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1 hour ago, GCWarrior said:

Despite not getting much more than 4-5” Berkshire East skied really well Monday. The cement Friday night helped really establish a decent base.
Jug, east glades and several of the off map spots skied best. Patrol dropped ropes on pretty much everything!

 

We've been on the same page of late.  It was really good off piste, and protected en piste.  Got into Horace's first time this year which is always fun.   A little breezy but not nearly as bad as I was expecting.

17 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I think Franklin County and Berkshire County have been on the short end of the measuring stick this year and that’s just how it goes.
Probably Albany too?

Not sure about Albany in the HV but I feel like parts of the Catskills have done great this year.  Esp north western Catskills.  I skied Plattekill in Roxbury for the first time this year (love it btw) and have been paying attention to their ski reports and totals.  They've gotten hit hard.

A number of systems have been driven SSE through there and skirted parts of SNE and CNE moreso than a traditional clipper track.

6 minutes ago, met_fan said:

I’m not doubting you at all - sorry if I gave that impression

No worries whatsoever.. I know it seems locally high.  

The overall number of events has been impressive.  Even the pennies have added up this year.  Will mentioned my area, in far east Btown, is sort of banked up against the western slope of the ORH hills, mild as it may be.  But the active northern stream disturbances have suited us pretty well even if the differences might only be a quarter inch here, an inch there or whatever.

1 minute ago, met_fan said:

  Crazy, because I work in Ware and they have been pretty much similar to my backyard for every snowfall this year.

Unclear what the differences are but here's my event log fwiw.  Have pics of a lot of these-

25/26 70"

12/2 6.5" moderate pac s/w, cold air in place, retreating hp, primary near BM, but warm layer pushed far inland. SN->ZR/RN with fluff overnight

12/14 2" weak ocean storm / amplification moving offshore, cold temps.  Small flakes fell all morning, bit of an IVT. 6-8" jackpot NYC/NJ  

12/23 1" E Canada clipper to the south and west.  Minor bust, late burst for White christmas

12/26 5" light. Another clipper focused CT/NY but a nice late burst/mesoband did us good.

1/1 2" beautiful fluff with weak N stream disturbance followed by arctic fropa

1/4 .5" light snows with weak, dry clipper

1/6 .5" more light northern stream action, 2-4" inches up north

1/7 .5" sleet, wet flakes.  Followed by some rain.  Net loss.

1/17 5" two part clipper, light overnight to dense and sticky. Overperformer

1/18 4.5" an inch dense as moisture streamed in, then 3.5" fluffy overnight mid-level magic from ocean storm

1/21 2" fluff.  Surprise northern stream waa event over deep cold air.  4" in N CT/ ORH

1/25-26 22".  2 part HECS with true arctic airmass.  Swfe on roids dropped 15" settled, small dense flakes, then 7" on day 2, pure downy fluff.

2/7 4".  Northern stream s/w, arctic fropa hooking into distant ocean storm.  Cold, high ratio fluff.  Overperformed.  Crushed NEMA, SECT.

2/10 .5". Northern stream convective blobs on a weak fropa. Bad sounding w/ warmish temps, dry air.  Minor bust locally.

2/20 4" heavy.  snow to sleet to snow on a swfe, redeveloper.

2/23 8" dense.  All time blizzard. SEMA/RI jack.  Fringed a bit. Windy, dry snow. 

2/25 2" fluffy.  Fairly vigorous, fast moving northern stream s/w. Widespread 1-3" in SNE

55 minutes ago, met_fan said:

Oh wow, 68”? - that’s Belchertown? That’s like 25” higher than across the river here.

70 after today!  

That low level stuff has indeed persisted and we should finish at 2"

Ineedsnow give us a signal if torch tiger is holding you hostage

The heavy initial burst is moving quickly but ENX suggests a little back filling and lingering low level snows maybe.

1 minute ago, The 4 Seasons said:

hey how much did you get in the storm? i have no reports from Belchertown

I called it 8 but included about a half inch predawn 

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Poundtown 

Yep.  Quick hitter but SN+ out there

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Mine is 60” . I’d have to believe Burptown is higher than here . More like 65-70

Well this town goes from like 300' to over 1000' and I'm at 540'.  I'd def take your location on the hill over mine.  1k to 1k I bet there isn't much diff.  Our latitude helps in swfes and maybe we catch the stray streamer but we also get subsidence here more often and are further away from the moisture in ocean storms.  

3 hours ago, met_fan said:

Is your snowfall really well above average? Mine can’t be too much above and might even be right about at average.

I'd put my average at like 55" but who knows.  We haven't sniffed 55" in years.  But I'm at 68" atm

Solid A on a curve

Snowy and cold, barely any r***

Good skiing and great skating

Deep, deep pack

Well AN snowfall already with more than a month to go

Does anyone know what Boston is reporting?

6 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Yeah. It was definitely apparent early on that your hood was out of luck.   

Tbh I think it was apparent in the valley too

Was very surprised with BOX's 12-22" blizzard warning for Hampshire and Hampden county.  NBM was weenieish, but not sure what in the blend of models had anything close on the high side.

Anyway, maybe 7" here

Remarkably little wind at Berkshire East.  Was maybe 3" on arrival but snowed pretty good all morning.  All the terrain is open and skiing well.  

Wet unplowed roads at the Greenfield rotary, looked like maybe an inch new

2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

2”-3” in Greenfield.  Ouch.  
Called it though, glad I didn’t get sucked in. Hopefully power stays on…

Berkshire East reporting 6" and says they're open... 

ENX showing a very impressive Hudson Valley shadow.  Echoes just disappearing over the Taconics. Interesting case study.

Ct Valley shadow not quite as bad but the radar is higher off the ground too.  UMass radar shows decent snow across the adjacent couple towns.  Already better than Boxing Day probably.

Anyway, relatively windy by our standards, some decent banding moving into Btown locally.  

5 hours ago, GCWarrior said:

Magic was excellent yesterday. I was helping judge a freeride comp so we got some access to closed trails with untouched powder. Felt like a treat on one of their busiest days. They received around 8” of dense but not overly sticky snow overnight, it really helped cover up the abundance of rocks they have on that hill. Everything skied very smooth.
They were sold out and the parking lots were full. Lines were pretty long in the am but when I went out solo in the afternoon it was ski on. They have been having one of their best Feb vacation weeks ever which is great for their long term sustainability.




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Nice.  I was there too, also on Icelantics ;), first tracks on Goniff and Master Magician, and killer runs down red and green lines.  Didn't hang out long enough to get the opening of black magic after the comp.  But yeah it was awesome.

Blizzard warnings for Hampshire County with 12-22" in the text 

Don't hold back baby

Just now, MuddyWx said:

GFS hiccup - universe couldn't let USA win too much at once

Yep

The board chanting USA after the GFS pulls the rug on a blizzard is true irony

If you believe the GFS take down the warning and don't even bother with the advy here

Swfes >>> coastals

Picked up about an inch overnight to bring the final to 4"

Killington reported a foot.  

7 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

lol, it is snowing so hard’  

Nice.  We're also under a heavy echo but it's like 75% sleet.  Still a good 3" true pasting.