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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.

Getting snow on the ground is what matters. Don’t care what type it is. 3” is what we need to cover the grass and look out at white. It’s New England, set expectations at white, ha. I really miss the constant periods of snow... where you look outside and it’s always snowing, even flurries. The like 3-4 days of flakes flying and a white ground. That’s all we need for Norman Rockwell.

This was impressive. Just eviscerating up to 2”+ liquid equiv snowpack in spots. The duration of warmth and dews is top tier everywhere.

There's some COOP data for Jay Peak for a period in the 90s and 2000s, but it was stopped at some point. I haven't seen it graphed. But there are some fun Decembers in there. Love some of these observations during the good times. 38" in 24 hours with 67" on the ground for December 15, 2003. These are from 2,200ft I think, around the base area. Jay does get a lot of inches of snowfall, snow depth is another thing but inch for inch out of the sky, I think they take the top slot in New England on average.

And this summer too. Been a lot of heat records in NNE between the obscene summer heat and then this start to winter.

Nope not at all. They are completely removed from snowmaking. We have a live cam on one and then we also have a ground based board. Sugarbush has live cams on their snow board too. It's very easy to keep totally separate. Social media has kept the ski areas pretty damn honest in the past decade and most places now have some sort of public facing way to see accumulations. I always try to post the High Road snow totals and take photos of most of the snowfalls for social media. These places average 250-300" a year, that's how you get 6-10 foot natural snowpacks common place. My highest personally measuring almost every inch was 375" in 2017-18. The best part was the last storm in April was a surprise 13" of dense snow at the High Road snow plot to bring it to an even 375".

It does the ol' back in where it starts colder and then advects warmer air in aloft from the east.

lol, hard to believe.