powderfreak

It’s just climo unfortunately. Everyone has their tracks. Though I wish we could sign up for Dec 5-6 2003 all the time... 18” for Scooter and 18” up here... 8”+ for the whole forum pretty much. If only we could do this type of widespread dump all the time:

Ha, the Berks and Litchfield did really well in that storm. I look at it not NNE vs SNE, but WNE vs ENE .

*Moved this to the snow discussion thread... but it was borne out of the discussion of the winter storm that will hit the front range out west. Discussion of hot days to snowy days. This was the best I can find that I've ever experienced from highs in the mid-70s to 12+ inches of snow the next morning. Actually looked it up... holy crap, that storm in ALB was pretty impressive. Also how we were just speaking about surprise storms being rare... this one looks like it was forecast for a couple inches in the higher elevations and instead dropped 12-15" in the ALB area. 76F at 6pm to 39F at 11pm is pretty solid drop. I mean, this is what we all dream about right?... lol a forecast for a weaker low to pass east off Nantucket that instead at 12 hours lead time turns into a bomb over ORH. Major Snow Storm Sunday April 9, 2000 It was perhaps the cruelest twist of weather to affect the region during April 2000. A spectacular mid 70 degree day preceded the largest snowfall of the entire winter season in the Capital Region and the second heaviest all time April snowstorm on record. As if the snow was not bad enough, the magnitude of the storm came with very little warning. Forecasts on Saturday, the 8th, for the region had called for a period of rain changing to a brief period of snow through Sunday morning with only a couple of inches of accumulation expected mainly in the higher elevations. The front passed Albany at approximately 6pm on the 8th, dropping the temperature from 76 at 6pm to 57 degrees at 6:15pm to 50 degrees at 7:30pm and to 39 degrees at 11pm. At this point in the forecast, it was anticipated that the cold front would continue to be progressive in nature and the storm that had formed over western South Carolina would be weaker and move much further east, off of Nantucket by Sunday morning, than what actually occurred. The jet stream disturbance, as it turned out, was much stronger than anticipated and thus was able to bend the main steering flow up the Atlantic seaboard from its southwest to northeast direction on Saturday the 8th, to a more due south to north configuration by early Sunday morning the 9th. With a due south to north flow, the cold front which had moved through the Capital Region, delivering the very cold air, lost it's atmospheric push to keep it moving east. With the front now parallel to the upper air flow, it stalled over the Connecticut river valley in west central, MA. The stalled front then acted as a highway for the Carolina low pressure system to cruise north along and intensify. And that is exactly what happened. As the low tracked along the front and grew stronger it induced a stronger northwest airflow over eastern New York which allowed even colder air to move into the region changing the rain over to snow by about 3am on the 9th. The low then transported a hefty slug of Atlantic moisture over the cold dome over New York which translated into a period of extremely heavy snow over the Mohawk valley, Adirondacks and Capital Region, as well as western New England well into the afternoon on the 9th. Snowfall rates exceeded two inches per hour for a time early on Sunday morning. By 8am on the 9th the storm was located near Worcester, MA producing the blinding snow over the Capital District. The system began to accelerate by midday Sunday, as the parent jet stream disturbance moved out, finally bringing an end to the snowstorm.

I really can’t even process that. I’ll have to look up April 2000 at ALB (I think that’s the year)...I remember shorts and t-shirts playing soccer in maybe 70F on a Saturday, then we got 10-14” in the area on Sunday. But 90F to that is incredible.

75/55 Now this is perfect.

McKesson Corp huh?

65F... adding about a degree per hour this morning. Getting torchy.

You think +5-6 is torchy day? I feel like that’d be within a standard deviation or so. Doesn’t give much room for an above normal day that’s not a torch. Like when your normal high is 50F and the max is 55-56F, that just seems like an above normal day. A torch there would be like 65F.

Check out the ECMWF prog Ginxy posted earlier in one of the threads... 95-100F at DEN and then possible snow a day later, lol. I still can’t get over those numbers on that chart.

Very subtle early color. Not all deep green. About 4 weeks from hitting peak.

Man that 1780ft in Eden would be one helluva snowy place. 1800ft right in the sweet spot of the Spine is true weenie delight. Fantastic views of the old asbestos mine, ha. I can see that thing clearly from Stowe. Pretty much living on Belvedere Mountain, that would be obscene snows.

