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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.

That's gotta be one of the more extreme examples we see around these parts. Higher summits blasting off in warmth while mid-slopes and SFC freeze? That's like 50F at 875mb.

Wild looking at the differences between 925mb temps and 850mb tomorrow on a variety of models.

And 12 hours later still nuking. 35" storm total, another 15" in those 12 hours with seasonal total of 845" now. What a time to be alive out there.

The situation and year that has happened in the western US makes me happy because it shows the "big year" is certainly possible. The record season. This season ~220" of snow has fallen at 3,000ft. In 2016-17 it was a high-water mark of 375". This season out west has made it seem possible that a 400+ or even 500+ year could exist back in the inter-mountain East. 2000-01 was like 425" I think for the resort. These type of incredible records from patterns sustained for months... it keeps the dream alive. What's happened out west is right there with 2015 Boston area snowfall.

I’ve always thought this stuff was crazy. Tractor-trailers just getting blown over in high winds. Damage on sunny nice days out west. 395 in California between Mammoth and LA.

The Wasatch in Utah and both Cottonwood Canyons (basically suburbs for SLC) at 750+ widespread up there. Alta at 830" (after racking up 18 today with ease).

It’s completely anecdotal but I felt like 10-15 years ago even it was real nice in the summer up here, never needed A/C. Now everyone has it. The overnight mins have been real elevated it seems the past decade insummer.

I love all the photos in this thread. I post plenty but I think the best observations are through photos. The NNE crew comes through. In other news, it's crazy that this past warm front and wind didn't hit the snowpack at all. Shows just how much water is in this. It is a legit mountain snowpack at the ski areas. Everyone has had some big QPF events this second half of winter (last 6 weeks or so). Snowpack has been sitting 79-83" lately after the 90" peak. High temp today was in the mid-10s. Different world above 3,000ft. Daily Hydrometeorological Data National Weather Service Burlington VT 549 PM EDT Sun Apr 2 2023 Station Precip Temperature Present Snow 24 Hrs Max Min Cur Weather New Total SWE ...Vermont... Mount Mansfield 15 79

Dude post away. Need to live vicariously. Those storm cycles have been insane.

The white keeps getting cut back.

I want yesterday back. That was so nice. Just leaving work at the mountain, walking the dog in a t-shirt at mid-60s and sunshine. River flowing, birds chirping. I caught the bug yesterday. Now back to full winter jackets, covering skin up, but the people are here for it.

-SN and high winds with arctic tundra conditions at 21F. Upper Mtn lifts at 10F with 50mph winds.

Spot the difference.

Orgasmic afternoon. Beers in the parking lot with temps in the low 60s at 1500ft. Funny how the wind goes calm it cools fast but then a warm puff of air comes through and it’s back up again.

64F at MVL! Here we go from +SN last evening and greasy/snowy roads to mid-60s. Love the whiplash.

Bolton Valley 240” Smuggs 220” Those are two others. Always in the ballpark with here.

Warm front is through here, sun just came out. Summit went from 28F and freezing rain to 41F in a blink of an eye. Down in valley it was low 30s, now near 50F and climbing fast. Blast off as the inversion broke.