powderfreak

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.

It was a moment of weakness! You can take the weenie out of the snow but can’t fully take the hope out of the weenie.

That is mind boggling.

Yeah I have no issues with the herb. Don’t do it regularly but it seems so much better than booze. Alcohol makes me feel on edge and gets people aggressive. No bar fight was ever started by someone who just lit one up and you don’t hear of folks toking then abusing their spouses or kids...but plenty of those stories with booze. The double standard that alcohol is ok and socially accepted but someone who uses a flower to relax must be a stoner. Might as well call anyone who enjoys a glass of wine an alcoholic.

I tried a tincture at a bar once and about an hour later I couldn’t move my arms. Walked home and it was so unnerving sitting my living room, felt so relaxed I wouldn’t have moved if the house was on fire. I’m assuming you’d build a tolerance?

I’m sure it’s a state thing. Given the volume of material they need to put down in the parking lots and resort roadways, I’m not sure all that salt going into the local waterways is any better. At least with sand they can contain it with silt catch basins and various methods. I mean the spread for traction every single day all winter. My guess is it is something the state of VT has told them to do vs just the cheapest method. Like hey you can put all this sand down and then use a ton of money to pick it back up. I think sand is more costly as they spend weeks cleaning it up.

Man out west isn’t even fair compared to back east. Weather is either beautiful or snowing. Sunshine and 40F and nothing seems to melt because the dew is like 5F. Meandering around Park City right now with 3-4 feet on the ground and mansions everywhere.

Yeah we use sand almost exclusively at the ski resort but then we take the huge snowbanks at end of season and push them back into the parking lots to melt, to recollect the sand. We then have a lot of heavy equipment sweep and collect the sand, which then gets reused the next winter. There are numerous catch basins too to keep runoff sand from reaching the waterways. It’s a pretty expensive program though with a ton of man hours to clean up properly.

That’s part of the forum, but yeah it’s funny because when the threat was 5-7 days out and some thought a big event could be on the table they countered those telling them “it’s over” to just let them follow it. Now it’s close range it’s happening all over again with folks telling people what they should or should not be interested in. I would think 2” of white for even a few hours would be better than chilly, cloudy and breezy. Been a rough winter.

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