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Yeah that is definitely bordering on uncomfortable claustrophobic snowfall. Forget any emergency services if god forbid a fire or heart attack happened.

That’s how glaciers start lol.

Kirkwood, CA… Sierra burial… before and after.

Got all the way up to 42F today, felt a bit like spring briefly. Then settled into a nice mid-30s light rain. It’s that time of year.

Yeah when I was a lifeguard in college down there Denehy and his kids would come to the Woodstock town beach.

Celebrity money too. Renee Zellweger was one hiding bodies out there.

Wrong about the geese though in the sense that it is a red flag. Nature doesn’t predict things, it reacts to them. Geese in late November is more because November was warm, not that the geese knew what was coming. Its like when people see flowers come up and assume nature knows it’s going to be warm after that… no it was warm before that and soil temp hits a certain level and the flower comes up. Could die tomorrow in a deep freeze, ha.

Yeah and that’s shown by it being so warm +7 to +10 just north of you in January but with above normal snow during that time. If that’s like +3 or +4 maybe that big CNE snow zone dips to the Pike instead of Lakes Region.

Steady light snow here too. Wintry vibe.

Your favorite hotel this evening with 3-4 feet on the ground in the courtyard.

No, the plot is about 700ft lower and to the north. The COOP stake is off the upper Toll Road. The High Road plot is over off the Gondola top. It’s generally more sheltered. They both though are in the zone that gets buried. There’s a whole upper East side bowl almost that stretches like 1+ mile across the top 1,000-1,500ft that just gets crushed to me. I’m seeing Smuggs reporting 34”, Bolton 32”, Max River Glen 32”… I don’t know how they measured or if they did, but I take pride in knowing we do Mansfield right with consistent data points. To be honest, the one thing I’ve always told people here is it isn’t even about the amount of snowfall in inches. It’s about measuring it in the same location all the time so you know what the value means. Like if the plot has 5”, people know how that skis around the mountain. If it has 17”, it’s holy shit good. But the trick to developing a meaningful snow value for skiing and riding is to be consistent with the location. Not skiing around and taking numbers from wherever trail you thought was deepest. The Summit stake is the same. Depths vary all over the place. But that is the same exact location all the time so we know what the value means. To me that’s how you tell a story, it has to be consistent.

Todays map… up and away. Nothing like going from 60” to 90” in one clean rise.

I ended up with 17”. I will say this afternoon the sun briefly came out and temp was 35F… felt DIT’s spring snow woes a bit. It gets sloppy in a hurry ha ha.

33” total at 3,000ft and 26” at 1500ft. Insane amount of snow added to the hill. The 12-foot Mansfield stake is now much shorter with a depth of 90”.

Still pounding snow. Energizer bunny storm for the mtns up here.

Still snowing as upslope cranks. 17”

Finally an above average snowpack reading on Mount Mansfield. A 15-inch gain today in the depth (62" to 77") and a 16-inch stack at the High Road Stake. This was a big day on the hill.

A friend in Waterbury with 13"... about the local total, but mileage may vary. Cannot imagine 40"+. This is like a passing snow shower compared to what happened in the southern Green Mountains.

I will say for a ski area, here at Stowe we always have a physical measurement to verify totals. There can be plenty of flaws but we control what we can. And that means reliable snowfall measurements. Consistency is key, if you always read the same number location, every time, you'll start to see what the highs and the lows are. This was a big stack for the location that is checked twice a day most times.

This was a big storm for the interior northeast. All mountain zones got smoked. Great storm.

The good news is the models still seem to keep the stuff going over the terrain/Spine into tomorrow. This is QPF after 9pm tonight on the 18z EURO run. There's still some potential to add onto today's vast over-performer event. I can't remember one that busted this favorably in the final 24 hours. Tick north and west with snowfall.

That’s awesome. What a storm for SVT and CNE elevated zones. Impressed up here but you guys got twice our amounts. Big March storm.

It’s really starting to snow again as bands rotate in the from the northeast. Radar is sampled poorly at times in lower levels east of the mountains, but good to see some mid-level echos getting realized east of BTV radar.

West Dover, VT. The dude’s 3 foot railing is just gone.

Knew it for 6 days straight ha. Never blinked there.