powderfreak

Sugarbush skiers though say the same thing about Stowe… we are 30” over them one county north and then Jay is 30” over us another layer north?

Yeah we’ve all been there in our heads, ha. But I don’t ski there so I can’t really tell. I do think they get more though, how much, hard to say. I mean there’s usually a good increase from Sugarbush to this area, there’s probably another similar step up at Jay.

Finally getting the real deal snow covering the region. Big increase in the past hour and can see moisture continue to build from SW.

Good snow finally moving into the area on radar the past 30-60 minutes. The real deal stuff is beginning… next 8-10 hours should rip.

They were definitely in better SW flow today and models had better QPF north during the early part of the system… I can’t say one way or another but I bet they had a bit more than Mansfield. Anyway, our High Road ground plot was snowier by 1.5” over the live snow cam through 4pm. The cam location is usually on the conservative side of things on the windy knuckle there at top of Lookout vs center of mountain on Gondola/High Road. Either way, measuring on a mountain with thousands of vertical feet and miles of difference at times can lead to interesting things. I truly enjoy the live cam running conservative as that’s generally how I approach weather forecasting and snowfall, ha. We all know that 3” on that thing is a fun day. You get double digits there and it’s game on. Here was High Road at last Gondola ride today.

To get over the Green Mtn Spine, the BTV radar beam needs to be at least 1.5 degrees and best at 1.75 and I personally like the 2.2 degree scan… that puts the beam height in E.VT near the River/91 at like 8,500-13,000ft above the ground. Where I am I need to sample 6,000ft at least overhead by the time it reaches me on an angle to clear Mansfield at 4,000ft ridgeline… despite being only like 25-30 miles from the radar site. Meanwhile someone like Phin is 60 miles away from GYX radar but and gets sampled at 4,400ft elevation because he can use the 0.5 degree scan… he actually has better radar coverage than a lot of eastern VT past the Spine despite the much further distance away.

It’s the beam, the classic too far from both radar sites. I-91 between NH/VT has to have the worst radar coverage in New England

You’d have to imagine someone south of the front gets a solid ice storm… but narrow axis?

I know you don’t think I work but occasionally I do … going to be a busy couple days at the ski area. Will be back at 5am tomorrow for another 12+ hour day. Getting a ride up pre-public in the AM to get some shots hopefully. May not hear a lot from me tomorrow haha. Snowing steadily, but very elevation dependent today. There was 5” at the High Road Plot and 3.5” at Lookout Plot at 4pm. Only an inch at 1500ft at same time.

Here comes the cold now. 32/29 at MVL east of Mtn Spine 27/24 with 0.75sm vis -SN at BTV. BTV getting good cold air drainage down the Champlain Valley unobstructed.

What a crush job on the EURO.

Still SW winds aloft.

It took a while here. It’s not “cold”… we are at about 2.5” above 2,500ft… a coating to 1” from 1500-2500ft. It’s a wet snow. Valley is still 34F -SN that I assume isn’t sticking at MVL.

We flipped to snow at 1,500ft about 20 minutes ago. Definitely was a couple hours later than I was thinking.

It flipped to snow at Stowe base right after my last raining post. Steady light snow.

It’s taking it’s time. Still wet below 2,000ft.

Light rain here below 2,000ft with 1-2" overnight above that. The dirt roads and walkways are pure skating rinks. Even RT 108 was slick despite 35F.

NAM looks like it’ll be big as well.

That 00z HRRR run was juiced.

That'll do pig, that'll do.

HRRR is just a crushing up north. This is a healthy 6-hour burst.

Everyone wants spring now, haha. Felt so warm, just skied in a shell jacket and t-shirt underneath this afternoon. Snow was chalky and grippy though south facing lower elevation Spruce even softened up a bit.

The Euro for several cycles has had this mid-level deformation band it looks like. Be interesting to see if it has a clue. That looks like a fluffer topping on Friday afternoon.

Lol the NNE crew slinked back into the NNE thread to discus snow.

My personal favorite snowstorm in my years living in VT. There’s a good correlation between fun snowstorms up here and monster sleet events down there. The correlation is almost as strong as smoking cirrus up here and monster snowstorms down there .