powderfreak

This is insane. We are starting to take on accumulation at home now. Downloading some photos of the flakes. I measured some over 1.5" in diameter. Nice banding over the RT 100 corridor here.

I found out they are on the Winter version of the Sugarbush App. These have to be the biggest flakes I've seen in a very long time.

This is wild. It is ripping huge wet flakes the size of saucers.

Still not warm. VTZ003-004-006>008-016>018-120100- Orleans-Essex-Lamoille-Caledonia-Washington-Eastern Franklin- Eastern Chittenden-Eastern Addison- Including the cities of Newport, Island Pond, Johnson, Stowe, St. Johnsbury, Montpelier, Enosburg Falls, Richford, Underhill, Bristol, and Ripton 609 PM EDT Mon May 11 2020 ...A period of heavy wet snowfall is expected this evening... Surface observations and web cams show rain has changed to a heavy wet snowfall across the western slopes into parts of central and northern Vermont, mainly above 1000 feet. A quick dusting to 3 inches is possible, which will cause localized areas of slick travel and the potential for a few isolated power outages, especially across the higher elevations. The accumulating snowfall should taper off by 9 PM this evening. Flipped to wet snow at 750ft now. Photo from above 1,500ft.

Just had to take a little drive. We are getting catpaws down at 750ft but above 1,500ft it is absolutely nuking snow.

Pretty cool radar signature. Low level inflow with like a mini warm conveyor belt lifting north and cold conveyor belt in the Champlain Valley? Is that what I'm seeing? The mountains up here are going to rip for a bit here. Could put down a fast several inches above 2,500ft. Bright banding is collapsing into the BTV radar site too, snow levels might be getting down decently low.

Yeah I think they all are north of Killington. Just can't see it, ha. Sugarbush took down their upper mountain cams after the last storm. Even snowing at the Bolton base pretty hard, just starting to stick. Those folks who live up there at 2kft get another measurable snowfall, ha. White ridgelines in the morning.

No? Already dumping on the Bolton cam. Look at the size of those flakes. Absolutely dumping up there, looks like an inch on the haul rope already.

Nothing exciting up here... just cold rain in the 40s. Awful afternoon. Bright banding on the BTV radar with snow levels around 3,000ft. Looks like the Adirondacks are going over to snow, too. Probably some fresh white on the summits and ridges tomorrow morning.

Yeah and without a lot of vegetation we can get warm fast this time of year. Would welcome a nice 60s and 70s temperature SW flow type pattern.

Today felt worse than yesterday. At least yesterday was interesting with squalls. Today has just been cloudy, very windy and 40s for temps.

Just hit 45F here, snow showers tapered off and some breaks of sun coming through. I’d wager this morning was the last time I’ll see legit flakes flying out my living room until October. Crazy how we all saw the last snow at the same time, all the way to Long Island.

Myself and Andre Blais are the ones that usually get them their “alternative way” of measurements but with uphill closed we aren’t risking jobs for that. We have a network of folks who aren’t following the rules that we try to get some photos from and pass along. I’ve been hiking alternative lower elevation trails and roads.

Still been seeing snow showers and persistent flurries the past couple hours. Crazy to keep having flakes flying. There was a fresh trace of white on the ground this morning that's now gone. Maybe a quarter inch. These light snow showers and flurries should taper off at some point, ha.

Whiteface in the Adirondacks, 14F.

You are in a snowy spot man. I visit your type of climate almost every day but I don't live in it. The local mesoscale differences even within towns around NNE is pretty nuts, you are in the "snowier" inhabited zone. Good moisture from better low development the further east you get, and a blocked flow given the tilting in the atmosphere, this was a great set-up for you tucked in on that NW slope of the Presidential Range.

Fukkin' May and there's a coating of the snow on the ground there... I don't know the climo as much down there but I have to think these types of snow squalls are on a pretty decent return time.

We knew this air mass wouldn't be denied. Squalls all over the place.

I might even try to find the twitter thread of this Cranky fellow.... what a terrible way to go down swinging by trying to minimize this. Need some good entertainment, I’m assuming Twitter has lit the guy up. Not sure what’s more impressive, the air mass or the fact that a weather personality thinks this is run of the mill.

Squalls up here this time of year, pretty cool and impressive. But squalls like your photo, in the time of max diurnal temperatures, along the Long Island Sound is absolutely bonkers for this time of year. Guess that’s what happens when 850mb and 500mb are near the minimum climo values on the NAEFS ensemble.

Squalls are fun. Localized whiteouts moving through an otherwise bluebird day, ha.

Crazy that a couple spots like 40 minutes from ALB woke up to 8-12" too. I'd expect it more up that way in maritime bomb cyclone land. Just an awesome day weather wise all around.

These squalls have been going pretty much consistently for like 8 hours now. Pretty impressive to have this steady stream of snow showers and squalls under the cold pool for so many hours on end. Sun then snow then sun then graupel then sun then snow, etc.

It's obviously worked for Tolland for a while. I mean if you have a State barracks in the town, that pretty much covers it. Troopers always going to and from the barracks is enough to keep enforcement up in a small town.

Had some massive graupel on my hike... stuff was like the size of BBs. A general 4-5” fresh inches above 1800ft made it through the day with no melting. Still getting snow showers at home and some snow has made it through the whole day on the north side of barriers. Crazy to get an inch and a half to not fully melt out everywhere at this elevation in May.