powderfreak

Before us up north! Coldest in Stowe was during dynamic cooling yesterday evening. Clouds and wind kept overnight in the low 40s. Every cold shot has been cloudy and mixed up north.

Lol the leaf peepers would love you to be right… only one or two trees in that shot on the right. It’s stick season as of a couple days ago.

Sounded like dynamic cooling in they heavy squall got big fat aggregates flying down to that level. You’d need a strong shower/squall most likely. All the temps around it plummeted during heavy precip and they rose a bit afterwards again. Very classic lowering of snow level in heavy precip, then back up as it wanes. I’m such a nerd/weenie for this stuff… A classic temp graph of strong dynamic cooling… then temps rising again post heavy precip. There’s accumulation down to about 2,000ft on the cams. About 500ft above the parking lot aggregates.

Gah, ha friends say it’s snowing at 1500ft in the base area. Plenty more to come but missed that first one of the season.

Looks like some good squalls stuff home, ha. Temps dropped down to 39F at the Stowe Country Club site in this. Snow level might have got quite low there, wonder if it hit the 1800ft high inhabited areas. Look at that temp drop with the squall.

I don’t think it’s that rare. I’ve seen it snow a few times at 33-34F in early October before it hits the freezing mark. Get a rain to wet snow with a cold front type situation. The summit doesn’t radiate at all, so it’s sort of like MWN that it’s often snowing or snow showers as the temp drops. These coating to 1-2” though with CAA dropping temps aren’t *that* uncommon for first freeze.

A coworker sent video of it snowing above 3,300ft on the Stowe Gondola. Picnic table snow. Sugarbush’s cam at 4000ft is snowing. On a beach looking at web cams and obs from friends back home…

That has to be a test, no way it’s cold enough for making snow?

That snow level has to be really high. Mansfield is similar to the 4000ft temperature on MWN. That’s probably the lowest it could be snowing.

Been there many times, not sure the kids would enjoy it though lol. To find a snow level you’re always starting in some ugly weather. Like an elevation snow event early season with the parking lot filled with skiers, all realizing the first 1,000ft is going to suck to hike up .

Some blue up on the peaks behind you on the radar. Must be your neighbor at 1625ft there. Surprised you aren’t hiking up there! I’d be camped out up high today if not looking at palm trees now .

Savanah, GA… meeting family at Hilton Head Island for the week. We beach and golf, vacation before ski season. Last time I can leave VT until like late April, lol. Of that, I’m most excited to watch a couple Sox games with my father, it’s been a while. Will be nice not to have to text back and forth the whole game. Couple big games coming up!

See that’s where you need a photo of the frost lol.

Crazy it’s been so uncomfortably hot down there. It’s been +10 this month up north but that leads to comfy temps still.

That’s nothing. Mount Mansfield’s record late freeze was October 6th, 2011 (65-year dataset)…. this morning it’s 34F. Almost two full weeks past the 65 year record latest freeze and we might hit it in the next 24 hours. Normal is over a month ago on Sept 17. In 2017 the first freeze was over 6 weeks ago on 9/1 . Even the Associate Press picked up that record. https://apnews.com/article/vermont-weather-881cdfa5bb323173360662d3f1f7a8cf

Breezy and showery this morning driving to BTV for a flight south. Even with CAA it was 43F leaving home… normal min is 35F, so still mild. Yesterday was +1 high and +12 on the min again… the minimum temps have been driving the bus for sure.

I was wondering that, his house photos show a garage but every pic has his vehicles either on the street or in the driveway. Maybe S.VT isn’t the only place hiding bodies?

Making lemonade out of the late season lemons. I love the mountains but if I couldn’t be in them, I’d be on the water. Jealous of you guys with boats that live so close.

The worst is the dog looking at you like “I’m sorry, I don’t know what happened” while you bath them gagging at the smell. My dog was throwing up and wretching the time she got sprayed in the face because the smell was too much. Those skunks have an effective defense system.

39F at the picnic tables, wind chill upper 20s. First time all season feeling “cold”… fingers are freezing. Time for hat and gloves. If I could get a shower to roll through it would have to be close to frozen with evap cooling. Feels like a graupel atmosphere.

Skiers out there talking about all-time mid-October turns. Just like we are talking all-time torchtober.

They’ve had some ridiculously cold snows out west in the trough. I saw Park City, Utah had like 5-8” of dry snow in the 20s at 6,000-7,000ft with lows near 10F a couple days ago. The higher ski areas had like two feet of blower mid-winter snow in the teens. Theres definitely a ying to our yang out there.

Yeah Sat AM/Sun AM/Mon AM on the GFS look to have at least some sub-freezing in New England. Sun/Mon here. I'm sure some will say toss, no freezes until Thanksgiving. At some point climo will kick in as several NNE sites around that time are near freezing for average lows. The problem is we just haven't been able to get a clear, high pressure in... which is what next weekend looks like right now.

I didn’t get that impression in the least. Every part of the discussion this morning looks to acknowledge the warming climate. So much so that it is assumed and Pope was wondering how growing season has been affected. Honestly don't get that denial vibe at all.

So in 10 years, the SNH growing season increased by almost 3 weeks on average (19 days)? Thats one huge gain in only 10 years.