powderfreak

Some just struggle to understand without a meme. Anyway, nice little refresh on the hill from that system past 24 hours.

Nice little refresh from this past event last 24 hours.

Yeah it was a penalty but after the shit the refs pulled earlier it just felt like there was no way Cincy would win that game. It wasn’t that last call of the game, it was that whole 4th quarter in totality that was wild to watch.

Basically on the forum there’s NNE that hasn’t had a stellar winter, but many are halfway to average with two months to go…and sitting with 12-18” on the ground currently. On the flip side there are a good deal of posters where winter has been more of an abstract concept than a real entity this season. And it’s stark, the gradient has been very real and very sharp. It’s leading to two very different frames of mind when analyzing data, statements, or sentiment.

That’s an awesome looking puppy. Congrats.

Nice. 12” here right this moment.

His name is Projection Paul. If it rains to I-84, it rains to Maine or Canada. If it’s a drought on I-84, it’s a drought everywhere. Dews? Everyone is humid. All types of weather is usually a blanket statement applicable for the whole forum… except for cool nights in the warm season, he likes to have the hottest nights around.

Tippy’s therapy thread 2.0. I get it though for many. Time to log off too and enjoy early spring.

Yeah BTV is slightly below normal snow but is ahead of last year. It’s probably bordering on within a “normal” distribution right now despite massive positive departures. Of course if not another inch of snow fell, they’d be 50% of average.

Been snowing pretty hard at the ski area, vis definitely in the 1/2sm range at times. Down in the valley MVL ASOS is 3/4sm snow at 32F.

The poor winters always have them. The late storms. My best event in town in 15-16 was like third week in April.

Watch him get like 40” after Morch 15th in some historical pattern, while the sun tries to melt the pavement each day.

I like the -20F for a max temp through 1pm Saturday at MVL here. Wild progs. No way in hell it’s -20F at 1pm.

Busiest day of the season up here.

It was definitely a weather system that favored north and west… wanted to be north of the WAA mix-line during the strongest frontogenic forcing. Montreal regional zone has done very well.

Truly awesome one week turn around up north. Ski quality is high-end. Upper elevations are absolutely caked. First photo shows the upper elevation scene. Stuffed with snow... the trees and ground depth. Some big stacks after 13" in this past system. It's not even the snow total that's so solid, but the amount of SWE that has come with the snow. It has body. It's beefy on the bottom, with dense synoptic snow for the past 3 storms. Then the ending of storm #3 turned fluffy, as expected. The DGZ really grew and punched down to the surface on the upper elevations, as upslope/low level lift was still very favorable. It added an ending of fluff after many inches of denser snow. And the third storm in a row.

McLovin age.

I literally think I’m 18 in that photo… half my life ago. It’s so funny .

Yeah and we didn't have the 2015 blitz to warm our souls either. You guys were still scoring some decent events despite the poor winter overall, only a couple decent events make quite a dent in annual percentages down that way (which makes this year more amazing almost). I remember some 8-15" type events that winter... wasn't there a deform band across CT up I84 in one of those? I truly think crap winters are so much mentally easier to take when it comes off a great snow year. It feels like well, we had our fun now I guess regression is it. Almost the same with a big first half of winter... even if the second half is a dud and rat from then on out, it's so much easier to come to terms with. Oh well, we got ours, it is what it is. But a crap winter after a few tough winters is infuriating.

That’s what made it worse up here, ha. It does matter though… you get a record winter, the next like three feel like gravy and you take your licks. 2011-12 was like that after 2010-11 too. Shit winters stomach easier after huge ones.

Mansfield stake up near 40” at the high water mark of 2015-16. So think we can end those comparisons for sure, they never really held much weight but just a couple good weeks is all it takes to beat that season.

Yup, that was a bad one. Snow matching rainfall totals… inch for inch for a while.

Straight trolling

So good today. The hill is filling in nicely. It's come a very LONG way in the past 7-10 days.

Horrific blurry photo getting to my car.... but it is full on mid-winter snowstorm vibes. As January should be. Like deform band snow and high wind. No idea how much is falling but it's whiteout at times when the wind blows. Huge dendrites. I think the mountain will get into the 12-15" range.