powderfreak

The GFS, NAM and ICON all made substantial shifts south. This is a bit more interesting. The ICON though, I've never seen a model do such a shift in 6 hours. 12z first, 18z second image.

Yeah that’s a good jump south.

Foliage looks delayed.

Very little snow into later January. Folks melting down. Futility talk. Then the best winter on record occurs after January 25th for many of the forum. Way too early to worry. You get a big month and all is well.

They’ve had the better side of the last two weeks though. The CAD crew seems more wintry in terms of frozen or freezing QPF.

It hasn't been great, but it's been white a lot of the time except for a couple days prior to the dense snow, 8:1 ratio type event on the 18th that laid down some decent frozen water/QPF for most in NNE. It's been nickel and dime since then but big difference in vibe with at least snow on the ground. Its been a slow start but it should snow at some point. Still have 3 full months worth of potential and I'm sure the longer it stays meh, the more likely it is that it snows a bunch in April or something. Forgot how rough last winter was around this time. Really only one good warning event away from normal snowpack at the summits too. Average isn't as high as we sometimes think it is for this time of year, ha.

Love the assumption in that statement that the pessimists are the correct ones.

Great shot, doggo looks happy.

How do you not have a subscription service?

Left the mountain at 6pm and there was no new snow at 1500ft. Road becomes snow packed as I head down the hill and at home theres 3/4ths of an inch of fine small flake snow…every twig is white and looks beautiful. Very odd but seemed like freezing mist or drizzle at the mountain but light snow in town.

Yeah not even close to +3F ha.

Is it bragging? It’s wintry, on Christmas. White. Snowy. It’s not brown dead vegetation (stick season) and it’s not wet. I get it. It’s a holiday of appeal. Like July 4th… sunny and 78F is a warm fun holiday, maybe it’s not 86F high-end summer, but it fits with the tenor of festivities.

Now that’s a high impact event, ha. Crazy.

All ZR here though seems like low level snow grains falling now. That pixie dust stuff. Wasn't much precip, probably a tenth of an inch of water equiv but the snowpack around home is now very loud. Like shattering glass. Pathways and packed down snow is a skating rink. Trees light glaze, cars all locked up in ice. Merry Christmas to the crew here.

All ZR here though seems like low level snow grains falling now. That pixie dust stuff. Wasn't much precip, probably a tenth of an inch of water equiv but the snowpack around home is now very loud. Like shattering glass. Pathways and packed down snow is a skating rink. Trees light glaze, cars all locked up in ice.

Just glaze here. Luckily not much QPF.

Same to you man. And everyone else.

This morning in Mtn Ops “You know what this mountain needs right now? Some freezing rain.”

19F and raining in Stowe Village, ha. Light snow now at the mountain at 20F. 4,000ft is 31F.

Impressed it went through ALB area and SW where the 'rents still live in the winter. The hometown had 3.0" just SW of the city. That's a pretty decent band of snow going from central to eastern NY and through parts of SW Mass, N CT, RI and Islands. Nice streak there on a line from upstate NY to the Islands.

The picnic tables show the snow. Merry Christmas dude.

That’s awesome. After all of that the past 2-3 days to end up with a plowable snow is a helluva Christmas miracle. You hear any Woodstock/Union reports?

This is insanity. Crested Butte, CO’s snow cam. This morning. And then 5 hours later. Still hammering.