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powderfreak

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  1. Sweet sunset this evening over Bolton Mountain (which is actually north of the Bolton Valley ski area). Trapp Family Lodge is the property on the hillside bench in the foreground at 1,500ft. Shot from the center of Stowe which is between two larger ridge lines. This is the west side view. Got up to 84F today at MVL (same elevation as where this photo was taken from). Normal is 73/48. Well above average.
  2. Low 80s here, dews upper 50s. March 31st sun angle.
  3. Still foggy in the valley. Break out around 1,000ft. Real shallow.
  4. As long as Steve Wright is still in charge there all will be well.
  5. Fog just barely burning off in the valley at 10:30am. Sun angle getting pretty weak and taking longer to mix out. In mid-summer it mixes by 7am. In November that moisture can stay trapped all day sometimes.
  6. Yeah those earlier 107F records were in June/July and more inline with when the average temp curve peaked… end of the first week of September though is wayyy off the chart relative to normal. Edit: Although that June 15th 107F dot is also pretty far off the average mark. It’s probably similar departure. Just noticed that of the 5 times they’ve hit 107F on record, 4 of them have been last year or this year. That’s statistically hard to believe but it’s where we are at in this climate.
  7. Nice all-time record high tied out west in SLC in September. Just baking out there.
  8. I don’t know, but part of me thinks the models were pretty accurate with displaying a widespread heavy rainfall event? The swath of 1.50-2.00”+ is massive from PA up into ME. All weather models continued to signal a widespread high-end water event and it seemed to deliver. My dad says close to 5” along the state border in NE CT.
  9. Yeah for sure, if anything the Stratus is a few points low. When you have to take the center tube out and top off, then pour to fill 8 times, bound to lose a few drops.
  10. Days and days of 60s up here but it’s been relatively humid with dews stuck in the low-60s. Thick, low overcast has been a little claustrophobic in the valley, not being able to see the upper 1-2 thousand feet of the mountains. Low diurnal spreads… like 67F to 61F max/min stuff. Above normal due to the mins, which is usual during many cloudy/precip days here when radiational cooling is baked into climo.
  11. That’s insane, almost hard to believe (not saying I don’t) because so often there are slight inconsistencies in small amounts that widen with the bigger the rainfall.
  12. That was legendary. Like a wet 2” and talking about sledding through mud with a couple inches of wet snow on top.
  13. January 2014 here. Leon can eat a fat one. Cutter-suppression-cutter-suppression-cutter-suppression. More inches of rain than snow for 2-3 weeks.
  14. Is that like 20-25% of your annual average for water? That’s wild.
  15. Anytime someone doesn’t jackpot they’ve been Steined now. “Ah crap, only 2 inches not 8, Stein.”
  16. Safe to say we won’t have Stein mentioned on here again this warm season?
  17. I mean it doesn’t matter the event but you put a quick 3-6” in like 12 hours into hilly terrain and it’s out of control fast. Doesn’t matter dry or not. The force multiplier of the terrain is the big kicker… all water gets funneled into the same drainages. Even 2” in an hour in the mtns can flush big. I’ve seen trees floating by out back in what is normally shin to knee deep from 3” of rain. Much different topography down there that can handle those water amounts.
  18. 0.35” Like a winter storm… a couple feet SNE, a foot for you, a few inches up here.
  19. Wouldn’t further south be closer to having the ocean on two sides (south and east)? Does that proximity to moisture rich source have anything to do with it?
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