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Yeah its likely going to stall for an hour or two at the Spine. Sharp drops though, flash freeze. Might go to freezing rain instead of snow as aloft looks a tad behind the SFC cold.

Fort Kent was a cool town. Took pride in being so far north.

It may be a Kuchie map but the consistency in Canada is insane to me. That Canadian Shield of snow. Imagine if that was 300-500 miles further south. Gradient and how consistent snowfall amounts are north of it over a full two week model run is crazy.

I remember a good April Fools storm that year with like 10" of dense snow falling on the day of the ski area's pond skim event... then later in April a 14" upslope storm hit with high QPF, like spring graupel. It just wanted to precipitate that winter. Not many QPF concerns.

Holy sh*t. A full burial and one partial burial in an avalanche in the Adirondacks back on Saturday. That's a big slide. Saturday February 12, 2022 a large (R4, D3) skier triggered avalanche occurred on the furthest lookers right slide path in the well known northeast facing Angel Slides area on the shoulder of Wright Peak. The slide appears to have been remotely triggered by two skiers ascending the slide path. The crown of the avalanche at ~3,750 feet in elevation is estimated to have been 80 cm (~2.5 ft) deep at the deepest point, and reached approximately 150 feet across the entirety of the slope. From the start zone it is estimated the avalanche traveled more than 1000 feet to the toe of the avalanche.By their own estimation the slide released approximately 500 feet above the two skiers. Both skiers were caught and carried around 150 feet. Skier one may have experienced a brief loss of consciousness, after coming to with a partially obstructed airway due to snow impacted in their mouth they were able to extract themselves from their partial burial after five minutes. Skier one located skier two with the lowest beacon reading being greater than one meter. Skier one dug out skier two who was fully buried and inverted, and had his airway cleared in approximately 10 to 15 minutes after the beginning of the incident. Skier two was not responsive and breathing faintly. As skier one continued to extract his partner, skier two regained consciousness. Both skiers recovered to the point that they were able to extract themselves from the woods despite the loss of some of their gear.On the same slope we observed a snowpack of 70 cm in depth. Our results in the snow pit were as follows; CT 15 Q1 @ 60cm (measuring from the top), ECTP 14 @ 60 cm.Read the full, unedited report on the observations page of our website via the link in our bio.Thanks to those involved for sharing the details of this incident with us. It is our hope that sharing this information will increase our community’s awareness of avalanche hazards and highlight the need for more education and information to help mitigate the risk of traveling in avalanche terrain in the Adirondacks. https://www.instagram.com/p/CaBSEC6OsJR/

Yeah I don’t think that winter gets as much credit but it snowed a lot. Most snow I’ve ever measured on the mountain with 375” at 3,000ft. It just wanted to snow.

That winter was great… 16-17 is underrated in NNE.

Cold, winter evening. Had a dusting of snow today and the last of the moisture hung around Mansfield before dissipating right at sunset.

Every winter is different which is fun. This one has left a lot to be desired. Weather though is always fascinating…it’s why we are all here. An event or two can change the overall appeal of a winter, especially in the lower average spots. A couple events have been game changers in the south/east New England quarter. Everyone else has been struggling… but that’s the risk/reward of living closer to the coast. Get a couple to hit and it’s a solid snow year. Always good when at least someone on the forum wins.

Maybe 60” around here at home, and the mountain needs a good 150”+.

Happy Anniversary of the most fun snowstorm of my life. This thing was a real storm. I think it's the only all frozen QPF event at BTV with 2" of liquid equiv in the month of February?

That has to be largely the blizzard, right? Like half of that came in one storm in eastern CT.

Need the GGEM to work out... turns the late week rainer into a snower. EURO stays just north of us. And GFS is just a monster thaw with big snow well north, ha.

That's awesome looking at the TAN obs. Over half a foot and ripping with only one brief observation showing moderate snow (1/2sm vis). Most of it at 1-2 mile visibility. That's how you know the snow growth zone is getting punched by lift.

It's just the flake type and liquid amount falling from the sky. A small flake, needles or bullets type snow packs in tight and is dense on the ground. To achieve higher snowfall rates, visibility will be quite low, almost like a fog if you are getting 1"+ an hour out of needles. You're also getting 0.10-0.15"/hr water to hit 1"/hr snowfall with needles. That'll give that 1/4sm +SN. With fluffy, large snow growth stuff, it takes less flakes and less water to make an inch of snow. Therefore there are fewer flakes in a given volume of air... still accumulating efficiently but impacting visibility less. The ASOS stations under-report the water in this type of snow, but if 0.025-0.05" an hour can give 1"/hr, visibility will remain higher than what most of us equate to that type of accumulation rate.

That's the classic good snow growth where visibility doesn't translate to the snowfall rate. The stuff where you can get 1" an hour but with 1-1.5 mile visibility.

Looks like it's been quite the winter for the coastal mid-Atlantic too... no stats to back it up but these SE Mass snowers seem to love coastal Delaware into SE NJ. Just seems like it wants to be snowing in those low average coastal/beach towns. Delaware Coastal Airport with a nice 4+ hour wintry appeal obs this afternoon/evening.

Still getting the same ratios as this morning? I’m just checking back in. If it’s fluff someone will get 7+ right?

That’s a solid radar loop!

Yeah it’s been a very light upslope season on the whole. Usually there are a couple distinct events or like 4-8” upslope after a cutter… we can survive a winter on that sometimes ha.

That EURO run is what we all love to see though for sure. Hot cutter late week. Then arctic cold over the weekend. Then hot cutter again by day 9-10. What a sequence.

70F in February would be funny to be honest. If it's not going to snow, might as well go for broke.

Snowpack in New England is usually only two warm cutters away from a real bad time unless it’s a truly bomber snow year. Life in the East. It won’t be pretty but we’ll make the best of it.

45F to 27F now… locking up tight out there. Ski surface conditions are now screwed until it snows again or warms up. Ungroomed stuff will be basically unskiable and groomers likely the classic eastern granular.

March 2001, March 2007 are my favorites. March 2011 had a 24-30 incher of dense snow. March 2017 had a four foot storm (named Stella by TWC) that was synoptic followed by huge upslope. March 2018 had a big one too. 2007 though from mid-January through April was absolutely obscene. Valentines Day 2007 is still the biggest most impactful snowfall I've seen up here. There was a St Patty's Day storm that dropped 12-18" synoptic and another like 18-24" upslope. I remember that was one that started out as a coastal plain storm and then kept hugging and amping up until go time (where'd those storms go? Ha). April had like 6 feet of snow. I remember an event where it snowed like two feet of concrete at the base of Stowe and then changed to like over an inch of rain. That snowpack was so beefy that winter.