Gondola has been running at Stowe most of the summer... if you live together you ride together is the current motto. Winter will be similar though I think if it’s singles they say they’ll do one single on opposite sides of the gondola with face covering.

Someone disagreed yesterday.

Lot of that around here, but I also love the mix of humanity between that and people like my wife and I who live here in a 1,200 square foot townhome. I’m never jealous and everyone gets along just fine in a common love of the local area... I love my life and know I get to spend probably 300+ of 365 days at or on the mountain. People ask what it’s like to live among that wealth but you just don’t notice it with people. It’s funny how passions of outdoor recreation can bring folks together as we have several friends who are wealthy beyond anything I can imagine (such as Boston area commercial real estate who spend time between coastline in Mass, Stowe and Bermuda) but when you go skiing or hiking, none of that matters. You’re just humans who love being outdoors on a mountain. We get invited to dinners and gatherings where I’m amazed at how successful these people are, but all they want to talk about is what skiing 100+ days a year is like, measuring snow at 5am on a mountain, and they dream to get in a Stowe powder photo someday. That sort of community and sport transcending wealth is what makes the stories of rifts at Killington so hard to fathom. It’s supposed to be this joint passion of the mountain community that doesn’t matter where you are from, how much money you have, etc.

Yeah just saw that... 92F to 38F in 12 hours with precipitation is one crazy model prog! The foothills are insane like that.

That is absolutely obscene. I’m having a hard time processing that. Highs of 95-100F for 3 days and then immediately to highs in 30s with a foot of snow. It doesn’t even make sense that it would be 95/68 and then 38/35 a day later, those temps don’t overlap! Mind blown.

I do think it’s over here, we’ll see about your place. Maybe a couple 80s but more days like this. It’s been below normal for two weeks in the means up here. It’s largely over for me.

You never hold onto winter like this. March 1st you are Morch and snow is useless... but with heat and dews you try to ride it into the ground.

It’s certainly not safe to pull the polling machine lever down with your mouth during a pandemic. If only there was another way, maybe, but I’d rather lick the ballot envelope instead of the lever if those are the two choices, ha. All joking aside, voting is fun to do in person. Feels civic. My parents still say my name comes up on the list of voters for Albany, NY despite the fact I’ve voted in Vermont for a decade.

I was washing dishes like 2000-2001 time frame? I then realized lifeguarding at Normanside Country Club was a better gig as a senior. No idea when Alteri’s closed but I think it was within 5 years or so after that? Barb and Lou were getting up there in age and the 80 hour work weeks I think were getting to be too much. Lou was at that restaurant from like 9am until 11pm every single day.

Nice, still 70/55 up here! South wind and cloud cover not letting us decouple at all and keeping a well-mixed atmosphere.

Fun community it sounds like....yikes. Either that or sounds like a high school clique online that is trying to make it sound like they sit at the cool kids table.

You know the seasons are changing when today’s 59F dew felt a little humid all the sudden.

At the ski area, my best employees have been the J1 students and US college kids who know it isn’t a career and is only a temporary stepping stone. There’s a change once you get slightly older Americans working entry levels jobs in terms of work ethic and time they are willing to work. It certainly starts to get rougher around the edges the more disenfranchised a person is, and unfortunately working entry level in your later 20s and 30s in America does that really quickly to a person. Like this feeling that they are behind in society and will never catch up just seems to eat them alive. I’ve noticed that same thing working in hotels and restaurants, probably why drug use is so high in those industries among entry level positions. This disenfranchised attitude that “the system” is keeping them down, wages are too low, and the grass is always greener elsewhere etc.

Funny you say that, a friend of mine in Salt Lake City had an incident like what you and KLW seem to allude to... he found a used needle in his bathroom after a crew putting in tile floors left one day. He now has a family of Hispanics who roll up all together in a van, they’ll do literally anything as each person in the family has a specialty (lol) and they absolutely bust a**. He said the only time they stop is when the mom shows up at lunch and sets up a table of cooked food for them (which is awesome, folding table, crock pots, etc). They waste no time and if they only have two hours work left they will just stay and do it, instead of leaving to come back the next day. He just makes it sound like the work ethic is out of this world.