powderfreak

It’s a low snowpack. Before this past snow, the general region’s mountain snowpack was in a top 10 bad place over the last 60-70 years. Now depths are a bit higher but the 20:1 ratio snow settled. It still looks snowy but doesn’t really change anything long term.

Yup. They seem to be a lot more loyal to Ukraine than Putin makes them out to be. Fiercely loyal. I love seeing the citizens standing up to a world super power any way they can.

That's great. Healthy widespread warning level event. Love those ones. I liked the BTV observations, just a quick shot of good DGZ, low-visibility snow.

That’s awesome… in a SWFE, on the coast. What a run. QPF rich too.

It’s leaf blower snow after a “denser” 10:1 to begin with, ha. J.Spin’s last 6 hour reading of 6.9” on 0.22” water for a 31:1 ratio was widespread this afternoon… sparkling fluff.

7.25” at home and 9.0” at the mountain. Incredibly picturesque snow clinging to every branch and elevated object.

7.25” storm total depth here at home. Seems about the normal reduction from 9” at the mountain. No intermediate readings. Absolutely beautiful snow, stacked on every object with zero wind.

I remember the first like decade on the forums you would get 14” in every big storm. You literally didn’t believe more than 14” could fall at once there.

Dude that’s wild! Man talk about being at the right spot at the right time. Dam burst there.

Beautiful snowfall. No wind and stacked up. 9” at the ski area.

We saw 2”/hr with that. Up around 7” now.

Not ideal measuring location but with no wind I'll take it for now, ha. That table stack...

2" in past hour....3" in 2 hours... so a 1.5"/hr rate. Flake size got nice and fluffy so snowfall rate increased a lot from the denser snow this morning.

Really ripping outside. 4-5" maybe? Upper level support has moved in.

Now it is absolutely ripping.

3-4” up here? Police had to close down Harlow Hill to the resort for a time this morning due to snow. This video is wild of this truck making it up the hill… https://www.instagram.com/reel/CaZ2JF4lDJb/?utm_medium=copy_link

Pretty significant 24-hour changes in the GFS. A day ago to the current run. Plenty of discussion of how SWFE work though as folks understand the game. Snowfall will bump northward and become less impressive in the jackpot zone. More uniform snowfall. SWFE have 6-10" totals, not 10-15".

00z GFS. More uniform precip shield. Sharper jackpot zone for QPF queens.

Haven’t paid a ton of attention to down south, but been casually following this one up here. The QPF has been lower but lately the synoptic features have resolved in a very favorable manner. 500mb and 700mb lows go overhead. Should create some lift.

You have been good luck.

It's crazy how slow this evening has been ahead of a region-wide event. We start discussing stuff so far out, that hours before the event arrives we are tired of it.

I'm still curious if we get better ratios in NNE given the slightly further south projection of the sleet line and heaviest snowfall. The lift is pretty high up there, in the 600-700mb level. This has mid-level lift band written all over it at BTV. It could translate through a decent west-to-east axis. Meso-band potential of short duration. Here's ORH too...

Bumped up QPF to the north... good mid-level signals up north as the H5 and H7 vorts track just under here with the northern side of the circulation right overhead. Mesoband from west to east from SLK to BML?

I agree... QPF has been bouncing around but fairly consistent in a widespread 0.50"/half inch of water, with some spots possibly seeing 0.75-1.00" south of here (Monroe Skyline to Killington?). The lower amounts of 0.30-0.50" are off-set by the higher numbers so I do like a good half inch of water. Highest snowfall IMO will be associated with mid-level banding and dendritic snow growth. Sand, or denser snowflakes could lead to just 3-4" of snow (8:1) north of I89, but if flake size/loft is decent (12-20:1) that same amount could be 6-10".

A snowstorm coming statewide and for New England ski country as a whole region.... on the Friday, heading into a weekend, during the back half of the President's Weekend holiday week. This is going to be a monster weekend for the Vermont economy. New Hampshire and Maine too of course. Skiing is popular this season, lack of good snow or snowfall also causes everyone to want to ski on the same days. In this case, many have weekend lodging and are just heading up early to fill the few vacancies left this week. I've always felt that lower snowfall winters lead to higher buzz about each specific snowfall... but when it's snowing regularly, with consistent light snows and a few bigger ones, the hype/buzz/visitation gets diluted a bit everywhere. Folks assume there will just be another one in a few days or within the week.