powderfreak

Yeah, just glad to get the first mountain snow of the season even if it was only 1-4" and up real high. I just went higher into the sky to find the snow and mreaves drove to the snow, so we are doing our part to get to winter. I love the first snow of the season on the hill, just such a satisfying feeling this evening having wandered around in the snow for several hours.

I know without a doubt if I schedule a western ski trip, it will absolutely puke snow here and correspond to high pressure out west, ha.

Just joking, plenty of snows coming up. I know every time I leave here in the winter we’ll get a storm. My few March vacations in the past 5 years have corresponded with some very large events lol.

When are you in Maryland next?

That's sick. All these towns are right there on the VT/NH border it seems in the Upper CT Valley.

Found a very sharp high elevation snow line today, with a surprising difference even between 3,500ft and 4,000ft. Up on the ridge at 4,000ft it was more like a healthy 3-4" while it was just a coating to 1" at 3,500ft. I did see traces of snow on the ground on the leaves as low as 2,600ft though, so it was melting while I was up there. Reported 1" in to the NWS for the Stake as it was melted out around the base of the stake, but there was a couple inches in the vicinity... so called it 1" just to get something into the record books that there was measurable snow up there today.

1.11” was my final in the stratus over this way.

Yeah 1500ft is often a magic number for snow around these parts.

Yeah 1500ft is often a magic number for snow around these parts.

Ha where you at Mark?

It can. I’m seeing it on Mansfield. 300 verts is enough to go from 0” to 3”. It’s literally an inch per 100ft on the snow line. Fukkin winter is nice to see.

LOL that's awesome.

Please tell me you told your wife to go drive around and take photos while you are in Maryland.

Yeah I think the cooling going west to east was a big part of it, we see it here too where the CAA can get held up in the mountains. It looked like when it did cool it did it very quickly in NE VT and NW NH. But models also had an area of -3C at 850 wanting to develop there in the upper CT Valley. I think that NW quad of the precip shield was just ever so slightly more conductive to snowing at lower elevations. Heck even Lyndonville pit and KCDA were 33/32 and snowing this morning.

Places in NEK VT not on west slopes doing well though too, I wonder if there was just a pocket of colder profiles just by half a degree or degree C lower in that upper CT River Valley.

Ha! That’s awesome. The NE corner of VT into adjacent Coos County in NH seemed to flip fastest and really rake. That far Upper CT river valley area. Missed that second batch back this way. Mountain is white above 3000ft from the first round yesterday, but missed the second round a county to the east.

That’s awesome. On the snow hunt.

I can feel that. It may get made up quickly though.

Hey exact same here. But you’ve got another heavy wave coming. Hoping we can be clipped by that round. Still, should be near a 7” total since the last few days of September. Been a wet 20 days. Good to see everyone getting wet. Nice to not hear about Stein anymore, ha.

That’s an awesome view right now. Could watch that live for a while. Stratton summit lodge at 3,830ft, basically 4K. I think S.VT elevations will do better than N.VT elevations foot for foot because of the increased moisture. The second wave should hit them harder for sure on that SSW to NNE flow trajectory. Dynamic cooling in the south will offset any difference from temps in the north.

Cleaner shot from the troops on the mountain looking for snow.

Found some proof from a Lyndon State student who also is a lift operator here... but they are camping out looking for snow.

Yeah that’s what I think too. Looking at bright banding ring and height of it, I think the snow level around here has been 3500ft the past hour. Picnic tables could be seeing snow right now. That’s right in line with when guidance had 0C 850mb move through here around 6pm.

I think we’d all agree anything less than this is a failure.