powderfreak

I thought it was supposed to rain today? Models had light QPF midday and yet it’s sunny and 50s up here. Amazing win for several hours here.

Yeah my lab is 11 and I know that day is coming. Anything past 12 years old is borrowed time.

I think he likes the Day 7 snow maps more.

It definitely can be, but can also get real exciting when trees and objects are coming at you fast and self preservation means you need to avoid them, ha.

Today was phenomenal.

5” today… 70” depth… 288” measured season total. Cleared and reset for the next snowfall.

Of course, I'd hope as a science board we all had this type of nuance and discretion. We see posters question observations all the time, ahem Coastalwx. There should be an understanding that we all can see the signs of stations running off the rails (MADIS analysis) on here. But the discussion started on the western heat, too. Regardless of what we think of instruments, extra sitings, etc... this has been a high-end heater out west. Even if certain sites may run warm, the 50,000 foot view of this is a high-end heater. Even if we chalk up and toss several sites for setting their April records to siting or instrumentation.

From a 50,000 foot view though, are they *all* wrong? There absolutely are going to be some instrumentation issues, siting issues, etc… but looking at the collective from afar, are they all wrong? Are mesonets and other climate recording sites that are deemed ok, showing conflicting data? What about sensors running too cold? Plenty of those too, but the focus here seems to be the warm ones… or is it just a general statement because of MSM latching onto the warm ones?

3.5” of waterlogged snow. Can squeeze water out of it.

Got home to 3.5” of waterlogged snow.

Yup and they are terrifying to ski up on fast. Cruising through the woods like off Chin Clip and one of the many drainages, and next thing you know there’s a 4-6 foot hole in front of you that you need to navigate. To get to the High Road site we do cross that drainage pictured, which luckily our snow bridge handles fine, but there are holes in there that are a legit 6 feet of snowpack deep. The photos don’t really do the scale justice, either. A six foot tall adult could stand in the hole and the snow is about head height.

Manifested that pretty well. 5” of dense stuff on probably 0.6-0.7” QPF. Pretty crazy we’ve gone from 55” depth back up to 70” depth in the past 4-5 days on 15 inches of measured snowfall. Zero settling. 15” snowfall over 4-5 days and 15” depth gain. Concrete.

We’ve gone to sleety snow with some freezing mist. Small bouncing IP mixed with some flakes.

1.5” at home so far. Snowing hard. 3” on upper mountain snow cam.

How has their urban development gone recently? Any population explosions to cause this?

I’m thinking 5” or so measured at the snow plot tomorrow. Hope it’s 6-8”, ha. This past one was 7” at 1500ft and 7.5” at 3000ft. Almost no change in snow totals with elevation once above roughly 1200ft. No range needed there. One whole stack at 1500ft. A 6” and 1.5” at 3000ft.

It’s 29F up here with snow caked trees.

Just got home, we are just about 5” on the level on colder surfaces and away from the evergreens. One inch less than up at the base of the mountain and a lot wetter.

I can’t remember an event that had nothing until like 12-1pm, then snowed a heavy half a foot, with brightening skies by 5:30pm.

6” in 3 hours at 3,000ft. Still heavy snow.

Almost 0.30” precip the last two hours in the ASOS gage that usually under reports, no fake fluff either, just a fast QPF dump.

Heavy snow.

Absolutely puking snow. The rare M1/4 visibility. METAR KMVL 201745Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2986 RMK P0010 METAR KMVL 201740Z AUTO 00000KT M1/4SM +SN FG VV006 00/M01 A2987 RMK P0008

Ramped up fast here. MVL went 36/23 to 32/29 and 1/2sm Mod Snow.

I’m still not sure what to expect. Models keep printing very heavy precip rates. Like 3 hours of 0.1”< QPF snowfall and like 0.60” in 4 hours this afternoon.