powderfreak

That southern snow is todays event.

Provided the two-lane road to the ski area isn't completely screwed up on Harlow Hill from vehicles who can't climb it, it's fine. Sunday looks very windy and regardless of P-Type on Saturday, I see significant lift operation issues on Sunday.

I want this to get as far east as possible right now. I still think big early spring storm, convection in SE, could amp a bit on arrival. Riding the line between big snow and big rain or mix.

Can't get any better than 12z GFS... about 2" QPF with perfectly placed thermals. Decent snow growth column.

All downhill from here. The thermal profiles coupled with QPF, definitely the jackpot that run up here. Tall lift all within the DGZ zone… maximizing thermal profile.

Yup, it costs so much money to support an affluent population on the whole.

That’s great. Invest in the under represented areas of America and make money doing it. There are still a lot of economies with potential.

It’s a tough call, they will have to make up the money elsewhere. The state governments have barely been able to keep up with needed road work in many areas. Bridges need to replacing. Gas tax compensates for other taxation short falls. You feel for the family operating with a Toyota Corolla or Honda Accord that can’t meet the gas prices. Folks in $50,000+ trucks and SUVs worrying about gas prices going up is definitely an American problem.

Nice RT 2 fronto band in Mass. BDL went from 0.46" to 0.16" QPF but there was very little change in N.MA and extreme SVT/SNH near the border.

Oh it's bad. I didn't ski today but there's only so much rain and melt you can have and then freeze it up. At some point grooming machines can't even really do anything about it. There's just so much frozen water... you get like the blue ice bulges in the middle of trails that grooming tillers just bounce off of. It's like trying to cut up pavement. Anything with pitch is terrifying as a fall can send someone for a slide for life even on like an intermediate trail... where you don't stop until you hit something.

It's a thread the needle type situation when a low is moving up along a frontal boundary that's also moving. Gotta be in the right place at the right time. That EPS run was about the best thread the needle situation. A lot of members with major upstate NY snows that just clips NW New England.

We’ll be praying for suppression depression soon. Much rather a fringe job than 1-2” of rainfall.

Yeah I’m sort of given up on this winter really getting it done, now it’s time to enjoy whatever snow falls. 12z euro was more progressive.

If that's worse case I'll take it ha. Just want anything to cover up the defunct municipal skating rink look going on outside.

Sorry dude. Pulling for ya. It’s a tough market out there.

The wind is hammering us. Roaring and honestly surprised we haven’t lost power. East side of the spine/barrier on strong westerly CAA. We can mix down very well in these thaw to CAA situations… like water flowing over a line of rocks. It drops down with force behind the barrier. The tree boughs have been getting abused the past 15 minutes. I’d wager it’s consistent 40mph gusts.

9:30pm has flakes up high. The front is through. Wet and windy.

Hopefully you guys can ride the amped-up parade to a snow event on the next one. Nothing wants to suppress. As ORH says, even a light snow event is better than a cold rain so might as well root for snow if the opportunity arises.

Some torrential rain and gusts 30-40mph with the FROPA up here. MVL ASOS with 38mph, not impressive but around 40mph gusts are noticeably windy. There’s a lot of water coming out of the mountains down the waterways.

Knockout punch… torrential heavy rain. Love when the Spine east of BTV maximizes snowfall, but hate when the local mountains maximize the rainfall.

Remember when models had this suppressed under NNE… the NAM won this one. At 84 hours it was amped more than all of the rest and sure enough, rains to Maines.

Love your posts on this stuff BTW. So level headed and matter of fact without getting politically emotional about it.

Yup the lack of freezing up even to 2,000ft today has really prolonged this warm up. These are the ones that seem like the snowpack is doing ok in what one thinks is the torch… only to realize another 24-30 hours of above freezing temps means otherwise. I always hate that about torches… you feel confident about less snow loss than expected when you are halfway through, but the back half always is brutal.

Looks like deep winter in town here lol.

Yeah we've done some monster dry heat in April/May/June the past 5 years it seems... May seems to be a usual suspect where we are doing 90s with dews of like 40-45F and red flag warnings. Even before full leaf out. Like end of spring stick season and it's in the 80s, ha.