powderfreak

A few inches at 1,500ft... 1.5" down in the village. The picnic table snow cam got like 5" in 3 hours. Good burst of heavy snow this morning. Now we wait for this afternoon/evening's round.

Up at 1,500ft area there's a few inches. This is incredibly picturesque snow.

Good 4:1 ratio snow down here in the valley at 750ft. Bout to head up to work.

Nice obs for a time at MVL with +SN. METAR KMVL 211105Z AUTO 35003KT 1/4SM +SN FG VV006 01/00

Pasted white outside at home. Evergreens drooping quite a bit... very wet snow, maybe 1.5” or so? 0.40” water though... can see why the summit got a fast 5”.

Synoptically, it's not a bad sign to be just N/NW/W of the deepening mid-level lows. This map of the H5 looked to swing underneath us as it deepens. It's tilted a bit, but the H5, H7, and H85 lows swing just south/east of the Adirondacks, N.VT and N.NH. The seasonal trend of east ticks on the approach may help the higher terrain around the MVL-MPV-BML-HIE area. It does look like it deepens strongly as it proceeds east, with some big totals possible downstream in the Maritimes and up in what you Mainers call The County.

18z EURO still keeps showing a decent, moderate QPF event in a marginal cold column. I still like 4-8" at 1,500ft+ but down low it's hard to say... just for the record, I still never take these snow maps verbatim of course. I use them and alter the snow ratios to what I think is most likely.. like 6-8:1 at least on the final tally under 1,500ft. Up at the picnic tables it might be 12:1 in a cold atmosphere (that average ratio might include some 15:1 type upslope afterwards). I could see my backyard seeing 1-2" of slop on 0.5-0.75" water. But then solid advisory snowfall amounts up above 1,000-1,500ft.

GFS has the prelude snow over in Phin and Alex/Diane’s area. NAM is more over this way.

Might snow? The most interesting part of the thing is how the models agree on this narrow stripe of heavy precip early tomorrow morning. It’s on most models as a dump of 0.5” QPF in a snow sounding. This prelude before the low is very interesting. Latest HRRR...

Yeah for sure. People are bitter when they get fired. They pull that with all sorts of topics.

Oh the ski areas definitely dealt with this. I think the state was called daily with claims that ski areas weren't doing enough to enforce travel quarantines, social distancing in lift lines, mask wearing in lift lines, etc. The state sent people quite a bit to ski areas to check procedures. But yeah I don't know if I've heard of anyone claiming they were retaliated against for it. I do see where you are going with that... so you fire an employee for performance and then they try to double back on you that it was retaliation for them saying you aren't doing enough to protect them from COVID exposure? Similar to like if someone gets let go and then later claims they brought up sexual harassment concerns and were fired for it?

For sure, if all airlines go the same route then yes someone might have a problem. I'm not sure how you solve that, is it someone's right to fly? But if JetBlue makes you show a vaccine but Delta does not, you have a choice there. I think there would certainly be some big lawsuits there trying to get anti-vaccination group into a protected class that can't be discriminated against.

Ha it was in Morrisville. It might have been prepackaged but I could've sworn it wasn't. You definitely could use tongs to pick the number of chicken wings you wanted, I remember seeing that.

One of those things is not like the others. I agree the Gov't shouldn't mandate vaccine at all. Free choice. But if an airline wants to do it, you can choose to take your dollars elsewhere. Those three things are not the same.

Yeah if they want you to shop with your right hand on your head the entire time you are in a store... or wear a red shirt to fly on a plane, the business can choose to do that. And the consumer can take their dollars elsewhere too. Vote with your wallet.

I could've sworn I saw this yesterday in Hannafords up here. They have their supermarket buffet thingy's and salad bars all set up. Chicken wings, Olive bar. Etc.

Yeah I figured it was pretty personal for you as I don’t know anyone as passionate as you to discuss COVID on a daily basis. There had to be something big at stake. Sorry dude.

It’s entertainment for ratings. I just followed everyone’s advice last summer and stopped watching. Much better, ha. Some though just can’t stop... some seem to watch it just to get outraged, lol. It’s like, this makes you so miserable, why do you do it? Can’t stop watching the train wreck.

The upslope should be fluffy on the peaks. The DGZ drops like 15,000ft down to 850mb for the upslope portion. Wind looks strong though so probably inhibits accums to an extent there. I’m thinking 4-8” for the ski area. Chance more at the picnic tables?

Trying to thread a needle in the northern mountains. Drop these down with ratios but someone could get a plowable snowfall, especially 1,500ft.

Ha yeah man, that's how vacation should be.

How are you celebrating 4/20 today Phin?

It's definitely more upsetting for the adults. Kids adapt to whatever. I don't have kids (yet?) but know when around my sister's kids (and she confirms they don't care one way or another) they have a very linear way of thinking about things. If I do xyz, then I can do abc. If I wear mask, I can play with friends. If I wear bike helmet, I can ride bike. If I eat my broccoli, I can watch my favorite show. If we are good in school, teacher rewards us with playtime. From what I've seen, her kids definitely are more focused on the desired outcome than what it takes to get there. Kids are awesome that way. Anyway, EURO still tries to keep the low eastward for at least a shot of a wintry outcome in parts of NNE.

He said she was too young for him.

Ah that makes sense. Their designation changes to “restaurant” with food and not “club.” I just always assume us socialists in VT had the strictest guidance and things seem pretty normal for a while, but yeah stuff like that is different. One positive here is you can still order cocktails to go, old liquor licenses never allowed for that, ha.