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  1. powderfreak
    It is an interesting "inland" wind zone. Seeing RUT gust to 50+ (44kts) and DDH with almost 12 hours of 20-40mph gusts... it usually means stronger stuff on the actual western slope communities. The SE downslope flow can lead to some legit winds, with a frequency that is more rare for deeper interior NE climatology.
  2. powderfreak
    Cold smoke season can't come soon enough!
  3. powderfreak
    2002-2003 winter in Albany, NY... glad to experience that one before heading north. 100+ inches of snow and two 18"+ events and another couple 12"+ events. For that Hudson Valley climate location, it was a fun final winter living there.
  4. powderfreak
    I do love that it's possible to just visit winter this time of year. It's still autumn at home, but in an hour hike with the dog (or 10-15 minute drive at work), it can be winter. The craziest thing is nothing has melted in 2 full days despite above freezing temperatures. There might be almost 1" of QPF in these 3" of snow. It obviously froze very hard at one point just after the snow stopped falling, and the snow that did fall looked to be small flake, granular dense pack. Almost like a sleety snow.
  5. powderfreak
    4pm photo heading to my car on the OE gondola.... visible ground cover was still down to at least 2,300ft on the Gondola terrain. Oddly enough the snow level seemed higher over on the Quad side by a decent bit.
  6. powderfreak
    Back on the scoreboard for the first snowfall of the season... those 2" should be gone in about 12 hours or less, ha.
  7. powderfreak
    It’s been pounding small droplet rain here at Stowe all morning. Very wet for the radar presentation. It snowed down to 2,400ft overnight on Mansfield. Snowline was down to about Tower 15 on the Gondola (Tower 18 is Rim Rock intersection). Photo from a coworker on Toll Road inspection this morning at the top of the Quad...
  8. powderfreak
    That is a lot of rain for a non-convective synoptic event, nice. The SE flow downslope wind didn't really materialize much. I will say it was incredibly windy in the Stowe base area all of today as the duration of north winds was pretty impressive... but nothing near damaging, ha. Just annoying.
  9. powderfreak
    Once you’re in it, you’re in it. Look at that moisture train back to Ohio and West Virginia that has to ride up through New England still.
  10. powderfreak
    Still raining steadily.... the PWS stations between Stowe and Waterbury are all at 1.4-2.0" range so far today. Pretty solid rain event.
  11. powderfreak
    Bolton Valley is the snowiest small ski area in New England...or I should rephrase that, one of the snowiest ski areas in New England regardless of size. Plenty of powder days, active winter weather, and N.Greens snowpack leads to some great skiing.
  12. powderfreak
    Ha! I was just coming here to post this link... mostly because I'm pretty sure that's @J.Spin's family in the lead cover photo. Nice work J.
  13. powderfreak
    Magic Mountain is now the tallest ski area in the East. Well done Magic.
  14. powderfreak
    Some stoke... relaxed powder turns on a storm day through the Mansfield hardwoods.
  15. powderfreak
    Ski The East had a similar post, used a photo of mine from a past October I think. I love this time of year through November... the ski stoke slowly builds until mountains open.
  16. powderfreak
    84 hours of snowfall now... gonna be hard to top this one for duration. What a freakin' storm.
  17. powderfreak
    Ha we'll just move into the next named storm. Its definitely picked up again this morning, snowing 1/4sm to 1/2sm at times. With the drop in temperatures the flakes are over to that high ratio upslope that you'll find with summit temps near 10F. GFS actually keeps precip going into tomorrow morning possibly. Hard to believe it started around dawn on Tuesday.
  18. powderfreak
    Storm still going. Snowing steadily this morning at Stowe after another few inches overnight. 72 hours straight of snow.
  19. powderfreak
    The one downside I didn't like about living in BTV... watching how close the upslope snow band was but it never moves no matter how much you hope it does. Just a wall of white a few miles east.
  20. powderfreak
    It's insane. Probably another 4-6" today but we'll know later with the Stake checks. It's snowing close to 1"/hr still and seems to have no plans to stop.
  21. powderfreak
    A Winch Cat... big sucker that drags it out.
  22. powderfreak
    32" at 3,000ft... about two-thirds of the way up but yeah, that's high elevation total. 25" at the office elevation. Probably another couple inches since that too.
  23. powderfreak
    Every time you think it's going to stop it seems to pick back up again. Just snowing moderate snow all morning but with wind visibility is under 1/4 at times. Very windy too. Been snowing for over 48 hours straight at this point.
  24. powderfreak
    This is no upslope fluff anymore like yesterday. This is a dense 10". Had to be .75-1" QPF. Surf on top of it not in it. I saw JSpin had under 10:1 ratios so that makes sense.
  25. powderfreak
    Another 3-4" at home last night (call it 3.5") and 7" at 1,500ft with 10" at 3,000ft. Totals currently around 18" at 750ft, 25" at 1,500ft and 32" at 3,000ft and still snowing hard up here. With various upslope and synoptic storms, there's been 58" at the mountain in the past 8 days. It looks obscene up here this morning. Grooming reporting fresh drifts over 5 feet overnight. They are going up to extricate a stuck snowcat too. When those things get stuck you know its getting deep.
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