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  1. powderfreak
    Yeah just really picked up. About an inch of fluff on wife’s car at home. This is the fluff that you can see the grass “through” it here lol.
  2. powderfreak
    -SN setting the holiday mood while running holiday errands in Stowe Village.
  3. powderfreak
    About a half inch of the lightest falling snow ever. I think the sun has been out all morning too. Classic dim sun -SN.
  4. powderfreak
    Ha I thought the same thing. You to Tamarack.
  5. powderfreak
    You can see the model 2m temps trying to pick out cold pockets and warmth mixing in later next week with CAD pockets. Pretty cool.
  6. powderfreak
    I think we’ll get a couple days that could go more. It looks pretty mild anytime it mixes out. Relative to normal it’s pretty warm. But normal is lower up here, ha.
  7. powderfreak
    We had a dusting last night that evaporated at home. Some ice and random small plow piles all that are left around town. Hope to see an inch or two to whiten things up in the next 36 hours. I think most see 1-3” in the NNE crew… chances for more in ME/NH to me given IVT potential.
  8. powderfreak
    I agree, the science is unknown long term. We are adding “energy” or heat to the overall atmosphere. The question is how small a ripple rocks the boat. Current data is less dramatic than certain language.
  9. powderfreak
    To me that sounds like an engineering problem… Mother Nature is giving the water either way, snow or rain. We are comfortable humans, maybe we need to adapt a bit. But if the water falls from the sky, no matter what form, that’s on us for not utilizing it properly.
  10. powderfreak
    Yeah, maybe if you miss a snowstorm by 0.5C you might wonder about 50 years ago. But this? Pilgrims would be chillin’ on the beach, happy to be warm. Looks like the real deal for a December “relaxation.”
  11. powderfreak
    It sounds dumb, but even that dusting to 1-2" after a rainer has a more wintry appeal than going rain to cold/dry/frozen ground. Frozen standing water is one thing, at least add a skiff coating of snow to the local fields to give a wintry feel.
  12. powderfreak
    How often do you get *this* many model runs showing an IVT signature? The location hasn’t been stable but the ingredients and presence of one somewhere has been there for many cycles. Like days of model runs, it’s not a new feature.
  13. 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.
  14. powderfreak
    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.
  15. powderfreak
    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.
  16. powderfreak
    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.
  17. powderfreak
    Ha, it won’t be pretty but it’s not *that* hot.
  18. powderfreak
    EURO. General widespread light snowfall.
  19. powderfreak
    12z GFS and NAM were looking a bit better for us northern folks. Nice light event.
  20. powderfreak
    Didn’t realize dews got decently into the 50s down south, that’s a windows open type of day.
  21. powderfreak
    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.
  22. powderfreak
    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?
  23. powderfreak
    We just mixed out. 39F to 46F and 30+ mph winds. Looks like the front just moved through on the summit obs too.
  24. powderfreak
    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.
  25. powderfreak
    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.
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