powderfreak

Hope she gets a real mild case of it, which probabilities show she should but still not something you want to play around with. You won't be missing much over the next 10 days in Ski Country, ha.

Because your snowfall to date on 11/28 is likely higher than several of your Maryland winters added together .

2" at the Lookout snow cam. Accumulating snow level on my afternoon ski runs was around 2,200ft.

New York and Mass have financial penalties associated with them I think. Mass is $500 per day that you don’t quarantine after travel. New York’s is worse I think. Vermont doesn’t have a penalty and that’s been the issue all along. Like trying to set a speed limit on a highway but with no penalty if you go over the limit.

We keep flipping back and forth at 1500ft. Literally every 30 seconds it seems. All snow more consistently above 1800ft.

A friend and fellow poster here @j24vt caught some shots of a snowy owl near the MVL airport yesterday. Today he just send me a cell shot of it back there sitting on the ASOS. He’s going back with the big lens, maybe he’ll share more later. Pretty cool to have a snowy owl chilling on the ASOS. What’s more NNE than that? Ha.

Briefly flipped to wet snow at 1,500ft and almost 1" at 3,300ft. Its pretty marginal, seems to be flipping back and forth with intensity.

DIT hates any mention of THC, I figured that might be it.

Hard to believe someone could be sad over this post, when someone finds relief they need. Nice work Jer.

Second low definitely not off shore on Euro and GGEM. Ha. Build thy ark.

I almost feel like DIT... making a comment knowing it just cannot be left alone to simmer out there without a correction . The NNE crew is growing, now having regular posters @PhineasC in N.NH snow country and @bwt3650 living at Jay Peak. At least we'll get more posts during those events now. Hope we all get to enjoy a good snowstorm in December. From the ocean to the mountains.

Definitely a poor air mass ahead of it but that one is worth watching for NNE.

We all love a bomb sitting over PWM. Just need to hold that position for 32 more model runs.

Yeah I mean, anything is possible, no storm at all is likely the usual outcome at 200 hours out. Not a slam dunk heavy rainer at day 8-9.

Ha yeah @J.Spin, the warm thaw days are actually the days to ski in this pattern. If it’s not going to snow the worst days are the cold/firm ones. I’ll take some soft snow and low crowd at like 2pm in the afternoon for some laps.

Today is pretty miserable in all aspects. No visibility, low clouds even in the base area at times, sheet drizzle and mist... now is a more steady light rain at 1500ft and non-accumulating white rain or wet snow above 2500ft. Moist and no visibility.

Looks like we’ve got some orographic precip going now. Snow above 2,500ft but rain down here at 1,500ft.

Yeah it’s the DIT seasonal line of thinking. Spring weather should start late Feb or March 1st, full summer should start in May, and winter is Nov/Dec/Jan.

If the ski season followed actual best climo winter snowpack here, Stowe would open like December 15 to May 1 or even later sometimes lol. Not try for November 15 to April 15 where the max demand curve falls. We almost always close 100% of terrain skiable as the skiers evaporate.

Lots of pent up demand. More people skiing one or two ribbons of white now than there will be at the end of March or April with 100” at the Mansfield stake and 100% open. Folks are jonesing... drive 3 hours from Boston for two routes of snowmaking this time of year in drizzle/mist but then in late March when the grass is starting to green up at their house (it’s light out until 7pm) and some start talking about installing A/C units in CT, they’ll give it up despite 100% open ski hills. Its something they ski industry has struggled with for decades. It’s just how the demand works, so that’s why ski areas push so hard to open in mid/late Nov to capitalize on that demand. Hell that’s how I grew up in Albany, NY... my parents would take us in the dark days of November and December but as spring moved out we’d transition to spring sports in the Hudson Valley despite deep packs up north and great skiing.

Thank you for your sacrifices!

Ha that does sound like 2020... I was happy we opened yesterday with a surprise few inches of snowfall in the morning. Classic Mansfield, satisfying the snow lovers on opening day. Today was murky and moist, low clouds and dark. Some shots from yesterday...a better way to kick it off. The luck of getting a surprise burst of snowfall timed well with opening morning seemed anti-2020.

The only reason a window should be opened is to put an A/C unit in it, right?

Ha it actually looks close to sunshine aloft tomorrow I think it was. I saw full dry air low RH from like 800-850mb on up but that won’t help Mansfield. Maybe MWN.