powderfreak

Ha yeah the massif stretches into the clouds sometimes. Big fan of microscale stuff myself.

What a disaster of a day. 38-42F and raining with low clouds most of the day. The only redeeming value was seeing snow on the ski trails just below the cloud deck. These were the days we tried so hard to avoid .

Want to be in the Sierra right now. Mammoth Lakes, CA. Sugarbowl.

Nice to see white stuff up there. Too foggy and rainy down here to get a nice photo.

Ski trails are white above like 2,400ft. I was up at 330am letting the dog out because she was all antsy and seemed to have to go out, and it was small ice pellets it seemed. Precipitation was bouncing and it was real loud on the fallen leaves. Looks like that was right when precip started so probably evaporational cooling got some IP down in the valley.

30/28 at MVL... crisp night setting up prior to WAA. METAR KMVL 250220Z AUTO 00000KT 9SM CLR M01/M02 A3016

Congrat's and good luck dude on the applications. A guy named Murphy thinks there will be some localized mixing of high winds aloft in your neighborhood. He doesn't have a met degree though.

Even a brief period of wet snow above 1,500ft might be the most interesting thing that happens in the North Country with this system, ha. Otherwise, wet, dreary week.

I was wondering that. It's cold and it *feels* cold out... like if clouds were to come in and it started precipitating that some flakes during the onset might be possible in the higher terrain.

Looks like he’s taking the cautious approach.

That's wild, ha. We are in that phase that I think Will has described as the nuclear fallout time of year... aka stick season. But man when it starts to rain tomorrow and the week looks wet on the whole, it starts to take on that dreary, leafless, brown, dead, wet look of how they portray western Russia in movies. Gray, dark, dead. I forget the exact terminology of it, but we are there ha.

What a day. Traveling to other areas of the US (this time the south) always reminds me that I love where we live. From the beach to icicles in 24 hours. It was cold up there even with the sunshine. The shadows grow early and the sun sets on the NE aspect of the mountain in early afternoon lol.

Frigid up here. From the beach to winter temps in 24 hours. Ground is frozen solid and plenty of ice above 3,000ft. It’s amazing how fast the ground freezes…dirt no longer moves when you kick it, ha.

Minimum temps this morning:

I don’t know if that’s an age thing unless you love darkness as a child, or loved living in mom’s basement with heavy drapes over the small windows. I’ve always hated the early darkness… 3 months ago one could start going on a 2-3 hour hike after 6pm and have plenty of light, ha. Wish we could get winter cold/snow with summer solar hours. Ski outside until 9pm lol.

Brrr that’s a hard freeze!

Three sites going down in elevation around the Village, temps ranging from 31F to 25F in 450 vertical feet. Above inversion, at inversion, below inversion. This belongs in a weather textbook. 1200ft… barely below freezing (31F min), can see temp/dew separation. 800ft much colder at 27F right on the edge of shallow inversion. Then 755ft along river just fully under the inversion and an ice box to 25F.

Interesting to see the different traces between sites nearby based on how tucked into the valley they can get. Some sites as low as 25F locally. Others barely below freezing just a few hundred feet higher. Seeing how different elevations react to the cooling with the T/Td separation. Three sites going down in elevation around the Village: 1200ft… barely below freezing, can see temp/dew separation. 800ft much colder at 27F right on the edge of shallow inversion. Then 755ft along river just fully under the inversion and an ice box to 25F.

Back to back hard freezes… who’d have thunk. 25-28F this morning around town under 1,000ft.

We’ve gone back up. Just landed into BTV and about to drive home. MVL now OVC with clouds and breeze kicked up. Temps 36-39F generally now with clouds. We’ll need to clear up to freeze, with the OVC deck at 3,300ft at the ASOS. Looks like 34F was the local min before back up. Funny that the pilot and copilot after the flight were talking about BTV… the one guy said “I flew into here last winter, had a company day off between flights and went skiing at Stowe. Delta has a Stowe discount and it was an awesome day, got paid to go skiing for a day”…. my wife sees me smirking and was like don’t engage, it’s after 11pm, I want to go home .

Those high clouds can definitely ruin radiational cooling. Looks like HIE has stalled dropping for the past 60-90 minutes as the ASOS started reporting FEW/SCT aloft above 10,000ft. Its crazy but even 10-15,000ft clouds will halt it.

Wouldn’t surprise me if Tolland got 8” given his precip year to date …

Start there… can always adjust upward later if needed.

Clouds? I see the higher/mixed spots over in the Greens are also liking that 37F temp in the 1,000-1,800ft band. Some mid-level clouds moving through NY state and into VT might halt it. The dew points below freezing this afternoon and the summits below freezing indicate the potential is there. Still quite early in the evening.

That’s awesome. That area does great in a lot of synoptic events, any southerly orientation to the wind you’ll see the QPF maps light it up there. SE or SW you often see this max to the north of the Mohawk Valley the entire length of the southern Adirondacks. Good CAD in those elevated hollows that seem frequent in that area… like 1000-2000ft “valleys”.