powderfreak

You have to cancel when it’s a safety issue. Makes sense. Racers are going to race if you let them but organizers know when the scales get dipped towards injury potential. Those skiers absolutely attack/charge the hill more than ligaments, joints, bones, muscles can support in the wrong conditions.

There’s nothing more painful to a powder hound as watching racers slip off fresh snow. Just running the whole trail with your skis sideways, pushing snow to the side… usually on a wide, uniform trail that would make the greatest powder field. That’s ski racing though!

Can see some of the snow in the ORH Hills into NE CT I think.

Yeah but have you seen his evergreens when he posts pics of like a week of 2-5" fluffers? I'd argue they look even more caked and stacked high like gnomes, ha. I think many look at fluffy snow as snow that doesn't stick to stuff and just blows away... but those often can stack just as easily or better. Get those large fluffy flakes with 6" on the power lines stacked straight up lol.

Yeah you were on the west side right?

Looked like 2-3” at home depending on the surface. 3” elevated like on cars. Up at 1500ft got destroyed. 8”? of just dense, dense snow. QPF bomb and insta big snowbanks.

Mendon, VT (near the Killington area) reporting 4-5” of absolute paste. A true birch bender.

Fak man, look at that scene. Fun system for the Thanksgiving weekend. I leave empty five-gallon buckets outside, looks different out the window than a perfect small evergreen with holiday lights and snow on it.

You’ve got a very underrated spot and love the views you post looking west into the CT River Valley of VT/NH.

A friend in the Pico/Killington area visiting parents who have a place at 2,400ft measured 9.0" of paste so far . Living at that elevation must be a trip.

It is nuking all the sudden. We've picked up an inch down in town in 20-30 minutes. Wife and I were leaving Sushi Yoshi and had watched it ramp up and then just started dumping. If it could sustain itself it's probably 2-3"/hr rates, ha. It was too warm for accumulations like 90 minutes ago down here in the lowlands at 750ft. Can only imagine what's going on at 1500ft.

We just started ripping at 750ft but it's elevation dependent. Most above 1,200ft on both sides of town seem to have a couple inches so far from what I've seen posted. My experience is always from the ski area down towards town and I'm right near the Stowe Country Club golf course. The eastern side of town is pretty snowy too up against the Worecesters but I'm partial to the Spine axis. Anyway, can see the yellow moderate echoes showing up and drifting south of the "M" in Morrisville into this area. Would explain the real uptick in snowfall now at home.

BTV with 1/2 mile moderate snow and 1" in the last 90 minutes at 33-34F. Must be beautiful paste there too. METAR KBTV 270035Z AUTO 32011KT 1/2SM SN FG OVC004 01/00

Love that. Just pasted on there like it’s fake in a store window during holiday shopping season.

Radar definitely looks a bit more synoptic but west slopes backing it up a bit more that side of the Greens.

Yeah dude!

So fake it looks real? Models had some real good QPF for your area. Should pull 6”+. You guys do upslope real well in the right set ups.

Been busy all day with opening day at ski area, it was more elevational today than I thought too. Changed to snow around 2pm at 1500ft but seems around 1”/hr now. With ski season, we now get photos of the resort lots while I pull donuts.

Pasting at the ski area.

Paste show at 1500ft.

Another thing we always talk about but I'm not sure I've ever seen on a model... @J.Spin's Winooski Valley convergence zone through the mountains. It's often that precip finishes up and then we get some good squalls to rip right over J.Spin's head down towards Montpelier. It's wild to see that picked up on a model. Right over J.Spin's head there stretching towards Montpelier down I-89.

What's happening is pretty interesting meteorology... the secondary low taking shape off the New England coast that looks to ride the Maine coastline also will have a 850mb and weak 700mb reflection it looks like. Those features are different from when they were located up near FVE a couple days ago. That low along the Maine coast will keep winds in the lower 5000ft more northerly up this way, while hitting S/C VT more westerly. The flow up here I think will be really blocked more and more given that further south low keeping the lower winds more north than west. I think the precip backs up quite a bit into BTV and today especially looks super blocked by the veering wind in the lowest mile of the atmosphere. That's how we end up with spreads like this... but it's cool to know the reason is the more southerly tracking low along the Maine coast keeping winds from going uniform with height so it blocks itself up a lot. It also leads to more precip down your way in S/C VT with the lower Froude numbers blocked hard from getting any precip past like Woodford.

Didn’t expect to wake up to white slush. Looks like a half inch of slop out there. Third snowfall of grass blades sticking through. Hopefully we cover fully by tomorrow morning, ha.

It would be funny if after all of this, @backedgeapproachingends up the jackpot. I could definitely see it happening too. The deeper secondary low does leave a more favorable flow down in the S.Greens and keeps it a bit more northerly in the N.Greens. Lowers the Froude a bit, blocking it up.

It starts super blocked tomorrow and you can see it in the QPF maps. Like 0.50 Froude. But then it opens up to 0.80-1.20 which is smack centered over the crest. I noticed the Froude jumps (unblocks itself) as soon as the real CAA comes in. Froude opens up as 850mb temps drop it looked like in this event. Super blocked at -4C and then critical or unblocked once -9C or lower hits. Makes sense though that stronger advection would lead to more freely flowing air.