powderfreak

Plow guy f*cked up this afternoon, so I had to go through the 6-7 foot tall berm.

More please. A proper winter.

6” yesterday in previous 24 hours. Then again 6” today in previous 24 hours.

Fringed our way to 3.5” up here.

Yeah I mean the Euro had about 0.25-0.4” QPF for SW ME… so cut 2-4” off it for 10:1 maps. Not much there. But you’re right the haircut in SNE is different.

Pushing past 3” of in town Mountain looks like near 5” on cam. Snowing pretty good still.

Not bad.

Getting some decent west-east banding almost to Montpelier now.

Yeah that’s impressive looking. Thats gonna put down some snow in a hurry.

You can see where the best fronto is going from west to east. Mohawk Valley in NY towards SVT/SNH.

Another couple inches last night at home, mountain picked up 4”. From what? I do not know. Just wants to snow.

Flurries. Flakes just keep flying, even if just a trace down here in the valley.

Just keeps going. Streamers into the N.Greens. Light snow down in town.

I mean a minimum number (on a range forecast) of 3” or 4”, not big deal in the grand scheme of things. Is that noteworthy?

Mid-level fronto through CNE? The calls for widespread 4-8” maybe locally 10” look good.

It’s been fun. This is from 4:05pm. High Road had 6” between yesterday’s synoptic snow and the morning squalls. Just so much wind with it. The wind has been strong, but the snowpack is just stuffed and packed down. Solidly above average.

Someone hit publish by accident? lol

Too optimistic vs too pessimistic. Glass half full vs glass half empty.

Some awesome squalls this morning so far. +SN and gusts to 40mph at the ASOS. Looks like MPV did 48mph. Rolling whiteouts.

Agreed. Pretty good model consensus of QPF from the heavy hitters. EURO GGEM GFS

The 3km looks like another good 0.20-0.50” snow event over a wide area. The geographic area seeing 2-6” of snow is massive on the NAM progs. Keep adding it up in moderate amounts every couple days… it’s a great pattern to have consistent widespread precip events in the cold sector.

Can we keep the run going another 2-3 weeks and make a run at 100" on the ground at the Mount Mansfield COOP stake? With no real threats to the snowpack on the models, and only increases... this could make a run. The past week of snows every other day has certainly ramped things up a notch. One can see on the Mansfield snow depth map that since around January 1st, this has been just up and up snowy. No thaws, no issues. Consistency. It just goes up, settles, then goes up again.

We had avoided any surface candy coating through 4pm. But it was misting a bit at like 19F lol. Small droplet mid-level dry slot stuff in a WAA system. Was getting on your goggles but hadn’t impacted the snow at all. Hopefully it stays that way. Looks like the threat is gone after 12-2am when winds turn westerly again. It’s slightly inverted on the hill with the WAA aloft… 22F at 3,600ft and 18F at 1,500ft. Was up there at last chair to do due diligence on the weather/snow obs front, ha. Sensation Quad was the highest lift running with FourRunner and Gondola going on wind hold in the afternoon. The wind was hammering up here in the dry slot after the thump brought 3”. Very stormy end of day. Snow had largely stopped but the wind was phenomenal. Photos don’t do the noise justice, ha. The 3” of snow was leading to firm 12-18” drift spines right down the trails off Big Spruce. Getting dark, winter storm vibes.

3.5” here. Nice synoptic density small flake but cold. Baking powder? Looks like deep winter. Just keep adding another layer every couple days.

Hammer time. 2”. One inch past 45 minutes.