powderfreak

You can see in the morning CoCoRAHS reports... J.Spin is the 34" west of Waterbury. The Stowe Village guy next to the Public Safety building had 29". I measured around 30" late last night, so it fits. With the wind today, it varies a bit but you can see the wind "pillows" in the yard and open spaces that are probably a few inches higher. Then you get a few inches less right near structures where the wind accelerated. Pretty uniform snowpack though overall across the area. 24 - 38" type stuff for the communities along the Spine and eastern side. I think the depths around BTV area of like 17" to 22", even down to the Lake front are impressive. That's some good snow for lake front.

Another 3” or 4” overnight in the driveway. Cant tell what’s fallen or blowing around. very windy. Deep.

Good blocking of the flow for the immediate western slope.

It just keeps snowing. Good moisture feed into the Spine.

Wind shift to westerly upslope bringing wind and snow. 20G30 at MVL in 1.2sm vis at 17F….even the ASOS getting the wind.

The gradient is crazy on the 18z two-week GFS. Can’t make it up.

Upslope burst moving in. Models indicate a few hours of steady westerly flow into the Spine. Should transition to largely orographic precip as we go through the night.

Storage is full.

Yeah you guys have to have what 20-26” on the ground? It’s honestly probably rarer for the village elevation here to be near 30” on the ground than at your climo spot.

Dude, just in awe. Has to be at least 2017 since we’ve had snow like this. Regression after 5 lackluster snow seasons. I hope everyone else would be posting up too!

In town…

Passing 10” and the snowbanks are getting stupid.

Up to 27” depth in Stowe Village.

Just has been hammering snow. With the overnight snow, we are closing in on 8” or so.

It is dumping out. HRRR has us barely avoiding IP now.

We’ve been in the prevailing westerly flow of moisture and cold. And the synoptic events have lined up. Weak La Nina’s have statistically been proven to be the snowier option for the northern Greens.

Great Snow just stroked out.

Equal opportunity storm. Strong easterly flow leading to severe downsloping wind gusts on the west side of the Green Mtn Spine into the Champlain Valley tomorrow. Then the flow flips to westerly and hammers downslope wind into the east slope communities. High Wind Watch for tomorrow night and Monday here after the storm.

The hype also sets folks up for disappointment during the holiday weekend… but then again, most of the folks don’t know the difference between 10”, 12”, 16”. It’s all a good snowstorm and folks are feeling luckily enough to have time off to enjoy it.

Ha, yeah I saw a couple 15-30” forecasts from Josh at MRG and TK for Jay. I’m not sure how one looks at this storm’s guidance and calls for 15-30”… unless it’s just a blanket “it always snows big in the mountains” forecast. Now, 15” over multiple measurement periods isn’t hard to envision… I like a dense 8-12” but if less sleet and this front end performs, along with the backside upslope, I could see a 12-18” outcome for the ski areas over 36 hours with this front end burst. The mentions of 30” as an upper bound is wild though.

Nice little pre-game fronto band up here. A quick 2-3” just south of BTV to Waterbury and I-89 near MPV.

Yeah buddy!

That’s Sunday evening though right? Theres a good shot of frozen QPF in areas of SNE prior to this.

Sounds like this season. Rainy Christmas week. The 00z HRRR was interesting at 10:1. Have to think some of this is sleet coded as snow. The alternative is this on the 3km NAM.

Ha, it probably seems that way.