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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.
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Oh man, that's when you just want to shake your fist at the sky like that Simpson's old guy.
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Got 5-6" it seems up at 1,500ft. Nice drive with mainly wet roads and just caked trees.
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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.
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3.5” at Stowe in Lamoille and 4-6” Champlain Valley.
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This is some paste. Like 3” on over 1” of water.
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The BGM obs are solid. 0.65” QPF in 3-hours at 31F. They are getting crushed.
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Where was this a month ago.
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58/16 quickly to 46/20 and dropping rapidly. Wet bulbing from evaporational cooling taking place long before precip starts falling.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Going to Long Island Wednesday morning ugh, ha. Man what a day today… they let employees ski while Patrol does hill clean up. Did a full overnight groom and it’s like Yellowstone Club out here. Employees only and Quad spinning with perfect corn.
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I like 3-6” for N.Greens early Tuesday morning with the warm conveyor belt lifting through… then dry slot, rain/mixed and some mid/30s dripping. Ending with 1-2”… 4-8” above 1500ft with mix/mild in the middle.
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Easter Sunrise Service from the top of the Gondola this morning... into the Mtn Ops office at 3:45am but the sunrise was worth it. Estimated about 500 people joined us. 22F and some wind, it felt like winter.
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18z ECMWF couldn't be more on brand for this winter. Low tracks up into NNH with best mid-level lift up eastern NY into the Adirondacks. Lows just want to cut inland this winter?
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There are comments saved somewhere from WWBB… I’ll look for them. Maybe you were just trying to fit in. You asking folks why they enjoyed heat and humidity, because it just led to folks staying inside with AC. Drier air was better for outdoor activities.
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Growing up, lol. I do think it's interesting to hear how all of our preferences have evolved over the long term... as there's a core of wx forum members going back two decades or more. We've all evolved in what we like at different times of years. Hell, DIT even used to troll people who wanted it hot in the summer.
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Buddy in Killington getting healthy snowfall. He’s at like 1900ft. A nice elevation to be at this week.
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It will and it won’t. It’ll be elevation dependent. Will it rain to the picnic tables?
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Yeah as we always talk about, 1500ft is usually a magic line around these parts in shoulder season. White rain at my house while plows clear paste a few miles up the road at the office. Those days are funny, leave work with a thick stack of snow caked on the SUV and park it in the driveway with no snow to be seen.
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Not uncommon for the mountains to randomly see their largest storms of the year in the bookend seasons fall/spring. Big wet systems with plenty of moisture.
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If one gets under a CCB or deform band yeah, but 925 temps don’t scream valley snow with moderate precip rates. If precip rates are tipping 0.1-0.2”/hr that can definitely lower snow levels for sure. 1000-1500ft is a fairly regular level of demarcation.
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I’d remove all of it from the Hudson to Champlain Valleys, and CT River too, ha. This is where it gets to mesoscale model range and those snow maps on 3km NAM look like a topographic map from 1500ft on up.
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Snowing down through the base area at 1500ft this morning .
