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Yeah flurrying here, but no accumulation yet.

F this.

No fun!

No hoorah!

I love snow as much as anyone.  But there's so much spring yardwork to do, I can't watch a whole weekend go down the tubes.

Either give me enough snow to get my skis out of the basement, or give me sunny and 65F!

16 hours ago, DeltaT13 said:

Sunday is starting to get interesting. Right on the cusp of some accumulating snows. 

That's not funny.

Please let’s keep that minimum over Otsego County.

We are already waterlogged, with the lakes full, and flooding just sucks.

Nice hailer!

Two lines went through.  The first had some small scattered hail.  The second was more impressive:

17 hours ago, Jason215 said:

Congrats to you guys who are able to ski/ride this weekend. Between powder day Saturday and bluebird on Sunday with temps close to 40, it’s arguably the best weekend all season to hit the mountains.  Unfortunately I’ve got other obligations that kept me from attacking the mountains.

We missed you at Plattekill today. In the woods:

Bluebird can't get any more bluebird than this:

I measured 12 to 13 inches at various points on our property.

Backcountry skiing off the charts good today:

Delta I hope you end up having a great time.  We are shoveling out today, skiing Sunday and Monday.

Here's some fun "spring" shots from our place.

10 hours ago, DeltaT13 said:

Made it up to the base of whiteface in record time. Decided to take 87 to avoid that typically treacherous route 3. Wet roads and rain most of the drive. Never got lower than 34 degrees. Quite shocked to be honest. Looks like the base area got a few inches. I see the whiteface website says they got 9 today so hopefully it’s a different world higher up the mountain. A very strange storm indeed.  

You should have hung a right in Albany.

I’m eyeballing about a foot on my deck right now.

Plattekill reported a foot as of 1900 last night and I believe it .  I bet they ended up around 18 inches.

13 minutes ago, DeltaT13 said:

For this storm to really produce we needed that low to stall over the gulf of Maine for 18-24 hours which is what it did on the models all week.  Starting at the 18z runs yesterday things just got a lot more progressive and it basically just speeds out to sea.  My 18-24" dreams have been reduced to praying for 3-6.  Oh well, I shall make the best of it.  I don't have the heart to tell my buddies its going to be a bust......They are going to hate me.

Are you up in the high peaks now?

1 hour ago, Phillifan22 said:

Southern CNY near Oneonta getting pasted. Last night compared to this morning in Laurens NY

Just down the road from me.

We are up over 1600 feet and when I left for work before 0700 it was 32 F with about 4 inches already accumulated.

Down in Cooperstown, 1250 feet it was 33F on the car thermometer, also pouring snow and about 2-3 inches accumulated.

I like the way this looks in the Catskills right now too.

Could be a great Platty day on Sunday!

10 hours ago, DeltaT13 said:

I booked a room in the 'Dacks for one last good day on the slopes.  Couldnt stand the thought of sitting this one out.   Snow ratios look good overnight friday so I'm hoping for some quality POW on Saturday.  

I'm still hedging.

I want to get in at least one more good ski day.

Wondering if Sunday might actually be the better day this weekend.  Could be a gem of a spring day on fresh snow.

3 inches down here.

Some good squalls earlier.

We love skiing Platty for St. Patrick's Day because they have fun activities for the kids, plus good corned beef and cabbage.

But I'm passing this year.  I think what's left of the snow is going to freeze to a brick overnight tonight.

At best a few snow showers could make it dust on crust.

Snowgeek that looks great and all, but you're missing out on watching 33 degree drizzle and fog roll over our frozen glacier surface here.

Are you sure it's worth it?

Total bustola down here.

i see maybe 2 inches on the back porch.

7 minutes ago, wolfie09 said:

Interestingly enough we are seeing mostly ZR not pellets..(some mixed in)

 

That is interesting.

I'm down in central Otsego County and we are pure sleet, have been for over an hour now.

1 hour ago, amarshall said:

Killington this weekend. My streak of predicting rainers with ski trips is spot on this year. Alta in 2 weeks.

Next year can you post your schedule ahead of time?

We're headed to Stowe and I'm bumming big time.

Outstanding day at Plattekill yesterday.

Perfect conditions.  As crowded as I have ever seen it, which meant waiting up to 5 minutes for the lift.  Truly an under appreciated gem.

We skied Plattekill yesterday.

10/10 snow conditions with deep blue sky and sun most of the day.

Holding out hope for Bolton/Stowe later this week.

So close to a broken neck this morning.  Just a few hundredths of frozen drizzle, invisible on our stone walkway.........

1 hour ago, DeltaT13 said:

Yeah, some hints at redemption for the second half of the week but it's close call still.  The fact that I have to cancel hotel reservations at specific times in order to get refunds will make the next few days of weather watching a bit stressful.  At this point I think I'm just shit canning the Vermont half of the trip.  Cut my losses and save vacation and money.  

When are you leaving?

We are headed to Stowe Thursday morning. Staying through Monday.

I'm holding out hope that the Friday event produces snow up there.

There's no snow depth issues up there so if it wants to be 40F and sunny every day we would gladly take spring skiing conditions.  I just don't want rain then a freeze without snow.

14 hours ago, powderfreak said:

It used to just be hot chocolate cupons.  

You will never find anyone in the industry give out more than a day ticket for a lift evac.  In fact you'll be lucky to get that much.  It is what it is in the ski industry.  

Most comments I saw online were thankful for the MMSP response.  Earlier this season it took MRG over an hour to evac 29 people from the single chair.  Getting over 100 cleared in 2-2.5 hours is decent.  And a lot of those were down in the 30 minute to 1.5 hour range.

If you get stuck on a Gondola you'll be there for much longer than that.  

This had me thinking last night.

The Stowe gondola goes over some really treacherous terrain.

How would you get people off that thing if it was stuck?

We're visiting in 2 weeks, I'm not really sure I want to know but asking anyway......

4 hours ago, wolfie09 said:

Just not seeing it lol

Ksyr would be lucky to see a few inches on the Euro/Nam/3k.

At this rate I'll be lucky to hit 6". 

 

Absolutely right.

I live right where the "P" is in Cooperstown.  I wish I had a bookie so I could bet the under on 11 inches.  I would be a rich man.

5 minutes ago, tnt said:

Beyond frustrated.  After last weekend fell apart on me, really thought this saturday would be good skiing.....crap.

 

Anyplace gonna strive this rain?  Stowe?  MRG?

 

What about going west to greek peak?

Snow Ridge looks like money in the bank this weekend.

if you can even get there.