powderfreak

Ha! We see everything fun around here walking the dog.

Been enjoying this event for the past few hours. Over 4" so far and most of it has fallen the past few hours as people eat dinner around town. Love the surprised vibe of folks exiting restaurants to a winter scene.

The sky is just fluffing. They don't even fall that fast. It's classic meso-scale snow. Stat padder for sure, but just makes for a nice, snowy evening in a ski town. Went out to the Backyard for a beer and the vibe is happy for the snow. Trying not to think of the weekend cutter, ha.

4” now in the driveway and on the car that sat all day. Continuing about 1” between 7:30-8:30.

Just over 3" now in the Village on the front of my SUV. About 1"/hr snowfall rate past two hours. Snowy appeal.

That fits with our 2” reading at 4:10pm at the High Road plot. I saw there’s a big snowmobile convention or gathering happening in the Notch this week… you involved in that?

It's definitely been Spine eastward today... it's almost like a bit blocked on the east side with subtle S/SSE flow at the surface and strong westerly winds aloft blowing it downstream. Turn that surface wind barb around 180 degrees to NNW and the snow band would shift to the other side of the mountains most likely. All the minute details that put snow in different places around here.

It is snowing hard up and down RT 108/Mountain Road. 2-3" of fluff now. Road conditions went bad real fast with the 30-35dbz ripples.

Ah for sure, no deep tropical stream. No joke, it is a type of season when just hitting 50F is a win without 1-2” of rainfall. Most NNE snowpack is low water content so it won’t put up a fight like a pack of 4-6” of water.

Hopefully it mutes itself, but would need a heck of a front ender of wintry precip to not lose in that warm sector. It looks pretty par for the course this winter.

You think so? I didn’t get that decent vibe. Looked more like run if the mill -SN/-IP, freezing rain/drizzle then mild showers. Strong south flow rips through the warm sector for about 12 hours. 925mb torches hard when that flow goes south.

Definitely snowing much harder. 1”/hr type rate but probably short lived. METAR KMVL 012135Z AUTO 17005KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV015 M05/M07 A2989 RMK P0001

Most of the lift has been Downstream of the Spine… it was actually pretty snowy in Morrisville running errands. Just started filling back in at Stowe. About an inch so far. Mountain High Road plot in with 2” at 4pm. I bet Jay Peak got hit hard today. Definitely the jackpot on SW standing wave flow. This up and down wave over Dacks and down CPV then up again in Greens likes to put snow in the NEK.

Awesome shots J.

Big fan of the C-130 Hercules call sign SKIER89 doing loops around ALB.

Yeah the conditions are pretty decent for powder all things considered. These systems have been dropping some fluff in the N.Greens. First day off in about 10 days after the President's Weekend, so I'm vegging out at home and its been snowing pretty well for the past half hour or so as it moved in like a wall.

The no fly-zone stuff is a dangerous game. You can’t have American and Russian fighter jets taunting each other.

18z EURO looked pretty decent, but 00z HRRR isn't as exciting. Southwest flow standing waves like the NEK in VT. Rising air over the western Adirondacks, sinking air on the east side of the Dacks into the Champlain Valley and then the Spine is the flow/river hitting more rocks and leads to downstream precipitation in the NEK. Jay Peak, Eden to Coles Pond and Island Pond.

We got some bread and butter coming over the next 72 hours. Would be nice to avoid some rain late weekend or early week but I think it'll happen at some point. Hopefully it's a net gain though. Next 72 hours should feature some snow across the mountains/ski country though. Southwest flow then northwest flow. WAA then CAA....the tide comes in and then the tide comes out, hopefully plenty of seaweed gets caught on the peaks.

These are some pretty decent signals for the next 48 hours. 12z EURO... 12z 4 KM BTV WRF

Pretty cool shot from BTV NWS of the squalls approaching the airport yesterday afternoon. Still impressed with that event, high-end stuff. Rare to see that well defined snow squalls. Looks almost like a side view of a Lake Effect band.

I think the next two events have some sneaky potential. These are the true bread and butter events that this winter has been missing.

Nice to see the squalls continued all the way to the Atlantic. Had 2.5" waiting at home after the squall moved through today. 7" at 3,000ft for the day. Fun event.

17" of snowfall the past few days and the Mansfield Stake has increased depth 16" during that time... that's 17" of fluff but in 24 hour readings. If measuring every 6-12 hours this certainly would've been a higher snowfall the past few days. From near all-time low of 32" to 48", moving back into "solidly below normal but if we repeat the last 3 days we will be at normal snow depth" status. It just goes to show how hard it is to stay down near the bottom. It is fluffy snow but it still increased depth by 16" despite putting fluff on top of fluff. The first event settled out a bit and then this one ended up on top. In Colorado they live off of this stuff... it just never rains or melts so you can make a living out of cold fluffy powder.

That is awesome. The dark cloud and then bam.