powderfreak

Yeah it’s been a good one for sure. Last year was frigid around this time... like second half of April into mid-May before the record torch hit later in May. No complaints at all this spring. Hopefully it’s not as wet next week as the forecast looks.

What a day. Green valley with white ridge lines above.

All true facts and one can easily see the internal struggle between following your instincts and also nodding towards reality.

Great bluebird Saturday to start May. Doesn’t get much better than this... hiking in shorts on fresh snow.

1500ft is the winter line at 2pm on May 1st. Given some melting I’d assume 1.5-2” fell at 1500ft.

About 1,000ft looks right around here for snow level last night. Still patchy shaded dusting of snow at 1100ft. Dog refuses to leave this.

They love to do this a lot over the past decade... play an absolute dogsh*t season to lower everyone’s expectations to just “watchable baseball near .500 is a win” and then they show up.

That’s wild to be in front of your kitchen window, ha. We got bear proof trash now after last summer and so far no visitors but they’ve been sighted all over Stowe again in the early going.

The 3-4 day totals will be solid. This is why we don't get concerned with drought in the NNE mountains. The water will come.

4 home runs for the Sox so far and it's only the top of the 3rd inning. Nice to see them come alive again. JD with 2 of them, Bogey and Devers with the others. Those guys are going to carry this team offensively.

2.08" so far today on the PWS at the base of the ski resort.... the ones down in town are in the 1.00-1.25" range. It was just pouring all day outside the office today (I was thinking some hours had to have 1/4" rates)...with all the water coming out of the hills, a two inch or more total today makes sense... looks like the upslope machine there doubled up the QPF compared with town.

Can clearly see the snow levels dropping on the west slopes of the Greens from the left image to the right image. The loop is too big to post but very cool watching that donut hole just collapse towards the radar site on the western slopes where upslope cooling is taking place.

Bolton Valley snowing to the base area at 2,300ft. Need to click play. Stowe showing snow at the 3,000ft cam too. But very cool dual pol loop of the snow level just dropped drastically... like 1-2kft all at once.

Oh your organs would start to shut down in about 10-15 minutes in that water for sure. It’s still snow melt way up high. Heck there’s still patchy snow along RT 108 in the Notch when I drove through there earlier today.

Glad the Drought Monitor has it so dry around these parts. Should try to hop in a raft and see if I can make it alive to JSpins in Waterbury.

MSS and SLK in NY both over to 1/2 mile moderate snow.

If Phin is involved the discussion gets serious in a hurry. Yesterday when MIA, the discussion in this thread was pages about baseball trading cards from the 1990s, lol.

Based on bright banding distance from radar beam it should be flipping or mixing at 3,500-4,000ft right now. I think the high ground will be white in the morning, skeptical of how low it gets though.

That’s awesome Ginxy. Transitioning to online and adapting to the evolving business environment. Nice work dude.

I didn’t see anyone arguing it’s a good thing? People seemed to acknowledge why it happens? Its definitely a bad thing to lose local businesses. Pretty easy to see how they can’t stay competitive too.

Lots of water coming out of the mountains. By the time all these feeders make it to town the river is pretty full right now. These are three different drainages side by side in Smugglers Notch.

Torrential upslope rain on Mansfield too up this way. Felt like rain rates had to be up towards 0.25”/hr at times today. The amount of water coming off the hill is impressive. Smugglers Notch looks like something out of Jurassic Park with water coming out of every gully and then falling off 100-300ft cliffs. Every gully is whitewater.

Just torrential wind driven rain at the base of the mountain. These squalls are fairly impressive when the 30-45dbz stuff blossoms overhead. Wind gusts 30-40mph in heavy rain. Feels like an October nor'easter or something.

The bolded is pretty much how a lot of folks think. People love the "idea" of small mom and pop stores and love to support them... but over time they do get pulled to the cheaper, more convenient locations. It's just human nature. Regarding Lamoille County which I'm sure is mostly driven in the Stowe area... this economy seems fairly hard to beat down because there are plenty of people with excess money that like to travel. So when a restaurant or store closes, another one just pops up in it's place right behind it. The economy here reminds me of Michael Scott in The Office when he's starting his own paper company and doesn't care if it goes out of business. He says "I'll just start another one and then another one and then another one. I have no shortage of company names to use." That sum's up stores and restaurants around here. If one goes out, another one with a new name just shows up in it's spot.

Managing people is like adult babysitting in many instances, just at different levels depending on the job, ha. Empathy goes a long way with a lot of people too. Need to tailor the management style to fit the employees and extract productivity for sure.