powderfreak

Yeah I like SWFE chances even if they aren’t big dogs...they are usually moderate events but widespread. But I don’t get all jacked up on a late blooming Miller B pattern like some of ya’ll.

We are going to have our chances. GFS and Euro offered some decent hope for the next 7-10 days with a variety of overrunning events.

No one wants below normal with a gradient pattern for DC/Philly . Keep the heating bills in check and drape frontal boundaries nearby for lots of overrunning.

Yeah I was thinking Detroit, but same thing ha.

Start a storm thread?

Wintry appeal lol.

Still a nice light snow look on the 6z EURO for the interior from that northern stream energy.

This January was hot. These are some pretty crazy monthly departures... BTV... +8.0 MVL... +7.2 MPV... +6.7 It’s pretty impressive we’ve been able to at least get some snow and keep it on the ground this month. Guess it shows how cold January in NNE should be when it’s +7 to 8 and our mean max temp is still below freezing. 31/14 is +7...guess we can still survive at that departure in mid winter.

Maybe NNE can salvage a light 1-3” refresh from the northern stream? Decent little streak across the north.

We'd weed out quite a bit of weenies if we banned all those who blindly believe big snows are always coming...

Nice shot there @ChasingFlakes! Here's one from Stowe yesterday. The Northern Greens have been showing off with this past storm cycle.

I had the opposite opinion, I feel like everything goes east at the end and isn’t as amped up as expected. But that’s from someone way NW who pays attention to that. Even the last system slid east at the last moment and kept the mountains here snow when they were going to rain.

And then do the “Messenger East Shuffle” (RIP) within the last 36 hours...

Yeah that’s why folks are looking for a bigger event. It’s either fish or big hit. It won’t do anything if it scrapes SE Mass...air mass looks pretty shitty.

I believe we had it at 37” prior to the event after those mild couple days last Friday/Saturday. We’ve been supplying the NWS with daily photos of the Stake since their camera battery died (I think they are trying to replace it today or tomorrow). I thought 37” was the lowest I saw documented before the storm. Getting back towards normal now. Feels like it, this stuff was dense and the positive impact on skiing this moist upslope event had cannot be understated. Yesterday skied Upper Goat for first time this season with no ice. Just nice dense powder.

Had a few lingering flurries at 5am at the mountain that cleared out rapidly from 6-7am here. Clear skis now and that’s the official end to 4-days of persistent snow that brought 15” of dense snow to the upper half of the mountain.

Ha! Used that earlier out on the hill. Just constant refreshes and finally the frozen QPF shot the mountain needed, including the base area. The base area at 1,500ft was around 7-8" total...3,000ft was twice that over the past few days.

Forecasting what a weather model will forecast seems like an interesting way to go about it. Why would we forecast what a model will forecast?

You are honest at least. No cold rain while Pickles figures out if he can travel to the Berkshires or Catskills.

The theme seems to be they’d rather partly cloudy than watch it rain while it snows further west. Cant say I blame them. Been a rough decade for Eastern Mass .

Ha they try to drive up here all the time. Last year we had someone under the influence try to go up and get stuck axle deep next to the Mountain Ops building. I saw two cars stuck on New Years morning trying to go up the Cat Road here. One made it all the way to the bridge before starting the climb to Spruce.

Just an amazing powder cycle from this latest storm.

And this was at noon today... added a real nice thick blanket to the mountain. Best day of skiing this season for me. Who knew this storm would continue to produce so much. The skiing from this storm is insane up high. Just knee deep trenches. Thick snow though, perfect with lots of small little flakes packing in tight.

Man, its like the energizer bunny. Still ripping snow at the ski area (boxed area). Roads are white down in town again but nothing like what's happening up at 1,500ft there.

Just getting crushed. High Road Stake showing 13” storm total. Another 4” fell today. Low ratio graupel and small flakes. What a QPF dump on the mountain. Skis very deep.