powderfreak

Best thunder and lightning of the summer lol. Just cracking booms all around. Severe warning out for here, pouring but no wind for now.

Yeah JSpin that’s how I felt about it, below normal but nothing “bad”... though I do think that the overall tenor on this forum last winter made me almost feel lucky. In a psychological assessment we have known on this forum that how one does relative to the region-wide tenor of winter does impact the lasting impression. It could be getting a “not as bad” winter as others or on the flip side we’ve seen people grade otherwise great winters as semi-let downs because nearby someone got smoked (2015 comes to mind for folks just outside the crush zone). As much as we wish it didn’t matter, that “lasting impression” of winter does have some relativity to it. So like last year a total dumpster fire elsewhere feels ok to get 80-100% in NNE.

Oh lock it in then. Thanks man!

Wet run of the Euro too... plenty of QPF. GGEM agrees on wet.

Severe Watch. Tons of people on the mountain. This should be fun. SPC though going with a watch is probably the death blow for any severe... they miss a huge derecho a few days ago so probably not in the mood to chance missing even one rogue severe storm.

DIT’s fall torch finally came, only 5 weeks later. 73F at MVL.

57F up here in Mansfield... wind is honking. Easy 50mph gusts out of the southwest on the exposed ridge.

C’mon now, you’d much rather have spent your money on politicians instead of buying a sweet spot (is that an estate?) in the mountains, let’s be real. Someone could’ve put your Randolph money to good use with a run of TV commercials for your local state senate seat.

Yeah HRRR and 3KM NAM say get off the mountain by 3-3:30pm. There are a TON of people out in the hills, hope they know it could turn very quickly around 3-4pm. Shit gets real fast when you have your family up high hiking on a warm Saturday when 40dbz rolls into the mountain.

Already 68F here! Damn, what a Saturday for Columbus Day weekend.

That Maine race must be spending money for the advertisements. Even here, I don't see or hear any campaigns from the VT or NH races... but every political ad is regarding a race in Maine. Mostly Collins v Gideon.

I mean, Phin isn't going to know what's happening even if it's a shitty winter... just bewildered regardless. Like he said a couple days ago, the windy rainy cool event felt like February in Maryland already. Just imagine what November will feel like.

Yeah but it was still only the northern crew getting interesting events. I guess I misread it, it doesn't have to be a banner winter for only the northern tier to be posting frequently. I'd almost say if it's a poor region wide winter, the northern folks will be the ones still posting regularly where averages dictate at least some decent/fun events outside of some abortion like 15-16. I still remember some fun events last winter and it DEFINITELY felt like we were the only ones snowing when it was happening.

Last winter? ha.

Grainy/noisy photo... pushing the boundaries of my camera lens, as google maps says it was 74 miles away from where I was standing, lol. But it's white.

MWN is absolutely glowing on the horizon right now! Western sun behind me on Stowe and there’s just this glowing white ridge off in the distance.

First time seeing ice on the ground this evening. About 3,000ft, walking by had to do a double take... like, “that’s frozen water, at 4pm?” Warm ground laughing. Oh and a dog sat next to it.

It is so nice out, full bluebird. Not many of these left, taking the opportunity to bounce out of work early, grab the dog and go for a hike. 55/25 in the valley right now.

Yeah aesthetically I still love the Great 48 concept, but functionally for Mountain Ops and how the mountain is skied/opened/closed/groomed/snowmaking it makes sense to break it up into segments instead of 2,000+ vertical feet, 1-2 mile long trails with a lot of variability that ski like different segments anyway (I will say it's rare to ski a trail fully from top-to-bottom too, it's more hopping from segment to segment). Grooming often can be only certain parts of trails too, so you get a bunch of partially groomed runs. Snowmaking is easier to communicate even to staff when its broken up into segments too. But the "Stowe Great 48" is now classic ski memorabilia... maps, posters, t-shirts, etc. I love that stuff.

Love when the only remaining foliage on the trees is generally orange at this point, orange mixed with bare trees... and the Satellite view is definitely also orange. I would say that orange glow areas are in the past peak category while nearby neighboring the orange zone is likely best colors right now?

Severe wind haven! I remember that Mt Tom event, isn't there a road that runs through there that got smoked? Or is this photo from that road, ha.

For sure probably in your area more, you guys were already clear in the afternoon right? The bust up here was the trapped moisture stratus and wind, that was still prevalent after sundown... NWS went conservative with the cloud cover and wind up here in the mountains. We still had OVC in the OBS until midnight when it went CLR afterward... I think it was just a cloud cover and wind issue, hedging conservative in the mountains with trapped upslope flow moisture. It went clear/calm around midnight and plummeted.

Interesting correlation there to very cold mins early season then... seeing as ‘64 and ‘65 also had 5 days at CON with mins in the 20s so far. Dry air and ground limiting frost/fog and allowing temps to sneak into the 20s with more frequency? There’s definitely something there, it makes sense.

What were the dry years in the 1960s?

We need to create a Wikipedia page for that scientific name.