powderfreak

One more from Saturday's first snowfall.

28F with very dense fog this morning. There was actually some rime forming on evergreen boughs in the freezing fog.

29F at closest PWS… 30F MVL… 33F at 1500ft and 35F at 1800ft. Summit is 32F.

The leftovers made it through till Sunday… even made it through Sunday night at the Cliff House up in the clouds. Shows how long 1.5” of snow can linger at like low-mid 30s temps this time of year. Sun angle continues to lower quickly. The upper slopes that are shadowed the most tend to hold the snow.

Got all the way to 53F here with sunshine all afternoon.

Yeah one of our lines goes into the basement to get across and the other is one single vertical outside on the side wall above the condenser. They’ve got it down now that you don’t have tubes wrapping around 3 sides of your home.

I will say the new heat pump works great here for very efficient heating on electric now. And locked in $2.50/gallon propane for the winter (last winter I paid $4). Going to be a much cheaper winter at least monthly bills, but also factor in the thousands for the A/C, Heat mini split, haha.

Looks like 2-3 great mild, sunny days before that FROPA late week. Even up here rebounding well into the 60s to low 70s. Super bi-polar weather this time of year.

Some folks saying they saw flurries or something frozen this morning in the valley around here. I wasn’t up yet. MVL ASOS reported “unknown precipitation” at 36F so it was very close. METAR KMVL 101050Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM UP BKN004 OVC033 02/01 A3014 RMK P0001

That’s a sick wildlife shot!

We had a brief period of snow on the upper mountain this morning from WAA. Still snow covered around the top of the Gondola at 32F. Definitely could be snow in the Whites.

Nice, a lot of folks ending their growing season.

Do you ever get frosts? Like sure you get below freezing, but do you wake up to hard white frozen grass? Frosts aren’t really a hill top thing…that condensing, temp meets dew point at 100% RH is not something the mid-slopes up here see at night very often at any time of year. The atmosphere is mixed and can’t stay calm long enough to condense. The whole idea of a frost advisory is to protect growing vegetation… and historically agriculture is more of a valley thing where frosts happen. To be honest, as weird as it is there’s probably an elevation around my area at like 1700ft that’s the absolute last place to see 32F or lower temperatures. It freezes on the upper mountain in CAA, and then at night it’ll freeze from 1500ft and down. But there’s absolutely a mid-slope zone that’s the last place to hit 32F on the year. That’s probably like your spot. Isn’t high enough to get into the sub-freezing zone aloft during early season cold shots, and also won’t radiate during those early season troughs.

Even late this afternoon, snow was hanging around. It felt great to be cold again. Hats, gloves. Cold enough that snow lasted throughout the day. Wind chills in the teens. Winter. Fun to get back up and walk around among snow and ice. The crunch underfoot.

Snow cover begins around 2,400ft even after sunshine today. It’s cold!

Yeah it's all there. So are the people, but they are getting one helluva show right now.

Mansfield Magic returned with the orographic heavier snow showers this morning. It's definitely captivated the entire town on the holiday weekend Saturday. Everyone pointing, is that snow?!

It was snowing all the way down through 1500ft. Heard it got as low as the Matterhorn around 1,000ft. Flakes flying.

Had first snow to the base area this morning. No accumulation down low but healthy flakes. It’s white up higher. Picnic tables coated per Gondi staff.

That’s awesome. Bucket list place for sure. Props!

It's fun to have the mild weather when the entire landscape looks like it's on fire. Just orange and red as far as the eye can see, on every hillside and down into the valleys. This morning had that direct sunlight on the east slope of Mansfield, while the mid-slope inversion had the fog bank cutting the hill in half.

I want it back ha. We all channel our inner Fisher.

Ah gotcha I thought it was in like a record high type of wow.

Is that real impressive? It’s been like mid/upper-70s to the Canadian border at times this week. Figured BDL would be like 85F+ haha. Only got to 70F today though. Went downhill after 1-2pm.

We just got hit with another squall line and even thunder/lightning that put the Gondolas on hold. 0.44” at the mountain today. Looks like 0.25-0.40” in town. Had some nice sun late morning and early afternoon for the line came through.