powderfreak

A couple shots from today from the real camera. Definitely a much needed storm. A solid increase in snow water equivalent gives us the base we need. Now we can fluff it up with refreshers going forward.

Definitely. The QPF aspect was solid. Down here it was certainly wetter and/or got above freezing at home. Snow has a bit of a crust. Snowing lightly again, looks like the western slopes have blossomed up. We joke about J.Spin but there's a reason the models often put small areas of QPF maxes in his neighborhood. That Winooski Gap seems to add convergence on westerly wind set-ups.

If we can add this from 7pm to 7am (12hr total) of high ratio fluff we’ll really be in business.

Color me impressed up here. There’s 9-10” on the ground of dense snow where we park on the holiday weekends at 1300ft. Legit storm, can’t believe we weren’t that far off areas modeled almost double us or more.

Yeah never got above freezing at 1500ft. Looks like a proper ski area base village now.

We are at about 9" at the ski area. Never would've guessed that amount today. I had 3-6" and then 3-6" upslope tonight. I bet we got a good inch of QPF, models had less than that for sure today.

That's f'kin awesome . What a cam grab.

Was powder, now paste.

Storm seemed to deliver a bit more than expected. Its been a great day. Upslope portion should be solid tonight too.

We are getting smoked pretty good. Was powder, now paste.

We are dead calm on Mansfield east side despite summit gusting 90mph on the radio towers. No real lift issues either. Meanwhile Bolton was completely shut down on west side.

That mid-level band looks insane in Canada. That thing is massive on the regional radars.

An hour ago, early AM view from the OE Gondola checking the wind. Snowstorm vibes.

You get some better mixing there? That's crazy, hope you get power back quickly. Going to get cold tonight.

About 3" now. Really dumping with 30-35dbz moving through. Good dendrites in the higher echoes.

Radar just exploded and it is pounding.

2" and snowing steadily at the mountain. Visibility seems pretty low, about an inch in the past hour.

Gun to head I like a dense 12-15” in Randolph.

Winter in the mountains is very popular these days.

But man, this event is just an all out QPF firehose for you NH guys. I can't wait to see what happens in that 6 hour period when the best low level jet dynamics mix with that warm conveyor belt.

Like if this was a compact storm we'd be getting smoked in a cold conveyor belt.... but it's this giant circulation with the SFC low sort of disjointed from the mid-levels. Like the 12z NAM track normally would be fantastic here if it was compact but instead the best mid-level low is way way west. It tries to curl it in but it'll be like sloppy seconds, ha. This should be the pivot point in some events that feature similar surface tracks. Of course the next event that tracks just off the coast will be a compact nuke just hitting the coastal regions . If this thing tracked by the Benchmark we'd be the perfect spot.

Yeah its not even that to be honest. Any snow is good snow. We have done well on east flow events before being on the east side of Mansfield... if the flow is blocked it can really go to town. It's all in the overall set-up. This one is just weird. Like usually if a low tracks up into N.NH we'd be getting crushed in a CCB. But the upper level lows are so far west. You guys get into the best low jet dynamics as they slide up the coast. Should make hay there before the dry slot moves in.

I'm not pessimistic, I just don't need a lot to be quite content, ha. Been walking around on the same 4-5 inches of crusty stuff for a while now. I'd take even 3" to be honest to look nice. Sorry my post wasn't in relation to the event.

Ha me too.

Grew up going up there all the time from Delmar. I know we met up what seems like 15 years ago and talked about it over a beer. That place is a weenie heaven and cool geography.