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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.

In it now.

Somewhere between 1-2” and snowing steadily.

Dumping snow. Nice scene out there.

METAR KBTV 041950Z AUTO 21010KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN016 BKN030 OVC065 M01/M03 A2993

BTV down to 1/4 mile +SN METAR KBTV 041950Z AUTO 21010KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG BKN016 BKN030 OVC065 M01/M03 A2993

Pretty potent clipper moving into NNE... should be good for some low vis squalls.

That’s a great question, ha. I honestly don’t know.

It was 8F on my car when I left this morning.

8F… cold start today.

Nice, 21F here with a good breeze. Adirondacks and Whites colder on the whole so far. Should be a cold night.

The 18z EURO continues the weird highly concentrated but big QPF signal around the Spine in these parts. Crazy the QPF maps even print out a pixel or two of 0.50" water. Someone is going to get lit up very localized between Jay and Sugarbush . Too many models have showed some weirdly high QPF spots in the area that they must be seeing something.

Nice disco from BTV on tomorrow's snow shower and accumulation potential. Potential snowfall in the 1 to 3 inch range in most areas is forecast. However, given the convective nature, expect large variability across the region, with greatest chance for the deeper snow accumulations over the Adirondacks. It appears precipitation amounts will be enhanced due to moisture advection associated with moderately strong west to southwest low level trajectories off the eastern Great Lakes throughout the afternoon and evening. The surface moisture return will be evident with dew points surging back through the 20s to near 30 along with increasing southerly winds. These dynamics will promote better surface convergence along and ahead of the weak surface front. As a result, we should see widespread snow shower activity, and where surface based CAPE develops, briefly heavy snow showers lowering visibilities to under a mile can be expected. The latest convective allowing model guidance is bullish on this potential, especially across the Adirondack region in the afternoon and potentially over northern Vermont during the evening. High resolution ensemble data point to scattered heavy snow shower activity with low probabilities of snowfall accumulating an inch in an hour`s time. Note that accumulations will be limited by duration of this heavier snowfall. Currently looks like snow squall activity is unlikely, but will need to keep an eye on this potential if snow showers can organize around a low level frontal boundary. Given favorably cold conditions and roughly average snow ratios supporting a fairly dry snow, expect some blowing snow.

Something to watch tomorrow afternoon and evening… models are showing the Winooski Valley squalls. Or an axis of stronger snow showers. The EURO lights up like 0.30” QPF in 6-hours near JSpin, Bolton, Mansfield. The models definitely think something may come streaking through tomorrow late day. The NAM has a squall line with a 6” pixel literally over @J.Spin’s head.