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Yeah JSpin, nothing on radar but had some good sheet rain of the small droplet type earlier here at the mountain. Suns out now.

Wow it's crazy how dry you and Tamarack have been. The two local cocorahs here are Stowe 0.2sw with 3.26" and Stowe 3.7n with 4.03"....so 3-4" locally here though to be honest I didn't get the stratus out early in the month so couldn't give you my backyard total.

I had a moose run in front of my car on Mountain Road here on my way to work...luckily he was far enough out in front that I wasn't really in any danger of hitting him. Then we saw another real young moose up at 3,600ft outside the Octagon Lodge. They seem to be on the move to the higher terrain like the deer.

Was up in the vicinity of the Mansfield stake at work yesterday so went to take a look. Still natural snow in the woods up there and even natural snow trails like Rim Rock and Cliff Trail still have some snow on them, along with the Nosedive glades. It is amazing how long that natural snowpack lasts up there above 3,000ft. That's the NOAA camera in front of it. Looked to be down around 15" officially.

My cousin posted these on social media though I'm not entirely sure where in CT. I know it's SW of Hartford, but how far can't say.

It is definitely true and higher end when these storm events hit the more populated areas of New England. Sucks that your friend had that come through his roof. I look at that and think we've had some high end wind damage events that may look similar over the past year up north, but it's one thing to have so many people affected vs. up here they are still cleaning up the mountain bike trails. Woods vs. residential...the impact difference is staggering.

Looks like it was good to get even some rain. Active forest fire season from what I've heard. This was a photo from a fire near Plymouth, VT last night. WCAX had something on it (not my photos).

2.00" hail also reported in Columbia County. Edit that paste didn't work well. PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 309 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 2018 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0300 PM HAIL 4 SE LIVINGSTON 42.09N 73.71W 05/15/2018 M2.00 INCH COLUMBIA NY SOCIAL MEDIA &&

That's nuts! Hopefully some pics come out.

Dresser Hill is awesome for vantage points.

Definitely looks like the Capital District will be spared, north of that outflow boundary from the earlier storms.

Phones just blew up here in Albany area with Tornado Watch.

Thanks guys, that's what I was leaning towards. Too early with this first line and see secondary stuff going out west in WNY/WPA.

Is the storm threat that thing moving into ALB area now or is it going to be south of there later, associated with like the outflow boundary of that current line of storms? I'm heading to my folks house just SW of ALB and it's pitch black off to the west with good lightning visible from I-87.

No tree left standing from ALB to ORH.

We already had pretty high end severe in NNE up this way 10 days ago with that Tornado Watch. Hail, severe wind damage, tons of power outages, etc.

I will say I'm torn a bit, but I truly do enjoy this time of year when you have the mountain mostly to yourself. For one, the skiing this late in the spring isn't necessarily great...and a lot of days its not good at all. If the sun is out and it's warm, the glacier snow softens to fun turns. If its like 40s and cloudy (not uncommon at those elevations even in May), the glacier doesn't soften and its rough, suncupped base layer ice. It's odd. It isn't as easy as "above freezing" means good skiing. Those are the days when its just nice to take one top to bottom run and get some exercise. I think at this point, working in the industry it changes your perception a bit on some stuff, also living down the road too. Ski 130 days a winter and you get over it a bit...and when the ski resort isn't open, its Monday through Friday work, 8-4 type stuff. You are more like a normal person rather than waking up at 4am on every weekend and holiday and whatever from Nov-Apr. You see your family again, ha. So you almost look forward to the ski area closing, like a teacher looks forward to summer vacation. I do think if I work outside of the industry and resort, which I will someday, it'll be a little different maybe? 7 months without a weekend day, a sick day, any travel, etc...I love it but I you also start to love the slow seasons, when you have tallied up a whole lot of paid time off all winter that you can now use, and things just move at a slower pace. Even the town calms down, it's a nice break. When I lived down near Albany and skied 30 times a season, I feel like I would've been like "what a waste to close with so much snow!" though.

A nice evening on the snow beach. Still skiing the glades on May 8th, lol. Almost time to "shut 'em down" as a certain poster likes to say when it hits 40 degrees in January.

RT 108 from Stowe to Jeffersonville through Smugglers Notch still has a little bit of melting to do. VTrans photo from yesterday.

Still no power, 3 hours later. All hotels and restaurants up and down Mountain Road are out as well. The lightning was constant for about a half hour. August style cracks of thunder. 1.5" of rain and the river out back is up to the grass on the edge of the lawn...just raging through the brush and trees on the banks. Snowmelt coupled with this quick rain, it's about as high as it gets right now and the roar is insane.

I can't seem to find the latest data. Base area site is off-line too.

Same with MVL... gusts 40-50kts and higher in the radiator sites is impressive.

Tornado Watch Severe Thunderstorm Warning Flash Flood Warning Exciting evening. And it's still pouring out.

I really think we will have a flash flooding issue shortly. 0.73" in a half hour at the ASOS. Rivers are really high with snowmelt and it's still torrential rain.

That did not miss. The marker is the MVL ASOS I believe. Core went right over me on RT 108.