powderfreak

45 degree diurnal range so far today at the ASOS. -24F to 21F.

From Banter thread but will live on in here: What a Sunday out there. -22F this morning on the full moon clear skies, fresh deep pack...it looked like the surface of the moon this morning at -20s. Sun is out and temps are rising fast. 16" of snow depth in the yard. There's still a pretty good glaze from the ZR before the snow on the pines...they are feeling it after acouple days of solid weight.

What a Sunday out there. -22F this morning on the full moon clear skies, fresh deep pack...it looked like the surface of the moon this morning at -20s. Sun is out and temps are rising fast. 16" of snow depth in the yard. There's still a pretty good glaze from the ZR before the snow on the pines...they are feeling it after acouple days of solid weight.

Clear, calm and cold this evening. Fresh snowpack, crystal clear skis and crazy bright moonlight...

It was most certainly due to the evolution of the storm. I’d call it one of the worst road surfaces you’ll see here... washboard ice. Like a mud season rumblestrip but made out of ice and melt/compression holes. The first event probably made it wintry, but then there was prolonged light freezing rain at 23-25F in BTV that got real icy. It was icy around here with ZR at at higher 28-31F temps here. But low/mid 20s liquid gets icy on plowed stuff in a hurry. Top it off with a decent period of 1-2”/hr that drops a quick 8-10” at the airport... I bet that’s a tough combo to battle, prolonged light icing the heavy thump.

The landscape is lit right now. Another shot from a friend driving through Stowe today that's worth sharing...

Stealing from a friend in Stowe Village. What a caking snow.

Ha you were fast. I fat fingered that. It was around 13" here. I rushed out this morning but there was an additional inch on my car from when I left this morning from when I shoveled at 11pm.

Pasted white. That was a fun storm for up here... we don't get those heavy QPF bombs like SNE does.

Yeah had about 13" at home on 1.58" water. 3,000ft ended with 19". The most picturesque snow I've seen in town in a very long time. Just a heavy QPF dump that stacked on everything from power lines to trees and street lights.

Just got power back after a 2-3 hour outage. Damn white pines love to break and wreck havoc. Luckily we are on the main line with the Mtn Road lodges and restaurants, so there's a rush to get it back. It looks like the Pacific NW out the back door. The birches are really bending too.

Power is out to a large portion of the Mountain Road here in Stowe. No bueno but I’m on the line with a bunch of restaurants and lodges so hopefully they sort it out soon. Heavy wet snow after icing last night and now high winds. Trees starting to drop...Fukkin white pines. Time to hit the bar though that has power...

Down lower at 1,200ft where there’s less wind. Up at 1,500ft... Had to stop a few times driving and wait for the wind to die down before continuing.

I’m failing you all right now. Hope to have some aftermath photos later or tomorrow morning. Working late tonight for some big group arrivals at the ski area this weekend.

Yeah they will likely do 2-day totals as that’s what the Warning was for.

Yeah I think it’s 15” as we got an inch of sleet last night to add to 4” yesterday and 10” today.

Can see where it’s snowing. Green traffic in SNE and all orange and spots of red in NNE.

Picked up about 10” today at the mountain. Fairly evenly distributed at all elevations. But that was one of the heaviest 3-4hr bursts we’ll see up here. Tons of QPF. The ASOS had like 0.30” water in 2hrs there and that’s probably under reported.

So looking at the Snow Cam... 9am nothing... 1:30pm there's about an 8" stack. 8" in 4.5 hours and it really didn't get going until 11am to be honest. We are checking the High Road stake manually in a bit to see if it confirms.

Seems steady around 2"/hr. Probably varies short bursts from 1" to 3"/hr.

Just incredible snow.

Nuking.

Yeah it happens in these with the northerly drain. Any time of CAA from NW, BTV will cool a lot faster. Just bleeds down the Champlain Valley. This morning the coldest places on the PWS map were right on the lake shore.

This is wet paste here. Could be like 8” on 1” water. It’s on power lines, trees, and roads are real greasy even with only 1-2” last 60-90 min.

I figure about 2-4pm will be go time. Gotta see if those heated walkways can keep up with that, lol.