powderfreak

Yeah that’s crazy how localized it is this time of year. That’s a lot of rain in a fast period of time.

This is the cell down near Waterbury as seen from my place, hearing the thunder from it... there's even some mammatus clouds now in the armpit of that thing.

Got a good view today directly across from the pocket of rocks that ripped out in that slide a couple weeks ago in Smugglers Notch. Crazy to think how big the boulders were and home much damage they did to the forest below, but also how small it is in the grand scheme of things.

What a localized water dump, J. That's pretty awesome.

What a quick dump of liquid on an otherwise warm and clear evening everywhere else. I also bet those storms continued into the NEK in narrow bands, but radar had strongest over your area. CoCoRAHS should tell the story in the morning with precip amounts.

That's a crazy hit. That Winooski River Valley seems to lead to localized convergence at times. It is just rotting over you, ha! Precip totals seem like the moisture split the gaps in a way.

Be curious how much rain you get. You are training pretty good now too. Been seeing constant lightning and rumbles of thunder now for a bit out the south facing sliders.

Yeah, it always cracks me up. Finishing up a hike it just started to absolutely pour as I got to the car, but I'm thinking, "I just looked at the radar like 20 minutes ago and there was literally nothing on it...how is it pouring now?" Ha. The Spine fires them up out of no where.

Pretty good snow shower for the mountains ripped through Mansfield and is now hitting Bolton. Can see the phase change in the visibility up high. And legit snowing pretty good on the Bolton Valley Vista Peak cam:

Played for the first time this season two days ago at a local 9-hole track not far from the MVL ASOS, lol. Wasn’t too pretty, bogey golf but it was first time out.

Time to Shut 'Em Down. That's going to do it for the continuous snowpack season at the fabled Mansfield stake. I went up with the dog to get today's reading and called it 3" though it becomes very tough this time of year. Yesterday's record heat just absolutely eviscerated the remaining snow and the snowpack is now fractured with bare spots. It's really 0-24" up there but the official ruling is to go to a "Trace" once the snow no longer creates a full circle around the stake tree. Today was certainly the last day for that as the little 1-2" bridge in front of the stake won't make it through tonight and certainly not through tomorrow. So tomorrow will go down as a Trace. One helluva impressive snowpack drop the past two weeks, but that's what 9 days averaging +14.1F will do. Yesterday was a whopping +26.5 in the means. Hard to pull daily means greater than +25 in the warm season.

Posted this in the May thread but good info for this thread too as it moves at a slower pace. With the snow melting fast, I'm trying to get up there every 48 hours or so now for stake readings. It's a walk for sure, 3.5 miles each way with 2,600 vertical foot gain just to get a snow depth reading... but who am I kidding, the dog and I love it. I called it 30" today on my report to WFO BTV. It gets hard this time of year with the melt ring to narrow in on a certain inch. Its in free-fall now... lost 11" in the past 48 hours alone. The summit isn't cooling off at night like the valleys. The valleys are getting down to frost levels in the low to mid 30s at night but the summit has now been 48 hours in the 50F to 70F range. Not good for snow preservation when you don't drop below 50F, ha. Stunning weather though to wander around in the mountains. Not a cloud in the sky for like the 5th or 6th day in a row, ha.

With the arrival of sustained 70-80F temps in the valleys and 50-60F+ at the summit, we are finally on our final descent at the Mansfield Stake. I hiked up there today to get a reading to pass along to the NWS, lots of water pouring out of the higher elevations as they release that high SWE.

Hard to believe this is the scene in the Green Mountains on May 12th... The Western Slopes got crushed...certainly more over there than on the East side. Nice day for a weenie drive. A view looking at Trapp Family Lodge of "Sound of Music" fame....

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.