powderfreak

Today was surprisingly very windy. Spruce had a wind hold, other lifts running on reduced speed most of the day. FourRunner Quad eventually succumbed to wind at like 2pm. It was rocking pretty good on the chairs when I went out at 10am… but running it slow kept it operating.

Not bad.

It’s just too variable to truly know, especially by mid-March. Give it another couple weeks and north facing could be same depth as now while south is gone. Around here we also are on the river bottom which seems to be deeper snow from mid-winter torches holding fake cold in. So many mesoscale features going on… but super hard to put 1 number on it. I still think the best is to report what you have. That’s how you build consistency in records too. It is what it is… but some folks take it seriously if they feel a local number isn’t representing what they have too .

There’s a place down the street from me, perfectly square yard, fenced in, but just has the right hilltop behind it that it gets shade very fast in the afternoon… snow is never disturbed there and he will have a solid foot when my yard is melting out. If he put a stake in the middle of his yard there it would melt almost like two weeks later… it’s incredible. He’s probably got 25-30” on ground now. Seems to be a cold pool spot too in torches between huge white pines and the hill behind him. Snow just doesn’t melt there.

Yeah I know Phin had mentioned that in previous seasons too as his open field is largely south facing... having like 3 feet behind the house while his south facing open field is getting torched. From that photo the other day it looked like his depth stake was probably on the opposite side on the north end. He'll probably start to develop a decent gradient but probably already has to be honest. Gene too with his south facing field.

After the storm I measured the snowpack in my yard. South facing was 17” and north side was 25”. Big difference was developing prior to this storm and should continue. The sunny days and mid-30s seem to do a number on the southern stuff. Already noticed yesterday the ground starting to show on steep south road cuts again, while the ground levels out there’s 18”+.

Yeah, feels like in any season if you start seeing the medium range become more pedestrian then its over. Likely because HECS don’t grow on trees too… they like to fail in the mid-range. But hopefully it at least leads to a trackable event.

Careful, optimism is highly triggering. You keep that glass half empty at all times.

Clicks on thread titled something about a signal emerging March 10-15. Then seems surprised or confused that there’s discussion in that thread about that time frame.

Yeah March 10-15 thread period is about a week away.

Still a good run for SNE too?

This stuff out of Lake Tahoe is wild. Snowpack out there is at the height of power lines now, telling kids not to swing from them. This couple trying to keep their entrance to their house going. That’s borderline worrisome if that’s how you access your home, ha.

“Don’t give me hope, nope, don’t do it. Won’t even entertain it.” -The rebuttals.

I don’t have the numbers in front of me but it’s been like 3-4 solid events.

Onward and upward. Back near a normal winter, ha. Normal is plenty snowy.

Snowfall has picked back up here again this evening. Snowing good at times now with some new accumulation. The mountain is just absolutely buried after the past 10 days of snowfall. Today was phenomenal. And to think there was this feeling of dread in early/mid February wondering if NNE gets more snow or peaked.

Glad you are ok dude. Hope all goes smoothly with the recovery.

Skiing is phenomenal. 9” at our snow plot at 3,000ft as of like 10am, probably 10” now and tapered to flurries. Good shot of QPF, had to be 10:1 snow or even 9:1. Going to be a 7-12” event around these parts I think, pretty well modeled.

Passing 8” now. Deep winter scenes.

Dumping. Low vis good flake size. 6.5” so far but just south of here J.Spin has to be near 9-10”.

Want to see as many posters as possible seeing ripping snow.

I'll be making a right out of the driveway and heading to the mountain around that time, ha. Not turning left, that's for sure

18z HRRR had MVL ASOS with 0.53" QPF in 2-hours around 5-6am (0.27" and 0.26" hourly). I'll believe that when I see it.

It is hot outside though, wow. Sunny and snow taking full March sunshine. Though guess it’s only 34/10. Feels hotter.

What a crushing on the Euro in the morning. The HRRR concurs with 3-hr precip. One hour it has like 0.30” water.