powderfreak

Leaving work this evening...

We have an inch or so at 1500ft base of Stowe. Up north saw a bunch more. Here’s a shot from Montgomery near Jay...

Shout out to BTV who continues to mention snowmaking in their AFD's... always great to see them thinking of the local ski areas. Now we just need Legro to start popping that stuff into GYX AFD's, ha. .NEAR TERM /THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT/... As of 612 PM EST Tuesday...Updated forecast to increase pops along and east of the central/northern Green Mountains for the next 1 to 2 hours. Radar shows weak line of showers along sfc cold front just approaching the western slopes. This will continue to push east and dissipate or be east of our cwa by 8 PM. Rainfall with this fropa will be less than a tenth of an inch. We received 0.02 here at BTV. Otherwise, temps gradually cool behind boundary with modest low level caa on southwest winds. Did note Whiteface down to 25f already, which could help snow making operations at area resorts overnight. Temps trends and winds look reasonable, based on current obs.

Driving back to Stowe, we caught some awesome views of Mt Mansfield from the west side as the clouds cleared briefly and the sun lowered. The great atmospheric speed bump.

A friends photo from Smugglers Notch uphill from the Stowe/Cambridge line area.

Thanks for the radar grab J. Sounds like the Notch is a mess.

I’m heading back north to Stowe but friends are saying it’s the first accumulation in Stowe. This was 1,300ft.

If you ever get up this way I’ll join ya for some beers for sure.

I wish there was a love button.

Yeah just take those heavier amounts by Alex and Tamarack, and extend that over to the heavy stuff by BTV and western VT....that gap between the two in NE VT is just radar not sampling it well.

That map doesn’t line up with CoCoRAHS in NE VT. If it’s radar estimated it’ll be low over there. NEK in VT was very wet even into Lyndonville.

With the recent flooding 3.5+ rainfall, since October 1st these are stations that have seen over 10” of water fall from the sky.

Severe Irene-level flooding from this event. I put a bunch of stuff in the storm thread. 4+ inches in Underhill, 3.79” storm total in Stow, 4” in Morrisville, Town of Eden is isolated. RT 108 in Stowe washed out. What a rain event!

DDH is a long way from you then... down west of Bennington. That’s a good spot you have there right on the start of the high terrain. Didn’t realize how close you are to Bromley.

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.

Cold smoke season can't come soon enough!

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.

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.

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.

Back on the scoreboard for the first snowfall of the season... those 2" should be gone in about 12 hours or less, ha.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.