powderfreak Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Wow was that nuts. Around 2.5" in one hour at 3000ft. Chokingly heavy snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Snowing at a good clip here in St. J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Nice squall St J. Probably nothing here but when the squalls reach the Conn River they are in a hard place for radar to see. We will soon know once they come in range of Portland's radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Wow at the St. J pic. Here is one more before hitting the heaviest point: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 This is what it looked like during that squall. Rates of 3"/hr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I had to brighten these shots up as it was just dark dark dark in those squalls at midday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Looks like exactly 1.0" at home from that squall that brought +SN obs to BTV/MPV/MVL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Looks like exactly 1.0" at home from that squall that brought +SN obs to BTV/MPV/MVL. And yet only 0.3" here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 looks like about an inch from the squall and a little extra from the early morning snow. Call it 1.2 for the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 And yet only 0.3" here! Sounds like an inch at a certain residence in Nashville, VT, too...and if klm had an inch, I mean that's a widespread inch squall . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Speaking of which, here's an awesome webcam loop from Nashville, VT of the squalls moving in and out...hopefully this vid is public or else you won't be able to see it. I love how once the snow moved out and the skies clear everywhere but over Mansfield proper which continuously regenerates clouds. Makes it easy to visualize how that mountain seems to get so much precipitation throughout the year, you almost always have this little pocket of enhanced lift right there. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10204999683983511&id=1584305183 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 A nice little lake effect streamer on radar crossing the Champlain Valley into JSpin's area...any ground truth to that band J? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 A nice little lake effect streamer on radar crossing the Champlain Valley into JSpin's area...any ground truth to that band J? image.jpg Definitely some ground truth here; I'd say ½"/hr+ with some decent flakes up to 10-15 mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I was just reading through the BTV NWS forecast discussion and saw 250-260 degrees mentioned for wind flow tomorrow into tomorrow night with respect to Lake Ontario. The current LES event is nothing like the ones from November of course, but ~255 degrees lines things up pretty nicely for moisture being transported to the Mansfield area, assuming areas downwind have a similar trajectory. That trajectory led to some nice bonus moisture in those November events, so it sort of piques my interest now when I hear about an extended period with flow in that direction: Well, it looks like flow is ~260º off the northern half of Lake Ontario right now – that's right in the range that the BTV NWS was talking about in their discussion yesterday. Bump that number down a few degrees and it's hitting Mansfield area. You can see why I was interested when I saw that 250-260º flow mentioned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 A nice little lake effect streamer on radar crossing the Champlain Valley into JSpin's area... I'm not sure exactly when the snow started (some point after 8:00 PM because that's when I had cleared the boards this evening and it was fairly light then) but I checked an hour after your post and found 0.8" on the board; so I'm guessing snowfall is somewhere in the ½-1"/hr range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Our snow depth at BTV has been 0 or Trace every day except 1 since Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Event totals: 1.1” Snow/0.05" L.E. We had 1.0" of snow with today's activity as of 8:00 PM this evening. Details from the 8:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.0 inches New Liquid: 0.04 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 25.0 Snow Density: 4.0% H2O Temperature: 14.5 F Sky: Light Snow (1-3 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 3.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 0.5" overnight at home and at the base of the mountain. Base of the mountain may have been more but its a bit wind packed on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 3.2 cold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Ripped a -8F at SFM ... glad fuel oil is down to $2.29 or so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Ripped a -8F at SFM ... glad fuel oil is down to $2.29 or soHeatwave on the hill. 10f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Heatwave on the hill. 10f Lava Rock being Lava Rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Event totals: 1.6” Snow/0.10" L.E. We'd picked up 1.4" from that Lake Ontario LES streamer during the initial surge, and then another couple of tenths at some point after that. I had planned to include that snowfall in the Clipper/cold front event from yesterday, but the BTV NWS forecast discussion speaks about it specifically, so I'm breaking it out as a discrete event: .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 7 AM SATURDAY MORNING/... AS OF 933 PM EST FRIDAY...LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND HAS PUSHED SOUTH OF SAINT LAWRENCE AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN NEW YORK TONIGHT. FLOW ALOFT NOW LOOKS TO STAY FROM THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST WHICH WOULD KEEP STRONGEST PORTION OF THE BAND SOUTH OF OUR AREA. AS A RESULT...FEEL THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL LAKE EFFECT SNOW OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SAINT LAWRENCE AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IS VERY LOW. THUS HAVE GONE AHEAD AND DROPPED THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN THIS AREA. THERE COULD BE SOME LIGHT SNOW OVERNIGHT IN THIS AREA...BUT ANY ACCUMULATIONS WOULD BE LESS THAN AN INCH. BEFORE THIS BAND PUSHED SOUTH...A PIECE OF THE BAND BROKE OFF AND IS MOVING ACROSS ESSEX COUNTY NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN CHITTENDEN...SOUTHERN LAMOILLE...WASHINGTON...AND NORTHERN ADDISON COUNTIES. THIS BAND WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT COULD PRODUCE UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.6 inches New Liquid: 0.10 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 16.0 Snow Density: 6.3% H2O Temperature: 10.0 F Sky: Mostly Clear Snow at the stake: 5.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 If you were near a lake or river last night you got pretty damn cold. On a hill...fuggedaboutit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 It just won't stop snowing, but no complaints here. Visibility this morning has been under a mile most of the morning with steady light snow. I see sunshine on ski area web cams to the south, but no sun here. Steady 1/4" per hour stuff since 5am. Up to 5" now at 3,000ft in the last 24 hours, and 2.8" at 1,500ft. Very small flakes that are hard to see but visibility is running around 3/4sm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 And now a squall moves in and visibility goes to near zero in wind-whipped snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 0.2" from yesterday morning, nada from the afternoon line, but clear and calm meant -13 this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 10, 2015 Author Share Posted January 10, 2015 .5 new overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Nice out there today. 6" at 3000ft in the last 48 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Nice out there today. 6" at 3000ft in the last 48 hours. What's the depth in the lower el's out there? I've got some friends coming up late next week and we might be looking at doing a little XC-skiing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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