powderfreak

It just keeps cranking.

Another couple inches since 5:30am at the mountain. Pulses of moisture moving through but speckled with 30-35dbz at times produces some pretty healthy rates for short durations.

lol what an ugly 10-day run of the Euro last night.

It just keeps snowing. Gotta enjoy it while it’s here. 14” in 4 days at the ski area, all at 2-3” every 12 hours. 1.5” on the car at home and 2.0” in the parking lot at 5:30am up at the office. This stuff feels denser. But it’s literally been 4 days straight of nickel and dime snowfall. We’ll take it as a substitute.

1.5” at home and snowing steadily. Has some density to it clearing the car. The little critter trough getting it done.

Ha you barely beat me to that one. Ripping and pounding as all ASOS are 1.5 miles...but it is a very steady snow. I think folks think of moderate not in terms of visibility but just that it’s snowing hard enough to accumulate quickly on roads. Its almost like another scale from the human perspective (not visibility related)... Light snow is flurries or non accumulating stuff. Moderate is when it’s steady enough to accumulate and heavy snow is like 0.5-1” per hour regardless of visibility (can often get up to 1” in an hour from 0.75 or 1.0 vis)

Agreed. I often think it’s moderate and then see the ASOS is like 1.25sm -SN. I’ve definitely tuned down my estimates over the years. A 1-1.5sm light snow is a pretty darn steady snowfall that will accumulate pretty quick. Even 2-3sm -SN can seem real steady with the right flakes. At night it’s impossible to tell anyway. I think “ripping” on here is used far too often for what is a steady 1-2 mile vis -SN.

Hopefully you guys can pull off some snow. As I am usually talking about, just 1-2” can do good things for the overall wintry appeal.

Time to install?

Haven't posted some photos in a while... here's the past two days on Mansfield:

I mean 4 days ago this was going to rain hard for you and snow up here. I don’t think it was unreasonable for anyone southeast of ORH to think they had a shot.

Ha I was thinking that... a little critter in NVT dropped a widespread 4-6” last night in the Northeast Kingdom of VT and it barely showed up on models. Maybe this little critter can do the same down there.

I just saw that! NEK got crushed by that “little critter” as SNE says. Widespread 4-6” on Cocorahs.

Wow. 15F at RUT (10F at Middlebury) in the southern Champlain Valley and 60s in eastern Mass. Not sure I’ve seen a progged gradient like that. One helluva flash freeze. Keeps going... 8F at my house while windows are open in Weymouth? 50-degree spread is something else.

March 5-6, 2011 had a monster gradient and similar synoptic set up...frontal boundary draping across New England and very juicy wave moving through after overrunning. We had like an inch of rain, then ZR as the SFC chilled much faster than mid-levels, then 27” of snow on 2 more inches of QPF...and it was in the 50s in ORH.

Good weenie out type run... Look at this QPF with temps of 5F at SLK in heavy precip and 57F at IJD.

Impressive for the GFS to have surface temps so cold given that model's issues with 2-M. Even gets ice down to NE CT there on the second wave.

Probably ends up as a blizzard for SNE by the time this is all said and done. Everything seems to want to trend SE with the past like 4-5 systems. Even that run brings ORH County a half inch of ZR. The cold press is way south of the 850 lines.

From dews to 50F to two feet of snow.

It's interesting that in these smaller events I do feel like the mountain gets higher ratio snow and I think it's something that happens along the Spine. J.Spin gets more liquid on the whole but I do think we get lower ratio snow (say only 20:1 vs 40:1) and I noticed it again this morning on CoCoRAHS. When these little fluffers move through the Spine seems to really tap that snow growth and get huge fluffly flakes while in town they are still fluffy but not quite the same. Sometimes it seems like there isn't a huge difference in moisture, just higher ratio snow. But you can see the 0.03-0.04" water and then look at the snowfall differences. I tend to find that J.Spin difference at Mansfield too, where its not always just more moisture but that the flakes seem much larger and stack better. There was around 2" at the mountain by the end of the day today and it was pure air... had to be 40:1 northern stream fluffernutter stuff.

Can’t call it deep winter at all but the one redeeming value has been snow on the ground for the most part since like the 2nd week of November. 4” cumulative over past 48 hrs at home and only 6” total depth... but guess it’s white? River isn’t even frozen. Normally it’s just frozen with snow on it and animal tracks everywhere.

Some decent light snow today. About an inch on my car in 2-3 hrs at the ski area and still coming down steadily.

And up here too!

I know you know this, but many days that’s all you need for the wintry feel. Don’t hate on the snow showers.

Yikes. That’s like April climo here .