powderfreak

McLovin age.

I literally think I’m 18 in that photo… half my life ago. It’s so funny .

Yeah and we didn't have the 2015 blitz to warm our souls either. You guys were still scoring some decent events despite the poor winter overall, only a couple decent events make quite a dent in annual percentages down that way (which makes this year more amazing almost). I remember some 8-15" type events that winter... wasn't there a deform band across CT up I84 in one of those? I truly think crap winters are so much mentally easier to take when it comes off a great snow year. It feels like well, we had our fun now I guess regression is it. Almost the same with a big first half of winter... even if the second half is a dud and rat from then on out, it's so much easier to come to terms with. Oh well, we got ours, it is what it is. But a crap winter after a few tough winters is infuriating.

That’s what made it worse up here, ha. It does matter though… you get a record winter, the next like three feel like gravy and you take your licks. 2011-12 was like that after 2010-11 too. Shit winters stomach easier after huge ones.

Mansfield stake up near 40” at the high water mark of 2015-16. So think we can end those comparisons for sure, they never really held much weight but just a couple good weeks is all it takes to beat that season.

Yup, that was a bad one. Snow matching rainfall totals… inch for inch for a while.

Straight trolling

So good today. The hill is filling in nicely. It's come a very LONG way in the past 7-10 days.

Horrific blurry photo getting to my car.... but it is full on mid-winter snowstorm vibes. As January should be. Like deform band snow and high wind. No idea how much is falling but it's whiteout at times when the wind blows. Huge dendrites. I think the mountain will get into the 12-15" range.

Yeah I had 3" for upslope and 8 - 12" storm total forecast. We are now in the 9 - 11" range at two plots as of 90 minutes ago and snowing 1"/hr. The skiing was so good today. I went out twice... once in the AM, then a bunch of meetings, then did another round late afternoon, ha.

That's storm total since it started late afternoon yesterday. Another inch in the past hour on the Snow Cam, so it is ripping out there.

I’ll have ski photos later, ha. At 3:30pm it was 10-11” at the ski area stake. Absolutely nuking now. Upslope band has formed and snow growth is excellent.

Don’t care about marketing as much, but it’s the weather where a few of us live. Wild times when it’s trolling. Guess we’ll just eat all obs and winter disco until Tolland gets snow?

Lol what? So if SNE has a map showing snow but none up north… is that trolling? If I post a snow map of EMA getting snow but no where else? What are we doing on here. Not talk about it?

Looks like a little 2-5” refresher coming late weekend up north for ski country?

5” base at 5am… 7” at 9:30am at 3,000ft.

5” very dense snow at base of ski area. Beautiful winter morning. Mixed precip now though it goes to snow when heavier echoes move in. Still should be able to get 3”+ upslope later.

Eyeballing 2” so far. Steady snow continues. Probably been running about a half inch per hour. The hope has been 4-6” on the front end.

You two are in perfect spots to feel the full low level jet. 850mb becomes the SFC.

METAR KMVL 252315Z AUTO 11003KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV010 M03/M05 A3002

Light snow, 25F.

Yeah it never changes over up here or at least gets very close. It’s by far the coldest model.

Yup we’ve started seeing it now since the snow started back up. Accumulations each day this week. Another 3” at the ski area since this morning, 4” past 24 hours. That’s the stuff that’s been missing. The weak frontal passages or squalls. The 3” on days when snow showers are forecast. We are back in it, with synoptic systems and upslope filling in between that.

This makes me all warm and fuzzy. Then as we get into the daytime hours on Thursday, the flow turns westerly again and with the Froude Number rising above 1, the flow becomes critical with several inches more of upslope snow favoring the Green Mountain spine, Jay, Stowe, Waterbury and portions of NEK. Winds will also pick up from the west and northwest, gusting 30 mph at times including in the Champlain Valley.

Absolutely dumping dendrites +SN. Great squall moving through with the weak FROPA.