powderfreak

Good 3” so far in the Stowe Base area this afternoon.

Some incredible snow growth with these blossoming snow showers. Like 1” diameter fluff flakes. Stacking up like potato chips in a bag...half air.

Bread and butter on Wednesday evening. This is obscene at BTV during rush hour. Snow growth smack in some insane lift as that arctic shortwave moves through...that has another evening of absolute mayhem on I-89 written all over it.

A light resurfacing. This should groom in nicely.

Persistent flurry continues. At least it's white again out there. Snowfall has been nickle and dime this month with some solid thaws, but the amount of bare ground has been limited due to timely CAA snows.

Good grief... on a Sunday evening none-the-less. What the hell happened on 89 in the western BTV suburbs. VSP HAZARDOUS TRAVEL ALERT: Travel remains treacherous due to snow and ice on Interstate 89, especially along the corridor between Richmond (exit 11) and Burlington (exit 14), although hazardous conditions persist along much of the highway and secondary roads. Traffic is reported to be stopped both northbound and southbound from exit 11-14, with as many as 30 or more slide-offs and other crashes.

In Stowe alone, RT 108 closed due to accidents at Harlow Hill just by the XC Center at the ski area.... took folks leaving the mountain almost an hour at 4pm to get out as Stowe PD shut the road down until it could be plowed/salted. Apparently it was so slick you could barely walk on the pavement near the cars that ended up into the guardrail there. Barrows Road was also closed for a bit near the High School due to an accident and RT 100 was shut down for a time by Gregg Hill Rd near that wood carving place. A friend who left the mountain at 5:45pm just got home to Burlington at 8:30pm. Said I-89 was a pure skating rink with snow on top of it and every highway board was just flashing "CRASHES DRIVE WITH CAUTION".... 5-15mph the whole way from Waterbury to Burlington with occasional periods of full stoppage. There's a FB video I saw of folks getting out of their cars to stretch, and then sliding on the black ice even standing there. High impact event.

Ha, Mother Nature has given SNE the winter taste after last season, and that won't be satiated for quite a while. But good for them, they had it really rough last year while we were piling up feet in the hills. I'm glad we put down almost 2" in squalls at home today... grass covered again and looks like winter with blowing snow, comes with the benefit of very little shoveling too. It's always odd to me that I check the models all the time on little events like Tuesday but then you get some squalls and it delivers probably more snow than the highly tracked event. Regarding Tuesday... certainly not feeling all warm and fuzzy, the convective looking stuff after that event though might be interesting.

2-3” wind blown. Snowy evening. Probably more snow in a couple hours from some squalls than this system everyone is tracking, lol.

Getting destroyed. Quick 2” so far at 1500ft. Whiteout at times.

Squalls mean business. “Traffic is currently stopped on VT 108 in both directions due to conditions on the road. VTrans is en route. 12/15/19 3:04 PM”

Loving these lake streamers into the Mansfield Massif. Pounding again. Quick 1-2” so far this afternoon.

Just getting crushed at the mountain in these squalls. Very low vis at times. Almost graupel filled too, convective.

Holy winds. Gusting 55mph at the base area and 70mph higher up. Kids rolling like tumbleweeds in the gusts. Snowing most of the morning too...mostly cosmetic snow to whiten it up again.

I don't know when the site changed but the airport location is definitely a snowier spot than lake front. I know the 60s and 70s were snowier, along with recently in the 2000s... big storm frequency is also up. It would be interesting to compare various sites around New England.

Noticing BOX has Winter Weather Advisories out for some freezing rain... the same advisories they had out for 8-13" of snow in the big storm. Had me chuckling that they had it for some light ZR and also had that headline for a caking 8-13" of snow as well.

It's New England.... I can't remember a December where it didn't rain at the picnic tables at some point, lol. I've seen the worst in 2015-16 and that really put things into perspective. 0.25" of SN/IP before going to -ZR/RN. Roads just wet but there's some glaze on the evergreens.

-SN up here as well. Cars dusted up at the ski area....but won’t be long for this world as 4,000ft at the summit is now 33F. That warmth aloft explains the aggies falling, clumping together.

Snow squalls making the evening a bit more interesting.

One of the better squalls you'll see at this low elevation. Pretty solid. The snow squall warning seemed justified...you certainly wouldn't want to be driving in this.

It is absolutely ripping. This visibility is extremely low for this elevation.

Someone is getting a good squall. Jay Peak likely hitting it best tonight.

Had some light ZR this morning and the mountain even started as a period of wet snow around 7am.... but now just dry and mild in the mid/upper 30s. Very little precip so far. Barely measurable.

Looking towards you today from Stowe.... there was something crystal clear about the air today that made the Presidential Range look like the Rockies. It was almost like a perpetual orange glow on the horizon all afternoon too. Guess we are getting to under 2 weeks to the lowest sun angle of the year. A good time of year for cool long range vistas with clear skies and low angle light....also inversions that can play with our eyes when viewing distant mtn ranges.

We were overcast and even had some flurries float down, but must've been just enough clearing to the SW over the southern Champlain Valley for the sun to sneak some rays under the OVC deck and above the Spine. Very narrow window there, ha.