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I mean BTV has a wind chill of -45F in town, not even 3000ft higher on the summit.

High of 22F at MVL off a low of 9F. Big difference between near 50F down there and barely cracking into the 20s up here. Currently 17F at home.

Saturday is honestly a day when we think about operations and what lifts run… is it high speed with ride time less 7 minutes? Is there shelter at the top of a running lift? Do we only go to mid-Mtn? What’s the exposure for any mechanical/maintenance stops that may run 5-10 minutes and are fairly common at ski areas throughout a day if sensors or switches trip out? Open some lifts at noon when the 850s are about 10-15C warmer? It looks to come up fast Saturday from -38C to a balmy -25C lol. Theres a lot of things that can factor in and get discussed.

Mansfield probably -35F and wind chills in -50s.

Some nice light Currier and Ives the past few hours dusting things up and roads snowy. 1.0-3.0sm vis -SN but huge fluffy flakes.

God damn that’s cold.

You mean Oct-Jan. December is peak winter month when sun is lowest.

That's true, I had my dates wrong. .

You gonna end summer in August if dews first drop into the 40s? No more HHH after that?

Some just struggle to understand without a meme. Anyway, nice little refresh on the hill from that system past 24 hours.

Nice little refresh from this past event last 24 hours.

Yeah it was a penalty but after the shit the refs pulled earlier it just felt like there was no way Cincy would win that game. It wasn’t that last call of the game, it was that whole 4th quarter in totality that was wild to watch.

Basically on the forum there’s NNE that hasn’t had a stellar winter, but many are halfway to average with two months to go…and sitting with 12-18” on the ground currently. On the flip side there are a good deal of posters where winter has been more of an abstract concept than a real entity this season. And it’s stark, the gradient has been very real and very sharp. It’s leading to two very different frames of mind when analyzing data, statements, or sentiment.

That’s an awesome looking puppy. Congrats.

Nice. 12” here right this moment.

His name is Projection Paul. If it rains to I-84, it rains to Maine or Canada. If it’s a drought on I-84, it’s a drought everywhere. Dews? Everyone is humid. All types of weather is usually a blanket statement applicable for the whole forum… except for cool nights in the warm season, he likes to have the hottest nights around.

Tippy’s therapy thread 2.0. I get it though for many. Time to log off too and enjoy early spring.

Yeah BTV is slightly below normal snow but is ahead of last year. It’s probably bordering on within a “normal” distribution right now despite massive positive departures. Of course if not another inch of snow fell, they’d be 50% of average.

Been snowing pretty hard at the ski area, vis definitely in the 1/2sm range at times. Down in the valley MVL ASOS is 3/4sm snow at 32F.

The poor winters always have them. The late storms. My best event in town in 15-16 was like third week in April.

Watch him get like 40” after Morch 15th in some historical pattern, while the sun tries to melt the pavement each day.

I like the -20F for a max temp through 1pm Saturday at MVL here. Wild progs. No way in hell it’s -20F at 1pm.

Busiest day of the season up here.

It was definitely a weather system that favored north and west… wanted to be north of the WAA mix-line during the strongest frontogenic forcing. Montreal regional zone has done very well.

Truly awesome one week turn around up north. Ski quality is high-end. Upper elevations are absolutely caked. First photo shows the upper elevation scene. Stuffed with snow... the trees and ground depth. Some big stacks after 13" in this past system. It's not even the snow total that's so solid, but the amount of SWE that has come with the snow. It has body. It's beefy on the bottom, with dense synoptic snow for the past 3 storms. Then the ending of storm #3 turned fluffy, as expected. The DGZ really grew and punched down to the surface on the upper elevations, as upslope/low level lift was still very favorable. It added an ending of fluff after many inches of denser snow. And the third storm in a row.