powderfreak

Check out Sugarbush’s latest social post. They’ve had to stop snowmaking completely due to low snowmaking pond levels. Thats a tough break.

Not a ton, like 8-10”? But it’s starting to look like real winter. Trees are caked.

Another 4” in town and like 8” at the mountain. This is wild. Just caked in white.

Just another showery round of fluff.

I still can't believe the mountains are 50"+ on the season to date and BTV has yet to record its first inch. You want to talk about microclimates... 15 miles as the crow flies between BTV and Mount Mansfield. One is looking for its first inch, the other has had nearly 5 feet on the season with a settled depth of 30". Even without elevation factored in, we've had 15" in town over the past two weeks.

That's awesome.

Lol just seeing a range of 4 inches triggers me.

Man the mountain got smoked last night. Impressive amount of snow even at 1500ft. The spots where cars were parked last night and didn’t get plowed are like a good foot of snow.

I can’t believe BTV hasn’t recorded an inch yet.

Looks sneaky snowy this weekend. Patrol opened Nosedive top to bottom on natural and we are very close to going wide open. If we can get another 6”+ over the weekend it would go a long way towards popping stuff open.

Interesting, I was going to guess you were 1”/hr. Still 0.5”/hr is a nice steady snow. What’s got me stoked is that radar image is classic. Just feeding cold moist air into the Spine behind the FROPA. Duration will eventually limit this but it’s been quite the upslope pulse. Over 7” between 3pm and 9:30pm is a nice sustained snowfall up high. This NW flow also seems to load the middle of the mountain more too, compared with the Lookout knob shown here. It’s probably pretty damn snowy up in the elevations right now. On top of the current natural snowpack this will feel deep. All the snowfalls start blending together on the ground and it skis twice as deep with the supportive base.

@J.Spin has to be getting crushed based on radar. Snowing good here in town. Mountain must be doing well.

Yeah, our ops alerts said 6.6 miles SSW, so that sounds about right. Dumping in town right now. Nice finish to the clipper.

Been a minute since I’ve experienced Thundersnow… that was awesome. That band is a beast down near Bolton now.

THUNDERSNOW! Walking the dog and flash, boom. Graupel and heavy snow.

LIGHTNING! Walking the dog, solid thunder snow.

Actually Lookout cam near 5” in 3.5 hours.

Let’s do it. Jay took a bit of a hit today on the webs for that snow report. Multiple reports of about 5” from people. I mean 10-14” overnight is like 35dbz snow ripping for 10 hours. Snowing hard in town in Stowe now. Lookout Cam averaging 1”/hr past 3 hours. A lot of convective graupel in this too.

Boston just had like two decades of very snowy winters in the means didn’t it?

Hey Jay Peak reported 10-14" overnight... not sure how, a friend says it skis like maybe 5" new, but maybe someone got dumped on?

Past two mornings the system has been maxed out. The snowmaking team has been dumping some serious frozen water on the hill. Just like QPF in a natural snowstorm, the goal is to have temperatures low enough to allow the system to max out its water equivalent side of the curve. Cold drastically lowers the compressed air side of the equation. Last night was 10F up top and 13F in the base. We always talk about 14F being the sweet spot. Snow piles up quickly at these temps when you are moving a lot of water.

Snowy evening on the hill top.

I just go to Notepad, hold on the original link until it says “Edit Link”… then edit the X to twitter and copy that to post. Its an extra step but still works.

Give me a link to post and I’ll embed it. I’ll try to find where the disconnect is. It definitely is an extra step.

You need to change the link before posting it. I do it in the notepad app. Paste the link in notes, change the X.com to Twitter.com, copy that new link and paste it in the forum.