powderfreak

Yeah that’s exactly the side of MWN you’d want to be on in that CAA scenario. GFS has had that deep trough moving in around the 11/12-14 time frame but last several runs are more transient with the cold…. It’s back to a more zonal flow late in the run.

73F… 10 days in June were colder than today. June average high was 74F. So we’ve got a nice June climo day out there.

Ha I thought he was joking… as in the bathroom fan runs 24/7 per my wife’s code.

Tonight looks exceptionally warm up north.... highest 850mb temps rotate up and over the top.

The bolded I noticed this morning too! The road was all wet in spots but no rain. Thought that was real interesting.

70F up here too at MVL. 70F also at BTV, and BML. Widespread.

Dropped into the 40s around midnight but holy shit, then rose… 64F at 3:20am at MVL on November 5th! Thats obscene… once in a lifetime stuff? Higher than any summer climo to be 64F middle of the night.

Major Combination Sleet/Ice/North Country Snow Storm April 3-5 Thursday-Saturday, 2003 Never before in April, at least since records have been kept at Albany dating back to 1874, has there been an ice storm of the magnitude of the event that occurred from April 3rd to the 5th. It was a historical combination of snow, sleet, and significant accumulations of ice that brought down thousands of trees, limbs, and power lines throughout the Mohawk Valley, Capital Region, and northern Berkshire County over an extended period of time. Ice covered roads contributed to hundreds of automobile accidents Thursday night through Saturday morning. 275 schools closed Friday morning due to the extremely hazardous travel conditions.

The irony is the best ice storm I remember living in Albany area and only one to lose power in was in April 2003 (I think it was 2003, last winter there).

72F today at MVL! Record max yesterday and again today. Mansfield Summit tied record high of 58F from 40 years ago in 1982. She warm! Amazing afternoon wandering the mountain with the dog in shorts and a t-shirt.

The skiing is just best in LCC. BCC was ok but I go out west I want that big vertical, dramatic mountain experience that LCC has.

Oh yeah I’m out at noon today, home to grab the dog and get outside. Wife working till 6, let’s goooo lol. Gotta enjoy these final warm season days.

If we hit 68F yesterday… we have a higher launch pad today at 32F. That’s a 7-F head start already, ha. We’re hitting 70F+.

Oh there hasn’t been anything left for a bit now. Consistent nights in the 20s for a while, nothing hangs on. Though only 32F last night.

25F this morning and frozen solid (-5 on the min). 68F this afternoon in shorts and t-shirts (+19 on the max). Now back into the 30s this evening. Wild swings on these dry clear days, can swing 40 degrees in 6 hours.

Brighton and Solitude is a bit better but it’s still a two lane road. All it takes is one car or one accident to jack the whole thing up for an hour or two. Midweek was always fine for me in LCC but I haven’t been there in 3 winters. Of course any Winter Storm Warning these days is pretty much a shitshow in a lot of areas. People know snow is coming, can make plans to move other obligations, and with everyone having a season pass these days (Epic, Ikon, Mtn Collective, whatever) they are going to the mountain on that powder day… the day the internet has been telling you is coming, the local TV broadcasters talk about, social media weather outlets, the iPhone blowing up Winter Storm Watch or Warning, etc. Hype in storms is at an all-time high in skiing IMO. To be honest, it’s counterproductive but the best days/vibes sometimes are when it’s not snowing…and that’s wild, ha.

Skiing is popular these days and two lane roads don’t help. Powder days are well forecast and well advertised too… there’s no sneaking a storm in when a massive city lays at the bottom.

Watching the sun go down at 3,200ft right now… in NVT in November… and comfortable in shorts and a t-shirt. That’s wild. Not a leaf left anywhere, everything dead, but a comfy mid-50s above 3000ft.

Oh yeah I guess I was thing from the race event stance, natural would be more cosmetic than anything. It all helps but they’ll be looking for like a foot of QPF from the guns giving 3 feet snow.

Natural snow has zero factor in it. It’s all man-made and dense. Maybe if an inch or more QPF snow bomb but a snow gun can do that in a few hours. Need a lot of water to support a race like that… to drill in gates and then safety wise, they need to have feet of depth on the sides to be able to anchor the various netting and such. They have specs for depth to secure that netting so it won’t pull out when a human slams into it. That’s honestly the biggest hurdle is width and sideline depths.

My guess is if the forecasts hold they might give them the chance until the second snow inspection seeing as Killington has pulled the event off impressively well in the past for an FIS ski race in November in the East.

I know they are, ha. First FIS snow control inspection is November 12th. If they haven’t started by then it’s over. If they have some white down they’ll make it to the second snow control inspection a few days prior to the event.

25F this morning. Heat on. Really wish the winter heating bills were fake. Heat pump though on electric gets the chill out.

Ahh ok then that’s fine. As long as you can still see when it’s 32F and dumping paste while it’s 35F and raining where people live… I didn’t know it was manned observations.

Averaging 500” it’s gotta come at some point, ha. 49” season too date and 22F with +SN in the parking lot base elevation. I want their snow observation platform though. Fun hourly water stuff with this one 0.08/.14/.17/.14/.11/.09… I need that detail on Mansfield .