The steep waterfall type terrain blows out first.

We had damage last night on the hill from water. That pack is deep and cold but the streams and drainages need to go somewhere… just sometimes not in their channels.

I was surprised with 0.80” of rain our pack in town only went from 21” to 19” as of this morning’s obs.

Interesting. I don’t think it’s primed. Sure there will be melt and compression, but it’s still a pretty cold and dry pack relatively speaking. It’ll be the cutters to come that do damage. This system is just adding to the potential by dumping some more water into the snowpack.

I’ll put the rainfall amounts on the snow report tomorrow, ha. She’s getting wet out there. 21” of SWE in 77” on the core samples at the 3kft. Think we add an inch of water to that by tomorrow afternoon when it should start to flip back to -SN. Saw the Snowbird Utah SNOTEL at 9,100ft is showing 28” of SWE in 81”. Decently more liquid out there for similar depth, which is interesting for a place like Utah.

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By the time we got up there it had just started to rain. Found 2” of compacted snow from the past 24 hours on the board.

Ran some snow cores today at the High Road plot… 77” depth at 3,000ft and multiple cores all around 20-22” of water. TK, the unidentified guy, ha. He loves the science, always down to tag along.

Trying to figure out how he can get to that birdseed…

Going to be a gnarly mud season.

These are pancakes falling. Not snowing overly hard but just massive chunks. Has to be 2” diameter aggregates.

Nice light snow falling, but know it won’t last. Pounding moderate snow now in valley. Enjoying it before the rain.

Tucks on MWN slid big recently. Damn that bowl is filled in.

We’ve got the first true soaking rainstorm coming since New Years. Temperatures won’t get *that* high… 30s and 40s. But Wednesday night’s elevated temps will be the time the snowpack gets warm. Temps rising Wednesday then not being able to cool off at night, that’s when the snowpack/vibe changes. Dew points could hit and hold at 40F… not terrible, not ideal. The deep, cold pack will eat this rain up. It’ll settle out and compress for sure this week, but all we should really do is add SWE to the snowpack… while ruining the surface conditions.

Yeah it’s the Octagon (lodge) at the top of the FourRunner Quad (3,600ft).

This was a fun photo from this week. 8 feet on the ground swallowing the ground floor of the Octagon. The snowcats dug it out this week to keep the snow pressure off the windows.

That's awesome, there has to be 4-5 feet on the ground at 2,000ft in the mtns right now. It's been a hot topic lately in the industry and public. There's a lot of snow everywhere. Jay does 100% get the most snow. It is irrefutable. Probably a legit 330-340”…. Which is why it can be puzzling. A Jay ski patroller or instructor was posting on FB about one of the 12" in past 24 hour reports this week... saying it was an honest 7", and his point was that it's a great snowfall and would've been more than the other ski areas (Stowe and Smuggs had 5" or 6"), but by putting 12" on there, it made it the talk of the town online again. I think his words were "why can't we just take the win at 7" instead of pushing it to a point where its all people talk about." He seemed to have that similar opinion of you I'm sure, being sick of how instead of talking about how awesome the snow is and how much there is... the dialog is being distracted by the snow report. BTV posted this on social less than an hour ago and the first comment was about Jay Peak. It is on everyone's mind, even reaching the general public. It's been a helluva winter so far in the mountains.

Internet is the best thing, social media the worst… ha.

It sometimes matters, blocked vs unblocked, but to me it matters more for the lower elevations around the mountains. Regardless of blocking, the actual Spine above 2,000ft is going to get snow regardless. Like a blocked flow that favors west side is still going to snow on the upper east slopes of like Stowe, Sugarbush and Jay. Likewise, a more unblocked flow is going to still snow at Bolton and Smuggs upper elevations. The blocking discussion and Froude can be used to highlight the jackpot areas, but above 2,000ft along the Spine is going to get at least some snow in all Froude numbers. NWS BTV Froude study was more for how it impacts the inhabited elevations around the mountains… so like blocked flow, we aren’t getting more than light snow in Stowe Village or RT 100 corridor while Underhill and Jeffersonville or towns along west side are pounding. Unblocked flow is going to put snow into the RT 100 corridor on east side while it’s going over the west slope communities. Through it all, the mountains and Spine are getting snow in most of those situations. Either way, Smuggs is a fine choice for CAA, W/NW flow squeezing out residual moisture after the rain. If the flow is blocked, the snowfall should get more into the lower elevations on that west side, while it dries up or at least is more gusty wind-blown snow below 1500-2000ft on the east side.

-12F

-6F here… -16F SLK… never going to compete with the 1,500ft bowl. Cold dry night, but still a couple foot snowpack around the valley bottom. Frigid right now.

Who or what organizations pay for the grooming and maintenance of the fleet? Those things aren’t cheap. Must be tough though when groomers are down.

I think the snowpack will absorb a lot of the rain Wed/Thur in this area… it hasn’t been rained into yet up north in/on the mountains. The pack will compress but shouldn’t release big water (not ripe). The surface conditions will be rugged for skiing, snowmobiling, etc… but the depth will be there.

What a season so far. 279” measured snowfall. Stowe has the lowest ”reported” snowfall total in the area. It might be fun to see what Jay’s 382” would look like here, with another 8+ feet of seasonal snowfall. Just over 100”+ snow depth. First photo from a friend, but the buried trees are a vibe.