powderfreak

Yeah Mansfield is still buried above 2,500ft with 50+ inches on the ground at the stake. The upslope signal is pretty solid. Look at that low level omega/lift but the dendrite growth zone is above it so it'll likely be dense small flake/graupel type stuff.

I don't use Twitter... except I do like reading through baseball twitter for highlights and clips. I'm more of a photo guy (shocking), instagram is my jam. Still good snow on the hill. It had been 6 days since I'd even walked on snow, needed to spend some time checking things out after a trip away.

Chilly late week on the zone forecast. Wednesday Night...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation possible. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent. Thursday...Snow showers likely. Additional light snow accumulation possible. Highs in the lower 40s. Chance of snow 70 percent. .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... As of 337 PM EDT Monday...Forecast remains on track for Wednesday and Thursday to be the worst weather days of the week as the core of an anonymously cold closed upper low (-30C at 500mb) moves over the region. After a dry start to the day, we should see numerous valley rain and mountain snow showers develop by Wednesday afternoon across the entire region and continue through much of the overnight across central/northeast Vermont with snow levels dropping to the valley floor by midnight.

Some light snow this week?

So hilarious. What Elon strange trip it's been.

65F here today, pretty nice temp with low RH. Looking up at the mountain from the base area, still a lot of snow on the hill. Going to be a long melt this season. Looks like some upslope accumulations possible even down through 1500ft on Wednesday night.

Yeah absolutely. It’s 75F at MSS in N.NY as warmth streams northward between that High along the coast and the Low up near James Bay.

High of 65F so far. Dews below freezing, low RH. Great weather.

57F and climbing. Already up 21 degrees from the 36F min. Going to be a mild one today.

Just got back to Stowe from Long Island… nicest weather was LI this morning and then from your area of I-91 up through VT and this area actually was warmest. Saw some 63-64F temps up north here on car thermometer and full sun. Was funny to see highway signs of towns in western CT that many on here live in, ha. Not much green outside of LI. Merritt Parkway area wasn’t leafed out by any means. Still seemed largely stick season but some flowers and ground color about. Also learned people down there think of NH as New Hampshire not New Haven. Based on a poster’s comments here in the past I always wondered if that was a CT thing. They just thought I was still drunk from the wedding.

I loved in this series of posts one after another it was shown to be low 50s by Will and Scooter and somehow those obs got ingested by the KFS and came out 55-60F .

Some healthy upslope signals on some of these runs for the mountains.

It’s definitely a function of population and stereotypes. You see one driver zipping through lanes in NY but forget the other hundred drivers around you. And yeah every time I go to Boston I’m like this is madness, .

I feel like I’m offending people on the Interstate up north going fast and feel like I’m doing the same down south but for going too slow . That car is far too clean… tried to Google dirty Honda Pilot on interstate but didn’t come up with anything good.

First time on Long Island in probably a decade… it’s wild. I’m a “fast Vermont driver” (which means getting pulled over by State Troopers on I-89 in Waterbury, VT going 77mph) but 77 down here is like you are driving a school bus in the far right lane. Cars swerving through traffic, changing multiple lanes at once, then going back multiple lanes the other way, no one uses turn signals, ha. It’s like anarchy. Sober driving on the Long Island Expressway seems a lot more dangerous than having a couple IPAs at a brewery and doing 35 mph home in Vermont, lol. All the cops going through NYC just sitting in pull offs reading AMWX forums looking for 276 hour GFS snow events in Maine while traffic moves at 85mph.

All Eastern Mass All The Time in this forum. It’s infuriating. There are people that live west of 495!

Yeah agreed. Neither is “safe” at all and most of these studies seem to be at low levels of intoxication of both substances (like .04% BAC in that one I quoted)… if you are blasted on anything, you’re gonna have a hard/bad time. They all also reference “experienced users” of cannabis… so tolerance would be a big factor I’d think. In general it’s a silly argument, basically “my vice is better than your vice” and past personal history shapes opinions more than anything. You have an alcoholic family member who you watch it destroy relationships, or you have a family member who sits in their basement taking bong rips dawn to dusk and seems like they are wasting life away… or someone gambling away a mortgage and money for a family, etc those personal experiences will lead to our opinions on different vices much more than anything else.

