powderfreak

Probably 1 person who lives up near you has it and it trips their percentage trigger, lol. I think it’s worse in low population areas because one family gets it and that county is triggered as a percent of population.

The ski resorts won’t pull your pass, they are just a middleman for the gov’t at this point. Like the lodging properties, they just want you to sign or check the box and take on the liability. It’s essentially like a COVID waiver in addition to your assumption of risk waiver everyone signs when they get a pass.

Yeah I guess I look at it as the leaf peppers had to stay somewhere and sign it when they checked in. Air B’nB operators were supposed to get and retain the records (I have no idea if they did). They had their information taken by the restaurant to eat in it... yes if they daytripped and just went hiking on the mountain then they wouldn’t have given information to anyone, true. It was always pushed back on the consumer but I’m speaking strictly consumer behavior, I just personally don’t see it changing because of this continuation of the quarantine requirements. What I do think we see is a continuation of the people who want to be responsible/respectful and follow the guidelines get the short end of the stick because they are still less likely to come (same as summer)...but the people who just don’t care continue to come. Not passing any judgement, it’s just the rule follower loses in this situation, IMO, as they watch their neighbor go on their vacations without a care in the world. Like the ol’ “nice guy finishes last” saying, while the bad boy has all the fun and games. I’m still against it as I don’t see any evidence of tourism spreading COVID...but I do have to abide by the rules as set out.

Since April too, ha. I still think the crowds are coming, but maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I don’t know how I’d approach it if I still lived in Albany, NY... but I don’t see consumer behavior changing from what fall foliage and summer brought. Vermont apparently still did 80%< tourism business summer/fall while requiring 99% of the population to quarantine for 14-days.

Coming down to vote in town, I am pretty impressed at how well we did down low in this event. Looks like a widespread 7-10” type deal driving down the road. Normally we don’t pull 0.70” water out of upslope snow events but it was pretty well modeled that the east slope looked best with the high Froude numbers. It seemed really fluffy but the water is decent and it’s not evaporating like 30:1 fluff, ha. Its winter right now for sure. Great first event to get the monkey off the back lol.

24 hour totals from 7am this morning. I think the storm totals might be an inch or so higher in some spots from yesterday prior to 7am. Fits with a band here on the east slope of the crest with 8-10".

Yup it’s crazy!

Fun times.

To me it always reminded me of ski vacations out west at Whistler and places that have these massive heated plazas... so it’s a good memory and makes it feel like a ski resort. If I had my way they would stay off while a storm hits and then turn them on to melt it instead of plowing lol. Leaves very clear demarcations of “no snow” to “snow” with no brown snowbanks like JSpin said. Anyway, it’s snowing again pretty steadily. Wind is nuts though, lots of blowing and drifting.

Looks like we will be in shorts by Thurs/Friday lol... Highs around 60 will feel like summer after this. EURO has a low of like 10F tonight and then it gets mild.

The snow cam isn't live yet to public but this is pretty funny. Last numbers I could see were around 10" before it just became a complete snow mushroom.

The heated walkways are fired up in some sections again... I’m with Will on hating it. But creates some funny scenes like this. The warm ground argument works when the pavers are heated lol. Deep winter in other areas.

Yeah that’s a good upslope storm for 750ft for sure. Nice to start with ~10” total between the two systems. This is one of those ones where I’m torn... 10” from the break and measuring it with two different events... or just the 8.5” that’s on the ground at the end.

Yeah we did well for sure. Driving around this was a legit little storm. Looks to be 12” or a bit more at 1500ft on the ground. Plows definitely caught off-guard for some reason. Every lot in town has 8” ruts in it lol.

8.5” on the ground. I had 4” first and then my car had another 6” this morning. Around 10” total between the two distinct rounds. Cars are round 2 accumulation, hedgerow sporting event total.

9”... fits with the 5.5” on the car since we got home.

Temps in the mid-20s too? This is mid-winter stuff.

It is ripping snow. Almost 8” on the ground. Easily 1”/hr. This is a great opening event.

Flow is 1.0< or unblocked this evening based on the lower level radar. Snow is more from the spine and eastward. Mountain peaks block the signal in spots. Beam rise as it goes east means it's sampling higher up and deeper in the atmosphere, some further downstream drift at the ends of the radar image.

I mean, it is snowing very hard right now. Downstream drift or it's just snowing that much harder up at the mountain? Could be a mixture of both. Hopefully we can rake for a while this evening.

Good pulse of moisture moving through the mountains. I love seeing the Adirondack echoes increase. It's no SNE coastal storm but a fun event to start the season.

It's snowing pretty good when the wind doesn't blow. Just ripping big fluffy dendrites. This stuff has some loft to it until the wind packs it out a bit. We'll see what round two brings to the area. Models still look good.

Good grief that escalates quickly. Round two firing up. Right over the Spine, but some downwind drift too. A steady light snow just started up again here, good flake size. Crazy that it's actually even a very slight WSW wind flow in the lower levels ahead of the low. You can see on the radar that upslope band sort of is also ever so slightly NNW to SSE.

Was out and about running errands this evening. There’s like less than an inch in Morrisville... I was shocked, not much at all. Back at home I’m finding around 4” in the yard. Dog is happy!

Funny you say that, I’ve got a new employee from Maryland and we were just walking past this scene and his comment was “Last night someone at a gas station said something about we might get a little snow. Where I’m from this would’ve been talked about for a week straight and school would’ve been cancelled two days in advanced. This would’ve been a really big deal.”