powderfreak
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Agreed. Hate models on phone despite using it most of the time. At home though it’s usually 17-inch laptop monitor sitting on my lap on the couch, ha.
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Yeah, next two months of the 6 months of possible winter. Definitely longer up here, we usually have 6 full months of possible snow events.
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At the end of the season?! It’s Feb 17th not Napril.
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AWT. I figured around a foot when you posted that yesterday. 10” at worst left. Pretty embarrassing for those thinking a Xmas torch was event remotely possible, much less even mentioning it. Not even a blip for you. The loss was way out-gained by the SWE addition.
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No the QPF was spot on it seems. The snowfall was definitely a bust in terms of inches, but in the end it doesn’t really matter if the QPF expected was realized. Just a lot of sleet and granular flakes, topped with drizzle/freezing drizzle most of the afternoon. Back over to a heavy snow squall at the mountain.
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3.5” of dense white material on 0.64” water at 750ft. Really nice SWE addition to the pack. 4.25” on the board at 3,000ft. As expected with warm air aloft, not much change, if any, with elevation.
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Melted down 0.64” water. So like 5-6:1 ratio at home.
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Well that was a bust. 4” at 3,000ft... 3.5” at 750ft. But the QPF was significant so it looks like more in the snowbanks and piles, lol.
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Looking good for sure. We’d do much better than the 10:1 maps while SNE gets ripped with denser snow. Large coastal plain swath.
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So this won’t be like the Ginch storm with dews of 55-60F all the way to Canada? Someone seemed very worried about that the past day or two.
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Yeah definitely the most fun events on the forum for sure are when everyone is getting snow.
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This would be a nice area wide hit for sure. Snowfall for this event only.
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Yeah for sure. Any liquid is bad. Sleet is no big deal and skis nicely. Groomed runs after sleet are about as good as they get. But again, as long as no liquid water got into it.
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My guess is he has 10” left. Maybe even 12” if it’s solid now.
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Skiing in sleet can be painful but everyone has face masks, ha. Skiing on sleet is wonderful. It’s so smooth. Freezing rain though and the situation changes quickly.
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Sleet is a great surface. Smooth and dense. The freezing rain is when it changes drastically. I personally love 6” of snow and sleet for skiing. It can ski really smooth and easily mask any previous surface.
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It won’t be flattened. It’ll be a net gain in depth.
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Yeah doesn’t matter, mountain summit or lowest valley... that warmth is way up there. Only way to stay snow is just to fight it off aloft. It’s like I tell folks we’ll mix to sleet and get... “maybe the mountain will stay snow because it seems to be a snowy place.” Maybe it will but not for that reason, ha.
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Yeah I think everyone turns pretty much at similar times as it’s marginal up at 700-800mb. Local topography differences don’t seem to matter as much in these. Doesnt matter though, still a nice winter event. Don’t have to talk me into 6” of snow/sleet. That stuff skis so well... smooth and dense. You push a turn, it pushes back.
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Oh we definitely ping, hoping to grab a dense 6” or so outta this. We walk the line.
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It is absolutely bonkers. I just keep looking at weather in Texas. Can't stop.
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Yeah that has the gradient a little further north splitting New England into civil war. But there's no shortage of shortwaves moving through every like 72 hours for like two weeks straight, lol.
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Models show the parade going for two weeks. Widespread 2.5-3.50" water equivalent as 10:1 snow on some of these runs. Chances are certainly there.
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00z HRRR... big jump but have some wiggle room up here.
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Models make incremental changes. Apparently humans don't believe in those and would rather just make one big jump after 24-36 hours of trends (that haven't stopped yet).
