powderfreak

Ha, I was thinking about that looking at the snow forecasts. Some peaks were forecast to get like BTV's entire annual snowfall in one storm. Then this guy with his trash can gets more snow in one day in September than Boston's annual average snowfall that we spend 12 straight weeks tracking for.

Early this morning was actually the first time this season the northern summits of the Greens got down into the 30s. 36F for a min at MMNV1 (previous low temps were 40F on 9/13 and 9/18). No fake cold at the summits, 30s with 30-45mph winds and wind chills in the low to mid 20s.

Looks like upslope heaven with the current northeasterly flow. Moisture and cold air moving down the eastern slopes into the northern plains...a bit of blocked flow would just wreck them. You'd want to be right there at the base of the barrier when that much vertical relief is blocking the flow.

New update... no idea the time difference between the photos/measurement surfaces. If this person measured every 6 hours the totals would get pretty crazy over the next day or two. This is just on-the-ground snow and looks windless. A perfect spot if this can keep going. East Glacier

This pic makes me feel the beach... I love the mountains but there's something about the ocean and that vastness. It has it's own culture/feel. If I can't live in the hills, I want to live next to the ocean.

Wow I would've thought you had more than that but a couple events probably went just north of you. I'm just shy of 4" of water in September though in two events the core of convection moved just south of here by 5-10 miles. Immediately SW of here in Richmond, VT they've had 5.45" and in Duxbury next to Waterbury they are over 5" too. J.Spin looks to be a couple tenths shy of 5" too. The month certainly had a dry vibe to it and I was surprised at the local totals...felt drier but actually not bad, averaging around 1"/week or even higher just south of here.

lol yeah, that looks like upslope style fluffy dendrites. The photos are from some spotter that NBC Montana has been posting from. They were near 21" at this woman's house in East Glacier and that's her car in the above photo. That snow surface looks like J.Spin's backyard with little wind and big flakes stacking up where each flake adds like another quarter inch.

That’s an awesome feature. Speaking of which, here’s a Twitter photo from East Glacier National Park in Montana as the snowstorm gets cranking out there:

It’s warm aloft, I’m surprised more spots aren’t warmer with sunshine down south.

Good for you for using a designated driver in the middle of the day. Party on.

63F up this way.

Cloudy, dreary and rainy. Not glad we live here today when everyone else is sun and warm.

Only way I can see anything is by going to the default theme based on the error message that was showing up.

Yeah the saturation seems naturally turned up when not white washed with harsh light. Either way, next week looks wet for multiple days in at least NNE with the boundary. Plenty of time for the location of that front to change though.

Days and days of over running. Tuesday and Wednesday look miserable too. Just a steady over running 1-2” of water over 48 hours.

Yeah part of the game though... 89F at BDL in July was a torch and so is 89F at BDL in September lol.

This summer you’ve definitely aligned more towards DIT... enjoying heat and humidity, trolling and now making a case for hyperbole! What’s happening?!

As an aside, I forgot how much of an absolute furnace October 2017 was. MVL was +6.8 that month... only 5 days below normal with the lowest being -5. Every other day was an absolute torch, with 10 days of double digit positive departures, maxing at a day of +23. Those numbers are incredible and it's crazy that I didn't even remember it being that hot. But if it isn't going to snow, those endless 60s and 70s don't look that bad.

Last fall was about as ideal as it gets, IMO. September torch and the first half of October was a torch through 10/12... including days of +19, +22, and +17 departures. But then the switch was flipped as 16 of the last 19 days of last October were below normal (to much below normal) with several days of snow in the air (and even accumulations down here in the valley). That continued with record mountain snows in November (deepest Mansfield depth ever recorded in November) and steady snow cover beginning November 12th in the valley. But to your point, going torch until mid-October is great for outdoor recreation, but then rip the band aid off and go straight to snow temps the second half of October. We went from highs around 80F on October 10th, to highs in the 30s on the 18th. One week is all it took to go from summer to snow last year.

Reindeer wearing sweaters were here first.

Sooner or later those picnic tables are getting white.

Cold afternoon in the 50s with rain. Looks like rain is ending with ~0.40”.

Mid-50s and a chilly rainy afternoon. Looks beautiful and warm SE of the Mtns.

This summer I quoted a few days when ORH and BDL put up literally twice the dry adiabatic lapse rates with 12F difference over 800ft lol.

We should get at least to the mid-60s today before the rain arrives.