wxmanmitch

137.4". This will likely be the final season total unless we get something in May, which isn't all that uncommon here.

2.9" here. Disappointment. Measured at 6:30 AM before any melting started. Radars looked good for a bit in the late evening last night when I posted but then the dry slot moved back in. We had light snow through the night from upslope, but I don't upslope as efficiently with a NE wind compared to up by Mt. Snow or Stratton. Needs to be more E to SE here.

Dumpity, dump! It's puking snow now with good snow growth. Close to an inch.

30.9° F with a sleety snow. Ground is white, maybe a 1/2"? Quite windy too. I'm missing out on the good dynamics so far, but it's cold and windy giving it a wintry feel.

Sneaky warm nose way up there at 700-750 mb on the NAM down here. Verbatim it's rain to snow to sleet then back to snow since we wet bulb before warming aloft. Low levels are absolutely frigid though with at or below freezing surface temps. Could be ice pellets and 31° F here while it's snow at 34° F in Dendrite's area.

18z NAM is a little cooler FWIW. We'll see what 00z does.

Watching another one get ripped out from under my feet. Wagons N and E of here as the dynamics and better saturation in DGZ appear to be heading that way. Mesos look almost a bit sleety and icy here too thanks to WAA aloft. Euro has a dry slot. It's happened with pretty much every single friggin storm this winter save for the early December deal that had a big overachieving WCB on the first night of the event. Even the CCB part of that event largely missed this location. That said I still think I get some snow, but probably not enough to be of much consequence. Maybe 1-2" of slop? I guess I'll have to drain the remaining fuel in my snow blower...

Quite cold here, 29.2° F with a fine, dry snow falling. QPF trends don't look that good here compared to 12z runs so we have the cold, but not the QPF. Jackpot probably ends up somewhere in the Becket, MA to Goshen, CT corridor.

3.3" of fresh fluff here. We gladly take.

Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan north of Houghton on US 41. I follow a Facebook page that regularly posts updates from there and they get tons of snow! They are closing in on 300" for the season near Calumet. With a band of SW to NE oriented hills that can catch some upslope enhancement too, they get crushed with NW flow. A lot of it is lake effect fluff, but they've had their share of synoptic snows too. And being at the same latitude of the crown of Maine, they have good retention as well. The summers are absolutely beautiful up there being surrounded by the frigid waters of Lake Superior. Lots of nice chilly, overcast days with occasional fog and drizzle and none of that HHH crap. My kind of climate! Obviously, my life is here, so not likely I move anytime soon. Snow is like heroin, you just can't enough of it.

1.72" rain total. Safe to say that the front end SE winds were a bust here. The W backside winds have been ripping pretty good, but nothing exceptional.

Wind has been quite underwhelming here so far. Probably not above 25-30 MPH gusts. 1.26" through the tipper though with more coming...may finish around 2". I've had bigger winds from run of the mill lows this past winter than from this one, but we'll see how I do with the backside westerly winds later.

4.0" of upslope today. What fell during the day was wet and had trouble sticking, but it stacked up a bit once we got past 4:30 PM or so. This probably would've been 8" or so in the winter. Just flurries now.

So, so jealous of you Mainers! Keep the pics and obs coming! If this whole setup was 150-200 miles SW of where it is, I bet I'd be getting a solid two footer out of this. I was a little skeptical when I looked at lot of the surface temperatures up there this morning that were in the low to mid 40s, but dynamics FTW. Snowing straight to the coast. 1.22" of rain through the tipper here today. 34° F now with some wet snow showers. Expecting some upslope later tonight into tomorrow with wrap around moisture and an instability trough rotating around. Maybe I pull a few inches out of it, if it manages to stick.

Not sure why people in Maine are complaining! I'd kill for a nice April snow bomb. So jealous. I don't care when it is, but I'm always in snowstorm mode. Besides it'll probably melt within few days or a week anyways. My best hope is for some upslope Thursday night and Friday after the cold rain and possible low topped convection. Maybe I get an inch or two. The NAMmy is up to its usual nonsense of putting out a foot+ of upslope here.

