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Eyewall.  That totally, totally sucks.  Keep me posted as what you are going to do.  Last year when I had to deal with DJI it was awful.  Maybe they have improved.  I've had a few close calls.  One was when I went up to visit Alex and took the drone.  I didn't tighten one of the props and it took a back flip when I went to take off.  Luckily no water.  The infra red camera that detects close objects has saved me also.  Sounds like that would not have helped with you.  I have found as I have gotten more experience I tend to do things that have higher risk.   Stupid on my part!

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On ‎5‎/‎19‎/‎2017 at 8:41 PM, powderfreak said:

Nice stuff JSpin!

 

Thanks PF, glad you liked it.  Any recent beta on Nosedive’s coverage from your sources?  I’d actually like to head to the Snowfields for turns this weekend, but it would depend on the weather or other obligations, so some Nosedive turns might be another option depending on the snow situation there.

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Skied Tucks with the kids and friends last Saturday. It made day 30 for me which is the first time I've ever skied 30 or more days in a season, woohoo! 

Eyewall, I've dropped a drone in a river before. Dry it out, check the ESC's for moisture and check the motors spin freely. Before you send it back I'd remove the shell (if you're handy) and check for damage. If it fell hard, it might have cracked the ceramic GPS antenna located on the underside of the top shell. I lucked out the time I dropped it in the river. It ran fine after I replaced the props, straightened one of the arms (after I let it dry). The second time I lost it, not so lucky. The cracked GPS antenna wouldn't let it take off. 

Anyway, here are some shots. Next time I'm bringing the Mavic!

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Skied Tucks with the kids and friends last Saturday. It made day 30 for me which is the first time I've ever skied 30 or more days in a season, woohoo! 

Eyewall, I've dropped a drone in a river before. Dry it out, check the ESC's for moisture and check the motors spin freely. Before you send it back I'd remove the shell (if you're handy) and check for damage. If it fell hard, it might have cracked the ceramic GPS antenna located on the underside of the top shell. I lucked out the time I dropped it in the river. It ran fine after I replaced the props, straightened one of the arms (after I let it dry). The second time I lost it, not so lucky. The cracked GPS antenna wouldn't let it take off. 

Anyway, here are some shots. Next time I'm bringing the Mavic!

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I assume there will still be skiing this weekend?

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Looks like May will end below normal in interior VT.  It would take quite the torch in the last week to overcome these.

St Johsbury is -3.0

Morrisville-Stowe is -2.7

Montpelier is -1.4

Meanwhile BTV continues its hot streak (compared to the other main climate sites) with +0.5.

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Rain and cold.  Picked up about .15" yesterday and its been raining most of time the past 6 hours.  Mostly light rain.  About .30" this PM but right now its raining pretty good.  Upper 40's to low 50's.  Pretty darn cold for almost June 1rst.   More cold and gloom.   I keep having to turn on the heat every few hours.   Everything is sure green!

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Thunderstorm really blew up just to my southeast.  Only got .25".  eek and Dendrite must be getting it good.  Got the drone up a bit too late....

 



Still awesome though!

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"One-boom" TS dropped 0.15" last evening.  May 2017 at my place:

Avg. high:  60.9   -3.5, and 2nd lowest of 19, trailing - by 4.6F - only the May that shall not be mentioned (a dozen years ago)
Avg. low:  40.9   +1.0
Mean:   50.9   -1.2

High was 91 on 5/18   First 90+ since June 2005, and eclipses the 89 on 5/2/01 for May's hottest.
High minimum:  55 on the 18th   The mean of 73 that day trails only 5/26/10 (85/62/73.5)

Low was 27 on 5/4
Low maximum:  45 on the 1st.  That day's mean of 41.5 was the month's coolest.
Last frost was on 5/21 (unless we get a June surprise.)  My median date for last frost is May 24.

Precip:  4.96"   +0.82"
Greatest one-day: 1.44" on the 26th.
There was thunder on the 19th and 31st.  1-2 TS is the May avg.

There were no traces of snow.

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2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Ah that's cool, what brings you up this way?

Still a little snow up on the Long Trail on Mansfield.

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Bachelor's party. First time to Stowe, been to Burlington a couple times. A different world up here in a good way.

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It’s June, so I’ve got the May and snowfall season precipitation totals for our site below:

 

May totals:  0.0” snow/5.23” L.E.

Snowfall season totals:  186.5” snow/26.39” L.E.

 

There was no accumulating snow at our site this May, and liquid was just about average (+0.36”) and well within one S.D.

 

I don’t track the temperatures, but they seemed pretty nice – it was certainly cool enough to help with snow preservation.

 

That should be it for the snowfall season, so the snow and liquid totals will likely represent what we picked up for the 2016-2017 winter season.  Next I’ll start putting together my winter season summary data.

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Below I’ve posted some of the general snow data for our site from this past winter.

