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Frye Island is extremely dusty right now... A lap around the island gives you a thin layer of silt all over the car and the roadside vegetation is covered in a powdery coating.

All the same, it turned into a pretty nice evening.  Sun mostly out by about 230 and warmed up to mid 70s.  Water about that too.

30 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

One formed about a quarter mile from here lol

One cell after another back built.  Heavy rain and thunder 

2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

You made that comment when all modeling was south then said you were joking.  Any tropical system to our west is dry thats just normal

Anyone know if 38 was rainy east of the center?  Being more purely tropical I'd suspect it might have been.  Most of these transitioning tropical storms have rainfall shift west as baroclinic processes take precedence, usually with an incoming trough.

Two days worth of battery is a lot.  They often take up like half of the collocated equipment shed.  But many if not most cell tower sites do have gennys I think.

Just now, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Fresh Heady and Focal Banger all over Greenfield today!!!
VT sales must be slow lol! 

That's what Vermonters call humanitarian aid

21 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Kevin already sounds cranky from no power. You wanted it Breh.

hopefully he was able to procure ice for those IPAs

While we are giving out plaudits and hazard pay, I'd like to thank the utility workers and dpw crews out there busting ass today.  And their spouses at home with the kids trying to work remote, on down the line.

We had several convective cells move overhead early on.  Radar was showing very high velocities at range but as storms got closer and the sampling height dropped, the velocities were also dropping substantially.  It seemed like it was going to be a bust until the sun came out and the rain mostly stopped.  I don't know if it were coincidence or if that extra amount of mixing might have been the catalyst, because after that things got pretty heavy.

22 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Still no power got wild after I posted meh.  Not meh lol at dunkin line is huge

Camping stove and french press FTW.  But freezer FTL

Power out and a quite a bit of debris.  

Best winds of the day after the sun came out

Meanwhile... just dropped a TOR in GC

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

I see 58 NTU?

yes.  Sorry, unit fail. 

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

So far haven’t seen super impressive obs down south. I did see ORF with 53kts.

Nearby NTU was gusting 67kts last hour.  And earlier this morning Manteo put up a 51G68 which isn't terrible

Looks like SW CT did get in on a tropical ENH?  

25 minutes ago, bwt3650 said:

Moving on from the deep complexities of mean people, how about some lighter discussion...favorite run of last season? As soon as I saw this thread open, I immediately thought of that late feb dumping at Stowe/jay and how a run down starr was probably top five in my life...disappointing season; but it had its moments!

For me had to be 12/1 @ the Beast after part 1 of the early Dec storm.  14"+ dense and just about everything in play.  Bonus points for opening day, and for having huge snowmaking whales adding to the terrain.  

Silver goes to 2/13 @ Magic which started off with like 3" new on some crust but skied in great and before lunch we were ripping Magician, Goniff, and the Black Line at high speeds.

Bronze to 2/7 @ Sugarbush.... 8" new and mid mountain skiing much better than upper mountain.  Got acquainted with mogul trails off the Valley house chair and had a blast.

Pico has what looks like a powerline cut lookers right from the summit down the fall line.  I've always thought it looked appealing although seemed like a no no to try it.  Maybe if it were uphill only...

Anyone know what I am talking about?  

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

You got your taser in one hand and your iPhone in the other checking the JFK/LGA gusts?

Shaking?  Me too

There's actually quite a bit of instability in the early afternoon above some capping.  And shear profiles are already impressive, albeit not as impressive as later on with helicity going bonkers.   At any rate several modes of severe in play...  Conditional risk early, and later on who knows, probably with S CT favored.

Maybe we can pull an ENH?

I've never had any issues with my Mass plates fwiw.   Granted I didn't go up there after the lockdowns and the bulk of my interactions are grinning in powder or in anticipation of powder.  

3 hours ago, PowderBeard said:

At this point I'm not even sure we will be buying passes this year given VT's quarantine guidelines. I have several ski friends were stopped by country sheriffs in southern VT and questioned (even after quarantining) since they had out of state plates. Hopefully the Berks get some decent snow for back country adventures.

We hedged and got a pass to the Beast.  First time actually, usually just pay $40/pop for the 4 hour ticket.  

If we can go north, then great.

Win Smith (sugarbush) sent an email yesterday that they definitely intend to stick to the snowmaking plan starting Nov 1.  He also mentioned that needing reservations was a possibility, and that they wouldn't be loading chairs to capacity. 

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I've always used alpine 130 flex boots for downhill resort skiing and have used those for early/late season uphill.... but am definitely thinking about adding a softer Scarpa style AT boot.  I do think I'll be skinning a bunch more during the season too, whether dawn patrols or sunset skins, etc. 

Just like there are no air conditioners left, the uphill community has been exploding in the past 5 years and this year probably makes a huge jump up.  AT gear is going to be in short supply.

Yeah I did the same.  Lange XT 130s and AT bindings without tech fittings are what I've been using.  But since there's at least a chance this could be our primary mode of skiing this year I invested in Scarpa Maestrales and Salomon Shifts.  The Maestrales are pretty darn stiff so they should perform well going down.  Also quite light.  Can't wait to test em out.

FWIW I just bought my wife a splitboard in the the last few weeks and the inventory for women's splitboard bindings (especially) is pretty low right now.  I think a lot of folks are thinking what J Spin is thinking.