powderfreak

I’m almost afraid to post about this system.

We’ve never seen ETaunton this pissed off in all our years. I’m mind blown lol. Always first to remind everyone how little he cares about snow.

Yeah lol that’s exactly what I was thinking of! Haha we can’t control the weather. If you can’t laugh at it, time for a new hobby.

This last hour may have been the forum’s biggest shitshow.

All of my melts generally get responded with... gasoline on the fire... “Glad we don’t live there.”

I’ve always thought your general disposition towards winter was the same as mine over the years so I fully get it. I assume caution and what could go wrong more than what could go right, lol. I get it dude. I’d feel the same way. I give Kev credit, he has pretty much just stepped away lol.

I totally get it but do we need to do it every day for the next couple weeks? I’ve had some monster melts (Jan 2014) but we don’t do it every single day. Though in all honesty, we all love snow. It’s a huge part of our enjoyment so I get it, but I’ve always thought when I melt it’s time to step away.

Yup. Full on melts daily at this point. It’s like when you try to console a crying toddler and they scream louder . Everyone is so salty, even Bobby I don’t care about snow is starting to lose it.

We’ll remember this if you guys get smoked with a rogue storm for sure. I’m with Ray, SNE isn’t done.

I’ve seen you guys pull big storms out of your asses for the past like 7 years. If you can do it in 15-16, you can do it in any winter. I’m sorry, didn’t want to disrupt your pity party lol. The chances are always small but SNE would have the highest chances of anyone given the climate frequency of these big storms lately.

Yeah that’s actually a fairly impressive gradient between 1000ft ORH and 1000ft Hubby. I didn’t know it was that tight. I sort of lump them together in my head as the ORH Hills.

Yeah I keep lumping you guys in with HubbDave and some of the others there but they got smoked harder in that big storm in December. I don’t know why I think ORH is at like 42” on the year. I think up here we will be below average too but I still think you can never write off a big bomb in SNE. It’s your climate, less small events but a higher chance at a biggie. I just picture everyone totally checked out then you get a big paste bomb this spring. One storm can still save the season from a snowfall standpoint, at least getting values more respectably close to climo. I’ve always been jealous of SNE’s ability to do that....just rip an 18-incher right through the BDL-BOS axis and it changes the tenor quickly.

It would be entirely stupid to write off a winter in SNE. You can pull a bomb to lift a winter out of ratter territory even in April. It always shocks me how many folks do that and there will be a widespread 12-24” on March 14th or something.... and all the sudden many folks are 17” higher in their snowfall total and reaching normal snow on the season.

-32F this morning at the Island Pond airport in VT. Only -24F here though.

Yeah the several light snowfalls in a row are usually the best skiing...because crowds stay away (no Powder day rush that a TWC named and hyped storm brings) and it’s usually the best snowfall amount that the majority of the public can still ski without struggling. 3-6 inchers every few days is sort of a bread and butter pattern up here as JSpin likes to call it.

Put together this latest storm's snowfall readings on Mansfield at the High Road Plot. 19" total and I'd wager there was close to 2.0" of water when all was said and done. 155" on the season so far, tracking below the 20 year average but we have now hit the same amount of snow we had in the entire 2015-16 season, ha.

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.