powderfreak

I feel like I’ve had 3-6” on the ground for weeks now. Out walking the dog now via headlamp, todays sleet and freezing rain added more heft without depth. There’s like 5” that the dog can walk on top of around home. It’s been annoyingly consistent pack but can’t break that like 7” mark.

Well that’s not why, lol. Trust me if ski areas could blow good powder and not sleet they would… it’s not a choice to blow wet mank .

It’s better to have loved and lost, then never loved at all? I agree with you though, I just like watching it snow. Don’t care what type it is.

Lol certainly not down there if you lose it that fast in January. I mean if you can’t preserve a powder pack in January, when can you?

Ha same here! It's rare to have rain with wet-bulbs under 26F.

Thanks! Lovely weather out there too, ha. Just pouring tiny sleet and some freezing rain mixed in up here at the mountain. It might be just enough precip to mess up the snow surface before the arctic blast. We'll see. I didn't think we would get much of anything but there's some QPF coming out of the sky.

Thanks guys. I want some PSU E-Wall SREF crush job maps, toggle to ARW family. Pouring very tiny sleet with ZR mixed in here at the mountain. Just when we were starting to build some fluff it crusts over, this winter is the winter that just keeps giving, ha.

23F and raining. This is lovely, ha.

Sunrise by an excellent snowcat operator on Mansfield this morning. Town down in the valley, the cold sink.

That video is a worst nightmare. The factors that come together to lead to that… the pressure of a fully charged line is incredible.

I went there with a UVM class visiting community ski areas in 2003….back then it was just the T-bar which was an awesome vibe and they were cutting trails above for a new lift. The outlook was good then and it is now.

Agreed, just because of how rare those temps are.

They get some monsters from time to time though in the central NY zone. West of ALB and north of BGM have had numerous 36”+ events past 15 years. 2/14/07 3/14/17 12/17/20

12z EURO had a max temp of -10F at MVL here in the afternoon lol. 850mb at -32C .

40” is hard to do. But I think if a storm could’ve put up an isolated 45-50” it was last Dec near BGM or near Ludlow/Okemo in VT. Both spots seemed to have legit 40+ amounts on the level.

I love the debate because I do truly enjoy the fluff. Sitting stacked nicely on the tree branches this morning. Just straight up. But when I was growing up in ALB and never knew when the next flakes might fall, bring wet paste and give me suburban snowbanks lol.

But what if the fluff kept falling? That’s the key. Like today you get another 3”, then wait a couple days and get 3-5”, etc. If Tippy’s dopamine drip continues, you don’t notice the settling lol. Its totally different from a single fluff event in urban areas IMO. But we know where everyone stands lol. If you are going to get one in a month, make it wet I guess.

We ratioed at the ski area this afternoon/evening. Nothing like 0.10-0.15” and like 4-5” . J.Spin pulling 50-65:1 ratios the past two days in his liquid analysis. When like 0.03-0.04” water is 2”/hr.

Snow likes to find 10:1 ratios eventually in my experience, or near there. But those under the band almost certainly had more QPF as well.

For sure, plenty of risks going around. Was merely speaking of the COVID going around here. It’s everywhere from the holidays around these parts but knock on wood, luckily everyone I know with it recently has extremely mild symptoms. Don’t mean to take away from the harsh reality of how it can affect someone. Sorry for the projecting.

Yeah and I also wonder about a large number of people who have not being sick in the least since like 2020 might play into it. Longest period of my life with zero illness at all during the hyper mask, sanitation, low human density times. Interesting retrospective on that health aspect… maybe just a solid head cold could do a number if the body hasn’t fought one in a couple years? Who knows but that rocked me for several days. I still feel it, lingering cough and sinus effects. Hope Dendy sees some improvement in the next couple days.

Sounds too severe to be COVID if you are vaxxed. I had a 102-103F fever for 2-3 days about 10 days ago, coughing, head cold, etc. Multiple tests negative for COVID. Several others at the ski area had same thing, fever, chills, long lasting cough (I still have it 10 days later) and negative COVID. Doctor even said it was definitely more severe symptoms than vaxxed and boosted patients he had. He explained vaxxed and boosted patients around here were seeing slight sore throats or even stuff that you would’ve never paid attention to in the past. Speculated that the high fever was the actual flu as many of us forgot to get that vaccine this year, ha.

Speaking of, I was surprised on radar how far those streamers are going downwind. They’ve been training over Jackson and Bartlett area.

2” last hour. Just crushing snow at 1500ft.

Hard to say, we were at 5” since yesterday morning as of 12pm. Probably another inch since.