klw Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 My wife called again "Blizzard 2." She forgot to take pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha5 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Alpha where are you again? Still flurrying out. Like softly falling flurries and real flakes. We must've mixed down some real cold air or upslope is cooling the atmosphere because we shouldn't be getting these lazy upslope style flakes at 40F. I can't wait for colder surface temps because these are the days that fly under the radar and lead to a couple inches of fluff. Madison County Were in the higher elevations to the south/east of Syracuse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxjim207 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Snow showers being reported to my twitter page in Lyndonville VT Sheffield VT Wheelock VT Walden VT West Burke VT Westmore VT and many other locations. Radar clearly shows snow showers throughout the North Country of Vermont, Northern New Hampshire and the Western Maine Mountains. I always love this time of year with the first snows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Madison County Were in the higher elevations to the south/east of Syracuse. Ohh you're way down there. I thought you were in BTV's warning area just in NY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eduggs Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Alpha where are you again? Still flurrying out. Like softly falling flurries and real flakes. We must've mixed down some real cold air or upslope is cooling the atmosphere because we shouldn't be getting these lazy upslope style flakes at 40F. I can't wait for colder surface temps because these are the days that fly under the radar and lead to a couple inches of fluff. It happens every fall when the lapse rates are steep and the atmosphere is unstable, typically behind a cold front. You can get flakes with temperatures well into the 40s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 It happens every fall when the lapse rates are steep and the atmosphere is unstable, typically behind a cold front. You can get flakes with temperatures well into the 40s. Yeah we get the unstable upslope precipitation... It is snowing very hard all the sudden. Car tops turning white. 42F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Just had a 100% graupel shower. First frozen of the season! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Webcam near the house showing snow/groupel squalls there too. Nothing of the sort here at work deep in yonder valley.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 34F 3/4SM -SN at the Lost River RWIS (1822ft) right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Just had a 100% graupel shower. First frozen of the season! Congrats! Lot of us seeing the first frozen down in the inhabited elevations...Oct 12 is pretty early. I am still amazed that I've seen several straight up snow showers after grauple for the first half of the day. Two weeks ago it was September...now it's precipitating winter style and there aren't many leaves left. Quite a change in two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 34F 3/4SM -SN at the Lost River RWIS (1822ft) right now. How much for an RWIS? I want to put one at the ski area lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Any other ASOS reporting snow today? Morrisville-Stowe Airport with Light Snow. Its coming down good again, vis looks quite low up near the ski area. METAR KMVL 121954Z AUTO 34015G24KT 3SM -SN FEW021 BKN048 OVC080 03/M03 A3023 RMK AO2 SNB53 SLP242 P0000 T00331033 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Dumping on the Mountain Road (RT 108) to the NW of the marker on the radar. 30+ dbz full snow right now making its way down the road. Vis is surprisingly low. Not graupel. Flakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted October 12, 2012 Author Share Posted October 12, 2012 No kidding. I remember discussing this with Dryslot 10 days ago! Nice to see LSC getting some flakes! As my buddy Wxjim said, many reports of SN- in the NEK. I can't wait for winter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I'll be at 4k in about 14 hours. If it won't snow at mi casa, I'll go to where it is! :snow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Webcam near the house showing snow/groupel squalls there too. Nothing of the sort here at work deep in yonder valley.... We just had a very brief snow shower here at 450ft!! Could see a larger shower just off to the Southwest of us as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 How much for an RWIS? I want to put one at the ski area lol How about an AWOS? lolhttp://www.vaisala.com/en/products/aviationweathersystems/Pages/default.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Dumping on the Mountain Road (RT 108) to the NW of the marker on the radar. 30+ dbz full snow right now making its way down the road. Vis is surprisingly low. Not graupel. You think they'll close Smuggler's Notch, at least for the night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 A little to warm for snow, Plus we down slope here so snow showers are drying up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 I am right under the yellow 30+dbz on the Mountain Road and it is dumping quarter sized dendrites. The snow growth is incredible. Must be really cold upstairs because this is snow globe snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 You think they'll close Smuggler's Notch, at least for the night? Hard to say...they will for even an inch of snow. Obviously nothing is accumulating down under 1000ft except for about 30 seconds during the heaviest squalls that whiten the car tops then melt. But the mountain has been obscured in snow all afternoon so the top of the pass may get accums. Dry air has got to shut this off at some point...but if not, the cellular upslope may organize a bit more at night and that's when accums would happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Can watch the showers run across the valley all day. Graupel/pellets until the last one went through, wispy flakes too PF! Sure beats the Fo drizzle Man I love this. No other season transition has so much excitement IMO. Gonna be a brisk one in the tree stand tomorrow AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 A little to warm for snow, Plus we down slope here so snow showers are drying up No more dryslot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Can watch the showers run across the valley all day. Graupel/pellets until the last one went through, wispy flakes too PF! Sure beats the Fo drizzle Man I love this. No other season transition has so much excitement IMO. Gonna be a brisk one in the tree stand tomorrow AM I was thinking the same thing. Crazy to get so excited over a few flakes that don't stick and would melt tomorrow if they did. But I can't help it. It's one of the reasons why I love living here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Zone forecast has a dusting to 2" in it for tomorrow night... Saturday Night Cloudy. Rain or snow likely...mainly after midnight. Total snow accumulation a dusting to 2 inches possible. Lows in the mid 30s. Light and variable winds. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. AFD: Model soundings suggest there may be a brief period of snow or mixed precipitation at the onset of the event...but warming aloft will result in any mix or snow changing over to just rain. Any snow or mix is most likely to occur over north central or northeast Vermont...where a trace to perhaps an inch of snow may fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 35.9F with 12mph winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Wind chill at the summit is already down near zero in the low single digits. 21F with 50mph gusts is a bit nippy for early/mid October. I wonder what the earliest sub-zero wind chill is up there... we'll probably get a few sub-zero readings in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 MWN now down to 12F with a 50mph wind... -14F wind chill. Makes Mansfield's 1F wind chill seem warm. Just looked outside and there's flakes floating down again in the spotlight. 35F with --SN. I'm not sure how low we get with the wind and residual snow showers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 35/24 at Plymouth. Should be below freezing for the first time this fall by 11pm or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 35/24 at Plymouth. Should be below freezing for the first time this fall by 11pm or so. 1P1 will probably beat Boyd by at least 5F tomorrow AM.Winds are beginning to wane here. It goes 0-1mph for 5 minutes and then we get a few minutes of 3-5mph to keep it a bit mixed. 33.7F at 2m, but the ground skin temp is 31F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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