powderfreak

People stop coming at some point. Spring sports start up for kids, folks can do things outside now that doesn't involve snow. Golf courses, baseball fields, basketball courts, biking, etc... half the reason people go skiing in the winter (casual skiers), is because it's a fun way to get outside during those months to be honest. Once other options become available, those things take over.

Low 60s with dews in the upper teens, top 10 day with 20% RH. Great afternoon for a schuss down Mt Mansfield. Still skiing the trees in spots. Looks like we have over a week of this.

Crazy 10 day QPF. Not sure I remember ever seeing zilch for entire states like VT/NH on 10-day QPF map.

It's always interesting how long snow can last when these mild dry air masses move in. Evaporational cooling seems to lead to a snow skin temperature that is much lower than the 2-meter temperature. The 30% or lower spring afternoons seem to do very little damage to the high elevation snowpack. It's wild to me that the Toll Road path has been plowed clear and already dried (low RH), while there's 5 feet of snow on the level right next door on the neighboring trail. The pile of snow from the plowing is probably 30 feet deep over the edge of the trail on the left side of this photo. Spring is a fun time of year.

Let’s goooo, ha. Maybe we can do 95F again from SLK to BML in May too.

We do A/C up here much more than we used to a decade ago, especially two decades ago when I first moved to N.VT. It doesn't cool off at night as much as it used to. That is the real A/C barometer in my opinion. The nighttime cooling. Open windows and sliding doors cooling things off nicely are the hallmarks of NNE mountain valley summers. If it doesn't radiate though, the populous needs A/C. That increase in temps overnight/during low diurnal solar cycle, has really pushed many of us to install A/C where it wasn't previously needed.

Nice J. That's some good skiable coverage for south facing Spruce this time of year. Spruce takes the brunt of the solar effects and I haven't been up there much lately. I should probably try one last ski up there before hiking season starts there. I love Spruce in the warm season for a quick after-work jaunt to the lookout rock at the top. Liftline and Lord to North Slope then T-Line are likely the two routes that last the longest on Mansfield. Nosedive at the "Shambles Turn" around 2,300ft (because your legs are usually in shambles by then and trying to run it out to the lower pitch) is worn down to a ribbon on skiers right. That section up to Cliff Trail was weaker than usual this year. Liftline, Centerline and Lord/North Slope to T-Line seemed deeper than usual.

About a 1/3rd of an inch of water in 4 days this month. That seems pretty average. Isn't BDL above normal water since March 1st this spring? Hopefully you can Stein though, folks love a dry warm season.

RT 108 through Smugglers Notch (Notch Road, Mountain Road, RT 108, many names) opened today for the season, connecting Jeffersonville with Stowe. It connects the east and west slopes without having to go to Waterbury and I-89... or north to Johnson for RT 15. Good warm season marker is that opening. View of the Notch and passageway through the Spine from this afternoon. Mild day despite the clouds, natural snow trail Starr vs snowmaking runs Centerline to North Slope. Snow is dirty with melt debris, dust, dirt, tree boughs, etc.

Started 2019 with the same record as this year after winning 108 games in 2018. Its really bizarre how the past decade they have had 4 first place finishes and 4 last place finishes… only two seasons in past 10 did they finish other than 1st or worst.

Smoldering hot and wet? Hmm.

Getting caught up here with the cliff notes version. J/k good posts Tip. Hope for the best.

I imagine that going about as well in your house as when you tell the family that A/C isn’t needed and they should man up and enjoy the dews.

Beautiful sunny day for some May turns. Plenty of snow with still 4.5 feet of snowpack at the summit stake. Numerous 2,000+ vertical foot routes still available. Liftline skied great and is probably going to last the longest. It's fat right down to Crossover. Nosedive still goes, Perry Merrill looks like it's about to completely melt out below the Pumphouse, Hayride still went when I skied it yesterday, Lord to North Slope and Sunrise to Standard, Gulch, T-Line, slow side snowmaking trails all good still. Takes a long time to melt all that snowmaking. Fantastic views today of the Chin and also Mount Washington out on the horizon in New Hampshire. Also had a bear run out in front of me on Sunrise; he came out one snow gun uphill of me. I wasn't fast enough to get a good photo while he ran across the trail but did get a grainy one of him in the woods on the other side. He looked at me quizzically (I'm thinking, that's a weird looking dog) as I couldn't see his whole body... then as I slowly tried to get my camera out without startling him, he took off running. They are very docile creatures and afraid of us. Good sized crowd out there earning their turns today. Perfect day for it. Probably have another two weeks left?

Top 10 day. Skiing in shorts and a t-shirt. Skinned up to the Mansfield Stake and the mountain is still buried. Highlight was about halfway up I had a bear pop out from behind a snow gun maybe 30 feet away (he was real close), thing looked at me confused and when I slowly tried to take my backpack off to get to a camera he ended up bolting. Those black bears can move, ha! Over 2,000 vertical feet of great skiing on May 1st. Picked up quite the sunburn too.

Ah that's awful. Hate to see a good legacy hotel go down. One with history from another time of NNE. Sad for all the employees and people who love it.

Every time a Fisher post comes up on here I can’t take it seriously with that avatar photo, lol. I feel like he should be rolling around in an ice cream truck creeping people out with that mustache .

Fantastic day to get out for a hike and ski. Too much snow, gotta plow it into the woods to try and open up travel routes. Wonderful day.

Seems rarer than even an EF5 TOR? That's a rare event to be throwing into a statement. Why not say 3" hail... even if someone gets a 5" hailstone it's assumed with a 3" call that f'cking large hail was possible, ha.

On an aside... holy crap at the BDL obs. Dew point of 3F for only 10% RH? That's some true dry air. Chamber style.

Odd you didn't pick the ORH obs at 52F with 20-30mph winds.

Looks like 11 of the past 14 days have been below normal at BTV... that's a solid run for that airport has been en fuego for years now. Maybe it's the "new normals" as BTV has seemed to have an easier time going below normal recently.

It wasn't a great spring day. It wasn't an unmitigated disaster. It wasn't how people would draw up this time of year... cold and windy. One could trick themselves into thinking it was nice outside with the sun, one could also not enjoy standing out in the cold wind with low RH making it feel cooler. Being in the shade up here felt like mid-winter with icicles and snow still hanging off the hotel balconies while walking to the car at the end of the day... while the afternoon sun was strong enough that if the wind wasn't honking it wasn't that bad (but there was a lot of wind).

What are the three values for SNOINCR on those old obs? I thought it was two values... new hourly snowfall/total on ground. Is it New/Storm Total/Depth? SNOINCR 2/9/12

Yeah very true. 12z GEFS initialized at like -14 degrees C below average values over a large chunk of the area at 850mb. Tomorrow isn't a whole lot higher either, still like -10 C below normal.