powderfreak

Starting off the season with a bunch of dense snow. Interesting that while 25" is more than 69 other recorded winters, as one can see with the 45" on this date in 1990-1991 that it didn't mean much for the rest of the winter, ha. I'll have to look up what happened around this time in 1990. That must've been a monster event or couple of events to go from like near 0" to 45" of depth in a week or less. Then to lose it almost as fast. It's interesting that spike in snowpack is so far above anything else in the long recorded history. 70+ years of records and that one spike is like 50% higher than the next highest season.

It’s true. This Saturday night event will wreck the surface but it’s going to be minimal melt, if at all, and will only lock the snowpack up tight. Then another 6-10” upslope over two days? The snowpack is bomber. The ol JSpin pole depth check on a 50” ski pole. Couple feet of base on Chin Clip? I’ve seen this trail open on a lot worse coverage ha.

Stopped snowing.

Oh they are on, haha. That area isn’t heated though.

Here it’s like 2 miles and you’re out of it. Last night’s and today’s snows were above 1,100 feet mainly. Wetter 2-3” depth in town compared to like 6-8” fully caked at 1500ft.

Just keeps snowing.

Already another 4” today at the upper mountain spot. Hammering around 1”/hr.

750ft down here in the river bottom.

6” of heavy pasty snow at the office. 9” at the upper plot.

lol. It unloaded last night and is still dumping on the hill. Nothing really in the backyard and a few miles away getting smoked.

Snowy evening. Radar looks like J.Spin and Waterbury has been under the best banding so far. RT 108 cam up by the base of Stowe. RT 100 on the Waterbury/Stowe line. RT 105 in Jay.

I did genuinely wonder about the past 4-6 runs of the Euro with that bullseye of QPF. I haven't seen that before. Usually it looks like the GFS with the more spread out north-south band. Which BTW, I don't know what they did the GFS but this model has gone grossly overboard with upslope QPF so far this fall. Like this is obscene and not happening given the set-up. I'm not sure what happened but the GFS just goes way overboard now.

Ha, this is the same, just four months later. The 60/58 and rain in August while you are 84/78 on top of an Augusta National lawn is finally paying off.

Haha it’s really hard to post about interesting weather on here when others aren’t getting it. Nobody cares when it’s rain in July every afternoon lol.

I can’t figure out what the Euro has been doing up here for two days, but it keeps putting some decent QPF overhead. Weirdly stable run to run. It looks like a standing wave or something. Past three runs… something to get Ray excited about.

Daily snows. Dark November afternoons.

Well, Jay reported that as 6-10” of new snow overnight, so I’m not really sure what to say. And honestly none of it was of the “heavy sticks to trees” variety… really wondering if the person who writes this is anywhere near the hill. Snowvember Strikes Again The mountain’s wearing white again, and we’re not mad about it. We woke up to another healthy blast of natural snow, close to 10 inches up top and about 6 inches at the base from this latest round, and the flakes haven’t finished falling yet. It’s that good, heavy kind too, the stuff that sticks to the trees and makes you start thinking about calling in “sick” on opening day.

Only 1-1.5” at home today. 4” on the ground.

Classic upslope. Big fluffy flakes mixed with rimed graupel lol.

Been snowing hard for a while but windy and hard to really tell if it’s accumulating much. Kind of funny, visibility has been under 1/2 mile or even 1/4 mile for a while (can’t see across Over Easy) but it just seems a bit too windy to really tell or stack. Its like whiteout snows but doesn’t necessarily seem to be verifying ground truth… though it has to be ending up somewhere.

I feel like if Kevin sees that he might come up to your house to clean it up.

lol, GFS and upslope. Over-done but just a steady stream of mountain snow through Friday in various waves.

It’s crazy, the mountains didn’t seem to get into the mid-level banding as much. I had 3” in my yard and 2” at all elevations of the mountain. Everyone showed up from BTV and valley to skin and ski and found 2-3” of wind-blown snow on dirt up to about 2,500ft at Stowe. Parking lot was full. Which still surprises me people get caught off guard with so many live cams. Heard it was similar at Jay Peak and their web cams seemed to look like Stowe’s mower half trails… just 2-3 inches of wind-swept on top of dirt. While the Champlain Valley is caked.. Even Smuggs looked a bit better on west side but seemed like 3-4” west slopes instead of 2-3” east slopes. Maybe Bolton got lit up a bit better? But overall looked like the synoptic round missed the Spine with a lake jackpot.

Yeah, blocked early then becomes unblocked later today.

Might make a run at 3” here? Still snowing nicely. Love the squeak under foot of fresh snow.