powderfreak

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.

Ha! Oh then I get it. Why the hell is it titled Gorham then? I just figured the plot fell within the geographic boundaries of the "town".

Ha well is it technically in the town lines? Mount Mansfield will show as a Stowe, VT site.

Daylight hours I’m at the ski area based at 1500ft... dark hours I’m down in town at 750ft.

Yeah they got crushed. It’s switching to up north now. I still can’t believe how hard it’s snowing here at Stowe. I hear town got hit fast this morning with a quick several inches in two hours.

Some big totals out there. Two 19” reports from Warren in the Mad River Valley.

They are just going to call it Gorham now to piss off Phin, lol. I’m surprised that station at Hermit Lake didn’t have more given the QPF.

It is snowing so obscenely hard right now here on the County Line at 1500ft. Has to be over 2"/hr. High Road Plot had 8" cleared yesterday and then another 6" by 9am this morning for storm total 14" and rising fast. This is like being in a deform band.

Man, Rochester VT observer just north of Killington on RT 100.... another 16.5" with a depth of 22". The mountains got a great shot out of this one.

Up to 14" at the mountain. Still dumping. Best three powder runs of the season this morning for me.

Crazy how it's stacked on the east side now. It is just hammering in town and RT 100 from Stowe to Waterbury.

Yeah tilt 4 on radarscope does the best for me... beam still is blocked by a few peak tops (like Mansfield) but by and far it shows the best of what's going on IMO. On Wunderground the 2.45 degree scan is my favorite as the lowest that doesn't hit the peaks. J.Spin probably 1"/hr just above the "W" in Waterbury. I hear I-89 through the Spine is near whiteout.

Just nuke town. Roads are a mess. Everything plastered in town. Drier up at the hill.

That's great for the local mountains there... probably enough for you to skin up the neighborhood hills? That's a "game changer" for injecting a shot of frozen water into the snowpack.

HRRR keys more into the terrain though. Mansfield to Jay Peak stretch should do quite well as ratios increase. Ends with -12C 850mb temps which should promote some decent snow growth.