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The liquid still boggles my mind... sure ratios were part of it but that band laid down a swath of 2-3” QPF at temps in the teens. I’ve seen a lot of folks online just pin it on ratios but that band was extremely efficient at ripping moisture from the sky. Both BGM and ALB cleared 2” water in like 12 hours in a snowstorm. And those ASOS water numbers are insane. ALB was even slightly SE of the band and ripped 0.93” water in 3 hours. BGM’s 1.11” in 3 hours has to be one of the more incredible liquid numbers in a fronto band on the cold side of a nor’easter. That’s just choking snowfall. Models printing that QPF get tossed on here prior to a storm because it’s just hard to fathom.

Yeah it crushed it. Love the GGEM, always keeps the dreams alive. It was by far the most correct here.

But it's the GGEM. We all shovel a lot of GGEM snow.

Yeah snow likes to find 10:1 over time, but that has to be one of the more impressive positive busts of all time within that band. Put that in the scrolls. Modern models can still royally f*ck up at like 12 hours lead time.

I'm still in awe. Hopefully folks realize just how rare this is. That was a very high end event.

I'd imagine he saw at least 1.80" water... just incredible amounts of QPF given the model runs yesterday.

3.5” here which is 3.5” more than expected, ha. North shift clipped us. Nothing at all in the northern part of the county.

Can anyone think of another storm that had such a long axis of 40"+ reports to the NWS? PA/NY/VT/NH on the list. This isn't like one weenie got excited somewhere or some isolated report. That's a legit axis of 40+ in a coastal storm.

Congrats Dendrite.

Ha I was just thinking it looks like a Sierra storm. You don’t see chairlifts not run due to too much snow in the East that often.

Yeah I get it. I just like to stand up for the Ops teams when I see it. The operations guys at all of the mountains are essentially exactly the same before and after company changes. We all just have passion for snow and running ski areas. The other stuff you mention is more company level for sure.

More Okemo area band photos.

To be fair, I chatted with some colleagues in Operations down there and they could only get 1 lift running today due to the intensity of the snowfall. Chairs were getting stuck elsewhere around bullwheels and it sounded like a complete cluster. I mean it snowed 40+ inches in like 10 hours. I don’t think we would’ve been any better at Stowe, that’s just a crippling snowfall, ski area or not. Especially when most of your employees can’t get there because it’s snowing 8” an hour at 6-8am.

The fact that multiple states exceeded 36” is pretty wild... PA/NY/VT/NH (not sure what max in ME was). With numerous 40”+ amounts legitimately reported is crazy. Not slant sticking but 40” on the ground with photos. Cant wait for the write ups on this one by the NWS offices.

More than my season total in like 10 hours and all on the ground at once lol.

Holy shit. I thought it was done but you got 8.7” in two hours, ha!

3” up here. Those are the 7am Cocorahs numbers. At least got the grass covered again lol.

Where’s the band? Lol. These aren’t final in spots either.

Good grief.

Me too. Dumbfounded. Just incredible forcing. The other thing is it was an incredible model bust or forecast bust. The Euro had a place like Ludlow getting 3-6” yesterday I think.

I think there are going to be some good case studies on that mesoband at some point. It had QPF and crosshairs in the DGZ. I bet they still had 2”+ water in a narrow zone in that band. Its fluffy but there’s still water in it based on the reports. Like BGM’s 42” had 2.80” water. Good fluff factor but 2.80” QPF in 24 hours at temps in the teens is nothing to scoff at.

Yeah I mean those rates are the only way to get like 41” of depth in 11 hours. They had bare ground at midnight. At some point it had to be like a foot an hour. Im blown away, I’ve never seen anything like that. 12am... bare ground 11am... 41” depth.

Back to that Ski Patroller at Okemo... she’s posted some great stuff on FB this morning. If her time stamps are correct (no reason not to believe it), they were getting 8” per hour rates. Actually, they were getting 6” SNOW DEPTH increase in 45 minutes... at those snow depths, there has to be settling. I wonder if this was measured on a cleared area if it was actually 8” in 45 min or even more? I mean this is some of the highest documented rates I’ve seen. But to have snow depth increase 6” in 45 minutes is a 8” per hour rate. I wonder if they had rates of 10”/hour on a cleared surface?

I think Binghamton and the Okemo/Ludlow area are the ground zeros. Lots of people on social media with legit 40” or more OTG... that’s not total, that’s on the ground! This woman on Okemo Ski Patrol said they are 1600ft and have a legit 41” of Depth. Says it’s almost chest deep on her in the driveway. They were bare ground yesterday.

That is absolutely sick! No clearing or anything and 40”. Holy shit.