powderfreak

Yeah the conditions are pretty decent for powder all things considered. These systems have been dropping some fluff in the N.Greens. First day off in about 10 days after the President's Weekend, so I'm vegging out at home and its been snowing pretty well for the past half hour or so as it moved in like a wall.

The no fly-zone stuff is a dangerous game. You can’t have American and Russian fighter jets taunting each other.

18z EURO looked pretty decent, but 00z HRRR isn't as exciting. Southwest flow standing waves like the NEK in VT. Rising air over the western Adirondacks, sinking air on the east side of the Dacks into the Champlain Valley and then the Spine is the flow/river hitting more rocks and leads to downstream precipitation in the NEK. Jay Peak, Eden to Coles Pond and Island Pond.

We got some bread and butter coming over the next 72 hours. Would be nice to avoid some rain late weekend or early week but I think it'll happen at some point. Hopefully it's a net gain though. Next 72 hours should feature some snow across the mountains/ski country though. Southwest flow then northwest flow. WAA then CAA....the tide comes in and then the tide comes out, hopefully plenty of seaweed gets caught on the peaks.

These are some pretty decent signals for the next 48 hours. 12z EURO... 12z 4 KM BTV WRF

Pretty cool shot from BTV NWS of the squalls approaching the airport yesterday afternoon. Still impressed with that event, high-end stuff. Rare to see that well defined snow squalls. Looks almost like a side view of a Lake Effect band.

I think the next two events have some sneaky potential. These are the true bread and butter events that this winter has been missing.

Nice to see the squalls continued all the way to the Atlantic. Had 2.5" waiting at home after the squall moved through today. 7" at 3,000ft for the day. Fun event.

17" of snowfall the past few days and the Mansfield Stake has increased depth 16" during that time... that's 17" of fluff but in 24 hour readings. If measuring every 6-12 hours this certainly would've been a higher snowfall the past few days. From near all-time low of 32" to 48", moving back into "solidly below normal but if we repeat the last 3 days we will be at normal snow depth" status. It just goes to show how hard it is to stay down near the bottom. It is fluffy snow but it still increased depth by 16" despite putting fluff on top of fluff. The first event settled out a bit and then this one ended up on top. In Colorado they live off of this stuff... it just never rains or melts so you can make a living out of cold fluffy powder.

That is awesome. The dark cloud and then bam.

Phin's right, this is the type of real bread and butter... where the mountains get 5-7" out of some WAA and an arctic FROPA. These events are a dime a dozen it seems in the "big" winters... and you expect them after they start working out. It is weird how some winter's just have a personality... this winter this is a nice surprise. Also great to see how many 1/4 or even M1/4 ASOS observations came with this squall. The NWS Squall warnings looked very good this afternoon... everyone was like "why's my phone blowing up? Oh, wait this is a short duration white hurricane. Ok this is why they are warning it."

Yeah I remember that, I thought that was a rain squall? Who knows, we have had thunder with these in the past. The duration of this was nuts to me, it wasn’t 5-7 minutes. It was like a half hour of whiteout. It was almost like a downburst with it… just precip and wind coming out of the bowels of the atmosphere lol.

Yup, the random 3-7" events from very little model output. The small systems you ignore... and this year I ignored it because they've rarely done anything. This one worked and snowed all day.

Got the rare M1/4 even at the MVL ASOS down in the valley. Best one I've seen in a long time. No hyperbole there. KMVL 272049Z AUTO 32011G28KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN013 BKN033 OVC047 M04/M05 A2968 RMK AO2 PK WND 28028/2041

lol... 7" spot today out of nowhere at 3,000ft.

Here's the squall in action. Visibility was one lift tower. Maybe a couple hundred feet at most. https://www.facebook.com/6902394/videos/480119820184208/

Best squall in many winters. I cannot remember anything like that.

MSS in N.NY went down to the rare M1/4 visibility. METAR KMSS 271820Z AUTO 32015KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN012 OVC035 M04/M06 A2974

That line looks fun. Snowing good now and will be fun to watch this approach.

Weird temp. 34F at BTV and 30F at Morrisville-Stowe. Never thought temperature would be an issue?

That's surprising, I figured you'd have a couple inches or maybe it's been just north by a few miles. I thought I saw a Lake Effect connection from Ontario earlier today going from SLK to Mansfield, so that might have helped. It got down to -SN or even flurries for a moment but it's roared back snowing with a purpose again.

Interesting, just seeing MPV hasn’t had any reduced visibility but MVL has been snowing all day at 1-3 mile visibility.

Some great powder skiing in the lower angle woods that are trustworthy. The trails are pretty horrific. Ungroomed is just blue ice bumps (literally blue) with a bunch of fluff. Found some spots today though with a good 15" of champagne in them from the storm and we've picked up 3-5" so far today. Extremely variable skiing with a very firm subsurface.

It's been snowing all day up here. 3-5" on the hill so far. Total leaf blower fluff. Probably a tenth of an inch of water.

Nice snow showers this morning. A couple inches up at 1500ft.