powderfreak

Trust the east flow. 850mb streamlines look great for that area to maximize whatever comes. Even the RGEM that ticked a little SE, this prolonged wind flow can’t be denied in that area of NNH.

Yeah for sure but this is absolutely incredible melt this spring. That’s still a worse season but this is nuts. 2018-19 had 100+ more inches on the ground right now. That’s also a wild variation. This April is sort of like December 2015 in terms of “well, never thought I’d see that” type aspects.

lol this dude is traumatized.

Sugarloaf has bar none the best snow preservation in New England... just so far up there. Best April mountain there is. We are really struggling at Stowe too. I've never seen this before for sure. 13" at the Stake (record low since 1954) and RT 108 through the Notch is open... never had the road open while the Quad is still spinning in the spring. The men and women on the grooming team are putting a band aid on each night and they are the true heroes... it's crazy what those tractors can do farming snow each night.

Go Red Sox. They are clicking right now with 7th straight win. Devers and JD... home runs every game it seems. “Red Sox had 16 hard hit balls on Saturday, 17 on Sunday, day off yesterday, and 18 today. Mashing baseballs.” -Sox Stats

You didn’t expect any snow it seemed from your posts? East trends in New England are common, but this one has the appeal of a north and east outcome up the coast. As a zone that over-performs.

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.