powderfreak

I don't know where he is but I'd bet a good dense couple feet in that pic? We've been pretty steady lately with 12-18" on the ground in the lower elevations surrounding the "mountains" while once 1,500ft and higher it's more like 18-36". Champlain Valley is less with 8-14" in general.

That's always a common idea during a snowy December it seems. If it snows early, everyone starts "wondering" if that is how winter will go.

Still finding fresh untracked lines at Stowe despite the holiday week crowds. Anyone telling you that you can't find fresh lines hasn't looked hard enough

Nice! I've always wanted to go there. A 4.5 mile loop sounds awesome and I've seen a lot of friends post photos from there over the past few years. One thing I notice there is despite the very warm departures at times this winter, the NNE climate still supports winter. Lakes are frozen solid, with snow on the ground even with a +5.9F to +7.4F month of January in the northern half of Vermont. What we have had is a good supply of very cold nights this past month though. Days have warmed nicely but some of these nights are pretty high end cold.

Could be at Alyeska, Alaska.... 50" storm total and 613" so far this season.

-21F this morning... yikes.

That really would really be a feat. I still think you guys get an advisory event at the least going out, always the chance of a hail mary in SNE too. If anyone can rip out a big solid surprise spring snowstorm, it's you guys in the interior/hills of SNE. Random bombs is what you do, just get some transient blocking...even a quick hitter.

Wind-blown chalky snow up here. Base is solid and snow is fun but those 80-100mph winds did some wind-packing for sure. Blew a lot of the snow out of the trees too. From looking at the Mansfield Chin, the wind really scoured things and moved that snow down into the snowfields. Nice lower elevation transport in this wind.

Shouldn't have moved to ORH... ORH was the home of big snow bombs until MPM moved to town.

Yeah can’t rationalize that, haha. Great visual.

Yeah and southeast flow really downsloped that area. Not that it upsloped on the east side but being on the edge of the precip shield AND downsloping really dropped totals off fast east of the Spine... from like 2" to a heavy dusting. We had the worlds smallest flakes yesterday up here... looked like arctic sand type snow you'd get when its -5F but it was actually in the 20s. The squalls this morning probably doubled the "storms" totals, lol.

They have their daily climate summary maps which could fill that void...

Yeah you know your local climo. I’m always hard pressed to call anyone out around here knowing how vastly different the snowfall can be in very short distances, like 1” wouldn’t even be a red flag. But you know your area... heck I’m at a higher elevation than JSpin by 250 feet but 30” behind him and he’s the next town south. But it’s legit. Even if someone two miles from me said they got a couple inches more in a synoptic event I’d believe it, ha. Even in those with strong low level jet there can be decent orographic changes.

6 observations between 4.0" and 4.5" and then 1 observation that's 1+ inch more than the rest. It does sort of stand out... it's not *that* bad but all the others are so close within a half inch there.

Ahh missed it. Will have to search. I went down the rabbit hole reading up on it this morning.

Speaking of fake cold, this place in Utah called Peter Sinks records some ridiculous cold temperatures. I saw they are -46F this morning. In October (2019) they set the United States record (including Alaska) for coldest temperature ever for that month at -45.5F. Back in 1969 they hit -69F.

Almost straight whiteout now at the ski area in these heavy echos. By far heaviest snowfall of the entire event, as usual once the winds flip westerly.

Some solid squalls moving through up here. Heaviest snow of the event, ha. ...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT THE I-89 CORRIDOR FROM BURLINGTON TO WATERBURY THROUGH 9 AM.. At 744 AM EST...A snow squall was over South Burlington and Essex Junction...moving southeast at 20 mph. Locations impacted include... Essex Junction, South Burlington, Burlington International Airport, Burlington, Winooski, Stowe, Waterbury Village, Westford, Waitsfield, Fayston, Colchester, Essex Junction Village, Williston, Bolton, Richmond, Underhill, Jericho, Hinesburg, Waterbury, St. George and Huntington.

Tighten up that range .

Only 2" for this event at the ski resort.... a very light crust too from some freezing mist of about a couple tenths of an inch on the top of the snow surface.

Nice system for you southerners (southern NNEers, ha). Only 2” of sand up here. Small flakes all day, decently dense stuff. Seemed like that arctic sand snow but at much warmer temps. Wintry appeal though with around 15” on the ground.

That track looks familiar this season.... for all the crap we give Blizzy for his persistence forecast, even the clown range models can't buck the seasonal trend for even a run or two . That EURO snow map Ginxy posted too looks like a lot of snow maps we've seen this season. It's bizarre how stable that has been for months now.

This was the EURO's snowfall map from this morning.... to be honest I'm not exactly sure where N. Conway is relative to the county lines, just that it's SE of the Whites/Presidentials. Good spot for this system. At least your female companionship can actually experience a real 6 up there.

What are you up to? Seems models were a good 6-8” there?

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