powderfreak

4” at home and 5” at the mountain. Just caked on everything. What a scene from past two events.

Tues to Thur looking widespread?

Started snowing earlier, I think the real WAA burst is over up here. Snow growth is good, but S.VT/S.NH and adjacent Berks & ORH hills look to get some solid QPF as the anomalously moist and mild air (Pacific origin?) runs into the boundary zone. The cold from the north just barely turns the region snowy. It is a very warm month, usually frigid. This year is just persistent marginal temperatures.

Bucket list for sure. Skiing in an absolutely buried Sierra, with views of Lake Tahoe.

The driveway. 1.5"

Ahh gotcha! I thought you meant what was allowed to ride on through here. Sometimes the weekend crowd can get curious of different paths on a sled, ha. Yeah they "groom" these spots almost daily in the winter, leads to a good packed down surface. The spots with conifers are the worst, much of the snow up in the trees and not on the ground.

They can access it around there legally. There's a path to get to the Alpine Mart/Mobil for gas. They just can't travel on the Rec Path except for that stretch. It is signed and I've never seen anything but super considerate behavior from any snowmobilers when encountering them with the dog.

The dry slot is coming for here soon, but man it is ripping out there in Stowe Village when we left. Snow growth has been optimal, mid-level fronto style flakes. Hopefully we can maximize whatever QPF we can get back this way.

3/4sm -SN Closing in on an inch.

Nice spot! We’ve been there a few times, never in winter though.

Snowy evening dog walk on the groomed trail out back. Saw a few snowmobiles coming from VAST.

We’ve been seeing under the beam light snow past couple days, just saturated low levels and stratus deck producing snow. -SN

Even up here that was a pretty wet pasty snow. Winter wonderlands.

Had almost an inch last night and this morning in town of like snizzle. Seemed to be just falling out of moist low levels. Smallest flakes.

Chickens look crushed on many of these runs. Coop Crushers.

HRRR looks much more reasonable than NAM though. HERPIES way south.

3km NAM bump north. Maine guys destroyed there. Weird, there’s the super amped run. 12k GFS is way south though.

One would hope there would be more critical thinking involved there by the people analyzing a prediction, ha. I think that’s what we are getting at. Like someone in summer who is obsessed with heat and dews, saying it’ll be hot and humid this summer, especially July and August…then wanting credit for that skillful “call.” If that person were to exist of course.

Ha that’s like a Giants fan that hates the Patriots saying “Screw the Pats, they are going 0-16 this season. F*ck ‘em.” I guess they would be correct if the Pats go 0-16? But no one is patting them on the back saying “Hey, solid analysis. Your deep understanding of football teams there really showed.”

Yeah for sure, it depends on everyone’s perspective on what they’ve experienced so far and that’s what they project to other people. Like I’ve never seen guys like you and DIT so down and out. Up here, it’s not been a good winter but I’ve somehow managed snow cover for the most part since like mid-November. Not deep winter but white outside. I can’t see the everything is wrong all the time side, but if it rained 7 straight times in mid-winter, I don’t blame many of you. These winters that are tough certainly see folks projecting all sorts of vibes based on what they see outside.

A lot of these vibes this year. “Well, if it rains enough, the snow will melt. So don’t try to act satisfied or enjoy it. And then if it does melt you’ll be sad and I’ll get some odd satisfaction from that.” Or ”The pattern might only be favorable for 2-3 weeks, then we probably go right back to shit. So you all should just focus on that and be miserable, instead of trying to enjoy the favorable period.”

But it’s not gone, ha. It’s there and people are enjoying themselves. Can’t live in fear of it melting.

You get like 0.60” QPF as snow in a 3-hr period. Just crushing 1-2”/hr rates with 5-6” in 3 hours.

Lol that’s wild. 12-18” zone.

Hope it works for you Kev, need to see you get your mojo back. A nice pasty winter scene cures all.