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  1. powderfreak
    The clock keeps freezing. I'm about to just remove it lol. I'm not sure why the new Brownrice vendor can't just have a time stamp on it like the old one. The video is always live and the clock is cheap and freezes up. High Road Plot did 17.5" in this event (2.5", 11.5", then 3.5" this morning). The Snow Cam Lookout Plot did like 14". Given the wind speeds, not surprising the elevated snow board measured less than the ground based one.
  2. powderfreak
    You know what I always look at in your cam images... that trash can out by the road, and how high the snow is up it lol. The stuff in the foreground is tough to judge, but that trash can seems to give the reading .
  3. powderfreak
    Social media has changed it 100%. People now actually know what’s going on in places that aren’t their backyard. In the 1990s, it was phone, newspaper, TV and radio. No one really knew what was going on.
  4. powderfreak
    The clock is wrong. Just a cheap battery operated thing that freezes. The cam is live. That is an elevated wind-swept spot on the Lookout knuckle… not ideal but cam station needed to be near power/comms. The High Road ground-based board in the bowels of Mansfield between the Quad and Gondola is the long term ticket.
  5. powderfreak
    Isn’t it the leeward side? Windward is facing the wind. Froude number quickly rose above 1.0 early this morning. The snow band migrated eastward from the topographic barrier.
  6. powderfreak
    It’s true, it’s hard to post snow obs when the forum is largely starving… just want to share what’s going on and visually. I sometimes yearn for when the list-serves, bulletin boards and forums were just observations and left it at that.
  7. powderfreak
    Yeah I saw a report of 8” from Waterbury Center a few hours ago to the NWS, thought it might’ve been yours, ha. That 7-10” range sounds right overall for the east side lowlands.
  8. powderfreak
    Damn. What a great upslope storm. Still ripping in town with 9” on the ground. Dense on the bottom, more powdery on top but also graupel and lower ratio flakes. There’s QPF in there. Good to get the snowpack down for the cold coming.
  9. powderfreak
    About 9” in town, damn. Guess it made sense as the AM Cocorahs spotter had 6.2” at 8am.
  10. powderfreak
    It’s been snowing in Stowe Village all day and not as much at the mountain. Has to be easy 8-12” in town so far. 3,000ft High Road plot has had 14” since yesterday morning.
  11. powderfreak
    The irony is it's snowing harder in town than the mountain due to the increase in Froude number to 1.5. Half a foot of new snow in town and pounding. It's got some water too, like 1/2" QPF. The max has been in the RT 100 corridor on the east side.
  12. powderfreak
    Near blizzard conditions on the east slope into town. Just crushing snow and wind. All joking aside, hope you guys get something in this pattern.
  13. powderfreak
    Full on upslope blizzard this morning. Whiteout.
  14. powderfreak
    It has just been hammering snow and wind. Roads were 4-5” of unplowed coming up from town. Whiteouts at times.
  15. powderfreak
    My fear is it becomes too unblocked for Mansfield after 9-10am. The Froude numbers are over 2.0 after that, even 2.5. 0.9-1.0 average is the Upper East Side jackpot. Starting low around 0.5 and then rises to 1.0 early tomorrow morning… followed by 2.0+. The upslope band will migrate ENE as the system lifts out slowly.
  16. powderfreak
    A 100+ hours out? Plenty of time for large scale changes. Just need to see it take hold on guidance.
  17. powderfreak
    We had a burst of heavy wet snow earlier this morning... even down into town the road was covered around 5:15am when I came in. Surprisingly sporty driving. However, once that initial band lifted northward and rates diminished, it's back over to rain or white rain below 1,500-2,000ft. The trees are snow covered above 2,000ft with 1-2".
  18. powderfreak
    Dude we are swamped. It's the city comes to the mountain town.
  19. powderfreak
    Same up here. 45F and sun. Rec Path has people running in shorts. Very March/April vibe.
  20. powderfreak
    Just let it happen. See where it snows. Put yourself in a position to succeed. Or don’t.
  21. powderfreak
    The Front needs a good foot of snow, with some moisture. It’s definitely possible at elevation. But that sustained pitch for that vertical? The part of the mountain between Hayride and Nosedive, known as “the Front” in Mtn Ops lexicon takes the most snow to open. You are in it to win it once you enter those runs and the threshold to open them is higher than shorter, mellower pitches. I do think a 6+ inch snowfall will reopen many closed intermediate natural snow trails though.
  22. powderfreak
    The challenge tonight is it’s a holiday week, you need to groom. People don’t pay big money to vacation in ski country, just to have the hill offer a midweek late season thaw groom. The less grooming the better for the snowpack tonight, but the calendar and visitation say all core routes absolutely need to be groomed.
  23. powderfreak
    Gore?
  24. powderfreak
    This was a tough thaw. The hill got smoked. I’d imagine it was widespread to other regions for melt with these temps and dew points. The steep natural snow runs that were open (no snowmaking yet) need a good 1” of frozen QPF to be ok again. Stake looked to have lost up to a foot.
  25. powderfreak
    Too much of this map.
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