Thanks, I did find the lot in question in Searsburg. 256 acres for $229K. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/245-Route-8_Searsburg_VT_05363_M99787-41776?view=qv

The S VT plateau is one of the most under appreciated snow belts in all of New England IMO and it can rival some of the big ones like the Rangeley, ME area. Like Will (ORH_wxman) mentioned average annual snowfall can be above 150" in these parts. 3 foot+ snow packs are not uncommon. I had ~150" last winter and probably 200-210" the year before. I moved here at the beginning of March 2018, so while my sample size is small, we did have a 4 and half foot pack in mid March that year. Who knows what it would've been if it weren't for the ridiculous late February torch that year too. I've had ~120" so far this season, which isn't all that bad despite being somewhat below normal. We've had considerably worse (i.e. '15-'16, '11-12, '05-'06, '01-'02). The big drawback this winter has been the frequent rains and torches, especially the one in the second week of January that nearly wiped out our snow pack from November and December. As it stands, the snowfall is about a C/C+, the winter overall a D+. My peak depth was in the high 20s back in late February so we did make a recovery in late January and February with frequent small to medium events, most of which included some rain or mix. There are some insane gradients around here, so be careful if snow is a top priority. As a rule of thumb, if you're above 2,000' and within a few miles of the 73° W longitude line, you'll do quite well. The Wardsboro, Jamaica, Dover, etc, area does well in nor'easters and with cold air damming overrunning events, but doesn't get as much as the backside W and NW upslope that Woodford, Searsburg, and my location in the far NE corner of Stamford does. I get a nice mix of snow from coastals, upslope, and overrunners. The nice thing about this location is not being too far away from the cities. Albany, NY is 90 minutes, Hartford, CT 2 hours, Boston 3-3.5 hours, and NYC 3.5-4 hours. The small cities of North Adams, MA are 20 minutes, Pittsfield, MA 50-55 minutes, and Bennington 30-35 minutes away, so there's none of this hour+ drive stuff just to go to a grocery store or Walmart supercenter like you might have up in Rangeley, ME or Pittsburg, NH. As for 30 acre+ plots, they are around if you look. There's a 49 acre plot at like 1,700-1,800' near here in Stamford that's $150K. It won't get quite as much snow as I do just up the hill at 2,230', but still does quite well. There's at least one more up on route 8 in Searsburg at 2,300'-2,400' just north of the wind turbines. It's a roadside sign, and I can't find it online, so I'm not sure what the price or acreage is. That is an absolutely crazy spot for snow...at least as good as my spot.

The meteorology behind this incoming event fascinates me. It's basically a lot like the vast majority of events I've had this winter except rotated around 180°. So, basically a NEFE instead of a SWFE. WAA and overrunning from the NE instead of the SW with a big low to the SE as opposed to the NW. I start as wet snow and then go to freezing rain and rain like a lot of the events this winter. It'll be interesting to see how the terrain around here interacts with a veering NW to NE flow. Here's the SWFE in reverse (NEFE) sounding for 00z tomorrow night around here. Pretty neat.

Snowing here. Started as some rain and sleet, but it's since gone over to some light snow. I wasn't expecting this. Wetbulb cooling FTW.

Still some snow around these parts. 10.5" at the stake, but sunny spots are mostly bare again after melting off Monday's snow over the past few days. Some shady spots are still over 15".

But I want some more snow!

Wow...I didn't think ticks existed in the N VT hills. Global warming FTL? I was under the assumption that they were pretty much a SNE problem except for maybe the warmer valleys like the Champlain and CT River along with the ME and NH coastlines. I haven't gotten one yet here...

6.2". We narrowly avoided sleet, but snowfall rates have dropped. Maybe I get another 2 or 3" before it winds down during the overnight hours?

Just pounding out there now. 1.5" as of 4 PM, but it's likely approaching 2" per hour now. Maybe more? 24.5° F so it has the vibe of a midwinter snowstorm. Dense, but dry snow.

1.2" of frozen goobledygook with 0.71" liquid equivalent last night and early this morning. So close to being a decent 6-8 incher here, but like many other events in this garbage winter, no. I've had only one synoptic storm this winter besides the early December storm that has managed to produce >6" of snow and remain all snow, which was on 2/10 with 9". And that's debatable since it ended as light drizzle. I've only had two other synoptic all snowers, one on 12/17 and 1/18-19, but they were both < 6" with 4.3" and 5.2" respectively. 113.0" for the season. Winter grade as of now is a straight D. If we can get a good storm or two in the next couple of weeks I may bump it into the low to mid C range.