powderfreak

Mansfield Magic returned with the orographic heavier snow showers this morning. It's definitely captivated the entire town on the holiday weekend Saturday. Everyone pointing, is that snow?!

It was snowing all the way down through 1500ft. Heard it got as low as the Matterhorn around 1,000ft. Flakes flying.

Had first snow to the base area this morning. No accumulation down low but healthy flakes. It’s white up higher. Picnic tables coated per Gondi staff.

That’s awesome. Bucket list place for sure. Props!

It's fun to have the mild weather when the entire landscape looks like it's on fire. Just orange and red as far as the eye can see, on every hillside and down into the valleys. This morning had that direct sunlight on the east slope of Mansfield, while the mid-slope inversion had the fog bank cutting the hill in half.

I want it back ha. We all channel our inner Fisher.

Ah gotcha I thought it was in like a record high type of wow.

Is that real impressive? It’s been like mid/upper-70s to the Canadian border at times this week. Figured BDL would be like 85F+ haha. Only got to 70F today though. Went downhill after 1-2pm.

We just got hit with another squall line and even thunder/lightning that put the Gondolas on hold. 0.44” at the mountain today. Looks like 0.25-0.40” in town. Had some nice sun late morning and early afternoon for the line came through.

Yeah it’s likely he just doesn’t like winter and it really has nothing to do with culture. I mean we’ve seen it on this forum… how many on here hated heat, warmth, etc 10-15 years ago and now embrace it? Even folks who like big snowstorms on here saying they don’t know if they enjoy winter because it’s months of dark dreary weather hoping you get a big one. His personal preferences might have changed a bit too since he got in the field.

Cloudy this morning for like the first time in a week. Bummer, the sunshine streak is ovah. Some rain showers too.

Yeah that’s how I feel. Would rather go from a fantastic week like this last one of 60s and 70s every day with sun straight to snow… but that’s not how it works. Anything to avoid highs in the 40-55F range. At least if it’s going to be like that it better be sunny ha.

Time for fantasy land snows… All weenie fodder aside, a steady diet of troughs moving through in the long range is the pattern for early season snows as we go into late October. Just keep the troughs of sub-0C 850 air coming and the mountains/hills might get lucky at some point if something can dig/amplify a bit. Some H6-H7 mid-level Magic punching the DGZ. Some good soundings around to remind you winter is coming.

This evening’s dog walk on Spruce.

Not going to lie, I want some clouds and more moody weather for foliage photography . The full sun at times seems to wash out the colors at the midday light but it’s still looking ridiculous. The after work hikes with lower sun angle makes it hard to not stop and stare every few minutes. I think some cloudy vibes tomorrow, maybe some fog/mid-slope clouds too, will really bring out the saturation in the leaves. However, for weather to get outside and hike and enjoy this time of year… that was one ridiculous sunny stretch we just had from last weekend through today. And no “double peak” where you get some species flaming out while others are still green. It’s all going at the same time.

Ha must’ve timed it just right. Looks legit.

You should post more. Logic and reasoning is an underrated human trait. 75/43 currently up here. Glorious.

It’s about peak or on the early side of the “peak range” but should linger. I’m hopeful the winds behind the FROPA aren’t too bad on Friday/Saturday.

Yup. 74F so far off a low of 36F. Should hit the nice 40F diurnal swing that signals great weather this time of year.

36F this morning. The time of year when you can do 70s by day and 30s by night.

It was an emotional 9th inning for him and JOB. He was choking up several times.

Weather will take you to the woodshed if you put absolutes on everything like “definitely” and “always.” There’s a lot of gray area in meteorology.

As sad as this dumpster fire season has been, I just tuned in to listen to Dennis Eckersley’s final inning of broadcasting. Listening to Eck get a bit choked up here in the 9th, going to be tough to fill his “pair of shoes.”

Humid dews down there?

I was just thinking about what’s different in winter vs now… it’s the temps relative to normal. This time of year (or spring, summer) if you are out of the precip and clouds… it’s warm/mild relative to normal. Smoking cirrus in January is like a High of 8F vs having an area of like 45F and sun north of a snowstorm. Now it’s like wow, nice comfy day. You miss south in winter and it’s like wow, its fukkin frigid and breezy.