powderfreak

Love character building expeditions sometimes though. Even hiking in the summer during sh*t weather. Always feels like a day not wasted. Good report. That's a sweet looking trail. Good for the base is right, hopefully you can get some fluff this week too. One thing that always sticks out to me is just how dense the woods seem in NH. It's like a wall of trees lining a corridor. I still don't have any good reason except elevation/climate but the Adirondacks and Whites just seem to have much denser forests. Maybe soil differences? Amount of species diversity? Or maybe it's just all in my head. Definitely a difference between hardwoods and softwood forests though too....'Dacks and Whites seem to be covered by very hardy softwood forests, which seem to be denser on the whole.

Snowing again outside. Very little on radar but this stuff is pure dust. I do think it’s time for the currier and ives pattern... this is from BTV where lift is weak (won’t be as strong as along the mountains) but nice DGZ cutting right through a few rounds of lift. Tuesday night and Wednesday, then again on Thursday afternoon. This is the look that keeps the snow globe going.

Ha yeah I mean I see plenty of friends do it ice-fishing... or even just partying with a fire on Lake Elmore. It’s just one of those funny things... “so you want to have a bonfire on the frozen lake, huh?” First time you hear it, it’s like go figure.

I know people do it all the time ice fishing but it always cracks me up to see a bonfire going on a frozen pond/lake. Seems counter-intuitive.

Yeah hard to say but those Woodford observers have been around forever. They were there when I was a kid, they report to the WeatherNet 6 (CBS news out of Albany)... I always remember their location as 2,400ft TOP OF HILL (always in caps lock, ha). Definitely might be weenie-ish but they’ve been around for decades reporting snow up there. The only reason I get skeptical is the fact that it was an even two feet. I’d rather see like 23” or 23.5” ..something that doesn’t sound like it was mailed in (there looks like two feet out there!). Either way, growing up skiing at Mt Snow I often felt like that high part of RT 9 there in Woodford had deeper snowpack than the actual ski area lol.

The elevation gradient was pretty substantial. I saw this photo from 1175 feet on Blush Hill in Waterbury, VT... said almost 15” total. Around here like 1,000-1,200ft was the magic line between solid storm and like wow it dumped. But the water added to the snowpack was the same since it never seemed to pour rain....just was extremely sloppy snow for a long time, ha.

Yeah I think the warmth has been impressive. Though most snow lovers don’t notice it unless it’s melting snow, so mild mins or mediocre daytime warmth just doesn’t translate in that sense. For snowmaking though where single digits and teens are ideal...more so than a month of 20-32F... it’s very noticeable. Average morning temps should be near zero in the NNE rad valleys. A morning of like 15F feels cold right now.

Ha I’m only joking. Yeah I didn’t update the text (only do afternoon text if it’s a big event, just let Andre do his morning thing tomorrow) but added another inch for the after 6am snow triggering a new time stamp. That storm has changed the season in a way, finally off the snowmaking routes and not everything needs to be a groomer.

Hey now, don't sell us short! 19" after last night's/this morning's snow.

Oh for sure and plow piles. Roof-tops like discussed. I do think it's a lot less visible though than growing up in suburbia and urban areas... where there are snowbanks everywhere and more general "snow clean up." Here it's like they just plow the snow further into a field or lawn... but when you don't have that, you start to really see the piles grow in urban/suburban areas. I just always felt like you "see" 30 inches of snow more visibly in terms of impact back where I grew up. It's also a joke my wife has with me. When I'm like "hey seems like we probably got 7 inches last night" the answer is usually "it all looks white to me, I have no idea how you can tell."

I noticed it on the models yesterday... there was a pretty good push of H85 and 925mb cold that gets hung up across the northern third for a bit today before another surge tries to drop it south a bit. It finally feels "cold" ish today. 20F at 1,500ft and 23F at MVL.

Yeah that's what I think of as far as looking at NNE fields and woods. Once the corn stalks are covered in the fields, it's all the same. The field behind my place looks the same at 8" as it does at 30" lol. It's just white. Of course your brain knows the difference but if you take a photo of one, and then a photo of the other, it's just a snow covered flat expanse ha.

That’s what it should look like! 2010 in Maryland all the time, ha.

Finally looking like it should around these parts. Don’t get too close to the edge of the road.

A buddy is reporting a quick 4” in Burlington this morning, ha. Looks like NWS is on it. We had another 1” overnight in Stowe Village. NEAR TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/... As of 542 AM EST Monday...Forecast is playing out nicely but had to make some adjustments upward on morning snow totals as snowfall rates of 1-2"/hr were observed locally here at BTV for couple of hours as the flow became highly blocked. Locally across western portions of Chittenden county you`ll likely find a solid 3" of snowfall as the sun rises, and probably a few spots closer to 4". Issued a special weather statement earlier to highlight a slippery morning commute.

What a weenie 00z GFS run for this week at the ski areas. It snows almost daily, bringing another 1” QPF to the mountains over about 4 events in 7 days... at cold temperatures. 850mb temps are in the sweet spot for fluffy orographic snows, probably the one time the Kuchie maps should be closer to reality.

Yeah this was a great QPF dump. Even with only 12” on the ground here in the valley, it still has like water in the bottom of the boot prints, ha. I think our ratio yesterday was 2-3:1. You’re right, once it locks up tight it’s going to be a brick of moisture. Will take a lot of energy to melt this storm, so provided no Grinch part II, we should be good with snowpack for the winter finally. Time for currier and Ives for 6-weeks.

Woodford is up at 2400ft on the crest. That’s a very snowy area, wouldn’t surprise me. They historically do best in upslope in SVT, and get crushed on easterly flow too... the benefits of upsloping from both sides. There are a good bit of 16-26” type stuff coming out of the higher ground in the Greens. Not sure if it makes it into the PNS but some good stuff. Even this morning before more snowfall today, above 1,300ft got destroyed in C.VT. But look at that elevation gradient .

Yeah that area looked to have a legit 25” or so. Photos from my friend’s parents there were plastered. I think that area got in on the Lake Ontario connection for a bit on westerly flow, following like 2” of water as heavy wet snow. That zone in south/central VT has had two huge storms now.

17” on Mansfield and at least 1.50” water, if not more. It was real thick, even the upslope wasn’t pure pow. Temps stayed warm, even today was like 30F at 1500ft. Its been snowing lightly all evening so the mountain may make a run at 20”. The snow depth finally hit 30”, with a gain of 16” so far from this storm. This was a game changer with very minimal settling and all meat. Very thick. Now we can add some fluff to it since there’s a decent base. Its still snowing lightly outside at home. Melted the stratus this evening and had 1.38” water on 9” snowfall. A very dense 12” of depth on ground at 750ft. Looks like winter.

17” as of 4pm today about 2/3rds of the way up the mountain. 6 hours later at 10:30pm it’s still snowing lightly on Mansfield and here in town there’s been another half inch or so this evening. Might be a couple extra inches by morning up on the hill since 4pm but radar looks to finally be dying off.

Picked up another 6” at home today, still was fairly wet snow with temps near freezing. Town looks awesome with this on the trees and power lines. Storm total of 9” at 750ft and roughly 1.50” water. Mountain total was 17” through 4pm. Still snowing lightly around here.

Paste job in the Notch.

A buddy’s parents have a shot of what looks like an honest 25” at their house at 2,000ft at Pico/Killington area.

Great skiing.