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Storm total or just today? Pretty cool radar loop today... never looks to push past 495 in SE Mass but constant rains right along the coast. Like an upslope radar loop where it keeps forming and dissipating over the same areas.

A-Basin pulled a fast one and just opened at 3:30pm local time today to become the first open ski area in the US. Ha, what a move... opening at 3:30pm to beat your competition that’s opening in the morning. Love it.

Bone dry air mass up here too. Dew is currently 25F at MVL with 66F ambient... 21% RH. I think the 25F is the lowest dew I’ve seen around these parts yet this season.

Been a beautiful stretch of Top 10 days in the mountains. 34F with frost this morning and now it got to 68F and shorts weather this afternoon. Been several days of frosty morning temps and mild 60s in the afternoon. Leaf Peepers loving this weather.

The media is just getting played by the modeling. I'm also still seeing TWC type stuff being shared on social media touting a powerful nor'easter with inches of rain and high winds.

That’s insane. Down to teens with snow after low-80s.

She went right to the top of the class, rivaling J.Spin inch for inch out of the sky...after so much winter rain in recent years.

It is a top 10 day up here. 66/35...warm after a crisp morning of 35F. Full sunshine. Spectacular foliage.

Oh man is she in for a treat. Either that or we know who the sacrificial lamb is if SNE gets crushed over and over while NNE smokes circus for 3 months. Can’t wait for her to have that first big NW flow upslope event.

Could also throw out the ol’ “it’s good to see coastal storms in October” as that’s a weenie lore good news sign.

Yeah I think the peak foliage has now moved down to under the 1500-2000ft level. Town is ablaze at 750ft.

Chilly, breezy and periods of rain, heavy at times, is what October weather is all about. The spots that get 2-3"+ rainfall though is a pretty decent event regardless of any wind.

Looks about right. Just incredible NNE foliage... though it seems like that every year at this point.

Nice to get that switch once in a while. A very SNE like day up here... 60s and CLR.

See I almost think today already looks just slightly less “holy shit wow” than it did yesterday. I think the sunlight and crisp air mass with no haze at all really made it that much better. High clouds today and slightly less direct sunlight, but still looks a bit tamer than it did yesterday. Crazy how the color ebbs and flows.

Yes! The reds man. From almost a purple/red mix to just bright orange/red... the red color really seemed to go into overdrive over the last 48 hours.

Today was about damn near perfect weather for wandering in the mountains. High of 62F off a low of 42F in the valley, but calm wind even at elevation made the upper 40s at the picnic tables feel pretty good. The sunshine and clarity in the air though was spectacular. Already down to 43F at 8pm, should see another frost in the morning, but the growing season is already done anyway.

Incredibly aesthetically pleasing image to look at with that stream running through the middle. Crazy to see the difference between the swamp reds and the green outside the swampy area.

Hey I'm with you... if I'm going to watch something that isn't happening in my backyard, a blizzard will win over heavy rain. But if models had 3-6" of rainfall for my backyard at this type of lead time, that's the only thing I'm paying attention to.

This is absolute peak right now. It's almost like the 2" of rainfall the other day reinvigorated it... it just went apeshit today. The forest was on absolute fire in today's sunshine. Vermont is hard to beat for foliage. Today was awe-inspiring to be out hiking around. It is hard to comprehend that 1,000's of acres of forest can just be bright red and orange.

I love it, ha. Can just picture a fluid atmosphere flowing fast over the ocean then hitting the mainland friction and that air just piles up on itself, with no where to go but upward. Buckets and buckets of rain.

It's a actually a pretty mild evening, even in the north.

Hey it stopped raining! 1.93” since midnight. Local stations are 1.5-2.1” in Stowe. Dog can just swim in the grass, no need to go to the river.

I just didn’t remember it ever feeling real cold but I guess you get that when the bookend month’s of say Nov/Dec and Mar have higher departures. February, the coldest month had the warmest departure. Honestly that’s probably a perfect way to run a winter...coldest at the bookends and then not as big of departures during climo coldest time. Though I will say, January up here had to be the most enjoyable way to run a -3.5 departure. Looking at dailies it does look like it was overnight mins that were cold and the daytime temps weren’t bad when folks were out and about. A day where it’s -17F in the morning but 15-20F in the afternoon, is solidly below normal mean but that afternoon in January in NVT is pretty comfortable. We had 15 mornings below 0F in January but none of that was like those days of -15F that only rise to -5F in the afternoon....just a lot of cold mornings and more tolerable afternoons. There’s probably some decent feedback with consistent, deep snow cover starting early in November that likely fed back into colder mins...sort of maximizing the air masses we did have as far as cold goes in a radiating climate spot like the valleys here east of the Spine.

So I was just looking back on last winter and I knew we had a great winter but I thought it was warmer than normal. It's crazy how wrong your memory can be as I thought it was warming than normal and just cold enough to snow a bunch. The reality is last winter was pretty fukkin' cold from the departures up here: MVL ASOS November... -5.0 December... -2.6 January... -3.5 February... -1.6 March... -3.5 November through March averaged -3.2F below average. How the hell do I not remember last winter as a cold one? Maybe its the SNE numbers or something.