powderfreak

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.

Lol upper mountain natural snowpack at it’s season high of 62” on 4/20. And I’m going south to Long Island.

It’s all fake. The ability to create precip and snow on westerly winds (the prevailing default flow in N.America) into the Northern Greens is what makes this the powder skiing capital of the East.

This is an incredible radar. This is dumping on the mountains. After melting this afternoon in the warm sector it has come back strong. There was ~6-6.5" at the board flip and the location is usually less than the calmer, ground based High Road location.

This is a beautiful radar at 26F on the top of the mountain. Upslope flow is just crushing the ski area right now. That stuff is all getting pushed and deposited downstream, having a large area of 30-35dbz firing up like that and hitting the county line means the ski area is seeing some healthy precipitation rates. That's the textbook look... with more moisture continually feeding into the upslope band. Standing wave getting fed! 11" increase in Snow Depth today at the Mansfield Stake. It's been a fun past few weeks for the N.Greens... some good events. Storm above 3,000ft likely ends up 8-15".

Gahhh, I'd definitely take a personal day and head up there (either today or tomorrow, or both) except for taking the next 3 days off to head to Long Island. Radar looks healthy. Any time 30dbz pixels are flaring up over Mansfield (and west side) and points north, it means the upslope is steady precip over the mountains. Jay Peak is always too far away, beam too high, in these situations to "see" exactly what's happening up there but if radar has this signature along the northern western slopes, Jay Peak is getting crushed. Good moisture feed getting wrung out. These echoes are landing downstream in the flow.

That's a good one right there. 7:30am and blowing numbers. "Beer." A winning combo.

38/33 with upslope rain in the valley. Still snow outside in town. That waterlogged stuff is hard to melt.

As a kid 70s or 80s that aren’t excessive humid/hot was the sweet spot and still is… street hockey, baseball, football, manhunt, etc. No one wanted to do that stuff at 92/70… you’d be inside the AC playing Nintendo. And as kids I feel like they have a high tolerance, like we’d swim in the lake in CT at 60F and pouring rain. Didn’t matter the temp. Never do that now lol.

But do they not go outside at 75F vs 90F? I’d almost think kids are more likely to play outside when it’s not blistering hot.

We changed to rain earlier but back to snow now at the base of the ski area. Cold wrapping back in.

Wow at the temperature gradient across N.VT.... Island Pond, Gallup Mills, usual very cold spots in NE VT are 50-55F right now, while BTV is 34F with light sleet. Newport, VT near 50F too at the Canadian border. Wild.

That's awesome. Good move to head up for the snowstorm. There has to be zero people there.

Two friends in Elmore, VT just northeast of here both reporting like 7-8" at elevations of like 1200-1400ft. Said more than the ski area. Looks like they got crushed in about 3 hours of 2"/hr or more.

Oh man, that's when you just want to shake your fist at the sky like that Simpson's old guy.

Got 5-6" it seems up at 1,500ft. Nice drive with mainly wet roads and just caked trees.

Yeah man the QPF amounts were pretty crazy. I never would've guessed most of the spots would be over 1" water last night. It didn't start precipitating until like 2am. I'm not sure I've ever seen this type of QPF rates with snowfall at the local MVL ASOS. KMVL 191054Z AUTO 36008KT 1/4SM +SN FG VV003 01/M01 A2970 RMK AO2 PRESFR SLP061 P0035 Heavy snow with 0.35" in the bucket in an hour. That's bonkers. It was like the atmosphere was vomiting moisture for a couple hours there.

3.5” at Stowe in Lamoille and 4-6” Champlain Valley.

This is some paste. Like 3” on over 1” of water.

The BGM obs are solid. 0.65” QPF in 3-hours at 31F. They are getting crushed.

Where was this a month ago.

58/16 quickly to 46/20 and dropping rapidly. Wet bulbing from evaporational cooling taking place long before precip starts falling.

Truth... everyone knows when they get good gusts to 40+ into bare trees but if trees aren't getting ripped out of the ground did it ever really blow?

It's how deep the ground freezes. It's worse the colder the climate. The ground thaws from the surface downward, but because the ground’s lower layers deep underground don’t warm as quickly and remain frozen, water from melting snow and chilly spring rains aren’t able to seep down very far. Instead, this water sits near the surface where it waterlogs the top layer of soil and creates a sea of mud.

This air mass is wild dry.... very rare to see RH go under 20% around these parts. Can you say wet-bulbing tonight. 57/13 at MVL for 17% RH. 57/10 at MPV for 15% RH.