powderfreak

Had a couple snow showers today after the sunny start. A stronger burst just came through dropping a quick inch on the Lookout Snow Plot. It came through as white rain down in town at 750ft. Snow level seems to be 1000-1500ft this evening but will drop fast after the FROPA. Here's last run at 4pm... I love how light it is now late in the day. Two months ago I would've needed a headlamp practically at the time of these photos on our final lap. Now I can ski till 415pm and still have enough light to walk the dog when I get home.

If there’s one thing that decides overall vibe in weather... it’s expectations. You can have a great winter if your expectations are the floor lol.

Despite the warmth, wet-bulbs must be low because this band is monster flakes. Huge aggregates.

I was pretty impressed by that BTV stat... especially given how warm the airport can run sometimes. Not hitting 40F until 2/24 seems pretty decent... especially since one good southerly flow day can pump 40F up that valley with ease even in mid-winter.

Private weather station temperatures have been holding in the low to mid-30s. The earlier snowfall still was melting during the break... this current round started whitening things up again. It's a marginal situation at 750ft.

Getting a steady light snow albeit very wet. Not sticking to anything but old snow and the evergreens are showing some white.

It’s likely doing it’s over-done rime as QPF but it’s also showing some decent precip. This time of year we often lose the complete high ratio stuff with warmer 850mb temps in some of these events... but on the flip side they can produce more QPF with higher PWATS.

Mets really going out on a limb today. Worst of winter is likely over...and thinking it may snow again on Feb 23rd.

Bennington has always been a pit... remember it well driving from ALB to the ski areas. That monument but especially out by the airport.

Modeling showing signs of a decent upslope event tomorrow night, behind that clipper system. Going to be warm with the low going north of us but that cold front behind it looks to bring some decent moisture. 3km NAM brings almost a half inch of water to MVL. Some of this is the usual NAM over doing water on the Spine but it rarely makes it to MVL. 24 hour totals. GFS GGEM

I’m outside in a hoodie walking the dog. Feels pretty nice, not going to lie.

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.