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NNE Winter 2013-14 Part I

klw

By klw,
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J.Spin

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Event totals: 0.8” Snow/1.75” L.E.

 

We’ve been doing a bit of traveling for the holidays, but I’ve had some time now to catch up on weather record keeping at the house and pass along some additional observations.  As I mentioned in my previous report, the precipitation was just changing over to sleet at the house as we were heading up to Jay Peak in the afternoon on Monday the 23rd.  It looks like that precipitation only resulted in a trace of additional accumulation, so the above numbers will mark the final totals for that event.  In terms of total liquid, this event will go down as the largest accumulating system so far in the 2013-2014 snowfall season, just edging out that storm at the end of November that delivered 1.62” of liquid equivalent.  This latest event was rather modest in snow/sleet accumulations at our location due to a lot of the liquid coming as rain and freezing rain, but it was certainly a net gain for the snowpack as noted by the most recent snowpack analysis.

 

While we were up at Jay Peak we got a couple rounds of snow there, the first being an inch or two that came at the tail end of that long-duration mixed event.  It wasn’t much, but it was enough to produce some decent turns on moderate angle terrain when we were skiing on the 24th:

 

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The second snowfall event was in the evening on the 24th, and it seemed very similar to the previous round of snow.  But since we headed back to Waterbury, I’m not sure how it played out on the slopes.  It was interesting to follow the appearance of the snowpack as we headed southward from Jay Peak.  These couple of recent light snowfalls definitely seemed to reinvigorate the wintry look in the Northeast Kingdom, with definite accumulations atop the snowpack that easily covered up the old snow and whitened all the evergreens again.  There was definitely a lot of snowmobile activity around, and with the old base and a few inches of new on top, the snowpack was looking quite robust.  The snowpack in the area south of the Eden/Hyde Park area through Morrisville, Stowe, and Waterbury Center was the most tired – it seems like there was more melting in general relative to the Northeast Kingdom, and there was only about a dusting of new snow.  Then, once we got Waterbury and headed down the Winooski Valley, there was still ice in the trees and a more substantial dose of snow, so that bumped up the wintry look, although I wouldn’t say it was quite up to the appearance of what we saw in the Northeast Kingdom.  The current snow is really going to help the look of the snow all around though, so I think the current disparities will disappear.  That’s good news for the holiday week.

 

Event totals: 0.3” Snow/0.04” L.E.

 

At the house yesterday I found 0.3” of new snow comprised of 0.04” of liquid that apparently came from Tuesday night’s activity, and there were no additional branches down as far as we could tell, but everything is still locked up in ice in the same manner as when we left.  Yesterday’s bright sunshine did offer some sparkling vistas in the neighborhood that we hadn’t had a chance to see yet:

 

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Next we’re looking to see what today’s system does; the current point forecast down here in the valley calls for 2-3” in total,.  At 20.8”, December snowfall is still at less than half of average, although these latest couple of storms did just push the monthly total past December 2006 (20.2”), so it’s not going to be the lowest in my records.  There are still several days left in the month, but barring anything substantial, this is going to come in as a very weak December.  Season snowfall is now behind average pace as well, but only by a couple of inches thanks to the decent November.   

 

We’ve already got 0.4” of accumulation from this current storm, so it may help to keep the season snowfall close to average.  I see that the Mt. Mansfield point forecast is calling for 3-6” plus, so that could be nice for the slopes.

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Mid teens in AUG with a few flakes, and only a dusting so far.  Drove thru some moderate snow coming in to work, looks like another buch of 20-25 dbz stuff is about to move in.  Glad it's cold fluff, as the trees here are still loaded with ice, about 0.6" accretion outside the office, twice as thick as at home.

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tamarack

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-SN here in AUG, thjough the 3/8 mile vis is consistent with SN - must be some fog involved. Still working on the first half inch.

12z gfs gives quite the thump Sun-Mon, with .75-1.00" qpf with surface temps near 10F (barely inside 100 hr, however), then super frigid for the start of 2014. Of course, this run also shows a 3" torch-deluge out at day 12-13; wouldn't that be fun...

