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I love that one.
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You can see the virga type signature in the ceiling of this photo taken while hiking up Hazelton/Nosedive summer route with the dog.
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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.
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39F now coming out of the movies this evening in Stowe... the chill took me by surprise. Only a couple scattered drops on the car windshield from the intense virga earlier and now clear skies.
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We had echoes over us most of the afternoon but nothing fell. Even up at the picnic tables it was dry.
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Ha yeah road was closed due to snow/ice but the the dog and I had a nice hike to the Mansfield Stake. Snow started to be seen on the ground around 2,800ft. A healthy 3-4” up at the top of Nosedive. That was the most I’ve found from this event around these parts.
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Nice October type vibes in the hills today...
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29F... chilly evening. Already frosty.
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And up north, those winds brought snow to the picnic tables. What an absolutely stunning day of blue skies and a high of 50F at MVL. Snow didn't melt above 3,000ft and I will say, looking up from town at a snow capped Mansfield certainly gets one in the mood for winter. Already down to 36F here at 8pm. Going to be a cold night.
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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.
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Back on the scoreboard for the first snowfall of the season... those 2" should be gone in about 12 hours or less, ha.
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Don’t even have to edit that one... interesting, ha.
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Looks like November up here now.
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Ha, Stowe Village has been under construction all summer to bury power lines, especially Main Street. No tourist wants to look at above ground power lines, sheesh. Stowe and Woodstock are two towns that have the money to do it. What a cluster f*ck though living through that process though.
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Let the NW flow do its thing. Picnic Tables satisfied.
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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...
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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.
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Killington getting snow at the top. Warmest in NVT and NNH now. Credit: Joe Grasso
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MWN has been over to just rain the past couple hours.... the live cam looks like the most miserable weather on the planet. 33F rain at 100mph sheets coming at you. Whiteface in NY getting destroyed. It’s been in the upper 20s and under the comma head. 80mph winds and heavy snow.
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Downslope wind progs seem to line up with this narrow line lacking echos on the western side of the Spine.... wonder if someone is going to get lit up further south towards RUT and DDH.
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Been gusty up here. Gondola went on wind hold around 1pm. Winds picking up. Even MVL in the valley bottom gusting 25-30mph this afternoon.
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I really like the Adirondacks though it may just be a bit too warm for inhabited elevations. The Adirondacks biggest storms seem to be paste bombs in either October or April/May lol. They do well in these early/late season systems more than they do in January.
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Euro looks about how I expect the snow to play out. Whiteface gets 6+ above 3,000ft and Mt Snow gets a few inches at the top too as the cooler air wraps under the system. Should be fun to monitor the snow levels tomorrow.
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Makes sense, you are already getting inches of snow in the seasonal total. The more you can rack up early in the season, the better chance you have at a higher total by the end of the season.
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We approve of this forecaster’s preferences: Thursday will be a raw and almost winter like day (who prefers snow to cold rain? *raises hand*)
