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1.2" of wet sleet on top of the 0.7" of snow from yesterday. Only about a tenth of an inch of ice accretion, so we definitely dodged a bullet.

-SN, 25.2° F. 0.7" of snow today, but it's that type of snow that's on the verge of sleet with some aggregation and high fall velocities evident. There's a warm layer up there that's probably just barely above freezing and is not warm or thick enough to melt the flakes yet. Anyway, not looking forward to the sh** show that's arriving here by midnight. Hopefully I'll get more of my QPF as sleet than freezing rain, but the NAM is about 0.8" QPF freezing rain, HRRR about 0.5".

Seems a bit high. Maybe they had better snow growth, but the radar didn't look all that different there. The west slope of the Berkshires did better because of the blocked SW flow. One of my Twitter followers said 6-7" in Dalton, MA.

3.7" with 0.37" LE. An exact 10 to 1 SLR! How often does that work out? Snow growth was not good today...just small flakes with a fine, white sand consistency. Snow depth at the stake is an even 30".

Deep, deep winter. 25-26" OTG. My famous snow blower cuts are back. 3.0" new in the past 24 hours with 33.6" in the past week.

It's pretty much the same as the aforementioned area in Woodford. Mt. Snow doesn't get as much of the W to NW flow upslope as Woodford or Searsburg Pass.

The best snow is usually a bit east of the crest, which on VT-9 is just east of where that pond is on the left if heading eastbound. Woodford State Park over toward the VT-8 junction in Searsburg is typically where the max zone on VT-9 usually is. I'm on the east slope of a ~3,100' mountain so I get it good here also even though I'm about 5 miles south of VT-9. Anyway, I had another 3.0" overnight and into early this morning on 0.1" liquid making for a 30:1 ratio. 33.6" for the week and a 26" depth.

This I was not aware of, that would explain it. I'll give her credit for measuring snow and living in such a challenging climate at that age. I was under the assumption it was just some snow nut who isn't aware of proper snow measuring protocol. Anyway, I've probably added a few tenths more since my last measure. Depth is at 25".

I had 11.0" on the front end Saturday AM.

3.0" new in the past 24 hours. I've now had 13" of upslope since Saturday afternoon, depth is 22". 74.1" for the the season. Not bad at all considering where we were a week ago.

I've driven the National Forest roads up to Somerset Reservoir and there are some off the grid homesteaders up there that are about 2,200-2,300' elevation. That place has the ultimate weenie spot for snow, but no, I don't think I could live there, lol. I need power and Internet. But with solar power and this soon to be released low orbit, low latency satellite Internet from SpaceX called StarLink who's to say more people won't be able to move to places like that. That whole area is basically a 2,000-2,500' basin that catches snow and retains it. I don't know what that area averages, but 200" per year isn't far fetched at all.

It does. The base of Mt. Snow is at 1,900' at doesn't get as much of the upslope on W to NW flow as Woodford or my location do.

I'm actually about 5 miles to the SE of Woodford center, but on the same ridge at about the same elevation. The person who measures there is on the east side of the town at exactly my longitude (4.5 miles due north of my spot). They are sometimes too high while other times reasonable. Woodford reported a 24" two day total yesterday while I had 17", which seems like a rather large difference given the small distance and roughly same elevation (2300' vs. my 2,230'). It's conceivable that they may have had a little more than I did (perhaps 18 to 20") but I find it somewhat hard to believe that there was that large of a difference without some type of mesoscale snow band evident on radar to account for it. But without going up there to poke around and measure myself, I will give them the benefit of the doubt since it is an extremely snowy place. Anyway, enough of scrutinizing Woodford's total since snow measuring is not an exact science. I had another 3.1" from upslope overnight last night and into today. Three day total is now 20.1" with a depth of 20.5".

As best I can tell, 6.0" from the backside and upslope so the storm total is 17". It's very windy so there's lots of blowing and drifting. The measurement is an average of several. 0.56" of liquid. The 24" report from Woodford seems a bit high IMO.

1.54" of liquid in my 11.0" of snow yielding a 7.14 to 1 ratio. This is really meaty stuff! It has compacted down to about 10" since I did get a little above freezing. Meso models are dumping anywhere from 0.5" to over 1" of liquid equivalent in upslope snow over the next 48 hours, so we'll see what that results in.

11.0" total for the front end. Getting some light rain showers now at 33° F in the dry slot. The sun even popped out briefly. Woodford just to my north reported 16" at 9 AM, I had ~10" then. Seems a little high given that we're only ~5 miles apart and 70' difference in elevation.

10" even as of 10 minutes ago. Dry slot looks to be filling in a bit with more showery precipitation. We'll see if I stay all snow or mix when it arrives.

Not yet, I'll do once the front end is over. I'm guessing this snow is about 10:1 so far. It's dense, but not super wet since I'm below freezing up here.

Moderate to heavy snow, 30.0° F. 8.7" as of 15 minutes ago, so probably about 9" now. Grid power is down, but thankfully I have backup. I'm guessing I'll finish the front end with 12-13".

28.8° F with freezing drizzle. Not too concerned about it as the column is likely below freezing but not quite cold enough for nucleation in the SE flow upslope stratus deck. Getting increasingly breezy too.

Woodford, VT at 2.4K looks great!

I like where I am for this event. NAM and GFS both pumping out 2-2.5" of QPF here the next 2 to 3 days. How much of it falls as solid vs. liquid will make a big difference with respect to snowfall. My gut tells me the front end is a 6-8" blue bomb here that turns to some light rain or drizzle in the dry slot tomorrow followed by several more inches of upslope on the backside tomorrow night into Sunday. As such, a foot plus is not out of the question here even if we do get a little rain tomorrow after the heavier precipitation moves out.

New Jersey tags are plentiful as well, particularly up around Wilmington and Mt. Snow. They're the worst drivers though...

I like my location in southern Vermont. Good snow and not terribly far from the big cities: 1.5 hours to Albany, 2 to Hartford, 3 to Boston, and 4 to NYC. Plus, all of the cultural and outdoor recreational options of the Berkshires and southern Vermont are nearby. I definitely tend to feel this part of New England is sometimes overlooked and unappreciated, especially by the Boston crowd. Connecticut and NYC area people are well represented here though.

That 131.0" was for the 2020 calendar year. My 2019-20 snowfall total is in my signature.