 

Some highlights for snowfall were certainly getting an above average total for the first time in six seasons – that felt long overdue.  The months really setting that up were February and March with 50.3” and 58.7” respectively; other than that the months were essentially at or below average, with December and January coming in with pretty lackluster snowfall.  Certainly worthy of note was Winter Storm Stella, the largest storm of the season with 41.0” in total.

 

Aside from the snowfall, there wasn’t much that made the season stand out – snowpack was well below average as determined by snow depth days.  The duration of continuous snow at the stake was notably below average, as was the length of the snowfall season due to the early finish on April 8th.

 

Season Snowfall

186.5"

October Snowfall

1.1"

November Snowfall

13.6"

December Snowfall

34.2"

January Snowfall

20.0"

February Snowfall

50.3"

March Snowfall

58.7"

April Snowfall

8.6"

May Snowfall

0.0"

# of storms

55

Average snow per storm

3.4"

Largest snowstorm

41.0"

Max snow depth

29.5"

Snow depth days

848 inch-days

Earliest accumulating snowfall

Oct 22

Start of continuous snowpack

Dec 3

Latest accumulating snowfall

Apr 8

Last day of continuous snow at stake

Mar 1

Last day of continuous snow in yard

Apr 16

Duration of continuous snow at stake

89 days

Duration of continuous snow in yard

135 days

Duration of yard snowfall season

169 days

Liquid during snowfall season

26.39"

Season Snow/Water Ratio

7.1

Average water content of snow

14.2%

Days with trace of snowfall or greater

101

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On ‎6‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 6:37 PM, J.Spin said:

Below I’ve posted some of the general snow data for our site from this past winter.

 

Some highlights for snowfall were certainly getting an above average total for the first time in six seasons – that felt long overdue.  The months really setting that up were February and March with 50.3” and 58.7” respectively; other than that the months were essentially at or below average, with December and January coming in with pretty lackluster snowfall.  Certainly worthy of note was Winter Storm Stella, the largest storm of the season with 41.0” in total.

 

Aside from the snowfall, there wasn’t much that made the season stand out – snowpack was well below average as determined by snow depth days.  The duration of continuous snow at the stake was notably below average, as was the length of the snowfall season due to the early finish on April 8th.

 

Season Snowfall

186.5"

October Snowfall

1.1"

November Snowfall

13.6"

December Snowfall

34.2"

January Snowfall

20.0"

February Snowfall

50.3"

March Snowfall

58.7"

April Snowfall

8.6"

May Snowfall

0.0"

# of storms

55

Average snow per storm

3.4"

Largest snowstorm

41.0"

Max snow depth

29.5"

Snow depth days

848 inch-days

Earliest accumulating snowfall

Oct 22

Start of continuous snowpack

Dec 3

Latest accumulating snowfall

Apr 8

Last day of continuous snow at stake

Mar 1

Last day of continuous snow in yard

Apr 16

Duration of continuous snow at stake

89 days

Duration of continuous snow in yard

135 days

Duration of yard snowfall season

169 days

Liquid during snowfall season

26.39"

Season Snow/Water Ratio

7.1

Average water content of snow

14.2%

Days with trace of snowfall or greater

101

Great breakdown.  Adding some comparable data to what's in my sig:
(Numbers in parentheses are 19-winter averages/medians.)

Days with T or more:  73  (66.7/72.0)
Days with 0.1" or more:  48  (41.5/42.0)
Days with 1.0" or more:  28  (21.7/22.0)
Days with 4.0" or more:  11  (7.6/8.0)
Days with 10.0" or more:  3  (1.05/1.0)   Ties 2000-01 for most.  12 of 19 winters have had a 10"+ event.
Largest day:  17.0" on Feb. 13   (12.3/12.5)
Largest 24 hr:  21.0" on both Dec. 29-30 and Feb. 12-13  (14.8/13.8)

Max depth:  47" on Feb. 13   (29.3/26.0)   That's 2" short of the tallest, in Feb. 2009.  I've also reached 48" in 3/01 and 3/08, and 43" in 3/14.
Total days with 1"+ OG:  137  (120/122)   Had 136 consecutive, Dec. 5 thru Apr. 19.  Latest 1"+ was 01, 07, 14, 08 with 23"/22"?21"/20" respectively.
SDDs:  2,806  (1,720/1,400)   Ranks 3rd of 19, just 16 ahead of 00-01 and 31 behind 13-14.  07-08 with 3,835 is unchallenged.  5th (08-09) is 301 back of 00-01.

I took cores 3 times:  Feb. 18, 41" pack with 9.71" SWE (23.7% water); Mar. 18, 30" pack with 9.50"  (31.7%); April 1, 28" pack with 10.35" (37.0%)

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On 6/2/2017 at 6:38 PM, powderfreak said:

Ah that's cool, what brings you up this way?

Still a little snow up on the Long Trail on Mansfield.

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FWIW I went up Jay Peak on Thursday evening and there was no sign of any remaining snow anywhere there.

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