powderfreak

Yeah for sure, if incidents were common they'd never be used. Hotronic is the brand Stowe always sold. I also didn't mean to imply the products themselves were the problem... as with most things in life, user error is often the culprit. If there's a potential for injury with a product (any product at all), there's always someone who can manage it, ha.

Some good squalls this evening, pretty stationary through BTV to Mansfield. Mountain snow cam has picked up a quick 4”. Sounds like a couple inches in BTV too. Going to tough when this pattern finally ends of snowing every day.

Word of caution with that but would love to hear the “adventures” ha. There’s been some incidents where that goes wrong, it goes very wrong (like your feet getting burned while you are on a chairlift with no way to stop it until you get off up top).

Thats some ice in Berks and ORH hills.

One last scene from the hill this afternoon. This is a south facing aspect, the sunny aspect. All aspects around the dial are good right now.

I treat the GFS and ECMWF as equals today. It could go either way for sure. You just hope the positive busts continue.

Thats a good point. That has massive holiday weekend/vacation week implications. And because Nature has shown time and time again that it hates vacation periods, it’ll probably be wet and crusty instead of deep and soft. It’ll be fascinatingly annoying for the casual skiers to see parts of NNE get buried (or at least not rain or thaw freeze cycle) for like 6 weeks… only to see the last time it rained was coming out of the Xmas-New Years vacation period and then the streak ends at Presidents Weekend/week vacation period.

VT's going to do well when the prevailing method of snowfall is mesoscale, orographic, lake effect, upslope, clippers, westerly flow. ME is going to do better if we are in a coastal pattern with more S/SE/E/NE flow events.

lol in Smugglers Notch, the Level I Avalanche course found some snow.

Snowy times we live in.

Toss in another 6.5” past 24 hours. 4th straight day of 6” or more.

Plow guy f*cked up this afternoon, so I had to go through the 6-7 foot tall berm.

More please. A proper winter.

6” yesterday in previous 24 hours. Then again 6” today in previous 24 hours.

Fringed our way to 3.5” up here.

Yeah I mean the Euro had about 0.25-0.4” QPF for SW ME… so cut 2-4” off it for 10:1 maps. Not much there. But you’re right the haircut in SNE is different.

Pushing past 3” of in town Mountain looks like near 5” on cam. Snowing pretty good still.

Not bad.

Getting some decent west-east banding almost to Montpelier now.

Yeah that’s impressive looking. Thats gonna put down some snow in a hurry.

You can see where the best fronto is going from west to east. Mohawk Valley in NY towards SVT/SNH.

Another couple inches last night at home, mountain picked up 4”. From what? I do not know. Just wants to snow.

Flurries. Flakes just keep flying, even if just a trace down here in the valley.

Just keeps going. Streamers into the N.Greens. Light snow down in town.

I mean a minimum number (on a range forecast) of 3” or 4”, not big deal in the grand scheme of things. Is that noteworthy?