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At 3,000ft we measured only 36” in February, which is kind of wild. It didn’t rain either, just didn’t do much of anything. Should be 70-75” on average. We’ve gone really dry since sometime in January… but snowpack has remained healthy due to the strong early season base. Snowfall was pacing way above normal by like early to mid January and has now fallen back to a normal pace for the high elevations.

Weir is a fun guy to ski with, and he loves snow. It’s those shared passions that unite us all regardless.

Hit 45F and sunny up here.

Pretty nice cold drain down the Champlain Valley… low level sub-freezing air oozing south. BTV now 28/17 with 15mph NNW wind. Its 34F Mansfield Summit, 40F base area and 41F MVL.

Guess it’s the same down in SNE between ORH and everyone else around there. Dripping off rooftops at ORH but locked up tight elsewhere.

Talk about an inversion and fake cold preserving snowpack down low… 3,600ft… 29F 2,600ft… 36F 1,550ft… 39F (Ops building) 750ft… 21F (MVL and local PWS)

What a day. 2” (2.25”) new and then 40 degrees.

Nice morning.

Yeah that’s what I would expect. I don’t remember anyone saying a week of 70s.

That’s really the question… I mean, even if it fails at 60s or 70s… it’s still pretty mild at 50s. It’s not like it’s going to be 38F instead of 65F.

We are currently tied with the blizzard… 0 flakes.

I found those sharp gradients interesting too… like the model couldn’t figure out if it’s fully mixing or not from one location to the next. Figured snowpack was impacting those 2-m outputs.

That SW flow downslope off the Adirondacks can really torch that pocket this time of year.

Hit 47 diurnal range today… 39/-8 but clouds now should slow it. Doubt we get the rare 50 degree swing.

12z EURO showing some nape tanning next week… Monday… Tuesday… Wednesday…

Yeah added moisture, ha. Sitting at 21” depth here of stein.

37F now off a -8F min, lol. Low standards or not, this sun and temp feels intoxicating after the obnoxious Arctic shot. Wandering around town nude, ha. They did not cancel school up here.

Absolutely beautiful outside right now. Feels like t-shirt weather after the past 48 hours. -8F this AM and now 32F. We’ve recovered 40 degrees before noon.

Great shot. The past two days have been a bit too cold. Borderline obnoxious cold after the 40 degree sunshine on Saturday. Winter isn't over, it'll continue to be wintry at times, but the length of daylight increasing rapidly makes it seem like we will be more prone to mild interludes compared to the past few months. The temperature curve is starting to go up again, after a multi-stretch month of seemingly colder weather in the means. It's 0F outside right now. But you know these arctic cold shots are waning each week we move forward in the sun angle curve.

Going below zero again. The indoors heating demand this winter has been hefty.

-13F so far.

This current arctic outbreak is obnoxious after yesterday’s warmth. 5/-10 at 930pm. -6F already at SLK, ha.

Yeah and those fields will be warmest too in summer… vs a neighborhood with dense vegetation and evapotranspiration. Trades dew points for temperature essentially under the foliage canopy.

Yeah I’m always curious on this stuff, I’m not trying to be combative lol. Just trying to walk my mind through it… which I did amend to I could see like low-60s with full mixing up through 850mb. Like Tolland at 1kft at 54-55F, and BDL 60-62F. I balked at the 70+ but the point is yes, it would be warmer without the snowpack… no argument there.

BDL hit 48-49F? I guess we’ll agree to disagree based on 925mb and 850mb temps. Maybe low-60s with fully mixed boundary layer at max heating for BDL, I’ll give you that.