powderfreak

Can't beat that explanation. It's the best tool I use in real time to associate with upslope precipitation. There are always subtle hints in that product that explain why precip is occurring where it is. Wind flow is 100% the key to precipitation generation around these parts on mesoscale levels. Getting to look at a vertical slice of perceived wind directly over BTV is one helluva tool. I've been looking at that for a decade or more and comparing it to the orographic signal... that product and vertical profile of airflow is critical to understanding upslope snow. The elevation that the winds veer matters.

Go for the extremes… find a place that does summer exceptionally well on the coast, or a place that does winter well in the mountains. Put the chips all in on a season, ha. None of this middle ground stuff.

Today had a great vibe. It was a good one out in the Northern Greens. These mountains do surprise powder days better than anyone else in the northeast. No week long Winter Storm Watch/Warning hype, just a chance of snow showers that led to one of the best mornings in weeks. I hate boasting about it, but it's hard to not mention... the local ski areas around here experience the most frequent fresh snow days of the region. Today was another one of those.

That's awesome. Bet that was a fun trip. Feel free to share some other shots once you get settled back home, ha.

It’s super blocked right now. Just flurries leaving the mountain and can see all the way to the ridge line. VAD usually tells the story… most veering in the lowest 4,000ft with sharp NW flow under a more general W to even slightly SW flow aloft. Not a strong flow either, just gently sloshing air in the Champlain Valley off the flat lake plain and into the foothills… but enough to rip out some good precip there upstream of the barrier.

A dense 3.5” at the 1500ft plot at Barnes Camp to end the day. There’s some QPF meat in this. Its definitely back to winter in the base area.

Got 2.5-3” at 1500ft but starting to melt back now… dripping off the branches. Sun trying to poke through.

It's a full on powder day above mid-mountain. We found 6" at 3,000ft High Road Plot and piling up. It skis like it too... dense with some body.

We get a lot of early dry heat up this way in spring… maybe not “heat” though the mountain valleys like SLK/MVL/HIE/BML have had some high numbers in May recently… but a lot of like 80/40 type stuff seems to becoming more common up this way outside the Atlantic influence.

Some good pulses of moderate to heavy snow when 30-35dbz ripples across.

Dumping this morning. 1500ft is winter again. Snow accums start around 900ft. Plows out above Harlow Hill.

Another inch. Nickel and dime at the picnic tables.

Winter on the upper mountain, spring down low these days. It's that time of year. 4 inches have fallen on the upper mountain, while a 0.4" coating (from last night's diurnal minimum) melted fast today back to stick season and leaf litter down low.

3 years ago today. What a time to be alive.

Anyone see this avalanche in an Anchorage, AK suburb? This is wild. 60-80 feet deep in places. Officers were called to the 2400 block of Hiland, near River Lane, around 1:15 a.m. and found that a portion of the road was covered by snow, police said.

Had another 2” at 3000ft… 4” in past two days. Just constant 1-3” every 12 hours lol. Exciting.

I used to live at the bottom of this road on the Richmond/Bolton, VT line. What a mud season. West Bolton, Vermont - Rob Mullen “Stage Road West Bolton. This was the second vehicle eaten last Friday (and she didn't even make it to the really bad spot). The road grader was working to get the area passable when I walked back down to check the spot Saturday morning (close to the house) and had to work around this abandoned Volvo. “My wife had driven our very old Subaru down to the Town Office Thursday and lost the muffler in the mud. Down to just our new Subaru Outback (picked it up Wednesday), I had to drive down the hill three times Friday and wallowed through this spot repeatedly. Need an alignment already.”

It’s white again at 1500ft… but different vibe this time of year with birds chirping, ha. Accumulating snow line looked to be 1200ft. Had a little slush on the windshield at 750ft but that was it.

We hope. Sometimes it’s 85-90F in May and again in September these days. Everyone putting in A/C, ha. The bookend season heat has been impressive lately.

That must be new, haven’t noticed that one yet! Lawson’s is my go to when in the mood for beer. Sip of Sunshine extended family has blown up but much preferable to the Alchemist beers IMO. Though Heady and Focal changed the local beer world.

It better, ha. Nice upslope this evening but no temps. Snow level at like 2500-3000ft.

Lol the only winter around here was just shy of 2" of slush that fell this morning at 3,000ft. The rain switched over above 2,500ft and it snowed hard for a couple hours before ending.

Man, another slug of rain last night and stuff falling… temps of 33F at 3600ft and 34F at 1500ft. Just brutal, ha. Grooming reporting some wet snow mixing at times up top but primarily rain. What a winter.

What happened over that way today? Only a whitening of sleet at 1,500ft office over here (some pooling of pellets and white on shaded spots when I left at 5:30pm), along with icing this morning that melted up to 2,500ft this afternoon. Siggy ice up high but as usual this winter seemed to deliver just a warm enough profile for not much interesting weather. Models looked like your area might get a decent amount of sleet and maybe a couple inches of snow on the front end? The snow maps are usually way overrated in these though. Some winters these come in more wintry... other winters they leave a trace of sleet/ice on the ground like its Virginia in January.

I was surprised we went from ZR back to IP and even some large aggregates here and there. I figured once it was ZR, the IP was done. Mountain is one giant glazed donut.