powderfreak

I think all coastal areas have worried more about hurricanes than snow... since humans have built shelter on the coast. Hurricanes are much more impactful than snow, thus higher worry.

December also just isn’t that cold of a month too.

Just some residual Great Lakes moisture, sloshing through the topography at H85 temps around -15C. Snow growth maximized in light winds. Ski country can produce it's own snow. Fake snow, but it has the real vibe.

We've had a net 5" fall at the longer resort plot (High Road) over the 48 hours. That's a net gain, with settling and recent fluff. Hasn't been cleared in a minute. Probably 3" today though. This spot at 3,014 feet has had 16" in two measurements since Thursday AM. The snow stacked on top of the pole, just shows how straight down the snow can fall up there. The moisture is usually there to fluff out some snow on these cold flows from the Great Lakes, it's just a matter of how windy it is. The calm snow just stacks straight up.

Jay has looked solid the past couple days for this period. The WSW flow off Lake Ontario streams moisture north into gentle orographic lift with great snow growth. Some models are starting to show a more evenly distributed snow through the Monroe Skyline/SB/MRG region... the these type of distribution setups favor Jay as the leading rock on the NW flank of New England, with the flats of the St Lawrence Valley and Champlain Valley meet. Lake moisture on WSW flow often rides the northern slope of the Adirondacks and SLV, before washing over the Jay range... which also often lays in the better thermal environment for high ratio snow.

Bingo. I’d take 40F and showers over -10F all day. Snow is at least soft then. All it takes is one warning event to bring it back in a big way between now and Jan 19 for him.

Snowy vibe today. You guys look to be doing better on the SW flow off Lake Ontario reaching in there. But big fluffy flakes floating most of the morning. Fluffy stuff.

Not on WSW winds though. That’s the rarity.

Friend’s post. What a ride from wet snow to start last night.. then heavy torrential rain, big melting, and record winds.. to pounding snow leaving 4”+ in many areas behind the FROPA. This storm brought everything.

Usually those diurnal ranges are found on some COC day in spring or fall with super dry air that rises and falls drastically depending on insolation. That’s crazy.

I’m annoyed with no power to the Snow Cam currently, ha. The Lookout Plot isn’t live. I can’t wait to see what’s at the High Rd plot. But man we are getting spoiled when my biggest power outage grip is I can’t see that live cam at 3,300ft. Even if it underreports in wind, you start to adjust expectations based on a numerical value. 3” on that cam is a damn fine time. There’s 4” in my yard. We are flying blind . Truly first world problems during a power outage.

MaineJayHawk… he’s still around often. Best Maine photog I’ve seen.

Wild for 40s in Maine, mid-20s here, and single digits NYC and sub-zero in PA. Not something you see often.

The ocean effect into the Islands is equally as crazy, ha. Awesome radar.

Gregg Hill has a ton of those massive White Pines too on the north end of the road. We lost power per my wife around same time of 830-9am and got it back around 5pm. Luckily we are on Mountain Road and with all the hotels, restaurants, businesses they seem to focus on getting that back first. However, the Mountain still doesn't have power down through Topnotch. Not sure what happens tomorrow at the ski area as we are delaying opening indefinitely until we can figure out a plan tomorrow. The snow really helps. Closing in on 4" here. It's caked to everything like you said. Beautiful. Fresh white Christmas saved.

What a day in BTV too.... gusted 70mph (2nd highest ever recorded since 1882 there). This evening just ripping off M1/4sm visibility Heavy Snow and Wind during the flash freeze. METAR KBTV 240050Z AUTO 24014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV006 M06/M08 A2899 RMK P0006 METAR KBTV 240045Z AUTO 27013G18KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2898 RMK P0006 METAR KBTV 240040Z AUTO 26014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240035Z AUTO 25014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240030Z AUTO 24016KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M05/M07 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240025Z AUTO 24013KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M05/M06 A2896 RMK P0005

What a day in BTV too.... gusted 70mph (2nd highest ever recorded since 1882 there). This evening just ripping off M1/4sm visibility Heavy Snow and Wind during the flash freeze. METAR KBTV 240050Z AUTO 24014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV006 M06/M08 A2899 RMK P0006 METAR KBTV 240045Z AUTO 27013G18KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2898 RMK P0006 METAR KBTV 240040Z AUTO 26014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240035Z AUTO 25014KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M06/M08 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240030Z AUTO 24016KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M05/M07 A2897 RMK P0005 METAR KBTV 240025Z AUTO 24013KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M05/M06 A2896 RMK P0005

This was just latitude and longitude... which I guess is often the case in winter climo, ha. Further north and further west. "Up and in" except in coastal patterns. Champlain Valley getting good snows too. Fairly widespread 3-5" behind the cold front. Anafrontal rarity that wasn't really upslope either but synoptic driven. With the 1.5" this morning on front end, we could end up adding ~6" to the season total in this, along with damaging winds.

Yeah your obs earlier surprised me but I guess it was coming. All in 3 hours so far over 1”/hr.

Beautiful redemption. Almost 4” now and still coming down.

Maybe an inch or so? Not like 3-4”.

Over 3” here so far this evening. Just dumping. Sticking to the wet trees. Holiday miracle.

Awesome. Ripping heavy snow at the local ASOS here. KMVL 232354Z AUTO 02004KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV003 M03/M05 A2885 RMK AO2

Nice hour long +SN. KMVL 232354Z AUTO 02004KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV003 M03/M05 A2885 RMK AO2

Wow! 4” there?! That’s a great changeover.