powderfreak

Models have another healthy run overnight. There was definitely a lull modeled this afternoon after the initial push. It has to be wrong but the 12km NAM had 1-1.5” more QPF after 2pm/18z today on the 18z run . The 3km was a bit more believable but that’s still good water after 2pm today.

Closing in around 5" at 1,500ft. Steady 1"/hr since like 7-8am.

The blowing can often be a sign of good mixing on the backside of terrain too.

Where’s East Hartland, CT? Got some family there saying very snowy day.

30F and Heavies. METAR KMVL 161430Z AUTO 34005KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV007 M01/M02 A2998 METAR KMVL 161425Z AUTO 32007KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV007 M01/M02 A2998 METAR KMVL 161420Z AUTO 33007KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV007 M01/M02 A2998 METAR KMVL 161415Z AUTO 34007KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV008 M01/M02 A2999 METAR KMVL 161410Z AUTO 34007KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV008 M01/M02 A2999 METAR KMVL 161405Z AUTO 33008KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV008 M01/M02 A2999

2" past two hours. Coming down heavy at times.

It has started dumping lately. We've had a quick 2" at Mansfield in pretty much the past 2 hours.

Color me a little skeptical of that 18-24" amounts up high around here. But who knows. It's a pasty snow at 1,500ft, every little branch and twig white.

Radar seems a bit more fragmented than I was expected. How did QPF amounts do in the Catskills/Berks/SVT last night?

Flurries starting up here. 29F at 1,500ft at the office. It was 33F at home.

lol. Who said 500mb troughs in the means couldn’t produce.

Sign on the dotted line for Xmas gift…

Melt

A lot of snow. But I’m not Will.

Ha, yeah stuff breaks. Mechanical parts in highly unforgiving environments and ski areas don’t just stock 100% replacement parts on their shelves. Regarding the differences in skier opinions, a friend passed this along that was funny. I’ve been enjoying the Lookout Double though, going old school and it’s kept the majority of people away. Some skiers seem insulted they can’t get a high speed ride up to literally the same open terrain, ha. Not ideal to be waiting on parts but at least there’s a lift that still goes there.

It’s pretty close with 4” at DDH right near the NY/VT border, with the full hole a few miles west of there. There’s actually sleet in that model for DDH on the downslope.

18z Canadian HRRR at 48 hours… that’s just a wild boundary between 20” and nothing in the Berkshires. Then also Hudson Valley to Catskills.

Good 12z Euro for the Maine friends closer to the coast it looks like.

Looks to go over land there in the end.

My buddy keeps sending me the Alta Ski Patrol board numbers. Sometimes it’s low ratio graupel at 4” water to 20” snow. But this time it’s 40:1 ratio fluff. They are at almost 200” of snowfall this season on December 14.

Healthy half inch to an inch moving through. Foot prints filling in. I love when it snows in the evening. There's something about it happening while sitting on the couch looking out at the flood lights. Snow growth is excellent, stackable flakes.

Wife and I were in Morrisville getting groceries at Price Chopper and came out to the car covered in snow during the time we were inside. Some good squalls moving through. Looked like Morrisville had a little more snow than Stowe during the past event. Usually it seems like a bit less or warmer, but they might have gotten a local max in the last one.

Haven’t we been tracking a storm for a week now? Sure maybe it hasn’t broken the right way but we have been tracking an event all week.