powderfreak

I bet it happens quite a bit early season after suppressed storms... but pretty cool so many folks are getting to experience snow depths higher than the mountain snow belts.

I feel like over the last few years we've gotten more of that SWFE type density up here than we had in the past...absolutely no empirical data to back that up though.

No doubt, I would too...we had some big pasting going on last November. Great for the scenery and base. I do think most events come down to LE anyway when it comes to staying power...but all else has to be equal. For skiing and even NNE vibe, the drier snow mixed with more consistent cold seems to work.

HRRR is pretty robust for tomorrow along the Spine... 18z GFS hammers Jay...

High of 31F up here with overcast and occasional flurries today in town and some snow showers on the hill. EURO and other models argue for some light snow accumulation tonight into tomorrow morning... 0.3” at Mansfield would be nice. I’ll keep you all posted on whether it’s 0.9” or 1.7” at home . Maybe a good car shot from the parking lot with 2-3” of fairy dust at the Mtn.

Now that’s worth looking forward to.

Apparently when it’s over me you pull 20 spots though lol. Depends where in New England it is I guess.

Ha yeah I mean I’ve had some snow on the ground for what seems like 3 weeks... I wouldn’t feel too bad for me .

Man just middle of the pack now after this storm. Now I need to nickel and dime my way back up until the next big SNE storm .

Priceless dude. Little man shoveling a memorable early season winter storm. I'm happy for the larger crew here on the forum. What a solid storm, to historic in some areas.

You had 4” this morning? lol nice. Not even a flake up here.

That 12z GFS was pretty fugly for Sun-Tue....two different rainers to Mainers. Luckily it’s a long way out.

The ALB area QPF storm total amounts are insane. A large area of 2.0-3.0” water with even a couple stations exceeding 3” QPF for the storm. Very rare to get that much QPF in an “all-snow” storm that far from the ocean. I honestly can’t remember anything like that for total QPF around the Capital District in a snow event. Even March 2001 was less than 2” water I think. The town next to my parents, Altamont had 2.64” water and 27” snow. Albany City 2.28” and 23.9” snow. That area of ENY seemed to miss the higher ratio stuff you guys further east got last night.

At least some picnic tables got buried!

I was talking about my folks place who measured 22” on the ground. I didn’t want to just say they got 25”.

It’s always fun when the old stomping grounds gets crushed. Can picture sitting with the laptop all night in high school watching it dump. My final year there was the great 02-03 winter when we got like 50” from Xmas to Jan 4th.

Yeah that sounds about right, I just hate guessing snowfall from depth but seems like you could add a couple inches to the depth given the long duration. I’m not a huge fan of showing a photo of 22” and then reporting it as 25”...just two different methods.

My folks measured 22” on the ground near ALB. With settling and such I’m sure they were over 2 feet of “snowfall” if they bothered to clear at all.

So awesome. I love seeing the home town get crushed. Just NW has done even better. What a storm for that area so early in the season. December 2nd.

It just keeps going for the ALB area. Remarkable storm. 953 PM EST Mon Dec 2 2019 ...PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW THROUGH MIDNIGHT... Bands of moderate to heavy snow will continue moving across the Capital Region, Taconics, eastern Catskills and Helderbergs, Berkshires, Litchfield Hills and portions of the mid Hudson Valley through midnight. Snowfall rates of one half inch, to one inch per hour will be possible during this time, although greater snowfall rates will be possible, especially for areas south and east of the Capital Region into the Taconics.

There have now been a bunch of meso-scale model runs with a band of 0.5"< QPF through CT...if that's high-ratio snow, even the global weaker signal will be significant. Closed mid/upper level lows going under SNE....there's always "a band" that lingers.

That radar looks like someone in CT is going to get smoked in short order. Multiple inches in a couple hours.

My folks have 17” on the ground...just measured a half hour ago. My father said it’s all there, very dense heavy snow. ALB was 32-33F today for a while, so that’s high impact with those liquid equivalent numbers to be sitting with nearly a foot and a half of settled dense snow after 24+ hours of snow....afternoon settling at 33F etc. Given that the official ALB snowfall is running a few more inches than the on the ground total, I bet my folks are 19-20+” storm total if they cleared even once or twice. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s 2” or more QPF too.

What a mauling in the Capital District and westward. Looks like the Catskills are probably getting 2”/hr now. That’s some heavy stuff.

Yes! Bedside clock radio FTW. You knew the stations that would read the list every 20 minutes. Wake up and tune in.