powderfreak

One of the biggest ice storms I remember growing up near ALB was in April 2003. It wasn’t a whopper but a legit 0.50” to 0.75” of ice that cut power to spots for days. Split a tree in our yard, ahh damage. They can happen late season, but tough

Upper 20s snow depth on average. High depth for along the river elevation compared to the past 5 years. Wind-packed synoptic snow on top.

It looks like preservation will be decent going forward. Some light rounds of upslope flow over the next week but nothing synoptically noteworthy. The snowpack is healthy when it’s a 28” to 94” range from town to upper mountain.

That's a great stat, especially as your observation database keeps growing. That 2010-2011 season was my personal favorite up here. That winter just wanted to snow. For personal reasons too, as I skied 150 days that year, in my prime with a large lack of responsibilities except take photos for the mountain and measure snow. The golden days, ha.

That's a vibe right there.

4 winters have had a deeper snow depth at the Mansfield stake than today. 66 winters have had a lower snow depth on this date.

That’s great. That elevation still wedges hard there. Cold lingers above 1500ft on the general east slope.

This was a healthy shot of QPF on the Spine and eastward. Also along the Lake front and Champlain Valley. The bit lower QPF on the western slopes was made up for with the higher ratio upslope snow on the backside to make pretty uniform snowfall totals. Interesting that there was less at Montgomery (1,500ft) and Westfield (1,000ft), but Jay reported the highest total at 24". We couldn't get to the High Road plot today, so it's at least 13" as reported but the final resort/Mansfield total will be updated once we can get eyes on that data point.

You can see in the morning CoCoRAHS reports... J.Spin is the 34" west of Waterbury. The Stowe Village guy next to the Public Safety building had 29". I measured around 30" late last night, so it fits. With the wind today, it varies a bit but you can see the wind "pillows" in the yard and open spaces that are probably a few inches higher. Then you get a few inches less right near structures where the wind accelerated. Pretty uniform snowpack though overall across the area. 24 - 38" type stuff for the communities along the Spine and eastern side. I think the depths around BTV area of like 17" to 22", even down to the Lake front are impressive. That's some good snow for lake front.

Another 3” or 4” overnight in the driveway. Cant tell what’s fallen or blowing around. very windy. Deep.

Good blocking of the flow for the immediate western slope.

It just keeps snowing. Good moisture feed into the Spine.

Wind shift to westerly upslope bringing wind and snow. 20G30 at MVL in 1.2sm vis at 17F….even the ASOS getting the wind.

The gradient is crazy on the 18z two-week GFS. Can’t make it up.

Upslope burst moving in. Models indicate a few hours of steady westerly flow into the Spine. Should transition to largely orographic precip as we go through the night.

Storage is full.

Yeah you guys have to have what 20-26” on the ground? It’s honestly probably rarer for the village elevation here to be near 30” on the ground than at your climo spot.

Dude, just in awe. Has to be at least 2017 since we’ve had snow like this. Regression after 5 lackluster snow seasons. I hope everyone else would be posting up too!

In town…

Passing 10” and the snowbanks are getting stupid.

Up to 27” depth in Stowe Village.

Just has been hammering snow. With the overnight snow, we are closing in on 8” or so.

It is dumping out. HRRR has us barely avoiding IP now.

We’ve been in the prevailing westerly flow of moisture and cold. And the synoptic events have lined up. Weak La Nina’s have statistically been proven to be the snowier option for the northern Greens.

Great Snow just stroked out.