powderfreak

38F at MVL an hour ago, 37F currently. Local PWS is back down to 35F. Thickening clouds seemed to have stopped the rise and it's leveling off.

Holy crap, we spiked to 35F at 5am... back down to 32F now. Mild outside this morning.

With a final snow showers, it looks like we'll end with 2.3-2.5" here on the elevated board. The new ground cover appeared deeper but the board doesn't lie. Last inch was sparkling dendrites. Been holding pretty steady around 18" of depth for a month it seems like. This boosted it to 20" again, but it'll settle back down to 17-18" where that sleet and freezing drizzle crust is. Just seems so fresh all the time, continuously topped with feathers.

That's awesome. Love it for you guys down south. Spreading the love around this winter. Overall, it's good stuff to see such widespread snowpack... everybody snows.

The upslope band has migrated enough east that we are in it now... it was due south surface winds with due west winds above H85, but now the lower levels are starting to back to the west and the band is moving a bit east. The ski areas look to be in the bread and butter throughout. Eyeballing about 2" (?) from this event so far. Small flake low ratio stuff has gone over to sparkling, good growth snow falling in a calm environment. Can always count on a little upslope as the wind switches westerly and squeezes out moisture.

The western slope/crest upslope areas stand out for sure this winter... with a dearth of better synoptic events, it's been living on upslope snow lately. Eyeballing 2" outside up here? I'll measure when the dog goes out for her last time. Western slopes to J.Spin getting a good dose. They seem to get crushed with the heaviest composite echoes light up over BTV and just east. The upslope band is starting to propagate eastward as the 925mb flow turns from south to westerly. The ski areas are in it now... J.Spin has to be getting ripped.

Damn that’s a nice little event there! I believe the ratios. Even the light amounts up here “feel” dense... I was almost thinking it might be less than 10:1. Like SWFE snow.

Nice little finale moving through... due south winds at surface and westerly aloft has it a little blocked in the CPV.

The gait of the footprints looks like a cat... bobcat maybe?

We tend to do ok in SW flow too, usually because they seem to come with some decent wind velocities... seems to push moisture over the Spine into interior VT up in the north. Can also develop a standing wave off the Adirondacks... air goes over them, drops into the Champlain valley and then rises again over the Greens. A buddy said barely a flurry today at the BTV Waterfront and they are 10 mile vis, while it’s been under a mile vis at MVL/MPV at times the past couple hours. The other great orographic spot is the southern Adirondacks, just north of the Mohawk Valley and I-90. They get some good precip out of these.

It is upslope though in a way. This one definitely has some terrain influences.

Those graphics give me all the feels for some reason, ha. What a nostalgic hit that is. Steady light snow and about an inch here. Flake size is small, I bet we are going to be near 10:1 ratios which seems right given only 0.15” QPF on most models. 1-2” type deal here.

Mountain weather is crazy like that... little nuances. The wind could shift slightly or the veering in the atmosphere changes ever so slightly and all the sudden it's snowing or not snowing if it was. I love the little micro-scale stuff, I even find it oddly cool if we get downsloped in one part of town but not another... or vice versa. That stuff can be so localized.

Looks like about an inch here at 1500ft. Steady light snow. I did notice on your cam what looked like a bit of a downslope break in the low clouds on the southerly flow. Been looking like it’s snowing in the view all afternoon on left and right sides. I bet you’ll snow once the flow changes a bit.

Ha, that's why I'm very rarely disappointed up here. Growing up in ALB sets the bar at 60" a winter being more than acceptable. My guess on that radar image is that the stuff is actually landing downstream of the echoes... we see that here a lot. It looks like it's over DDH but I bet its actually hitting the surface by your area on the SW winds. Radar sampling those echoes in the cloud or something.

HRRR really nice looking for Gene over to Dryslot. Also down by Backedge.

Really nice snow at times. Great snow growth upsloping on SW flow.

1F currently. Nothing unusual but will be below zero tonight.

Binghamton, NY has had more snow than here... 90+ inches? Even with half of it coming in one storm, it's been a healthy winter relative to normal for that axis from PA through southern tier of NY, into NJ/NYC and adjacent CT. Stoked for the forum, has felt like most (or all) have had snowpack on the ground... hard to complain up here with solid snowpack for lengthy periods of time and lack of rainers. Even though the mountain has been solidly below normal, the cold stretches and refreshes are masking the stats. No complaints. Lower elevations have been much closer to normal around these parts, compared to upper mountain slopes.

Today was the first day I noticed the solar gain. Even at temps solidly below freezing (max of 26F, dew of 5F), snowpacked pavement was getting torched and melting. Fist time of the season seeing melting on pavement in sunshine while the snowpack itself stays cold/dry.

We 100% snow covered in New England, straight to the beaches? Good stuff if so.

The Northern crew has long hated blocking... but then Will usually chimes in with a never ending list of big snowstorms during blocking or -NAO winters.

But this whole debate is why we almost always photograph it for evidence. We had 4" overnight at High Road Snow Plot. Some people are telling me they think it's 7" and it is deeper in some areas... less in others. But it's a consistent point on the mountain each time. 8" in 36 hours.

At Stowe it was always the same... and operations is in charge of the snow reporting. For a while I was a marketing employee with an office in Mtn Operations, ha. I truly don't think anyone at this point blatantly tries to mislead anyone. But measuring snow isn't an exact science either, especially when you can find varying amounts from 2" to 10" at any given time. I mean just take yesterday at Jay Peak. My buddy found 5" where he was, J.Spin found a foot of new snow. Both were actually true.

Grooming reporting about 5" overnight at the Cliff House. Around 3" landed at Mtn Ops. Total fluff, like J.Spin's 50:1 ratio.