powderfreak

Yeah the cloud layer here is around 1800-2000ft. Above that is nice and warm. Walking into it, it gets immediately chilly and damp. Heres the line, walking into the soup.

Inversions back. Warm sunny breeze up here right now... chilly moist air in the valley.

Now that’s pro style! Crushing that right after a stomach bug!

Yeah I'm with you. It was actually talked about in that storm thread, Ray made the same point at the time... go big or go home, who cares what happens days later. It does all melt eventually, even at the picnic tables. I get what Will is saying too, I wouldn't want to do a whole winter of that sort of up and down 40s in BUF and then lake effect, then 40s and missing synoptic snows to the east. But man, to get a 5-7 foot storm in like 48 hours? Sign me up. Worrying about what happens afterward does remind me a bit of like how Kev can have an 18" event in-progress and seems like he can't really enjoy it because all he's focused on is the EURO showing a rainer 3 days later.

Ha, I’m very confused. Wonder if there’s some big game park in someone’s backyard? Edit I guess some dude owns a zebra, lol.

But we aren't out west. If we were we'd talk about those local mountains? I can tell you at the ski area one of the most common questions is "What is that mountain?" when standing at the top of a chairlift looking out on a bluebird day and MWN is just glistening there on the horizon. For our area, it is one hulk of a rock.

It's been the weenie reflex every time there's a big lake effect event to comment on how fast it disappears (I guess it makes us less jealous, ha), but man there's something about even seeing a day with 6 foot mushroom caps on top of houses in a suburban development. The photos from that event are absolutely insane regardless of what happens afterwards. I found myself reading that thread last night for whatever reason when I couldn't sleep, and we were all in there jacking it to it, ha. Even Ray was ready to up and move to BUF lol.

Looks like exactly 0.5” up here this morning. 57F.

This is all we want, right? Some random photo from the November 2014 lake effect storm in the BUF suburbs. That's the dream right there.

This is pretty crazy. 1:45 into it is getting about to conditions most of us wish we could experience. The noise of the shattered glass at 2 minutes in is crazy to me...then that same place getting destroyed at 3:00 minutes.

Gotta love life in the mountains.

Do you have one? More oaks to fall for sure.

Ha, I’m up there right now for the evening dog walk, coming down one of the ski trails on the left side of that second photo. Thats a weenie spot, has to be at least 1,500ft elevation judging by the old Kellogg mansion height in that first photo...that’s like the highest house around and they look just under it. Probably off Weeks Hill/Edson Hill area, maybe White Gates or Wade Pasture? Great spot!

Is that what it’s trying to show? I figured it was truly an error.

WTF happened to the crazy uncle? These are 36-hour totals by tomorrow evening lol. Ends the drought in E.CT... And washes out some covered bridges in VT.

Great reading for right before a Cog trip!

The falling doesn't kill you, hitting the ground though....

No rain up here. Just thin mid-level cloud deck and cool air. 55F currently. This morning’s low of 41F followed by a high of only 65F in this cold air mass... all windows and doors shut to avoid having the heat come on since last evening. Glad we don’t have any A/C units in the windows letting cool air seep in, seeing as 65F is the highest temperature in the past 2 days.

You’ve got the right attitude dude. It’s one winter in a global pandemic...people are eating at restaurants in their parking lots and under tents, schools don’t know what to do with children, makes sense that ski season won’t be the same. It’s a season where you try to enjoy the little things, explore something different. Things will be functioning but not ideal or “normal.” It’ll be what people make out of it. I do think it’s important for the communication to start now to adjust expectations.

For the reservations,. it's going to be a challenge but there's a belief that once early season limited terrain/lifts moves into more mid-winter operations that reservations likely wont be needed at some mountains. I can't disagree with the idea of developing procedures now that can be dropped if they aren't necessary... vs the other way which is get caught with your pants down and overrun with crowds and then have to implement controls in-season. Better to prepare for it, communicate it, and then if need be, you can scrap it at some mountains. This was from Katz on that: “This season we will be implementing a reservation system across each of our mountains. It is possible that at some point in the season, as we evaluate the dynamics of our operations, we may decide that we no longer need the reservation system at certain resorts. However, with so many uncertainties, we believe it is only prudent to have this system in place now.”

I think that's the point. They need to really curb it back this winter. Ski Resorts out in Colorado were the source of their out-breaks last March and the Gov forced them to close. They need to stay open so they can't run that risk again, and how do you manage the demand when hotels and indoor spaces can only be 50% occupied or whatever? It's certainly not a normal winter.

42F outside... feels wonderful, ha.

Looks like it was snowing up north today... Chic Chocs in Quebec had flakes flying.

Dendrite crushing dreams. Good call on the clouds, sometimes I think I should look at any guidance before posting.

SLK barely hit 60F today and had dews down to 34F. I bet they see a freeze tonight lol. Had a high of 64F here in Stowe...dews in the upper 30s means we might get below 40F if we can go calm.