powderfreak

Another inch. Nickel and dime at the picnic tables.

Winter on the upper mountain, spring down low these days. It's that time of year. 4 inches have fallen on the upper mountain, while a 0.4" coating (from last night's diurnal minimum) melted fast today back to stick season and leaf litter down low.

3 years ago today. What a time to be alive.

Anyone see this avalanche in an Anchorage, AK suburb? This is wild. 60-80 feet deep in places. Officers were called to the 2400 block of Hiland, near River Lane, around 1:15 a.m. and found that a portion of the road was covered by snow, police said.

Had another 2” at 3000ft… 4” in past two days. Just constant 1-3” every 12 hours lol. Exciting.

I used to live at the bottom of this road on the Richmond/Bolton, VT line. What a mud season. West Bolton, Vermont - Rob Mullen “Stage Road West Bolton. This was the second vehicle eaten last Friday (and she didn't even make it to the really bad spot). The road grader was working to get the area passable when I walked back down to check the spot Saturday morning (close to the house) and had to work around this abandoned Volvo. “My wife had driven our very old Subaru down to the Town Office Thursday and lost the muffler in the mud. Down to just our new Subaru Outback (picked it up Wednesday), I had to drive down the hill three times Friday and wallowed through this spot repeatedly. Need an alignment already.”

It’s white again at 1500ft… but different vibe this time of year with birds chirping, ha. Accumulating snow line looked to be 1200ft. Had a little slush on the windshield at 750ft but that was it.

We hope. Sometimes it’s 85-90F in May and again in September these days. Everyone putting in A/C, ha. The bookend season heat has been impressive lately.

That must be new, haven’t noticed that one yet! Lawson’s is my go to when in the mood for beer. Sip of Sunshine extended family has blown up but much preferable to the Alchemist beers IMO. Though Heady and Focal changed the local beer world.

It better, ha. Nice upslope this evening but no temps. Snow level at like 2500-3000ft.

Lol the only winter around here was just shy of 2" of slush that fell this morning at 3,000ft. The rain switched over above 2,500ft and it snowed hard for a couple hours before ending.

Man, another slug of rain last night and stuff falling… temps of 33F at 3600ft and 34F at 1500ft. Just brutal, ha. Grooming reporting some wet snow mixing at times up top but primarily rain. What a winter.

What happened over that way today? Only a whitening of sleet at 1,500ft office over here (some pooling of pellets and white on shaded spots when I left at 5:30pm), along with icing this morning that melted up to 2,500ft this afternoon. Siggy ice up high but as usual this winter seemed to deliver just a warm enough profile for not much interesting weather. Models looked like your area might get a decent amount of sleet and maybe a couple inches of snow on the front end? The snow maps are usually way overrated in these though. Some winters these come in more wintry... other winters they leave a trace of sleet/ice on the ground like its Virginia in January.

I was surprised we went from ZR back to IP and even some large aggregates here and there. I figured once it was ZR, the IP was done. Mountain is one giant glazed donut.

34F in town with rain, 31F up at the office for the past hour with freezing rain. 27F and freezing rain at the top. Lovely. The work trucks are all encased in ice up here.

Phenomenal day... zero people, corn snow, bluebird, no wind. Lets do that till the end of the season. And looking over towards Phin and Alex...

Skiing was phenomenal today. So stoked. Much better than expected.

Sounds about right, there’s some weird stuff on Mansfield too. I think the University of Vermont owned some land up top from 1800s type deeds. Don’t know if they do anymore or what the real story is. But stuff was different back then.

Ahhh that makes sense. Would it be up on the mountain though? Like how high up?

Interesting idea, I could see some serious resistance to this . https://www.wmur.com/article/mount-washington-railway-company-new-mountainside-lodging-experience-new-hampshire-3-20-22/39484868# Mount Washington Railway Company proposes new mountainside lodging experience New train station below the summit would include dining, sleeper cars for guests

I will say we’ve had a lack of longer mixed precipitation events since you moved up north. The past two years have been largely devoid of sleet storms or freezing rain. I think you’d do mixed precip pretty well with a cold wedge. Your experience though probably lines up with a lack of those events too… I don’t remember a lot of mixed precip past two winters. It’s either snow or rain lately, though there’s the usual minor CAD icing events south of the Whites. But we usually get more SWFE style where it’s 23F at the surface and +2C at 750mb and getting scalped. It’s usually after 3-60/4-8” snow though, ha. Been a while since like a 2-3” sleet storm has hit.

Mud season is a special time of year. The colder climates do it unfortunately well. The deeper you can freeze the ground over the course of a winter, the deeper your mud seems to be in the spring across New England. A couple photos... a friend shared this from Waterbury, when you can't get to your AirBnB because your car can't handle NNE mud season. Friend in truck stopped to help these folks get to their weekend rental with a trip up the hill after seeing this. This one was from Moretown, VT (Mad River Valley, town borders Waterbury to south) in the rain this weekend. Damage.

That's a very common scene around NNE... so much standing water around, melting snowbanks and shaded drifts/patches. Grayscale ice that makes up the base of the former snowpack is the last to go. You sink in at least an inch walking around the yard here, with water filling your footprints. It's literally like walking around on top of a waterbed. Quick melt of snow on top of frozen tundra and the water has no where to go. Nothing close to growing so can't utilize the water. Ground can't soak in, sits on top. Like summer in the permafrost zones.

I think we can do 2" wet snow above 2,000ft this evening. Radar looks very blocked right now. Snowflakes have been making it down to about 2,500ft or halfway down the Gondi terrain at times this afternoon.

Looks a little different out there today. Oh how the weather can change.