powderfreak

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.

Yeah I’m seeing some spot reports around 6” now in the Champlain Valley. Snowing steadily here. Over 2” now, grass is covered up, so it looks nice. Funny how hard 3/4sm -SN seems when you haven’t seen it in a while. Feels like +SN to an uncalibrated mind early season. KMVL 110154Z AUTO 36007KT 3/4SM -SN BR VV009 M01/M03

All joking aside, it’s been a tough series of winter breaks down there. Need a few late blooming Miller B’s to CCB Essex County on the way out this winter. Feels like that used to happen with frequency in the 2000s and 2010s.

Looking at the thread and saw Ray replied, and my first thought was, of course it’ll be the first BTV snowfall that brings him back to the thread …

The slot is here into eastern VT with lighter, showery snows. But should fill in a bit again.

Guess it’s splitting hairs but it’s already curling back into BTV. Don’t really see a slot there being an issue. Looks like it’ll fill in with that stuff by GFL and ALB still to rotate through.