powderfreak

What did you hit last night with the fluff after clearing out? -9F this morning up this way... even 3.5" of snow radiates like mad, ha. On that note, I finally melted down the snow and found 0.38" in it. Cold but dense, the classic north side of the fluffy deform band. Zero settling today. 4F currently.

Really? I honestly haven't heard that one yet. In all my social media days I don't know if I've come across that, ha. But it sounds like something a casual 3-5 day a year skier might say, ha. Anyway, here's the 3" at Mansfield 3,000ft High Road Plot that I reported. It snowed lightly for another couple hours after this but wasn't worth rechecking, figured it just topped off the 3" line.

Lol this from Ludlow, VT. That’s a healthy 24-hours.

Was at the Mtn Ops office here at Stowe around 5am this morning for work, grabbed a shot of a groomer passing by on his way to the gas pumps. I love the early morning energy of operations before a ski day.

I leave the large outer cylinder out in the snow (Stratus) and melt that. I have cracked the inner one before leaving it out and getting water to freeze in it... so that comes inside all winter.

That’s awesome! That should be a record from that COOP.

Yeah I remember now, I thought you meant a model prog... but yeah when the track for rain can be 2000 miles wide and the track for siggy snow is like a 200 miles wide, it’s definitely easier to get the former over the latter.

What map is that? Sounds interesting lol. Or man you mean that one that shows the narrow tracks needed for a big snowstorm while the zone for a Rainer is like 2,000 miles wide?

Pretty easy to find the band.

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!