This stuff is fairly fascinating to be honest going down the rabbit hole… I’ve never really read up on it but there are a lot of studies out there that seem to show how being under the influence of different substances directly relate to your “risk taking” and subsequent driving ability and fatality risk. Alcohol drinkers underestimate their level of impairment and drive faster, taking more risks and overtake vehicles ahead of them. THC users in national studies actually overestimate their level of impairment, are aware of it and slow down, increase distances between vehicles and do not overtake other vehicles as compensation. THC users slow down and do not maintain higher speeds even when directed to by researchers, while alcohol users increase their speed when directed to maintain. “Surprisingly, given the alarming results of cognitive studies, most marijuana-intoxicated drivers show only modest impairments on actual road tests.37, 38 Experienced smokers who drive on a set course show almost no functional impairment under the influence of marijuana, except when it is combined with alcohol.39 Many investigators have suggested that the reason why marijuana does not result in an increased crash rate in laboratory tests despite demonstrable neurophysiologic impairments is that, unlike drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to underestimate their degree of impairment, marijuana users tend to overestimatetheir impairment, and consequently employ compensatory strategies. Cannabis users perceive their driving under the influence as impaired and more cautious,40 and given a dose of 7 mg THC (about a third of a joint), drivers rated themselves as impaired even though their driving performance was not; in contrast, at a BAC 0.04% driving performance was impaired even though drivers rated themselves as unimpaired.41 This awareness of impairment has behavioral consequences. Several reviews of driving and simulator studies have concluded that marijuana use by drivers is likely to result in decreased speed and fewer attempts to overtake, as well as increased “following distance”. The opposite is true of alcohol.43 One review of eight driving simulator studies and seven on-road studies44found that cannabis use was associated with either poor lane control41, 45–48 or slower driving that successfully maintained lane control.49–51 In seven of ten studies cited, cannabis use was associated with a decrease in driving speed despite explicit instructions to maintain a particular speed, whereas under the influence of alcohol, subjects consistently drove faster. Two simulator studies showed that the tendency to overtake was decreased with cannabis use but increased with alcohol.52, 53”

Yeah there are a lot of studies showing alcohol as far worse and many accidents with THC also have alcohol on-board. The absolute worst is proven to be both as they enhance each other… but THC on its own has mixed results in driving studies. This is in no way advertising that it’s safe, as DWI is DWI (which specifically is failing to pass field sobriety tests/FST as a measure of being under the influence). Prescription drugs have been found to be more likely to lead to failed FSTs than operators with THC. “In driving studies, marijuana produces little or no car-handling impairment – consistently less than produced by moderate doses of alcohol and many legal medications. Mixing marijuana and alcohol together amplifies potential risks. Surveys show that when THC is detected in the blood of fatally injured drivers, alcohol is often detected as well.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722956/ “Detrimental effects of cannabis use vary in a dose-related fashion, and are more pronounced with highly automatic driving functions than with more complex tasks that require conscious control, whereas alcohol produces an opposite pattern of impairment. Because of both this and an increased awareness that they are impaired, marijuana smokers tend to compensate effectively while driving by utilizing a variety of behavioral strategies. Combining marijuana with alcohol eliminates the ability to use such strategies effectively, however, and results in impairment even at doses which would be insignificant were they of either drug alone. Epidemiological studies have been inconclusive regarding whether cannabis use causes an increased risk of accidents; in contrast, unanimity exists that alcohol use increases crash risk.”

This is wild… is this true? The Sierra saw this little snow in two months from Jan 15 - Mar 15…. And then has more forecast the next two days?

Could be but on current progs that SW side is like western PA for nice weather. It can change but it doesn’t scream like nice warm spring weather on various 5-day means. Doesn’t mean it’s 38F and raining but probably not 60s and 70s.

That’s awesome!

BTV’s observed snowfall map…

The grass looked insanely green today everywhere after the snow yesterday. Even where snow was still on the ground some parts melted out were like glowing green. Spring snow must’ve been like fertilizer. Wild to have the deepest snow of season in the upper elevations while it’s so green in the valleys. I love this time of year. First above average snow depth reading since the first week of December . Storm Totals: 3,800ft… 15” (depth from 47” to 62”) 3,100ft… 13” 1,500ft… 8” From Ruschpy (Instagram) on Mansfield today…

Driving south to ALB then to Long Island today a couple observations… Very surprising how the Champlain Valley still had snowbanks and some snow a day later… that was a healthy little snow for like the third week of April even to Lake elevation. Went across the southeastern Adirondacks (Schroon Lake) area to I-87…. wild to see the snowbanks and they had to have seen 7-10” of absolute paste. Tons of tree damage along I-87 with trees freshly cut right in the breakdown lanes. It must’ve been a mess yesterday morning as there was a tree trunk cut every 1/4 mile at some points that would’ve been laying across at least one lane of the interstate. Evidence of snow through plow piles all the way down through Albany area at my parents house. Heard they got 2-3” down here, which is real impressive in the banana valley here for this time of year. Some buds and flowers out, looks like a few trees got smoked by the snow though, flowering on the ground. Certainly much greener than up north, starting to look like spring.