powderfreak

Cold. Wind. Snow. Another day of recreating at the neighborhood playground.

It really is crazy how warm it’s been for so long... but yet also below freezing most of the time. Today felt brutal on the chairlift getting blasted by wind at 1F. But this would’ve been a warm day some months (ahem Feb 2015), ha. Honestly today should be a few times per week occurrence at this point, not a note-worthy cold shot.

A good sign of a cold air mass is when the ASOS just reports haze... that arctic air with crystals perpetually in the air, sometimes it’s snowing, often it’s just really small crystals blown around in the wind. All day today at the mountain was somewhere between that fine line of light snow and just arctic haze.

Damn there was a skier buried in one yesterday but his head was just close enough to the top that he could get air. Rest of body was two feet down in rubble. He survived. Sucks extra hard when a rescuer dies.

Haha yeah, what a period it’s been for the mountains. Winter-changing vibe since that elevation paste started last Friday night. The one thing I have noticed with CoCoRAHS on the maps is if a spot is missing data for a day, it won’t display it at all in those “ranges” map settings. Sort of an annoying quirk but if someone doesn’t enter a 0” for days with no snowfall/precip (some sites just seem to not report anything if nothing happens), then it won’t include that site. Like it needs to see a value every day regardless. That’s not happening in this example but I’ve found sites disappear and then you go back and find more sites manually... they just don’t display if they have any missing data at all.

Oh yeah I just went to the start of that big storm. Friday to this morning. It started down south a little earlier. No biggie, doesn’t matter in the end, ha.

Haha it’s the new Cocorahs weenie app download where it throws out values higher than your neighborhood site. One of them is in Central VT just north of Killington and the other is in Mitch’s hood.

I see a 30.6” for Stamford, VT and 32.3” for Rochester, VT too. Then drops to a bunch of mid-20s. Been a pretty good cycle for Adirondacks, Greens and up to the northern side of the Whites. Can see the axis for sure.

Another 3-4” up here last night at the ski area. This is getting nuts. Now for the Arctic hounds... very strong 30-45mph NW gusts ripping through the Notch. Temps down to 7F at 1500ft and -1F top of Quad. So much snow everywhere.

Ha, and a look outside shows it's snowing pretty decently again. Moisture stacked up along the Spine.

Absolutely love orographic and meso-scale snow. That radar is awesome. Just ripping snow out of the sky and the only reason is because there's some rock wall in place. Every winter lover enjoys when there's a way to snow without a synoptic storm. Adds snowy days to the calendar that otherwise wouldn't be there.

Some excellent skiing conditions out there. Trench town.

Ha, sounds like Morrisville. Rollin' coal up and down the streets... trucks racing snowmobiles.

Damn dude.

Great look for @backedgeapproaching and Mitch with moisture streaming into SVT upslope spots.

Made me think of this I saw last night... someone posted it from Tres Amigos, which I can see from my place. Mushroom land out there from the heavy wet snow followed by days of windless 3-4" fluffers.

The skiing is unreal right now.

What a week. Couldn't believe I had just about the same exact snowfall at home today as the mountain. Got home to 3.5-3.75" of new snow.... snow depth up to 16" in the backyard. The ski area is absolutely buried though. Looks so amazing up there right now. 1,500ft is just positively buried... I'll get a snow depth tomorrow at the base area but it has to be mid-20s at the least. Town looks like a Candy Land Forest... snow stacked high on all objects. All this snow has fallen with zero wind, even the power lines are sporting solid coats.

4” on the car leaving work.

Just checked the High Road Snow Plot again, two-day total of ~12" at 3,000ft. More fantastic skiing.

Pretty snowy day. Even MVL hasn’t gone above 2 mile visibility since 9am out in the valley.

I mean we just got 2" of absolute dust on probably 0.04" of water, ha. This has to be 40:1 or even a bit higher.

I bet we are pushing 2" already. These are some of the largest fluffy flakes you'll ever find. They are like the size of half-dollars and it's really cold. Can see Mansfield blocking the beam to the NE.

It is just absolutely dumping. A very quick inch in the base area. Snow growth is phenomenal again.

Oh look, it’s snowing again. Days and days.