powderfreak

Yeah it’s likely recency bias… at least in town as I’m thinking past decade to 15 years tops. For the base of the ski resort I’d give it at least 1-2 weeks earlier. But looking at BTV’s 120 year data the average first trace (which includes graupel, etc) is 10/15 and first 1” is 11/17 and first 3” is 12/3. And we are probably 1-2 weeks ahead of them. So maybe this is about the average time of the first inch instead of first measurable? I just find the first trace to be dubious sometimes… hail, graupel, etc.

I bet the first week of November down in town is about right to be honest… or at least not outside 1 SD of normal. I feel like less than half Octobers have whitening accumulations, but I’m sure JSpin has data for down low. But I’m not talking a tenth from an intense graupel shower core that’s gone 20 minutes after it falls in mid-October.

On the board in town. Taking the 0.1” ha.

We are flipping over here in town in the valley. For all purposes it’s a white rain but it is just dumping precipitation. Feels like 2F away from a true paste bomb. Bet the hill is getting smoked at 1500+.

Second accums at the base. We had about an inch of slop on Saturday AM. No accumulation to date at home, 750 feet lower.

Yeah those 1500ft+ spots should clean up. Even 1,000ft out that way.

We snow.

Wet snow falling at 1,500ft outside my window.

Solid sunset.

Your cold fronts after a cutter will be great? lol

Whats the scale on that product? Or is it as simple as the color coding is p-type?

6” at the summit stake for depth. It looks a lot nicer than it really is (2-6” of dense snow). But in early November the look works.

November.

Yeah the only places above freezing here are those 1,000-1,300ft elevations before it goes back below as you go higher. All three spots at 35F are on the lower slopes of the Worcester Range. Might be just the right wind flow mixing them out. I love all the small nuances.

27F here at 750ft. 35F at 1,100ft. We mount up.

What’s the real return rate on an intense derecho across SNE over the past 50 years though? Same with hurricane hits.

We had a high of 44F yesterday and start +2 lol.

Love this, the guy with the bike. That's the most Bolton Valley thing ever.

Getting some flurries at home. First flakes. Had some graupel this afternoon but these are actual snowflakes.

That photo is 1,300ft or so. I noticed the snow line on Mansfield’s east side seemed lower than it was through the Winooski Valley and west slopes. Robbins Mountain is 2,000ft and saw no traces of snow visible. Stowe had snow down below the 1500ft base area. Also went to Costco too… .

The densest 3-7” ever. Has to be like 5:1 ratios. Feels like sand. So tightly packed together.

Ended with 5” at 3,200ft cam. Looked more like 7” up at 3,700ft or ground based.

I always find snow lines interesting… like it was just cold enough 50 feet up the field to stick.

Lake Placid Village at the Olympic Complex is snowy.

A different world from CT. A completely different world being at that elevation, but in a valley surrounded by big terrain too. Elevational snows and radiational cold mins combined.