powderfreak

MVL at 80F up here. Picnic Tables 62F. Snow is melting fast. Think my yard lost last shaded patch today. Just the dirty plow piles left.

36F this morning and now 70F.

Been getting quite a bit of sun on the mountain. April sun angle reflecting off snow and bright everywhere. I usually hit my peak face tan in like May right around the time the snow finally melts on the hill, ha.

I’m sort of surprised we didn’t lose power last night. White pines got shredded. MVL only 36mph max but it looks like 40-50mph tree debris here.

For sure it’s wiped out. But there are still widely spaced piles, deep shaded snow about to disappear completely. Its an interesting topic…to put AC in during these transition seasons.

You walk the walk to go with the talk. Second week of April install of AC at 1000ft in the woods of NE CT has to be a record.

Good grief … snow hasn’t even fully melted in the ORH hills and AC is in.

63F Melting.

Mini-splits have been a game changer. A bit too cold, blast heat for an hour or two. A bit too warm, blast A/C briefly. Not much to think about or consider.

Yesterday did 65/21 here for 44 degree range. Low of 35F this morning… and it’s already 55F by 8:05am. Thats crazy. Up 20F off the morning min by 8am.

Love this caption in Lake Tahoe, lol.

God damn what a day. 61/19 at MVL. Beautiful spring day on the hill.

Have definitely noticed them up here more and more. Especially the pre-vegetation “warm bursts” as you call it. It seems we have an annual desire now to pump 75F+ with ease into pre-vegetation landscapes that even include snow cover in spots and especially the mountains. Theres still snow in my yard that this week will take care of but BTV NWS even mentioned the “take the over” on temps and under on RH with no greenery in place yet. It was what, a couple years ago it was like 90F with 12% RH on leafless forests? Like 95F at some ASOS sites in NNE? But that was May. We definitely can get some over machine numbers on those dry heat bursts with no green up in place yet.

Let’s goooo. .LONG TERM /THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... As of 434 AM EDT Monday...This period will be dominated by very warm conditions (highs exceeding 70 each day for most locations below 2000 feet), flirting with daily records at times. Given the degree and timing of this warm up, expect marine recreation to be popular this weekend and will message cold water awareness and safety later in the week as an early reminder. Interestingly this stretch of warm weather is reminiscent of that two years ago, which featured eight consecutive days in Burlington in which the high temperature exceeded 60, including 4 in a row above 70 from April 8 to 11.

One of my favorite events of the year at the mountain. Staff starts rolling in as early as 3:30am and starting at 4:30am the Gondola begins transporting hundreds of people to the top of the mountain (over 1,000 this year?) to witness the sunrise on Easter morning. Mother Nature didn't disappoint this morning and the crowd was big. Sometimes watching a sunrise is better alone without so many people, but on Easter it's always fun hearing the collective audible gasp as the sun breaks the horizon. Happy Easter to all.

Cool thing is it’ll still get pitch dark in the middle of the day regardless.

I sort of had the same thought. Big, old and heavy tree variety. The older stuff that was planted when those neighborhoods were built... same tree the whole length of streets and all of them damaged.

It is and it isn't. 36F here off a low of 20F... I think the low dews of like 8F and NW 20 is making it hard for the sun to overcome right now. The real prize is tomorrow afternoon onward IMO. Monday should be sublime. Although this same set-up doesn't feel or look like it does outside in November. It's so bright out there. Sun in April just hits differently.

Nice sunset this evening. Crazy how late it happens, like after 7:30.

To me that's a wild combination. Thunder ice.

From my friend M.H. in Montreal... this looked like a legit damaging ice storm. They are actually probably lucky a lot of it was convective. They were getting thunderstorms at like 26 degrees, and probably had some runoff without getting the full weight of the QPF.

I’ve got a friend that posted a bunch of photos from Montreal, that was a big ice storm for a metro area. Tons of damage.

This is my type of movie. Just Owen Wilson painting Mount Mansfield over and over. It’s me but with paint instead of photography.

Agreed, we did have some good storms in each month beginning in November. December had a real fun run prior to the holidays too. Then the late season snows. It wasn’t a great year but we’ve seen much worse overall. I think the previous two winters were worse. We definitely may have avoided and recovered from rain faster up here… I remember several events that we pulled a rabbit out of a hat with changing over to 3-8” snows after rain. That stuff goes a long way in a ski season to keeping conditions ok. The mid-season time of mid-Jan to mid-Feb was bleak but it recovered with a few solid events. Stake got up to a respectable 90”, still 75” today. The one thing I find interesting about @greenmtnwx’s post is the lack of winter in the population centers. I have never ever considered that in a winter vibe type way. I’m curious as to how that plays into it? If anything it’s worse because it leads to more crowds. Ski town vibes don’t really change at all in my experience whether it snows in NYC or not. If anything it makes people up north antsy because they want to ski that snow and it’s going to waste in I-95 corridor. Or is it if one lives down there and spends a lot of time there… it’s hard to get in the mood? Maybe that’s what he means. Winter at home midweek is non-existent so it detracts from the overall winter in general from a personal perspective?

This shit is bonkers out there. Man, the operations excitement cannot be matched. Mid-day a slide breaks loose, crosses the highway and onto open beginner terrain at Snowbird. Employees then are doing a probe line, with Avalanche dogs searching for any burials. Immediate 1pm Interlodge (Marshal Law) was called. Everyone inside immediately.