powderfreak

Snowing down through the base area at 1500ft this morning .

I think 1500ft has potential for some white, but 2000-2500ft or higher looks like the elevation based on 925mb temps in the means. The seasonal tenor probably leads the way… pasty snow at the picnic tables, sloppy white in the lower/mid slopes, rain in the valleys.

Are you heading back north for this one? Or monitoring floating in the pool in MD? Tell the wife there's a heating problem, need to go check on it . Mitch at over 2,000ft in SVT gets crushed on that run. Remove all the snowfall below like 1500ft on this map and go from there.

Don’t want to tread into COVID discussion but some of you may remember my soon to be brother-in-laws father was hospitalized for COVID over a year ago. He coded out a few times and really didn’t look like he’d make it. He finally returned home after 13 months in the hospital. We are going down to Long Island for my sister’s wedding next week and are all beyond happy that he will be able to attend. https://longisland.news12.com/we-didnt-think-he-was-going-to-make-it-west-islip-man-returns-home-after-13-month-covid-battle

The Euro track would be par for the course this year… inland cutter up the CT River Valley into NNH. The Adirondacks have a good shot in this one seeing the low elevations are like 1500ft with many inhabited areas 1800-2200ft.

Yeah I mean never root against it. @ORH_wxman always brings the logic, if the choices are cold rain vs snow that’s an easy choice. Like when folks say they don’t want it to snow… 42F heavy rain doesn’t sound any better lol.

Air mass must be super dry. Just had snowflakes flying at 3,500ft with a temp of 48F. Tons of virga all around and high winds materialized out of no where.

Looking at 925mb temps I’d wager it’s a 1500-2000ft and higher event. I post the clowns but with it in mind that the actual surface stations aren’t seeing that but the ski areas might.

Interesting…GFS/GGEM/EURO.

Got into the 60s today... now 45F and dropping fast. Cold front through. Dropped 7F in past hour. 30s by morning, snow should crisp/freeze up at the ski area as we go into the final weekend of the season.

Ha dammit, it didn't snow a foot today. Maybe you aren't the force we joke about . It has been a fairly impressive stretch without true widespread plowable snowfall from 1,500ft and below. Especially over there and into Maine where CAD and spring coastal storms are more likely. Even here, zero synoptic snow in what has been weeks, even at higher inhabited elevations. This winter has had some very long stretches without significant or even plowable snowfall. Some years 1,500ft still has very a healthy snowpack in mid-April.

The real question is when do you go back to Maryland? It will probably snow a foot the day after that, ha. I'm with you though. I'll enjoy snow to ski on while there's still some base left but if I had the choice (none of us do lol) I'd go 70F with low dews and red flag fire warnings this time of year.

Full mast in the sun and warmth for sure, ha.

We just broke free… around 60F now. Sun starting to come out.

Miserable low 40s up this way in the RT 100 corridor right now and this afternoon was no where near as warm as expected. Damp and raw outside. Heat needs to be on.

That ice coming at terminal velocity… nature dropping softball plus size ice is awesome.

Gonna need photos of that… wow. One stone, 5.5” tall. One is advisory level snow, ha.

55/21, super dry air mass out there. Some local stations had dews in the teens this afternoon. Love the low RH mild days. I absolutely love that it's 8pm and still twilight enough to walk around without any artificial light. In two months it'll be like this close to 10pm... can start a hike at like 7pm those days, love it.

Ha, it’s wild. Would’ve been walking via headlamp in pitch black darkness like two months ago. Now it still feels like midday. 5:45pm and it seems brighter than it does at 1pm in January, lol.

Wait what? 4pm? This is prime time outside right now. About to head out for an hour or more with the dog. Some other friends are just starting to hike a ski run. Light till 7:30pm. 63/25 and sunny.

Hey dude! Hope all is well and you had a great winter. Down here, the Chin looked buried, given the season high snowpack. The shots from people who got over there to ski it look awesome. Profanity and Hourglass in fine shape.

That looks terrible, ha. Mid 20s and frozen ground while folks down south walk around in shorts.

It was a stunner for sure. Mild and bluebird. Spring in the valley, winter on the mountain.

That winter white is melting off quickly in this heat and sun. What a day to be outside though.

Yeah for sure, get 1,000 vertical feet of sweet powder and then get 1,000 vertical feet of variable mush to get back to the lift.... ride it back to the top just for those thousand verts of sweet pow. Some last winter views today.