powderfreak

Depends, north of the Whites probably skews much harder into nickel and dime but Phin does synoptic well. Alex, Pittsburgh, CT Lakes etc is very heavily mesoscale climate oriented. I guess years of JSpin explaining stuff makes me wonder about things like Phin sees 40” and 4” QPF like his neighbor since Feb 1st... is the experience different if it’s four distinct 1.0” QPF for 10” of snow type trackable storms... rather than small amounts every single day that add up to that same total.

I mean it does happen, but as JSpin pointed out he still had like 40” in the past 6 weeks and likely had numerous 2”+ events just not falling within the 24 hour Cocorahs time scale. Maybe it feels different but that is a large part of NNE Mtn climo... tons and tons of light events that add up to many inches. The last event was like 8” up there I think.

Found these shots from yesterday pretty crazy in Colorado titled "The power of the spring sun"... 7 hours difference at a car dealership where the sun just torched the snow off the cars.

lol love that "the drought horn"... seems to be an annual event for some to be extremely concerned about next to nothing when it doesn't rain 1" QPF every 4 days all warm season.

Yeah, loving the look of the 12z EURO from day 5-10. No precipitation and high pressure with warming 850s. The corn horn (warming granular snow) starts sounding on the slopes when it's 40-50F by day and 20F at night. The diurnal range would likely be higher than that, as a dry air mass high pressure this time of year can lead to big 12-hour changes in temps.

Have we moved to the BDL verification system? Need to start looking at temps through the lens of BDL and not ORH.

Nothing like 10F in the valley at 2pm in mid-March. Widespread single digits and teens under full sunshine, lol. Good riddance to this stuff.

Hard pass on a skiing today. It is incredible blowing and drifting in the base area. Several foot thick hard slabs you can walk on.

Ha, I think that's probably it. I get that vibe that Coastalwx brought up but I think it must be from the posts. I mean, how can someone be upset with that type of snowfall, even if it's just 3" in two days for a while ha. You can see why J.Spin always points out the neighbor's numbers up the hill from you, it's that steady trickle of snow that adds up over time that is a strong part of the mountain climo. I like to post photos from time to time, so people get a feel for the new snowfall on the board, it lowers questioning, ha.

Just a wintry afternoon of snow squalls and single digits snow squalls.

Just getting crushed all along that urban corridor and front range hills. Just ripping at 1/8 mile vis at a few stations there. METAR KBJC 142047Z 33021G28KT 1/8SM +SN

Some epic Ginxy blowing and drifting today. The fields are just huge plumes of last nights powder blowing everywhere.

They are getting crushed. Some of the photos from this morning in the foothills were impressive, can’t imagine now.

No f'in way man. That's amazing. I mean truly special shot.

Snow growth has definitely been maximized when the snow showers and squalls move through. Extremely high ratio snow.

The restaurants around here have taken the brunt of it, and sounds like also up there when you were going to eat lunch. Definitely the maskless act of eating out seems to be hitting restaurant staff hard. It’s been literally every restaurant around here in the past two weeks or so.

I think we just avoided it for so long and can’t be blamed on any one thing. But since President’s Week in February it’s been straight out with tourism. Folks letting their guard down and re-entering society. So many people who haven’t traveled since last year based on what they have said. Party houses via AirBnB also a huge increase... multi family vacations again, that stuff. It’s been a challenge getting folks to wear masks again (everyone was on the mask train for the first few months of winter but now you get a lot of push back from some guests. “Oh we are still doing that?” Is a common response. It’s everyone though, not tourists or locals... just a general vibe of let-it-rip all the sudden for whatever reason. I think people have definitely let their guard down and are relaxing again... and cases ballooned locally.

Powder morning on the hill. Around 6” but with wind it’s like 2-10”. Mansfield Magic last night.

Only 8-10" depth, with 2" of new cotton candy. Love the frequent snows more than anything here... evenings watching it snow? Love it. The snow growth has been great and we should maximize any QPF that falls. We melted a lot in the past 3-5 days, but now getting some refresh. Fresh snowfall look to cover up the brown snowbanks along the roads. The mountain has to be getting crushed.

Jay is favored for snow totals in my opinion with energy moving in from the NNW. Good vort max moving from Jay to the Whites again.

It’s snowing hard. We’ll be at 2” down at 750ft soon. Looked like the mountain elevations passed 2” a little bit ago.

Just found out my brother-in-law's father is in the ICU and on a ventilator with COVID... he's in his upper 50s. Been worsening steadily each day. No real known health issues prior. I feel for what my brother in law and sister are going through... definitely the closest COVID has hit me so far. Also heard my car mechanic in town was on a ventilator and then passed away in the past few days. Pretty much every restaurant in town has been closed at some point in the past couple weeks due to COVID positives. They've all been very open about it on social media, explaining the closures. The department of public safety had a free pop-up, drive-through COVID testing site at the Stowe High School last weekend due to the high numbers of positive cases locally.

Here we go. Flake size is great. It's saturating but in another 10-15 minutes we should be seeing the full extent of it. Radar looks pretty good for a solid pulse. Composite shows the best echoes west of the Spine but the fall out of precipitation lower down in the atmosphere is definitely further eastward as per usual upslope radar. Good downwind drift as you lower the scan level of radar.

18z GFS, lol. I’ll eat my hat if MVL comes anywhere close to half inch QPF in this next upslope round. 18z Euro looks more like reality with 0.25” QPF of arctic fluff.

Yeah dude, chilling up top at the picnic tables on the Octagon deck in the sunshine at like 5pm before skiing down last run is awesome. Love that late sun on the mild days on the mountain. Hoping for some fresh snow over the next 24 hours though... models have some decent squalls with the incoming upper level energy and CAA. They’ve got a few inches in the zone forecast and gusty winds. Winter is back. Tonight Snow showers likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Lows in the lower 20s. West winds 15 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70 percent. Sunday Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Total snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Blustery with highs in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 15 to 25 mph. Gusts up to 40 mph in the afternoon.