powderfreak

Change from 12z to 18z EURO.

Last year March 1-17 your neighbor recorded only 5.8" of snowfall. This year he's got 9.4"... so you are running close to twice as snowy as last March, lol. I guess maybe that's why these stretches don't seem all that uncommon to some of us. Maybe the length of it this year is longer than normal but it's been off-set by the retention in snowpack. We do go through some very snowless periods at times.

Ha yeah. This was the time of year the sh*t had just hit the fan like within 72 hours of now. Over this way we've had more snow to date this March than last March, which is hard to imagine but we do go through some really dry Feb/Mar spring patterns at times. I remember 2005 or 2006 (maybe both of them) were like back to back very lean and dry second half of winters. Like record low snowfall on back to back years in the spring.

I don't think there were any lifts running last year on St Paddy's day... I don't remember much except being shut down, ha. It started snowing again in April and May though. I don't think much happened last March for snowfall IIRC. I just checked CoCoRAHS and most sites appear to have had less snow on the ground last year on this date than this year.

Yup, full on party on the slopes. Love it. At one point I got passed by two banana's that were being chased by a gorilla. People all dressed in costumes and beads. Leprechauns. The annual dying of the Waterfall under the Gondola to make it green. Fun stuff.

11F this morning and 54F with like 25% RH this afternoon? Sign me up for a month of this. Can go spring skiing all day and still get home with hours of daylight left? This is by far the best time of year. We’ll be melting out in town in the not too distant future with all this sunshine coming up. Then it’s time for skiing followed by biking.

What a day. Man I love this weather... thinking we got some sun burns today too... but St Paddy’s day and spring skiing is just an awesome combo. Such an amazing vibe out on the hill. We live for these days. Can’t wait to do this for another week straight at least. High diurnal changes and beautiful weather is a fantastic combo. 54F off a low of 11F to fulfill my fetish for 40+ diurnal swings and RH under 30%. Like living in a CO ski town.

3km NAM SNW QPF 10:1

We are all weenies. I also deserve the tag on those random upslope evenings watching flakes fly and coat the ground. Enjoy the snow.

Virginia, Maryland and adjacent areas see a parting winter shot? Hopefully those guys get some white, love anomalous stuff.

Our last accumulating snow in the valley was May 11th last year... pretty decent surprise. I was hiking with the dog in shorts that morning as we had a high in the 50s with 850s around +3C and sunshine... then by late afternoon a mini-CCB had developed and dynamically cooled the entire column to 0C in pounding wet snow. Not bad for the time of max diurnal heat on May 11th after 55F degrees in the morning. Up at 1,500ft got a healthy 4”.

Not bad.

Just saw the Euro... that’s a sweet little event for most of you in SNE. Looks like a pretty widespread area of 0.30-0.60” water after 925mb temps are solidly below 0C.

Yeah they are also at the latitude of like Maryland too... they have everything going against them for snow preservation from the sun. Can get some serious sunburn in CO in March.

Depends, north of the Whites probably skews much harder into nickel and dime but Phin does synoptic well. Alex, Pittsburgh, CT Lakes etc is very heavily mesoscale climate oriented. I guess years of JSpin explaining stuff makes me wonder about things like Phin sees 40” and 4” QPF like his neighbor since Feb 1st... is the experience different if it’s four distinct 1.0” QPF for 10” of snow type trackable storms... rather than small amounts every single day that add up to that same total.

I mean it does happen, but as JSpin pointed out he still had like 40” in the past 6 weeks and likely had numerous 2”+ events just not falling within the 24 hour Cocorahs time scale. Maybe it feels different but that is a large part of NNE Mtn climo... tons and tons of light events that add up to many inches. The last event was like 8” up there I think.

Found these shots from yesterday pretty crazy in Colorado titled "The power of the spring sun"... 7 hours difference at a car dealership where the sun just torched the snow off the cars.

lol love that "the drought horn"... seems to be an annual event for some to be extremely concerned about next to nothing when it doesn't rain 1" QPF every 4 days all warm season.

Yeah, loving the look of the 12z EURO from day 5-10. No precipitation and high pressure with warming 850s. The corn horn (warming granular snow) starts sounding on the slopes when it's 40-50F by day and 20F at night. The diurnal range would likely be higher than that, as a dry air mass high pressure this time of year can lead to big 12-hour changes in temps.

Have we moved to the BDL verification system? Need to start looking at temps through the lens of BDL and not ORH.

Nothing like 10F in the valley at 2pm in mid-March. Widespread single digits and teens under full sunshine, lol. Good riddance to this stuff.

Hard pass on a skiing today. It is incredible blowing and drifting in the base area. Several foot thick hard slabs you can walk on.

Ha, I think that's probably it. I get that vibe that Coastalwx brought up but I think it must be from the posts. I mean, how can someone be upset with that type of snowfall, even if it's just 3" in two days for a while ha. You can see why J.Spin always points out the neighbor's numbers up the hill from you, it's that steady trickle of snow that adds up over time that is a strong part of the mountain climo. I like to post photos from time to time, so people get a feel for the new snowfall on the board, it lowers questioning, ha.

Just a wintry afternoon of snow squalls and single digits snow squalls.

Just getting crushed all along that urban corridor and front range hills. Just ripping at 1/8 mile vis at a few stations there. METAR KBJC 142047Z 33021G28KT 1/8SM +SN