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Yeah it did seem to take a few extra days but it usually does with their warm season clean up of debris, branches, trees. Though the snow can be hard to melt up in those drifts or shaded pockets. The deepest snow is usually up in the switchbacks towards the top and then once over the crest (traveling from the Stowe side) and starting down in Jeffersonville, the road bends right and across a steep north facing slope. Wind drifting up in the switchbacks and that north facing section can be really hard to melt. Hard to melt though is a relative term this season though. This was 13 days ago a bit further up from the Stowe/Cambridge town line sign. The snowiest stretch is uphill of here in the real rockfall zone and then when the road goes to the right around the terrain (barely see the hillside in this photo on the right side) it's shadowed almost all day.

@PhineasC dude you should book a flight into MHT and drive north from there. I think your pad gets 12+.

I honestly haven't heard of that phrase, so I googled it but was it didn't seem to fit your general line of thinking. That's why I asked.

Dynamic cooling. Fun to watch the 925mb temps drop in temp and the 0C> expand as the storm deepens. as the storm deepens.

RT 108 through Smugglers Notch just opened per VTRANS. I think that's easily the earliest I've ever seen the Notch open.

All I can think of is the end of every drug commercial that lists all the possible side effects... including just about everything short of an alien life form coming out of your rectum. "Ask your doctor, this drug is a miracle but in rare cases...."

Yeah I really like that zone. You know it was coming when Phin went to Florida. But that area is a climo favored late-season storm spot, not that climo seems to mean anything anymore...

Yeah it'll be elevation dependent for sure.

GFS gonna bury some bodies.

Without a doubt. But sitting in February I'm still riding climo that it won't be a shut out. I'd do it again next year too, ha. Law of averages. Now watch the elevated terrain will get back-to-back snowfalls, ha. There looks to be a few chances. We will pay the piper for the nice early summer weather we've been having.

That's sweet. I do think his spot is going to do really well in this event if it can lift far enough north. That whole area of the southeast/east/northeast side of the Presidentials if they can get into the deeper moisture. The east flow is there. Models seemed to tick northward a bit overnight.

Peaky Blinders and Ozark were favorites of ours. Peaky is so good. Schitts and Office for light hearted comedy series.

Ha, yeah I always wonder what folks think this will accomplish. Some post the same stuff so many times, it must be exhausting trying to prove the same thing every single day. I think you may be able to see the number of posts by screen name in a given thread. Some are extremely passionate about COVID on a hourly basis. No one is changing their mind on a weather forum banter thread.

You panicked too early for sure, climo says those months will come through more often than not. Still might have a couple snow events in the tank looking at the models.

Year end summary comes with a diagram of a webbed hand catching all moisture. Also a photo of the picnic tables drying out in low RH values, curling paint waiting for a storm.

The interesting thing is "are we due"? We've had some real high end clunkers, but we've also had some real high end seasons. It seems lately that it's all or nothing. You have 2015-16... only 156" of snowfall at the High Road Stake. It's followed up by 375" at that location the next year 2016-17. It snowed every day. 108" in a 3 week span I think it was during January into mid-February. Two years ago in 2018-19 was one of the most prolific snow depth days season on record. The snowpack was incredible, all season long. November 2018 was huge and the winter never looked back. Now two years later we are looking at the lowest spring snow depth on record. It has truly been all or nothing over the past 6 years it seems. Whatever new regime we are in, it likes to either go big or small, no in between. Two years ago from this date there was more than 100 inches of extra snow on the ground at that site.

Yeah man, it’s something special out there. I posted that graph yesterday with the relevant data and it got 10,000 views. It’s been big news. Lowest depth since records started in 1954 at an unbiased consistent measurement of a piece of wood strapped to a tree, ha. Science.

I like where you sit right now too. Obviously ORH, but 1,000ft is good to have in mid-April. You are in the game.

I’m going to build Phin a snowboard set up with a 5 foot dowel this summer so he can join the tally with his backyard measurements (even monitor it remotely)... and then maybe carry the torch if that dude really is in his 80s, might need a new observer up there soon. Put it out in the field with a couple Wyoming snow fences around it, perfect set up. If this set up gets north, should do well up in Randolph on east flow. May be more than a stat padder.

Clown map with a 20-spot in northern Berks lol.

Finally something interesting synoptically, even if it has no impacts up this way. Be fun to watch this evolve. Those 300mb winds backed out of the east that Ginxy just posted looks textbook.

Sneaky is a good way to call it... most skiers still comment on the 6-week period of no rain with steady gains in snowpack during the heart of winter. I think lower elevations especially looked "stacked" with good pillows forming on everything. Everyone knew it was a bit below average but the gains were steady and keeping up with climo, for many weeks. It wasn't gaining, but it wasn't losing and it always felt like one solid event away from getting to normal. And you knew that it just would take a favorable pattern (like we've seen many times) to jack the snowpack up above normal. So through March 1st at least, this winter still held quite a bit of promise. It could turn on a dime. The thing is it turned the wrong way. This is mid-May type upper elevation snowpack experienced today.

The ol' cosmetic inch is coming at some point. Day 4 of June-like weather. Snowpack is the lowest since 1954 at the Mansfield stake. Still, it is incredibly fun to ski and get creative on the way down. Everyone out there was having a fantastic time, the novelty of this has led to a great vibe on the hill. Even some woods routes in play still... but needs a steep NE facing slope. What the groomers have done is incredible. Putting the hill back together each night. These tractors spend the night snow farming so we can keep riding lifts. $1.5+ million in assets with talented operators to keep the operation afloat.

Lowest recorded snowpack at the Picnic Tables for April 11 since observations began in 1954. 19" today and old record was 20" in 1957. The long term average would be over 4 feet more snow on the mountain! Today was the 3rd straight day of setting both the daily record max and the record high minimum. Even the night's up there have been 10 degrees above the normal high temp. What an absolute torch. Third week of June climo for 4 four days now. Last time the summit sniffed freezing was 6 days ago, despite an average low of 21F.

Yikes. Door through here with ESE winds now, but only dropped temp from 73F to 66F, ha. Went from third week of June weather to only first week of June.