powderfreak

72-23 for Bridgeport meant to be 1972-1973 right?

Meet bookend season DIT. It’s a confusing time of year.

Yeah that’s true. Poorly worded on my part… meant to say that same tweet from a personal account is nothing. From the NWS it’s a problem.

Sucks for so many reasons. The family of the person and the entire resort staff really feel that stuff. It puts it all in perspective whenever you hear of a possible fatal occurring on the radio in real time. Everyone remembers we do this thing called skiing just for fun and yes you never truly know but life altering things happen from one wrong turn.

Yeah, it's climo. First day of spring here. Grabbed this shot just after 7pm (sunset now after 7!) on our way to get groceries at Shaws. Would be very fun if the Mansfield Stake tops 100" of depth after worries in beginning of February that winter may have peaked or been done. Not going to lie, it was looking bleak there. Been a fun stretch to be honest. If it continues for another few weeks somehow, this would be a great comeback winter. One more large QPF rich snow event would do it. Not a gloat; we know not many actually care on the forum. Don't blame anyone either, all we can do is just give observations of our own local areas. Might be some potential coming up. Maybe not, but it seems CNE/NNE is in the game. Maybe it lucks out underneath and SNE gets some wound up blue bomb instead. It is cut-off season.

Ha yeah people already from other mountains keep asking if we close the 3rd Sunday in April so they can come skin the playground. As usual, probably close with deepest Mansfield stake depths of season.

It would be more elevation dependent but honestly, whenever the models have signaled these super wet and cold long range patterns in NNE, someone has gotten smoked this season. Is it 40”? No. But it’s like day 3 now of these long range models showing snow event potential going forward as moisture increases into marginally cold air. Its not a tulip pattern, that’s for sure.

Good visible look today for the snowpack locations.

I was only joking too. I’d be totally done with seeing more storms with a rain/snow line near the Mass border. Completely understand SNE attitudes right now. To be honest I wouldn’t mind spring either but go back to the wise ORH/Will mantra of if it’s going to be chilly and precipitate, might as well root for snow.

So much anger towards the north this morning.

Hunting for food in Taunton?

Dude these images are insane. What type of camera?

5” really helped the conditions today. Ontario lake effect came through.

Love that pond set up! Nice work.

GFS won't let us out.

It was much better already. High Road plot had over 3” at 8:30am. At least another 2” maybe more since then.

It is dumping out here. Some surprisingly heavy snow, 1-2”/hr rates. Heavy lake effect mixed with upslope.

Mountain got a little refresh. Had 1.0” at home, 2” base and 3” above mid-mountain.

It’s a NWS account, opinions on anything but weather are a mistake. This isn’t a thing if it’s a personal account. No one gives a shit what one individual on social media thinks these days.

It’s been a big winter everywhere out west it seems. On the whole, a deep western trough in the means for months on end, everything fits with the totals experienced out there. Every single storm is an atmospheric river. Many years they only see a few events like that. This year it’s seemed like every event since late November. 300-600+ inches is a lot of snow no matter how you measure it.

This was my afternoon update. Apologies if there are any grammatical errors, I write these every day quickly to record the day and look ahead. Try to thread the line between reality and hope. Past, present, future.

Cranking snow squalls this evening. Half inch in like 15 minutes.

Yes but it may reduce your outages because it’s never happening on your local lines. And I bet you get power back online a fraction faster when the electric company can focus on the main lines coming in, instead of the smaller lines in your neighborhood. Being locally underground doesn’t mean zero outages, but every possible reduction of a line that could get hit by a falling tree is better for everyone in the larger picture.

It got smoked up here. Much worse snow quality than anticipated. Didn’t rain much but doesn’t take much either. Just enough to get the snow wet then freeze it.