powderfreak

You’d have to imagine someone south of the front gets a solid ice storm… but narrow axis?

I know you don’t think I work but occasionally I do … going to be a busy couple days at the ski area. Will be back at 5am tomorrow for another 12+ hour day. Getting a ride up pre-public in the AM to get some shots hopefully. May not hear a lot from me tomorrow haha. Snowing steadily, but very elevation dependent today. There was 5” at the High Road Plot and 3.5” at Lookout Plot at 4pm. Only an inch at 1500ft at same time.

Here comes the cold now. 32/29 at MVL east of Mtn Spine 27/24 with 0.75sm vis -SN at BTV. BTV getting good cold air drainage down the Champlain Valley unobstructed.

What a crush job on the EURO.

Still SW winds aloft.

It took a while here. It’s not “cold”… we are at about 2.5” above 2,500ft… a coating to 1” from 1500-2500ft. It’s a wet snow. Valley is still 34F -SN that I assume isn’t sticking at MVL.

We flipped to snow at 1,500ft about 20 minutes ago. Definitely was a couple hours later than I was thinking.

It flipped to snow at Stowe base right after my last raining post. Steady light snow.

It’s taking it’s time. Still wet below 2,000ft.

Light rain here below 2,000ft with 1-2" overnight above that. The dirt roads and walkways are pure skating rinks. Even RT 108 was slick despite 35F.

NAM looks like it’ll be big as well.

That 00z HRRR run was juiced.

That'll do pig, that'll do.

HRRR is just a crushing up north. This is a healthy 6-hour burst.

Everyone wants spring now, haha. Felt so warm, just skied in a shell jacket and t-shirt underneath this afternoon. Snow was chalky and grippy though south facing lower elevation Spruce even softened up a bit.

The Euro for several cycles has had this mid-level deformation band it looks like. Be interesting to see if it has a clue. That looks like a fluffer topping on Friday afternoon.

Lol the NNE crew slinked back into the NNE thread to discus snow.

My personal favorite snowstorm in my years living in VT. There’s a good correlation between fun snowstorms up here and monster sleet events down there. The correlation is almost as strong as smoking cirrus up here and monster snowstorms down there .

Widespread 8-14” IMO is the way to go for most of us in here. Might even be the same liquid as many in ENE saw in the blizzard but much lower snow ratios.

I’ll trade this snowstorm for that derecho. Let’s do it.

Increased QPF a bit up north, can't hate it.

I have no idea what to think in your area... like miles either way have a huge effect. You'll notice coal miner's burping in PA and pumping heights by a decimal point.

Maybe a tick but in the larger sense of it... BUF to BTV to BML has seen very little change on most ensembles for 3 days. The OPs have had their issues but the means seemed pretty steady, usually north of the colder Op runs. The southern end has been trimmed back for sure. In fact the earliest ones had the highest probs a bit north of here but for a time yesterday settled a bit under here. But we are all going to see it differently, being on the boundary line you see a lot more variance run to run. Sort of like E.MA in the last snowstorm, didn't matter what guidance was it was all consistent there.

The Ensembles have been pretty damn consistent for 3 days now. 12z GEFS 6"+ probabilities. BUF to BTV to BML steady as she goes.

It's going to snow in the North Country. More than 3" too. That's the level when a synoptic snow becomes notable IMO.