powderfreak

I'll have to look for the storm summary map, but it was a big upper level low that brought widespread snow everywhere and then transitioned to a monster upslope event I think. @klw was living up in the Northeast Kingdom I think at the time, I remember he had like 14" or something? Peacham maybe? Funny how we remember that stuff, ha. Couldn't tell you anything else about him except I remember how much he got in a snowstorm a decade ago . I just seem to remember the set-up went from widespread heavy precipitation across the northern third of NNE as something traversed across, then the backside NW flow really added it up from the Spine back towards BTV. It had to be a frigid air mass though to get 5.5" at BTV this time of year.

Crazy as we had full sun up here and CLR skies this morning.... up to 49F at MVL while you are getting catpaws. Sun comes out and the temperature immediately corrects to about 50F even with sub-zero 850s.

Crazy looking through my photos though of how much green was around on the trees. Most trees had small leaves at least.... this year absolutely nothing. Barely getting a red haze of buds on some of the canopy. Like in that photo look at the trees behind that house, the crowns have some leaves. But yeah it wasn't paste, all those trees are still standing even with snow on them. We are still stick season in full this year.

Remembering 10 years ago.... biggest event of the winter I think for a bunch of folks up here. Even BTV pulled 5.5" down at pretty much sea level, lol. 700-800ft had 18". Still had snow cover on May 1st, ha.

Up this way, Stowe is pretty much 100% skiable still. A couple locals I know poaching the uphill found 8" up there this morning and two foot drifts on Goat.

7” in Rochester, VT on Cocorahs was the highest in the state.

Sugarbush cam had 12” on it.

Snow levels based on the bright banding height from BTV, would indicate best snow above 2,000ft and white rain down to 1,500ft. Probably a bit lower in CVT where the mesoband developed. This would've been a fun storm in the lower elevations a month ago.

How much on the ground?

Actually on closer look at the time stamps, seems like it's 2"/hr at Sugarbush. This is just shy of 2 hour difference and almost 4".

MPV/Montpelier at 1,200ft is 39F also with 0.10-0.15"/hr precip rates in that band.

Definitely going to need some decent elevation with this. Crazy that GFL has been in that fronto mesocale band and is ripping 0.10< per hour in the bucket at times (0.60" in last 6 hours).... and the coldest it can dynamically cool to is 38F so far.

Yeah, snowing at 2,000ft on the Bolton Valley cam up here. The lowest snow levels are under that meso-band... strong mid-level frontogenesis like BGM-GFL-MPV-BML axis.

Sugarbush at 3100ft... 1”/hr and 3” total so far.

What a mesoscale band going from like BGM to BML. Mid-winter we’d all just be watching that zone get crushed with -SN around it.

I'm figuring based on the bright banding circle developing around the BTV radar that this is the current snow level up here. Around 2,800ft.

That’s crazy, still 35F at the Mansfield summit at 6:05pm at 4000ft. Down here at 750ft it’s 48/38 with rain.

Highest snowfall so far is in Schoharie County. Jefferson is a very high town... 2,000-2,200ft.

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.