powderfreak

Very true. My vantage point and comments come from a mountain in NNE that will average colder than those spots further south. The crew in NVT, NNH, NWME will see it mitigated in actuals compared to spots like the Catskills, Poconos, Berkshires. There’s a big latitude difference there. Relative to normal it could be the same, but normals are colder up north… mild high/lows of 45/25 hit differently than south at 55/35 with regard to snow preservation at ski areas.

The biggest issue by far for ski areas is a lack of expansion in operations heading into one of the busiest 1-2 weeks of the entire winter. They won’t close but they won’t be expanding, which puts terrain buildout probably at least two weeks behind when you consider the mild stretch the week before Thanksgiving that delayed openings. A good 14-24” nor’easter would fix it quickly at any time though.

I think it’s usually because people don’t realize the amount of water being pumped as snow. The QPF is off the "charts” (ba dum bum ching). I always tell people, remember how long it can be warm with March/April/May sun angles with dews too… and how long those man-made ribbons last. That stuff seems to survive two weeks without sniffing freezing. Granted it doesn’t look great, but you’re trying to melt like 2-3 feet of sleet right now.

I mean it takes something real special to melt off manmade snow. That stuff survives the humidity of May and weeks above freezing in the spring. Even Dec 2015 had skiing. I saw videos of the woods still skiable today after yesterday’s deluge.

Ha, it won’t be pretty but it’s not *that* hot.

EURO. General widespread light snowfall.

12z GFS and NAM were looking a bit better for us northern folks. Nice light event.

Didn’t realize dews got decently into the 50s down south, that’s a windows open type of day.

An "angry inch" at 3,000ft... very windy, post-frontal CAA always seems moody. For 15 years, I've always heard that term used to describe a certain type of snowfall. Includes high wind, dropping temps. This is an evening where the angry inch phrase is appropriate on the mountain.

The 18z EURO looked like a fun little event for our NH/ME crew... Gene-Dendy to Alex-Phin to Dryslot triangle? Tamarack to Culligan foothills? But that inverted trough QPF right on the coastline is interesting too... those IVT are like lottery tickets, but it's been there on the models and who knows, maybe someone around the coast or immediately inland gets into something more significant?

We just mixed out. 39F to 46F and 30+ mph winds. Looks like the front just moved through on the summit obs too.

We had strong winds above like 3000-3500ft only at the top of the FourRunner Quad but no lift/wind issues. Seemed you had to get to that height to get out of the inversion of cold tucked in the east slope. Dead calm and chilly below that inversion. It is torrential rain now. Wipers on high type rainfall.

I’ve got 39F on the car leaving the mountain. Surprised how well the natural pack is holding at 1500ft. Still patchy snow in town but I had a healthy thick 6” at Barnes Camp. 1500ft staying winter pack for now.

Yeah we are holding onto 4-6” at 1500ft but I’m sure down at my place is either bare or getting there.

Wow, snow free at 1500ft?

33F rain down low and freezing rain in the 2000-3500ft pocket.

Up here with much less traffic the barrier has been said to be 80mph for getting pulled over by a trooper. I paid a ticket for 79mph between Waterbury and BTV on I-89 in college (dry roads, daytime visibility). Trooper even brought the radar gun up to my window to show me, ha. Ironic that with wide open, lower traffic levels you can get popped at 80 up here... but down there in Mass it seems like 80-90mph can be steady bumper to bumper in the left lane with no issue. It's exciting driving south of the MA/NH or VT border.

All I know is that whenever I pass a parked police cruiser tucked in somewhere, and know that I'm dead in the water (going like 60 in a 40, or over 80 on the interstate)... and that cruiser stays where it is while the officer/trooper doesn't even blink... I always wonder if they are looking at the 384 hour GFS showing an anafrontal snow for the I-90 corridor.

Sucks it’s going to rain. We were finally getting some momentum going. Even poking into the woods and the mountain seemed one storm away from being wide open on natural snow.

Without being dramatic or adding to the emotions in here…, we would want to see this Day 7-14 mean in the Euro Ensembles change a bit to say the least.

Mountain skied well today. Plot had 3” new snow but it skied like more. Nice squally system yesterday.

That actually summed up this evening well. One last line coming through. It’s a festive time of year for snow showers and light 1-3” accumulations.

I was wondering about your area. Radar seemed to show the core of the squalls skirting west then south of the Presidentials. Some 30dbz cores in there seemed to track from Crawford Notch towards you. Looked like another pretty strong area lifted through northern Coos and into adjacent Maine. Not sure where Sunday River is exactly but figured it had to be in that neighborhood for the northern squall. I was wondering how that played out just south of the Presis.

Just shy of 2” of fluff here eyeballing it… Will measure later. Still snowing good. Unblocked flow has the snow in the lee of Mount Mansfield here on RT 108/Mountain Road. I feel like @J.Spinwith snow consistently reforming overhead .

Dumping in town. East slope unblocked flow.