powderfreak

Good husband. I'd have my neighbor call saying something happened at the house and needs me to go solo up there for a couple days to check it out LOL.

Look at that dynamic cooling on the 18z GFS bomb. Just top down cooling at 925mb.

Early and late season is when the NNE higher elevations get their business done for sure. Mid-winter it's usually pretty even as you saw when everyone has chances for snow. It's the October/November and April/May snows that really separates the high terrain. Head down to MD in the middle of winter and then come back north for the late season bombs. The big spring snows always happen because we usually have more moisture to work with and systems seem to be slower moving. Just need to be high enough in elevation. Getting the kids in the car for this one? If you don't, then @cpickett79 will be camped out on your deck.

Nah with an average like that you'll just always get crushed... or at least "struggle" is a very relative term . NNE climo is all about wind flow, you are right though... you saw what wind direction worked better than others. As suspected, E/NE flow is your bread and butter. W/NW works too. SW through SE seemed like the events you were more mystified about. About as one would expect though, a more northerly 925mb wind component is going to be better on that north side of the Presidentials than a southerly component. Good learning experiences.

I'm just busting his balls because anyone else would just say "It was a beautiful day until like 3pm, then the clouds moved in and rain started up afterwards" but he'll leave the rain and clouds completely out of it and make it sound like he's still grillin' while the kids play in the pool. I love it, cracks me up.

Really turned into a beautiful afternoon and evening. Had some clouds this morning into midday but that stuff seems to have pushed into NE VT and N.NH. Full sunshine this afternoon/evening.

It "was" a beautiful day? Glad to see Stein is letting you get some rainfall.

Yeah I bet that seasonal total is starting to get within the "normal" bin for that spot... the standard deviation has to be fairly large given the short period of record. Late winter had it's bleak moments but the spring snows are bumping the higher elevations closer to a more normal season variance. Still on the low side but might now fall within one SD at 150" on a 180" average. Hopefully that guy isn't 80--90 years old and can still give another good couple decades of data to narrow it down, ha. Over this way the elevations have also made some progress against normal starting with the April 1st event. It doesn't look as bad as it did relative to normal on like March 27th. Guess that's why it's average annual snowfall and not Dec-Mar snowfall, . Might be able to get another snowfall still too.

I’d imagine the ratio flips more the second half of May? I honestly can think of a variety of early May snows but can’t remember a single widespread severe outbreak in the first week or two? By Memorial Day weekend sure.

Install those window units. Never too early to stare at those in the window all day.

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.