powderfreak

Yeah Killington looked favored on that blocked SW flow ahead of the low today. We had 1.5" daytime at Stowe... the same I got down in the village. There's an insane amount of rime up on the hill from the thick moist clouds. The hill is plastered white, despite low natural snow depths. Some terrain expansion coming.

Wasn't there one in February 2000 too that just kept tracking westward on the models in the final 48 hours and hit a similar area? I distinctly remember an event we were going to whiff in ALB and for some reason the memory is very vivid of skiing Whiteface that day and coming home to see the ETA was all the sudden hammering eastern New York and adjacent western New England. The event I'm thinking of had some insane meso-band from the Berkshires to SE of ALB and into the lower Hudson Valley I think.

The bolder I agree with. It’s not as big of a difference as up north, but I truly believe there is still a north/south gradient between Mt Snow and Killington. Marginal borderline events, maybe SWFE? Killington has significant elevation in that 2000-4000ft range, slightly higher than Mt Snow. I get @radarman’s point though, sometimes Mt Snow gets hit hard in coastal that scrape Killington... but my gut still says there’s a gradient between the two.

I know Ginxy, you’re never surprised lol.

Loved this one. Probably one of the first storms I remember truly tracking online using like unisys weather models (or something like that). Anyone remember that site? We had 13” in Albany I think.

Yeah I guess they do... but that pattern can also often be Dusting to inch and have a nice day. Last night dropped an inch of like snow drizzle, I think that’s the cling. It was snow but all low level small flakes, a decent amount of them. I dunno, I definitely didn’t expect this scene on the whole when looking at the pattern for this week. I think town has continued to out perform the mountain some how too. That plays into the wow factor. Temps and moisture are good. It’s been like 25-27F every day and good inversion with lots of moisture trapped under it. I think we are getting blocked flow upslope from the Worcester Range on the east side of town... that 3500ft ridge line I think is backing up the flow just enough to keep moisture coming in town, while east slope of Mansfield where the ski area is finds itself blocked out a bit.

Pretty much all unforecast and unmodeled snow here this week. 3 days of continuous light snow eventually adds up. Norman Rockwell has nothing on the scene in town right now.

Steady light snow eventually adds up. Walked the dog through a winter wonderland this afternoon on the Rec Path: Even the power lines are going white. There's been some combo of fluffy snow that's also incredibly "clingy" to create that true winter wonderland look. Like caking snow.

Stowe Village is just insanely beautiful right now. I can't believe how lucky we've been this week with snowfall.... we missed the big storm but the orographic insurance policy has come through. Still more snow on the ground under 1,000ft than above 1,500ft . I mean we'd spend days tracking this type of snowfall.... almost all of this was un-modeled snow.

Pretty consistent moisture feed into the Spine. We should see it go all night.

About an inch so far at home. Wintry appeal.

The accumulations haven't been all that much, but what a snowy period for literally nothing showing up on the models at all. As of 10pm it is still snowing lightly. Total accumulations with a couple board clearings in the past 48 hours is ~5.75" of mostly non-modeled snow. There's 4" of snow depth (plenty of compaction in the past 24 hours), owing to the fluffy nature of the recent snow.

The past couple days definitely feel a bit snowier here than normal in these patterns. Just the right conditions I guess for dendrites. When we left the roads were dry and got back and they were snow covered except for the wheel lanes. Despite literally nothing on radar we've had some decent periods of light snow and almost like a snow mist this evening. It has to be very low level stuff for the radar to not hit it (under 5-6k feet here).

Just got home to 1” of absolute dust. Can see straight through it. Still snowing lightly.

It’s the “wintry appeal” vibe when there are just flakes falling all the time. Even if there’s no real accumulation it’s about setting the winter mood.

Ha it’s funny you mention this as Killington has been getting hammered in online and social circles for their measuring or lack thereof. The other day when they reported 8” it was more than anyone and on the Live cams there was like grass showing everywhere and people who skied said there was like 3-4” in the woods up high lol. Killington’s numbers have been starting to stand out but I’d be curious on Jen’s take there. She skis it daily. But at times they’ve been higher than Stowe and Jay in seasonal totals. The unopened mountains like Sugarbush/Bolton/Smuggs probably miss some snowfall as it’s hard to get upper mountain reports. We are lucky with a decent snow cam and I also get up a lot for early season snowfall to verify at the Stake and on hill. I agree with everything you said. Jay definitely gets the most and I try to explain to skiers who don’t believe it that on the most basic level, snowfall increases as you head north in New England, all else equal. Jay maximizes orographic lift too. And then when people are like “I don’t believe they would get 50-75” more than Stowe and Smuggs!” I usually answer, but you accept that Stowe and Smuggs can at times get 50-75” more than Sugarbush/MRG? IMO once averages sort themselves out long term, there’s a clear stepwise increase from SB/MRG to Bolton/Stowe/Smuggs... followed by another clear step up to Jay. I do also fully believe Sugarbush should average a clear step up from Killington. Just like Killington should be clearly more than Mt Snow.

No idea, your best bet is to call and often just calling one of the resorts can clear it up quicker than calling headquarters out in Colorado. College passes are always the hardest but in the past (even when I was in college) the ski areas wanted a letter from the registrars office with official school emblem/seal on it showing enrollment. The same proof you needed for a lot of stuff related to college student discounts as I remember it. UVM had an office when I went specifically for that stuff so people could get their proof for the ski areas lol.

Was snowing pretty hard from Stowe to Waterbury this afternoon on the drive, heaviest right near Exit 10 not far from J.Spin. Looked like I had about a half inch at home before leaving. Big huge flakes. It’s mesmerizing driving through it, lol. Hard to focus sometimes. Its by far the most picturesque snow when thousands of those 1/4”-1/2” diameter dendrites just hang in the air literally like a shaken snow globe. Just like giant feathers in no hurry to get to the ground.

Nice to have a couple Advisory events on the Euro through Day 5-6. I think the ski areas do well over the next 72 hours too. That’s got “the look”. Then we have whatever the weekend does.

Yeah hard to tell if it’s a head fake or not... but the Mets here have outlined how it could work. But still at this lead time it could be a cutter again tomorrow, lol. Snow maps are nice from here to you though Day 7-8.

That’s an insane icing look. Overrunning galore.

We take that Euro run all day long. Two Advisory events through day 5-6.

Euro still has a nice little event coming up.

My 400” average remains intact on the GGEM. All joking aside though it had several gradient type events which would fit with NINA DEC and just the overall evolution is good to see and matches with what some of you have talked about.

Time to start shoveling GGEM snow. At least it looks like the next 10 days are trending better.