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Holla

FLUS41 KGYX 262003HWOGYXHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOKNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME303 PM EST THU DEC 26 2013MEZ007>009-012-013-018>020-023-024-NHZ001>010-013-014-272015-NORTHERN OXFORD-NORTHERN FRANKLIN-CENTRAL SOMERSET-SOUTHERN OXFORD-SOUTHERN FRANKLIN-INTERIOR YORK-INTERIOR CUMBERLAND-ANDROSCOGGIN-COASTAL YORK-COASTAL CUMBERLAND-NORTHERN COOS-SOUTHERN COOS-NORTHERN GRAFTON-NORTHERN CARROLL-SOUTHERN GRAFTON-SOUTHERN CARROLL-SULLIVAN-MERRIMACK-BELKNAP-STRAFFORD-INTERIOR ROCKINGHAM-COASTAL ROCKINGHAM-303 PM EST THU DEC 26 2013THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MAINE...CENTRAL NEWHAMPSHIRE...NORTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHEASTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE..DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME..DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.A COASTAL LOW IS EXPECTED TO TRACK OFF THE NEW ENGLAND COASTSUNDAY NIGHT. THIS WILL LIKELY SPREAD SNOW ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERNNEW ENGLAND... WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MODERATE TO HEAVYACCUMULATIONS..SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY SNOW REPORTS TO THE NATIONALWEATHER SERVICE.
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Just got home... 1.8" here in Stowe Village at 750ft (blocked flow leading to some shadowing)... but twice that much up at the ski area.

 

1,500ft was 3.5" as of 1:45pm.  Up to 5" upper elevations.

 

1,500ft snow depth is 9.0"

 

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Very nice :) I always love an overperformer. Here are a few more pics

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Solid Advisory to almost warning snows along the western slopes and Spine... less here on the east side but I'm at 2" now so it looks nice.  Snow depth actually up to 7" now with about 5" of ice crust and 2" of pow now.

...CHITTENDEN COUNTY...   WESTFORD               7.0   200 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   1 SW MILTON            5.4   200 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   MILTON                 5.0   206 PM 12/26  DEPT OF HIGHWAYS   4 NNE UNDERHILL        4.3   157 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   1 W MILTON             4.0   104 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   ESSEX CENTER           3.8   323 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   1 E NASHVILLE          3.3   303 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   BURLINGTON             2.8   242 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   SHELBURNE              2.5  1106 AM 12/26  UNKNOWN   1 SSW UNDERHILL        2.0  1248 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   1 NE SOUTH BURLINGTO   2.0  1257 PM 12/26  NWS OFFICE   COLCHESTER             1.2  1200 PM 12/26  BROADCAST MEDIA   1 NNW JERICHO          0.4   810 AM 12/26  COCORAHS...FRANKLIN COUNTY...   2 W NORTH FAIRFAX      6.0   126 PM 12/26  NWS EMPLOYEE   FAIRFAX                6.0   126 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   8 NNW FAIRFAX          3.8   830 AM 12/26  COCORAHS   SWANTON                3.2  1043 AM 12/26  TRAINED SPOTTER   ST. ALBANS             2.0  1015 AM 12/26  PUBLIC   1 WNW ENOSBURG FALLS     T   400 AM 12/26  CO-OP OBSERVER...LAMOILLE COUNTY...   JEFFERSONVILLE         5.0   321 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   WATERVILLE             5.0  1248 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   1 SSE SMUGGLERS NOTC   3.5   233 PM 12/26  STOWE MTN 1550 FEET   HYDE PARK              3.0   312 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   STOWE                  1.8   258 PM 12/26  STOWE VILLAGE   MORRISVILLE            1.2  1247 PM 12/26  PUBLIC   5 N JEFFERSONVILLE     1.2   730 AM 12/26  CO-OP OBSERVER   3 NE HYDE PARK         0.7   845 AM 12/26  COCORAHS   MOUNT MANSFIELD          T   400 PM 12/25  CO-OP OBSERVER
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