powderfreak

Act 250... it's possible to develop above 2,500ft but it takes a lot of paper work and environmental studies and different regulations. Better to just say under 2,500ft.

Yeah I just saw some of the sites on WxNet6 out of the Albany area reporting snow like in the Catskills at 1,900ft are snowing but obs show 35F. There is a 2.1" report out of Schoharie County at 1,500ft in Warnerville but the reported temp at observation is 34F. If those elevations under than band are still only mid-30s with wet snow, it's got some work to do.

Ha, does look like that pivot in NY State was sort of what we were expecting in Central New England a couple days ago.

Gonna be a high elevation event for a while here. Like 2kft or more.

Thanks man, I’ll look that up. I love those type of shows.

Pickles is a hardcore snow chaser, gotta give him credit. Driving to the highest elevation he can find and then walking from there.

From what I’ve understood, the chances of a private resident getting approval to cut or do trail work is near 0%. It would likely have to be under some organization or business... like the Catamount Trail Association in Vermont gets approval to trim along that trail. I’m sure VAST snowmobile trails fall under their organization if it’s on state land but @mreaves probably knows a lot more about snowmobile trail Maintenance. But honestly I have no idea or experience with federal land and NH laws.

Yeah they come to mind. At Stowe we have signs everywhere with the penalties if you get caught cutting your own trails in the Mansfield State Forest... people do it sometimes but for the most part it’s really a bad idea... if some State Game Warden catches you with any saw or loppers it will not go well. They can even seize your car or truck you drove to the mountain in that day.

Yeah I wouldn’t touch anything at all. There are heavily fines for clearing state or federal land without approval. They take it as destruction of federal property. People have gotten in serious trouble for cutting stuff to create backcountry ski Glades.

Ozark was phenomenal. I had never watched any season before COVID, then binged all of them. So hooked. Ranks up there with HBO’s The Wire when I first watched that a few years ago.

Yeah I think for even 1000ft you would want 0.5”< QPF in a 6-hr period to have a shot at high end advisory snows.... I think you’ll have to go to the 1500-2000ft+ mid-slope elevations to get like 0.05”/hr rates to work. But yeah for any shot under 1000ft someone better be putting at least 0.10” per hour through the tipper.

As an aside, Facebook is reminding me that 4 years ago we had one of our bigger snow events of the season. In what was easy the worst snow year ever in recent decades, possibly 50 years, for NNE (15-16), we got 3.5" on April 26th.

That 6z EURO and the early 12z HRRR and meso guidance is pretty meager everywhere. Just never gets the strong conveyor belts going all the sudden.

The dynamic cooling shown is pretty impressive. The NAM has it like 50F in northern Maine while its ripping snow in central New England.

Leave the Corolla up on the cinder blocks and use the tires as planters?

BTV’s advisory seems to make sense... mostly for the mid-slope elevations of 1,000-2,000 feet. ..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM SUNDAY TO 11 AM EDT MONDAY... * WHAT...Wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 6 inches above 1000 feet and 2 inches or less below 1000 feet.

Home beautification.

Relative dud’s for Ray are 8-12 inchers. Go big or go home.

It is magical out, ha. BTV is 59F with a dew of 6F... 12% RH. A much more moist 17% here at 58/14. No greenery at all, just paper dry forests.

Beauty out. 56/15 right now... full sun and 20% RH, that's how life should be, ha.

Went for a walk up into the Notch on the closed RT 108.... same road I live off of, just in a totally different world, ha. Snow on the road started right at 1,500ft but what was interesting is the snow at that elevation was only in the bottom of the valley with slopes on both sides fairly snow free for several hundred vertical feet. Can tell the cold pools in the bottom of the valley where the road is and leads to longer preservation. Once up a little higher the snow was in the valley around the road and on the north facing slopes. South facing slopes are burned out by sun up to like 3,000ft. The other cool part was the absolute thunderous crashes of ice falling off the Notch walls. It was crazy. Every few minutes you'd hear another loud boom and crash echoing off the walls. Sunshine and 50F temps were doing a number on the ice that had formed during the past stretch of cold/snowy weather. I've got a video of the sound but can't post it, too big. It was enough to scare the dog at times. Extremely loud. At one point higher on the road we actually saw ice chunks about the size of bowling balls ripping through the woods all the way to the road. The nose was pretty eerie. Larger chunks would die pretty quickly on impact but then these bowling balls of blue ice would skip down the hillside towards the road. Some of the larger chunks that would break off on the south side (not pictured) were refrigerator-sized, it that would shatter on impact into a lot of small rocks of ice.

Extended REGGIE is a lot like the 18z EPS probabilities.... with the exception of the BOS suburbs.

Killington to Eastport axis. Pretty much a straight line shot.

What a beautiful day... full sun and 50s. RT 108 in the Notch isn't going to be opening any time soon. We just walked the road from Stowe (you can see some guardrails up there) and it's still snow covered starting at 1,500ft closure gate and just gets deeper as you go up.

Yeah, you'd have to think the bigger bust potential is on that southern side rather than the northern side of those probabilities. Like Hubb vs. up in this area. Despite similar probs it seems like it would be easier for ORH hills area to get 6"+ than my neck of the woods.