powderfreak

7-7.5" in the lowlands. Still snowing but a lot of wind. Hard to tell what's going on but sheets of snow moving through the sky.

Did a bunch of measurements a half hour ago around 8 PM at home... variety of 7-7.5". Still snowing but a lot of wind.

That’s fukking wild. What a radar image. So much to unpack there at different levels of the atmosphere.

Just left the mountain, 8.5” at 1500ft and it’s upslope fluffing pretty good. Wind really ramped up. Definitely less snow down in town.

Not a huge storm by any means but 5-6” pasty to fluff down at 750ft. Hoping to add 2-3” more upslope tonight. It’s incredibly picturesque out here.

It is, winter wonderland scene. At least for a day or two.

Nope, no complaints. Looks awesome out with the pasty snow to start and now the powder sticking to that.

It’s not the widespread 12-20” that it looked in the mid-range but it’s snowy and winter again. I feel like 6-12” amounts will be most common when all is said and done. That’s been a popular landing spot for storms this season.

12pm had 7” at 3,000ft plot.

7” at 3,000ft.

Widespread SN and +SN obs from the area ASOS up here. Nice mid-level pivot point going on right now across this area.

It is pounding snow, this is nice. Looks like a mid-level pivot point.

Nice signs of a meso-band trying to form in this area.

Yeah snow growth is pretty poor here. Seems to be precipitating fairly efficiently but no more than 8-10:1 ratios I'd imagine? Pretty dense at the mountain, which is what is needed.

Seeing some meso-band signs streaking SW to NE. Looks to be nosing over J.Spin.

I skinned a run with Lahiff in a November powder day on Mansfield probably like a decade ago... good dude. The whole crew is awesome. Good blocked flow this morning, your neighborhood must be doing pretty good early on. Got about 1.5" at the ski area base so far. More like 3" up higher. First part was elevation dependent.

Not going to lie, I don't like the orientation of that southern convection developing. I'd rather that be more south-to-north rather than an axis of west-to-east. Disrupting the moisture feed from the Gulf and south, IMO. On the plus side, much of the precip so far seems anafrontal. Not much in the warm sector but cold side of the FROPA has been seeing the bulk of the lift/mid-level fronto.

Before the snow, some gratitude for the local snow surfaces team and all groomers in the east. What a difficult 7-10 day stretch in a difficult winter. They have done what the institutional knowledge and machine can do to bring a skiable surface amid very unfavorable snowpack quality and depth.

Hopefully we get this cold -15C at 850mb upslope as that will be the difference maker for the mountains for snow totals. Upper level trough and energy swinging through over good low level flow and residual moisture. It’s progressive but when the 850mb level at ridgetop or just above is squarely in the DGZ at -15C… we usually fluff pretty well. Tall DGZ in region of max lift above the terrain gets the snow going but add in upper level support and it could snow hard for a time.

See I was going to say that’s a solid NAM run, both 3km and 12km. Kuchie which is more sensitive to boundary layer but also goes real high when it gets cold. 10:1

Oh there’s definitely a time and place. Going down to the lake in CT, spending the day floating around for hours with family. Absolutely. But also enjoy it more since my folks put central A/C in down there lol. I dislike it for most of the day to day activities though up here. Working outside on the mountain when it’s 76/70, hazy, stagnant air bringing out the bugs in force… no thanks. Hiking it’s no bueno, mountain biking nah, even golfing… I prefer to walk when golfing but high dews and it’s cart riding time. The only benefit to me is for swimming but still not a huge fan of getting out of an ice cold river feeling refreshed and then sweating again on the walk up home. I do enjoy the novelty of it at first, but after a while it’s the same as brutal cold. Daily life with sub-zero temps over and over is just as annoying to me as daily life with dews near 70F. It has a time and place but consistently? No thanks.

People only like that stuff if they have A/C to hide from it… I’d give some of the high dew crowd more credit if they weren’t so obsessed with A/C. Fill the house with dews, breathe it in as they say .

I’d go. Looks good there and Saddleback can actually get some NW flow snow of any place in ME.

Looks like a good right side up storm. Start as paste then end with champagne on top. The best ones for skiers.

May be uncertainty nearby though. Might prefer to change everyone to a headline at the same package issuance to avoid confusion. But in general no one in the north will alter what they do whether there’s a warning or not, ha. I could see it mattering more in suburbia/urban corridor to get the word out? It could also just be 4-7” and Advisory level to be honest?