powderfreak

Perfect football weather.... oh wait, wrong season.

Jealous. 40s and rain here. Nearest PWS on the golf course is 41/40 with thick fog out the window. Crazy how 60/20 didn’t melt much snow but dews of 40F or higher today are slurping the snow away in town. Down to 4-6” of waterlogged snow in the yard.

I mean, temperatures from one station at that level and it might be an outlier...but top #1 and #2 warmest so far in 2020 at the big 4, that’s unanimous. Warm winter. It has felt like it.

That is pretty impressive. I think that would fall into the winter torch category.

Yeah it plummeted with sun down. As soon as the sun went below the horizon it went from 62F to 36F currently and the snowpack is already firming up from underneath. Low dew points helping with that dramatic drop. You can tell the exact minute that the sun faded from the MVL ASOS... 6:10pm it was 54F and 5 minutes later it was 48F. 6 degrees in 5 minutes with the shadow moving in. Snowpack at the condos here in Stowe Village still holding strong but once the dew points rise it should really start to melt.

Really hard to be depressed on a day like this in the mountains. Might be melting snow but it is some real nice weather.

60F and what an afternoon! Great spring skiing, now T-shirt or hoodie weather walking the dog in town.

Oh man is it glorious. 57/24 and full sunshine. Snowpack slowly going. The dryness seems to keep it from going full mush right now as it has been freezing up hard at night. Yesterday we did 46/11. That's prime spring right there. Very cold lows near 10F and a high of 45-50F.

Going full send. But if it hits the elderly population hard it could get pretty high.

Nope not at all. Crazy how those BDL snowfall numbers won’t be as bad as the season felt.

I saw BDL is only -8.8 inches of snowfall from normal this season!? One hail mary storm gets them to normal? Rooting for that.

Snow cover advancing northward... now brown starting to spread up the Champlain and CT River valleys on either side of Vermont.

An hour 177 ICON image, sweet.

Taking a moment to remember this massive storm 9 years ago. It was 50s from ORH southward while it was teens and 20s and dumping snow up north. We had 27" in Stowe Village and 150" on the season after this one. Snowpack of 40". When winter's were deep.

Agreed on the mountain. Snowfall has been sub-par on the whole, even with a rouge high-end event.

My wife and I just got back from Utah...United Airlines sucked on the way out there, took 23 hours of travel to get from BTV to SLC...taking 3 flights after 4 non-weather related delays to various flights. They gave us seats with no one on either side of us for the 4-hour red eye flight to Newark on the return flight. A good spread.

The virus could see a wide range of death rates depending on what happens going forward. It could cripple nursing homes or assisted living spaces for elderly and spike mortality rates depending on how well prepared they are to contain it in those environments. Likewise if they are proactive and keep it out of those spaces, the mortality rates will be lower. The key to the mortality rates will be infection rates of elderly patients and people with pre-existing conditions. I do think it’s more widespread than we think or know right now...there are a ton of people who won’t go to the doctors unless absolutely necessary due to health care costs and insurance situations. Could certainly be plenty of sick folks trying to tough out a “cold” or “cough” right now without seeing a doctor.

No it’s more like 20 times a month he can find a storm on an OP run somewhere in the 240 to 360 hour range.

Lol, snowman is the voice of reason he needs for those long range fantasy threats he always posts about.

I think my yard will be toast in a week or less... the hill has feet of natural and many feet of snowmaking/sleet style. It certainly looks like an earlier melt out for sure but we’ll make scheduled closing day like always unless something real weird happens. Even in 2012 the snowmaking routes survived till the end. It takes a lot of warmth/energy to wipe it out.

Snow retreating northward for the season...

We need any covering we can get. But milder afternoon temperatures soften things up it seems. It's snowing pretty well here this evening. Everything has whitened. Surprisingly good snow growth. BTV with 1/2sm moderate snow in this wave of moisture.

Crusty spring snow. The time of year when if it won’t snow, the best surface conditions are above freezing.

That seems not rooted in science. Like what would cause it to "not snow"? Luck? You have storms going both north and south of you, it's not something in the atmosphere causing a black hole over you for snow flakes. Like in 2014 up here... everything either cut north of us, or Philly got a Winter Storm Warning with the "Leon year". But a moose fart in Alberta could've brought one of those north or south enough to snow here... it just didn't, bad luck? I rightfully got owned by Will back then too for thinking it just wouldn't snow because it didn't want to snow. That's a psychological thing, not a meteorology thing.

Back in Stowe from Utah... some big ol’ flakes flying up here in the mountains. Still have 8-10” of frozen granular pack. Weird to have the echoes moving from NE to SW.