powderfreak

I live right near the triangle on RT 108. Fire trucks now racing up 108. That was intense. That was incredibly low visibility. I'd bet we were gusting near 50mph with hail. I want to get out to see the river out back as our yard is under water in torrential rain. The snowmelt and heavy rain has me thinking some wild flash flooding could be coming.

Hail, powers out. High winds. This is nuts. Zero visibility. Hail covering the ground. Pea sized.

Holy sh*t this is nuts.

84 hours of snowfall now... gonna be hard to top this one for duration. What a freakin' storm.

Ha we'll just move into the next named storm. Its definitely picked up again this morning, snowing 1/4sm to 1/2sm at times. With the drop in temperatures the flakes are over to that high ratio upslope that you'll find with summit temps near 10F. GFS actually keeps precip going into tomorrow morning possibly. Hard to believe it started around dawn on Tuesday.

Storm still going. Snowing steadily this morning at Stowe after another few inches overnight. 72 hours straight of snow.

The one downside I didn't like about living in BTV... watching how close the upslope snow band was but it never moves no matter how much you hope it does. Just a wall of white a few miles east.

It's insane. Probably another 4-6" today but we'll know later with the Stake checks. It's snowing close to 1"/hr still and seems to have no plans to stop.

A Winch Cat... big sucker that drags it out.

32" at 3,000ft... about two-thirds of the way up but yeah, that's high elevation total. 25" at the office elevation. Probably another couple inches since that too.

Every time you think it's going to stop it seems to pick back up again. Just snowing moderate snow all morning but with wind visibility is under 1/4 at times. Very windy too. Been snowing for over 48 hours straight at this point.

This is no upslope fluff anymore like yesterday. This is a dense 10". Had to be .75-1" QPF. Surf on top of it not in it. I saw JSpin had under 10:1 ratios so that makes sense.

Another 3-4" at home last night (call it 3.5") and 7" at 1,500ft with 10" at 3,000ft. Totals currently around 18" at 750ft, 25" at 1,500ft and 32" at 3,000ft and still snowing hard up here. With various upslope and synoptic storms, there's been 58" at the mountain in the past 8 days. It looks obscene up here this morning. Grooming reporting fresh drifts over 5 feet overnight. They are going up to extricate a stuck snowcat too. When those things get stuck you know its getting deep.

That's awesome. Good for him.

That's always been my argument. SnowFALL and SnowDEPTH are two different things. If they were meant to be the same, then we'd just measure depth all the time. I want to know both snowfall and the depth.... they are independent of each other though. Sort of like if it snows all night long but the depth doesn't change much because of compression, that's fine but you aren't getting the variable of finding out how much snow actually fell out of the sky. If I have to wipe 3" off my car in the morning but the depth didn't change elsewhere, it still snowed 3" that night.

Yeah there have been several high profile slides. One two days ago ran 1,300 vertical feet on Mansfield's flank and left 6 feet of snow piled up down by RT 108. Witnesses walking their dogs in the Notch said it sounded like a jet engine and the powder cloud was a few hundred feet high. Like something you see out west. Avalanche Statement from BTV:

It's very bizarre watching it on radar. Mid level moisture heading west while low level stuff is heading east.

Its so hard in certain areas though that often don't have a like real end point... up here its going to snow for 2-3 days in the end. I had a foot this morning, then it snows today, tonight and tomorrow. Its hard to do in storms that have drips and drabs that go on for a long time after the main meat of the event. I think 6 hours can be a bit too often but it depends on what you've been doing to keep your personal records consistent. I like a morning and an evening reading. That's what we do at the ski resort, regardless of when it starts or stops snowing... the count gets reset in the early morning and at the end of the operational day. That's also because skiers want to know that information... what fell while people were skiing and what fell when people weren't skiing (ie how much fresh will be on trails in the morning).

I was surprised with how much snow that produced yesterday. Not often we can get this much snow out of a system tracking east of the Benchmark. Good spread the wealth system. It was almost like an inverted trough last night though on radar. Weird look.

18" was the last reading at 9am on the mountain. I got about 13" at home and it's down to flurries while we wait for stronger NW flow. Figure the mountain is good for another 8-12" while 3-6" here at home. Mreaves got like over two feet or something like that near Montpelier.

lol round two is getting ready to go tonight and tomorrow. What a cycle for the skiers and snow lovers everywhere.

Just amazing stuff happening. If these models are right about another .5-1.0" QPF through tomorrow afternoon it is going to get ridiculous. It's already pushing the boundaries of what is deep and skiable in terms of seeing where you are going.

18" at the mountain as of 9am. 5" + 13" are the two board clearings. 12z 3km has another inch of QPF. Lol.

11" at my house. 14" at mountain. Models showing up to another inch of QPF for the mountains in next 24-30 hours.

A dime a dozen these events are . A new generation of weenies has to be born now. If I was in middle or high school as a budding snow lover in Eastern Mass...I'd be hooked and think this is how it's always been. Getting pissed if you go 4 years without a 24-36" event.