powderfreak

Yeah been a snowy vibe evening. We’ve got a standing wave going this evening with steadier snows down into town than at the mountain, oddly enough. Driving through the galaxy big flakes this evening. Mountain has gained about 4” of dense upslope last day or so.

I shouldn’t have looked at that, ha ha. 18-24”. Sensibly that’s a bit different than 4-5 days of rain on the GGEM.

Look on the bright side, at least the NW flow and high RH was able to squeeze out some snow last night, ha. Orographic dense 3.5-4" past 30 hours or so.

Yes, 100% and this is the difficulty of having a discussion where climate change enters the chat. Things can be getting warmer BUT also not be the main cause of our ratter winter so far. Both of those statements can be true. Climate change is not putting a mean upper level trough over the inter mountain west with above normal heights over us. That’s just a shitty draw on a pattern that does not want to budge.

It is an absolute banner winter out west though. Lake Tahoe, Alta/Jackson, Steamboat, etc. When I think climate change, I think lack of snows east and west. To me when the Sierra to Wasatch to Tetons to Rockies are having absolutely ridiculous seasons to date snowfall wise, that’s just a persistent trough being situated in the wrong place. Its the classic snowy west and not snowy east… trough/ridge combo. There is a ying to our yang.

No threading the needle there, ha.

Can see how that GFS map gets there.

Why not? 925mb temps are colder up near Springfield than HFD? You get Wxbell too now?!

Nice look Mass.

Almost baseball season. At least Red Sox just showed something of a pulse giving Raffy Devers the largest contract on record for a third baseman.

Good sample size.

Pretty mixed signal there on that map . At least the positive anomalies are localized.

Yeah I thought I remembered some holiday week snows. And maybe just before up here too. One of the better skiing holiday weeks the past two decades I think if remembering it right. Feb 2013 obviously turned things around down south.

I thought that winter had some solid December snows. Maybe it was more NNE. I remember that holiday period being very snowy.

I agree even though fully guilty. I wish I remembered more to post in Banter if it has no weather relevance. I’d move my posts, and went to sports forum after initial posts. It definitely used to be different. 20 years ago, no one pressed “send” or “post” unless it absolutely had to be said and was well researched/reasoned. That was if you thought you were worthy enough to hear from on list-serves, bulletin boards, etc. Social media has changed things. We never used to share feelings with weather at the beginning. Now it’s largely the conversation.

I guess I'm going and hoping on there have been skiers who have fallen very hard and gone into some sort of arrhythmia from trauma of hitting chest just the wrong way.... only to have the AED shock up to 4 times and make a save. Those folks usually end up taking breaths on their own though.

Yeah just saw that and edited. That's a good sign. AED showing a pulse is what I'm seeing reported, that swings the odds back the other way quite a bit. Very critical but there's hope.

It's super sad, CPR means he's probably gone. 24 years old? Edit: Now sounds like an AED was used, that's a good sign. That meant he had a pulse still.

18z GFS kept something on the map. Just get the grass covered fully again would go a long way.

Reggie not biting as much up here but that’s a good 0.25-0.5” as sleet for Maine coastal plain posters.

The Taunton crew sticks together .

Lol yeah but the data points are for the first time it does it. You think that one in October stayed above 24”? Many of these years went back below afterwards. It’s linear on average but not in reality.

lol the wet blanket was on that like white on rice within minutes.

It is tough to watch for sure.