powderfreak
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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.
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7” in Rochester, VT on Cocorahs was the highest in the state.
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Sugarbush cam had 12” on it.
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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.
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How much on the ground?
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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".
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MPV/Montpelier at 1,200ft is 39F also with 0.10-0.15"/hr precip rates in that band.
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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.
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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.
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Sugarbush at 3100ft... 1”/hr and 3” total so far.
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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.
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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.
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That’s crazy, still 35F at the Mansfield summit at 6:05pm at 4000ft. Down here at 750ft it’s 48/38 with rain.
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Highest snowfall so far is in Schoharie County. Jefferson is a very high town... 2,000-2,200ft.
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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.
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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.
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Ha, does look like that pivot in NY State was sort of what we were expecting in Central New England a couple days ago.
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Gonna be a high elevation event for a while here. Like 2kft or more.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah they come to mind. At Stowe we have signs everywhere with the penalties if you get caught cutting your own trails in the Mansfield State Forest... people do it sometimes but for the most part it’s really a bad idea... if some State Game Warden catches you with any saw or loppers it will not go well. They can even seize your car or truck you drove to the mountain in that day.
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Yeah I wouldn’t touch anything at all. There are heavily fines for clearing state or federal land without approval. They take it as destruction of federal property. People have gotten in serious trouble for cutting stuff to create backcountry ski Glades.
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Ozark was phenomenal. I had never watched any season before COVID, then binged all of them. So hooked. Ranks up there with HBO’s The Wire when I first watched that a few years ago.
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Yeah I think for even 1000ft you would want 0.5”< QPF in a 6-hr period to have a shot at high end advisory snows.... I think you’ll have to go to the 1500-2000ft+ mid-slope elevations to get like 0.05”/hr rates to work. But yeah for any shot under 1000ft someone better be putting at least 0.10” per hour through the tipper.
