powderfreak

That's awesome. Good for him.

That's always been my argument. SnowFALL and SnowDEPTH are two different things. If they were meant to be the same, then we'd just measure depth all the time. I want to know both snowfall and the depth.... they are independent of each other though. Sort of like if it snows all night long but the depth doesn't change much because of compression, that's fine but you aren't getting the variable of finding out how much snow actually fell out of the sky. If I have to wipe 3" off my car in the morning but the depth didn't change elsewhere, it still snowed 3" that night.

Yeah there have been several high profile slides. One two days ago ran 1,300 vertical feet on Mansfield's flank and left 6 feet of snow piled up down by RT 108. Witnesses walking their dogs in the Notch said it sounded like a jet engine and the powder cloud was a few hundred feet high. Like something you see out west. Avalanche Statement from BTV:

It's very bizarre watching it on radar. Mid level moisture heading west while low level stuff is heading east.

Its so hard in certain areas though that often don't have a like real end point... up here its going to snow for 2-3 days in the end. I had a foot this morning, then it snows today, tonight and tomorrow. Its hard to do in storms that have drips and drabs that go on for a long time after the main meat of the event. I think 6 hours can be a bit too often but it depends on what you've been doing to keep your personal records consistent. I like a morning and an evening reading. That's what we do at the ski resort, regardless of when it starts or stops snowing... the count gets reset in the early morning and at the end of the operational day. That's also because skiers want to know that information... what fell while people were skiing and what fell when people weren't skiing (ie how much fresh will be on trails in the morning).

I was surprised with how much snow that produced yesterday. Not often we can get this much snow out of a system tracking east of the Benchmark. Good spread the wealth system. It was almost like an inverted trough last night though on radar. Weird look.

18" was the last reading at 9am on the mountain. I got about 13" at home and it's down to flurries while we wait for stronger NW flow. Figure the mountain is good for another 8-12" while 3-6" here at home. Mreaves got like over two feet or something like that near Montpelier.

lol round two is getting ready to go tonight and tomorrow. What a cycle for the skiers and snow lovers everywhere.

Just amazing stuff happening. If these models are right about another .5-1.0" QPF through tomorrow afternoon it is going to get ridiculous. It's already pushing the boundaries of what is deep and skiable in terms of seeing where you are going.

18" at the mountain as of 9am. 5" + 13" are the two board clearings. 12z 3km has another inch of QPF. Lol.

11" at my house. 14" at mountain. Models showing up to another inch of QPF for the mountains in next 24-30 hours.

A dime a dozen these events are . A new generation of weenies has to be born now. If I was in middle or high school as a budding snow lover in Eastern Mass...I'd be hooked and think this is how it's always been. Getting pissed if you go 4 years without a 24-36" event.

I think that's too low in the Berkshires west slopes, but I'm sure they really spent a lot of time hashing that out compared to the population centers in E.Ma .

Didn't you have snow on the ground before the storm? Or is that just storm depth? Some of you must have some solid snowpacks between the last two systems.

5" today at a steady 0.5-1.0"/hr rate most of the afternoon. We'll just tick away for the next 48 hours lol. Snow rates in the mountains should get up there on the NW flow. I think the ski resorts end with 24-36". It's not death band snow but it is truly "days and days"...

There is a disappointing amount of photos from today from the folks under that band!

I would think the northern end of that should push west while the southern end works east a bit?

Sounds fun ha.

We are now in the northern part of that band that is reaching down into central CT. It's coming down hard and flake size increased notably. Crazy this band goes all the way down to HFD area. 12z EURO still has a long ways to go. Snows up here through 18z Thursday.

I can't believe its been sustained 1/4sm snow way out here from a low that far away. Definitely bucks the trend. The mountains are going to get feet from a storm that went what east of the Benchmark? We still have days to go up here.

That looks perfect for Ginxy... stoked for him. As usual ORH is just far enough in the right direction to get the pivot point, lol.

The simulated rad products do show sort of rare west flow upslope in your area up through the western side of the ORH hills. Obviously the best and heaviest stuff tonight into tomorrow morning will be west slopes of Litchfield county north through the Berks and Greens, but interesting to see the radar projections keeping snow going western side in your area north to Hubby. Don't see that too often.

Nice man! What are you up to in the past two storms combined now?

Snowing steadily and heavily the past few hours. Visibility has been 1/2sm or lower for the past two hours here with 0.16" in the ASOS bucket. Everything on track for a good synoptic snowfall followed by upslope crushing. KMVL 131654Z AUTO 36006KT 1/4SM SN FZFG VV007 M03/M04 A2971 RMK AO2 SLP070 P0011 T10331039 KMVL 131634Z AUTO 35005KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV006 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 P0008 T10331039 KMVL 131626Z AUTO 36008KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 P0007 T10331039 KMVL 131554Z AUTO 36006KT 1/4SM SN FZFG VV008 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 SLP076 P0006 T10281039 KMVL 131454Z AUTO 36007KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV014 M03/M04 A2974 RMK AO2 SLP081 P0001 60002 T10281039 58011

You are going to make Hay. Looks really good for significant west slope upslope all up and down the Greens. You'll probably do better than up here later tonight and tomorrow morning as you have better low level jet dynamics and perpendicular westerly flow.