powderfreak

Still 4.5” in the yard. Snow stopped shortly after my last post aside from some lighter flurries as the band went south. Overall though so nice waking up to a winter wonderland again. I see a CoCoRAHS of 5.0" in Danville, VT and 5.5" in Woodbury almost due east of here and then 4-5" over in the Adirondacks on the same axis that runs right through this area.

Early January 2008 was also very impressive for a thaw. Record December 2007 snow in parts of New England was just torched down in 2-3 days of warmth. Of course it kept snowing after that and led to record depths in places afterwards.

What a fun evening. Snowing steadily. 4.2" on the board... 4-5" snow depth. The grass bottom likely adding a half inch or so, but by this time of year the grass is packed down flat and not fluffing it up as much as it would be in October/November, so "depth" is closer to the "new snow" than earlier in the season. Good ratios, I'd guess 20:1. Not pure cotton candy at 30-40:1 but also not 10:1 dense.

The band is shifting south, JSpin about to get smoked. I might be near 4” now, will go out and measure soon.

I mean, those are the two metrics that matter to most snow lovers. Total inches that fall from the sky in a given period, and number of days they don't have to look at grass. Compare it to normal and you have your answer. There are some that regardless of numbers compared to climo, seem to melt if god forbid someone near them has a better experience. The jackpot syndrome.

Anyone near or above snow climo to date, and complaining about it, can take a seat . It's about enjoying the inches that fall from the sky when they come in New England.

You look to be in the moisture axis as well on the 18z EURO. Some of the models have it just south of here too, so we'll see. But an axis from here to Alex/you could see another couple inches overnight.

But not at the top, ha! Just always meso-scale snow this season. Even my 10" event in November was localized upslope. At another point, another very micro-localized 5-6" standing wave event that didn't even hit the mountain, ha. Now this seems to be a lake effect moisture off Lake Ontario coupled with orographic lift. There's a noticeable push of moisture coming in from northern NY along this axis so we will have to see what happens when that moves through. The axis should settle southward a bit this evening, so J.Spin and mreaves should get in on that increasing moisture as well.

Up to an healthy 3" or a few tenths over now, wonder if we can pull an advisory level 4-5" at home. Seems like borderline moderate snow at times but my bet is it would still be "light" by an ASOS, probably 3/4sm visibility. I feel like whenever it snows here this year, I never get to share the snowfall with anyone else on the forum, ha. Like I post obs to myself when it snows, and then sit on the outside when the vast majority of the AMWX New England sub-forum is posting snow obs.

For sure, there's a reason pretty much all large ski resort bases out west have heated walkways. Snow removal disappears and the slip and falls go down drastically. Aesthetically for a snow lover it seems like taboo, and my biggest dislike is that no matter how much snow falls you never get that big huge snowbank and plow piles everywhere look. But it's also an odd look when there's snow caking literally everything but the walkways and village ground.

Yeah I will say I doubted it pretty hard as the models didn't show anything to suggest this afternoon's burst. But you could tell the mood of everyone around here increased pretty quickly. It was really pounding snow there for a few hours. The MVL ASOS also displayed a nice 3-hour burst of 1 mile or less visibility between hours of higher visibility. This was a snow quality where 0.75 visibility is near 1"/hr and 0.25 mile is probably approaching 2"/hr.

That was an uplifting afternoon for a snow lover after yesterday’s disaster. Still snowing. 3.5” (3-4” depending on location of measuring and wind) at 1500ft. Came home to 2.8” at 750ft. Grass all covered up again which is really all I care about at this point... looking out and seeing snowy trees and white ground.

3-4” on the hill.

It's actually snowing fairly impressively now. Visibility is definitely less than 1/4 mile. Flake size is just about maximized, I'd bet 2"/hr rates pulses.

2.25” so far at 1,500ft on the rock walls for whatever that’s worth lol. Still snowing surprisingly hard. Borderline +SN at times. Heated paver rage incoming.

I’d estimate a fairly steady half inch per hour here at Mansfield the past 2-3 hours. Been pretty consistent 1/2 mile visibility.

Yeah I saw the photos of the carpet lift up there. We have had that happen down here too. One was in a big summer thunderstorm with severe wind IIRC... the whole carpet enclosure was blown like 100 feet off the footings and track. Those things like to break loose in high winds. Funny as it even came up in Ops meeting prior to the wind event...have lift maintenance reinforce the two carpets so they don’t blow away again. Looked like the Jay one got taken for a ride.

Actually been snowing pretty good lately, a quick cosmetic inch at 1500ft.

Yeah I figured it would be like an individual up there interested in weather, like I do on Mansfield with a respect for the science. I find it hard to believe a COOP designation would be given to a marketing department lol. I thought it was a resident up there in their village area.

Yeah that’s close. A March 2011 type frontal wave.

Two day rainfall map.

Two-Day storm total rainfall. The stratus gage we have at 1,500ft fixed to the fence behind Mtn Ops had 1.78" in it. A lot more than the rain we got in town. I only had 1.03" at home, just barely overflowing the inner tube.

I know JSpin mentioned it but our best shot for some fresh white on the ground is the lake effect streamer that should develop. These like to align down the Winooski Valley gap in the mountains, and can give JSpin a quick 3” of snow in an hour lol.

I still like anomalous weather so from that stand point, that was really impressive. This was one of the highest-end thaws that we can have in this area. Tail end of the distribution curve. We were all warmer than Miami on Christmas morning.

Definitely would be impossible if the snow was good... the crowds during a pandemic with terrible snow are still more than impressive. It’s sucks for the skiers, but business is still higher than desired. The demand is just massive. So many complaints about crowding during a global pandemic. Lines a quarter mile long. If you can’t see the end of the lift line when it’s snowing, the obs is technically SN+. We need shitty weather to keep people away and not spread COVID, ha.