powderfreak

Phin's right, this is the type of real bread and butter... where the mountains get 5-7" out of some WAA and an arctic FROPA. These events are a dime a dozen it seems in the "big" winters... and you expect them after they start working out. It is weird how some winter's just have a personality... this winter this is a nice surprise. Also great to see how many 1/4 or even M1/4 ASOS observations came with this squall. The NWS Squall warnings looked very good this afternoon... everyone was like "why's my phone blowing up? Oh, wait this is a short duration white hurricane. Ok this is why they are warning it."

Yeah I remember that, I thought that was a rain squall? Who knows, we have had thunder with these in the past. The duration of this was nuts to me, it wasn’t 5-7 minutes. It was like a half hour of whiteout. It was almost like a downburst with it… just precip and wind coming out of the bowels of the atmosphere lol.

Yup, the random 3-7" events from very little model output. The small systems you ignore... and this year I ignored it because they've rarely done anything. This one worked and snowed all day.

Got the rare M1/4 even at the MVL ASOS down in the valley. Best one I've seen in a long time. No hyperbole there. KMVL 272049Z AUTO 32011G28KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN013 BKN033 OVC047 M04/M05 A2968 RMK AO2 PK WND 28028/2041

lol... 7" spot today out of nowhere at 3,000ft.

Here's the squall in action. Visibility was one lift tower. Maybe a couple hundred feet at most. https://www.facebook.com/6902394/videos/480119820184208/

Best squall in many winters. I cannot remember anything like that.

MSS in N.NY went down to the rare M1/4 visibility. METAR KMSS 271820Z AUTO 32015KT M1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN012 OVC035 M04/M06 A2974

That line looks fun. Snowing good now and will be fun to watch this approach.

Weird temp. 34F at BTV and 30F at Morrisville-Stowe. Never thought temperature would be an issue?

That's surprising, I figured you'd have a couple inches or maybe it's been just north by a few miles. I thought I saw a Lake Effect connection from Ontario earlier today going from SLK to Mansfield, so that might have helped. It got down to -SN or even flurries for a moment but it's roared back snowing with a purpose again.

Interesting, just seeing MPV hasn’t had any reduced visibility but MVL has been snowing all day at 1-3 mile visibility.

Some great powder skiing in the lower angle woods that are trustworthy. The trails are pretty horrific. Ungroomed is just blue ice bumps (literally blue) with a bunch of fluff. Found some spots today though with a good 15" of champagne in them from the storm and we've picked up 3-5" so far today. Extremely variable skiing with a very firm subsurface.

It's been snowing all day up here. 3-5" on the hill so far. Total leaf blower fluff. Probably a tenth of an inch of water.

Nice snow showers this morning. A couple inches up at 1500ft.

It’s a low snowpack. Before this past snow, the general region’s mountain snowpack was in a top 10 bad place over the last 60-70 years. Now depths are a bit higher but the 20:1 ratio snow settled. It still looks snowy but doesn’t really change anything long term.

Yup. They seem to be a lot more loyal to Ukraine than Putin makes them out to be. Fiercely loyal. I love seeing the citizens standing up to a world super power any way they can.

That's great. Healthy widespread warning level event. Love those ones. I liked the BTV observations, just a quick shot of good DGZ, low-visibility snow.

That’s awesome… in a SWFE, on the coast. What a run. QPF rich too.

It’s leaf blower snow after a “denser” 10:1 to begin with, ha. J.Spin’s last 6 hour reading of 6.9” on 0.22” water for a 31:1 ratio was widespread this afternoon… sparkling fluff.

7.25” at home and 9.0” at the mountain. Incredibly picturesque snow clinging to every branch and elevated object.

7.25” storm total depth here at home. Seems about the normal reduction from 9” at the mountain. No intermediate readings. Absolutely beautiful snow, stacked on every object with zero wind.

I remember the first like decade on the forums you would get 14” in every big storm. You literally didn’t believe more than 14” could fall at once there.

Dude that’s wild! Man talk about being at the right spot at the right time. Dam burst there.

Beautiful snowfall. No wind and stacked up. 9” at the ski area.