powderfreak

Still no sun, mountains are socked in. Another day walking along the river with the dog. Maybe throw some rocks? Lol. Gonna be a while till it’s swim season, our sunning rock still has snow on it. Flat and titled towards the summer sun, great to chill on with an IPA.

Hit the nail on the head. Im just seeing this thread but that pretty much sums it up IMO. Up here for 30+ acres I’d go somewhere in that graphic that mreaves put up. Just east of the Spine into the Northeast Kingdom gets a lot of snow, with many of the CoCoRAHS spots where people live recording some pretty enviable snow/depth combos. Maine has that far out feel though and better retention for the most part with more QPF heavy snow when it falls. I’m biased but in terms of true skiing conditions, Sunday River has great snowmaking but I do believe the northern Greens have better overall surface conditions and more “powder days” per season due to the snow squall aspect....the random 8-10” fluffers and even daily 2-3” really go a long way into conditions. Especially behind rainers and cutters, the slopes can refresh themselves naturally pretty quick with a variety of ways on any westerly flow...from Lake Ontario or just cyclonic upslope, etc. Get a big rainer followed by a freeze, a 4-6” refresher at Bolton/Stowe/Smuggs/Jay goes a long way in helping the conditions the day after...even if it’s fluffy snow, groom it and it definitely takes the edge off. I know JSpin is big on that aspect but it does make a difference in daily surface conditions. Now we also miss the Sugarloaf two footers from a coastal storm but day in and day out for skiing conditions, it does seem to help to get more frequent snows....like a natural snowmaking system. That effect seems to decrease considerably south of I-89 and really drops off south of Sugarbush.

Ha, I'm refreshing the loop saying the same thing. Need it. Want it. Looks like some Soviet era movie set here with gray skies, nothing growing at all, brown lawn, sticks and a few rotting snowbanks. Maybe I'll take a walk to the local nuclear reactor.

Need some damn sun. So dark the past few days. Looks like NE VT has started to clear out but still socked in here. Hopefully we can all clear out to at least partly sunny this afternoon.

You ever notice if wind direction matters? I don’t know enough about automated rain gauges. Interesting project though to figure out.

You got a stratus to check against?

Love me some Canadian porn. Oh what an upslope event, lol.

We lucked out today... high of 52F and only a few passing showers. I guess that counts as "lucking out" given the weather in some other areas. I was at least able to get out for an 8-mile walk to pass the time without getting wet. Big orographic differences in precip with this one from east slope to west slope... only about 0.35" here but the other side of Smugglers Notch had 0.93" on the west slope with that low level NW flow under the NE mid-level flow, which usually leads to extremely blocked flow as winds aloft don't let the precip break over the crest.

I read far too deep into that post then. Anyway, lets hope we don't have 3-days of 36F crap where most live, with snows above 1,500-2,000ft in NNE. Tis the season though.

Yeah the maps that use 925mb and above temps for snow work well in winter, but not in April when the lowest 1,500-2,000ft gets torched pretty easily. In that verbatim solution it's likely 1,000ft+ for snows in the Greens/Whites. Funny how the snow maps evolve with time of year too. They are the same maps as January, but with very different environmental factors. P-Type algorthim's lol. SFC temps never get below 34-35F.

One can dream if it won’t be 70F. Looks like plenty of snow maps for winter 19-20.

Ha autocorrect issue in my post. It was the Cabot station. I saw 4” and was like wtf, then looked up the coordinates and it comes back to 2,000ft on a side road off RT 2. Similar elevation to that App Gap VTrans Cam by Mad River Glen. Its on that western side of the Orange to Sheffield Heights...real weenie spot that does decent westerly flow upslope on that secondary ridge out in NEK.

CoCoRAHS a couple towns around got 4" last night... looked at it and man what a weenie spot at 2,010ft.

Snowy evening in the high country. Not high enough here at 750ft on the valley bottom. Mangled flakes and rain at 36-37F. Looks like winter up high though.

From what I can see in this area that looks similar to here... like a 1300-1600ft zone to all snow depending on intensity. Snow mixing down to 1,000ft or a bit under?

First time all season it seems the radar has precipitation moving east to west like an actual coastal storm. Some bright banding around BTV from flakes just off the deck, but overall the radar picture is a nor'easter style that we haven't seen in a while.

Snowy up by Jay Peak too.

Here's some good snow on on the RT 17 cam over App Gap right next to Mad River Glen ski area.

I don’t know why you are defensive? I merely looked at the cam and thought if it snowed 3” there’d be 3” on the roof of that barn too. I was just clearing up that it didn’t snow that much. Didn’t mean to offend ya.

Yeah but that snow has been there since the system the other day. That’s not from today. Whats on the roof of that birdhouse or barn is from today.

There's no way Mt Snow has gotten 3" today? The radar looked like it just barely started there. Even the places in Maine with the heaviest precip have only had 0.35" or so QPF so far. EURO qpf through 7pm... I'd find it hard to believe Mt Snow has picked up 0.30"+ water equiv for 3" of snow so far.

Just some wet flurries here so far. We are blocked on the east side with all the NW to NE veering in the wind flow with height, we are going to be shadowed here in town. Mountain is behind a wall of white 5 miles away but with NNE flow aloft under the NW upslope low level flow, that precip isn’t propagating east into town.

I'm fairly certain the laws of thermodynamics would disagree about the warm season being drier, but the response seems iron clad, ha. Love it.

You are surprisingly conservative on a system backing in from the east. Those are usually gung-ho river east with goodies for all back to NY state, no?

You might do real well. 6z EURO was fairly snowy.