powderfreak

We had a period of light snow earlier and now flurries. The Lake Ontario streamer was just north of this area… someone north of BTV may have grabbed a fluffy 2-3” in that persistent fluffer. Now looks like into BTV but starting to extend east. Weirdly it’s looked to be the valley the past 3 hours. Maybe some northerly surface convergence just north of the boundary and Champlain Valley does good convergence funneling between the mtns.

12z GFS also sort of pops a bit of coastal reflection and would hit our Maine crowd with a bit more steady snowfall.

Maybe seeing it be 970mb over SYR would be better at this time frame?

Touche! lol. Lets see if we can get some light snows out of the clipper. The 3km NAM really tries to blow it up over @dryslot a bit.

4F and 30 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. 30 degrees is pretty nuts for a 24 hour change. Like a min of 40F one night and then a min of 70F the next night.

I never got the competition aspect of it, but I also have a fetish for meso-scale over absolute values. Some definitely take a "mine is longer than theirs's" perspective of weather, . Even with temperatures. It's all good and having an appreciation for local climate... whether that's in SNE coastal plain, or deep Hudson Valley/Champlain Valley, mountains, elevations, hollows, etc. No one can touch the differences in NNE, no one. From one street to another and it is scientifically awesome. Weather lovers just truly appreciate the different variances. It's mind blowing to me, how localized and fluid the atmosphere is. Even from one street to the next. With that said, my waking hours are spent in an extremely snowy location which will be wintry into May, while the sleeping night time is a few miles away in a more moderate climate but with high diurnal ranges. Love the differences in my day.

Same here. Eyewall always showed the winter scenes in great representation. Looks snowier down there than in his first winter up in BTV. Keep the stoke coming.

It's definitely going up the Hudson Valley now. All joking aside, nice post dude.

Largest storm ever. Passing a bit off shore. Meteorological awe. Nothing fake about it, except it wasn’t experienced by anyone.

Looks like Stowe restaurant prices for the past decade at least, haha.

It's hard to get that far below normal at BTV these days. That's pretty impressive. Seems like a pretty good gradient from N to S.

Absolutely... I joke too and know Scooter and Will are as well. No matter how I come across, I'm very rarely if at all serious. Its a love of weather extremes.

The Dunkin of the North.

Oh I just love it as you all know I love large diurnal ranges. May pull a 45F swing today? Warm afternoon and cold nights. I got that desire from growing up always checking the Colorado weather stations. I used to solely look at like Crested Butte, Steamboat Springs, etc. See those warm to hot afternoons and cold nights. Same in winter, -20F to +25F and back again. My favorite type of climate.

That’s absolutely awesome. What a set up. So impressive.

All we get is fake weather… mixed out valley in warm season when it’s 90F in May with a dew of 40F and DIT is raging that it’s not hot. Its the transient of a lot of it, whether it’s fluffy snow, radiational cooling, real low RH heat that drops 30F the minute the sun goes down… transient stuff gets the moniker of fake.

It goes bad quickly at -20F to -30F when pipes start bursting . I totally get it, but man it's cold this morning. Rare levels, which is a novelty.

AAA is busy this morning around these parts with cars that won’t start. One guy told me they said it’d be two hours at least before they can get to him… he was funny, said his pampered car sits in a garage all year down south, gets left out in a hotel parking lot at -25F and nope, not gonna start. I get that it’s fake cold but pipes bursting, water lines freezing, cars not starting, this cold is a lot more impactful than -10F with wind. You start pushing the temps where diesel won’t start.

Definitely did not have this cold last year. The funny thing is how normal it's becoming all the sudden. You wake up and it's like well it's well below zero again. This morning was the coldest yet though.

lol that's solid. Car did not like turning over. Been holding around -24F to -26F on the local stations. MVL looks to have dipped to -27F.

Car did not like turning over. Been holding around -24F to -26F on the local stations. MVL looks to have dipped to -27F. It's when you realize it can warm up 25 degrees and just make 0F that's impressive.

-33F Island Pond -30F SLK -27F BML Sites still falling too.

Good lord. -25F here. MVL ASOS -26/-31 on last 5-minute update.

-17/-22

It does for sure when these arctic air masses sink to the lowest levels under high pressure. The cold comes out of the flats of Canada to the NW of the region... just seeps into the nooks and crannies after an initial push over the rocks. It likes to be low level as a default.