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And he caught one . I mean he could just be excited about the heavy rain and convection chance. It’s no different than one of us posting a map showing snow.

lol, not sure where that narrative would come from? I think it’s been a fine start to the winter. November was an awesome month with plenty of winter events, arctic cold, ridiculous negative departures and 3 weeks of snow cover. We missed the big storm but the mountain got clobbered with 19” of upslope over 3 days right before this rain. Snow squall warning and ~1” in 10 minutes last night... no one pays attention to half the snow up here if one of three of us don’t post about it, especially if it isn’t a region wide system. I’m not sure why anyone thinks I’m suffering up here .

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.

Always ready with the optimism there MPM after an incredibly snowy start to the season for ya lol.

This classic exchange had me cracking up. Congrats guys, well above normal snowfall to start the season is always a good thing. Only a dusting up here last night.

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.

Man what a sunset. Out walking with the dog but Elmore Mountain and the entire Worcester Range just went bright pink....upper elevations plastered white going pink with alpenglow is one of the best scenes in the mountains.

Only -3F here last night. Thought we might’ve gotten lower.

Not a bad look for the FV3 at this time range for you guys....

The hometown ALB with the biggest positive departure to date on the entire East Coast. Crazy that they are at 26.8" so far with a 5.5" average to date. Not far from half their annual snowfall prior to December 7th. That's why I always say it's hard to forecast a ratter for areas that average 60" or less in any year....one good storm can take those areas out of ratter territory percentage wise pretty quickly.

Looks like the snow machine has finally shut down. Only a few flurries falling when I left the mountain a little while ago. I was up at the shop when the groomers headed out around 5pm and it was dumping cotton candy... what a wintry few days. Last 24 hours with two clearings yielded 8" of new snow (5" last night and 3" today). The beta-testing snow board did pretty decent but even the slightest breeze does skim snow off it. We need to put plywood around the fence to keep the wind out and this thing may work ok. You can tell by the snow though that this was just a fluff bomb.

It is nuking at the mountain still. Huge flakes!

Best office in New England... sorry Legro . By far the most skiing and riding discussions in the AFDs of any office. Warms the heart.

Life in the snow globe. Another one converted to upslope way of life! Stacked up on every little twig today. Such a beautiful drive through town to the mountain. Hollywood movies spend a million dollars to recreate these scenes with perfect dendrites fluttering down and stacking on everything.

Its like someone has ripped open a pillow over the mountain. These flakes have the slowest fall rate ever but the air is thick with them.

I can’t believe it’s still snowing. Just coming down at the ski area. 13” in 48 hours at 6am and another 1-2” at least since then.

Last night was pure air. About 3” at home in the past 24 hours.

Seems to be snowing the hardest of the day. Flood lights filled thick with dendrites.

Nice snowy evening and the upslope flow seems to be doing it's thing. Up at the ski resort there was around 3" on the ice rink and it was coming down steadily when I left an hour or so ago. Down in town found 2" at home. Not the deep snow of SNE but wintry vibe with snowy evenings several times this week.

Nice snowy evening and the upslope flow seems to be doing it's thing. Up at the ski resort there was around 3" on the ice rink and it was coming down steadily when I left. Down in town found ~2" at home. Not the deep snow of SNE but wintry vibe with snowy evenings several times this week.