powderfreak

I think we crust. It doesn’t take much, even if it’s snow to sleet to dry slot, that dry slot often is freezing mist/drizzle. It takes so little liquid to crust the snowpack I think we’d need some wholesale changes to that look on Thursday. Even the GFS warm sectors Thursday night after precip shuts off… which there are also varying levels of crust too. Maybe just a zipper that 100 underfoot can take care of.

Mountain snowpack already a good foot above normal and the snowpack is awesome with no rain in January. If the next 2-3 weeks hit we could be making a run at 100” at the stake. 2019 was the last time over 100” depth but it feels primed to take another step up sitting at ~5.5 feet with a potentially active stretch continuing.

First time in like a month we had to kill snow guns due to marginal temps. I think the mountain does another 4-6” tonight. A healthy 6 at High Road would not surprise me.

Snowing big flakes again. Thinking another 3” tonight at home, another half a foot for the mountain after last night’s 4”. If we hit on this active pattern, the mountain snowpack is going to get up there.

Can toss in upstate NY, and rural areas nation wide lol.

Nice little fluffer last night. 4”.

A snowy evening is always appreciated.

Snow growth here dropped as soon as that initial lift moved through. Now a lighter, steadier more average flake size.

More like 1 trip outside every 6 minutes to make sure it’s still snowing. Or one could just look outside .

Dumping great snow growth in this initial fronto band lifting northward. Big fluffy flakes at 17 degrees.

MVL -22F for the min. Local PWS was -19.8. Mansfield summit +5F.

-20F Feels like the surface of the moon.

It’s been a fun month. Snowpack has been tracking just above normal in the northern Greens. Pack above 5 feet at the co-op stake. Favorable to the mean after last night’s fresh snow.

No rain. In a winter month in 2025. Love it.

It’s f*cking cold out this evening. You feel subzero on that first deep breath. What a winter month January was. Average temperatures can produce a decent winter. Photo from a friend in Stowe Hollow wondering if it snowed every day on the mountain in January? It felt like it, even away from the Spine throughout town. It was cold today. Snowy month on the NW flow in ADK, VT and NH.

2.5”

Sometimes your only hope is mid-level magic with good fluffy snow growth. Snow has picked up markedly.

Barely getting in on it here on the northern gradient. Steady -SN but not getting more than a healthy inch or so. Been steady for a couple hours but synoptic ratios with around 0.10 - 0.15” QPF expected… not going to add up to much.

This is the obs content we log on for.

I think this moving the goalposts of normals is a fun topic, ha. 25 years ago wasn’t that long ago.

Steady light snow. Vis about a mile. Immediately whitened up the cars. Hoping to pull 1-2”.

Light snow just started back up here. It’s been a westerly flow month. Hard to argue with anyone that the synoptic areas have been dry. We get pennies and nickels.

Agreed 100% when I saw this. Devils Fiddle was a high-end treat growing up. Most often in March when natural snowpack topped out. Aspect melts out fast in the spring but the rock drops and sustained pitch made it one of my favorites during Match school trips to Killington.

The MVL ASOS in the valley here is +0.4F on the month of January. That is absolutely wild. It has felt cold. Average temperature of 16.2F isn't noteworthy though. I guess what made this month feel colder was the consistent fluffy snowfall, wind? Or maybe it was the fact that the past two seasons had average temps of 23.8F (+8.1) or January 2023 with 26.4F (+10.7). This January being colder by 8-11 degrees from the previous two January's definitely skews perception. The past two January's were top tier warmth, average feels cold.

Down to 0F in town and -4F at base of ski area with a brutal wind. Classic.