NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[alex]

32 minutes ago, vtski said:

Nice! Looks like you were a few hours ahead of us..

It was SO good out there

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Great shot!

Was much crummier here today. 

[WxWatcher007]

Elevated areas are getting smoked. I had to come back to CT earlier, but you could see the SN+ from the road.

[powderfreak]

Kind of a dud so far… flow is too chaotic, not blocked enough. Should’ve known the Froude of 1.5+ for today was going to do less organized precip and mostly just windy snow showers into the NEK.

Still should see it try to organize nocturnally as the the flow was going to try and block up a bit after midnight.

[bwt3650]

Kind of a dud so far… flow is too chaotic, not blocked enough. Should’ve known the Froude of 1.5+ for today was going to do less organized precip and mostly just windy snow showers into the NEK.
Still should see it try to organize nocturnally as the the flow was going to try and block up a bit after midnight.

I’m not there but it’s snowing pretty good right now from what a few friends tell me. Webcam no help, but you can see it’s getting blown all around and must have come down decent for a while, as that’s from today.




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[powderfreak]

3 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

I’m not there but it’s snowing pretty good right now from what a few friends tell me. Webcam no help, but you can see it’s getting blown all around and must have come down decent for a while, as that’s from today.




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Yeah it was for sure snowing… Lookout cam had picked up 4” today when I wrote that.  Now up to 7” at 2am, ha.

Didn’t mean for it to come off like it wasn’t snowing, but to get some of these gaudy amounts 18-24”+ thrown around, I would’ve liked to see a bit more earlier today.

The nocturnal flow blocking has helped a lot, congealing into a more laminar classic band.

[vortex95]

CoastalWx will get upset at me for posting the screenshot!  LOL.

But really, using just the last 5 years, and averages only since 2008?  That is much too short of a time frame to determine any real trend either way.

As I think I have mentioned before, New England suffered through a crappy snow period 1978-79 to 1991-1992.  Yes there was some biggies, but largely confined to 1981-1984.  It really was bad 1984-1985 to 1991-92.  In Woburn MA, my biggest single snowfall during that latter period was only 11"!  That seemed like a lot back then, but now, MEH unless at least 18" after epic 1992-93 to 2015-2016! 

CoastalWx has vivid "traumatic" memories as a li'l kid at the time in the mid-late 80s --  "WHERE'S MY 4-8" IN THE BACKLASH!!!"
 

[dmcginvt]

I wouldn't discount anything its ripping in Waterbury Center but determining any snowfall will be a challenge with this wind.  

[powderfreak]

2 hours ago, dmcginvt said:

I wouldn't discount anything its ripping in Waterbury Center but determining any snowfall will be a challenge with this wind.  

 The nocturnal blocking came through and organized it really well.  It hammered from like 10pm onward.  All good, ha.

Worried for nothing.

Several inches overnight at home but the mountain radar looks crushed.

[EMontpelierWhiteout]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

 The nocturnal blocking came through and organized it really well.  It hammered from like 10pm onward.  All good, ha.

Worried for nothing.

Several inches overnight at home but the mountain radar looks crushed.

Looking nice!  Do you know why the mountain cams on the Stowe website are not up for public viewing?  I’ve been able to locate the replay loop in other places, but not any live feeds.  On the site, they just have the annoying “Webcam Currently Off Line” for all.  

 

[J.Spin]

14 hours ago, vtski said:

Nice! Looks like you were a few hours ahead of us..

It was SO good out there

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That's awesome - the snow really was excellent. Looks like you were over by the Nose!

[bwt3650]

#1 for this date all time and with lots more on the way, not even close…



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[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, EMontpelierWhiteout said:

Looking nice!  Do you know why the mountain cams on the Stowe website are not up for public viewing?  I’ve been able to locate the replay loop in other places, but not any live feeds.  On the site, they just have the annoying “Webcam Currently Off Line” for all.  

 

Interesting they were all working for me…

[Ginx snewx]

17 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Interesting they were all working for me…

Congrats on taking number 1

[powderfreak]

Had 10” at 1500ft Barnes Camp plot at Smugglers Notch gate closure on the Stowe side.

[tamarack]

2.4" yesterday at 390', overnight had 1.6" of 7:1 cornmeal, then another 0.8" after noon, most in 3-4 PM moist (8:1) feathers.

Saw where the deer had been last night, but none seen while I had the rifle out there this morning.

[CT Rain]

I love how Jay is reporting 38-55" in the last 7 days. Quite a range!

[Boston Bulldog]

47 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

I love how Jay is reporting 38-55" in the last 7 days. Quite a range!

Looks like Jay’s claiming 34” at the summit for the cycle that ended last Friday (Based off them reporting 21” over the last 48 hours). Coverage up there was great on Saturday, but I would subtract 10-12” from that for sure. It’s not like it was 3 feet of blower that condensed down, the snowpack was dense and surfy with little room for compaction. 

Love Jay but these reports seem to get increasingly ridiculous. 55” in a drift up against the Tram House perhaps?

[WxWatcher007]

It looks like it might have been a bust to my NW, but we produced in SLK. When I woke up yesterday morning and we already had an inch on the ground with temps falling, I knew it'd be a good one. Of course, had to leave before the storm wrapped up lol. Already over a foot so far this season. 

Still some light snow there at 25.2 degrees. 

[WxWatcher007]

Updated my records in the other thread. Leader in the clubhouse until @alex and @powderfreak add in their numbers which are probably 3x mine already!  

[powderfreak]

9 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Updated my records in the other thread. Leader in the clubhouse until @alex and @powderfreak add in their numbers which are probably 3x mine already!  

In town I’m at like 8” on the season after 4” last night… JSpin’s gotta be double that.

Outside my office is a different story, right there at Alex’s elevation.

[J.Spin]

5 hours ago, bwt3650 said:

#1 for this date all time and with lots more on the way, not even close…



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4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Congrats on taking number 1

And I guess that 28” snowpack depth is for yesterday, which would be prior to most of this new snow, so it will be interesting to see what today’s depth is going to be.

[powderfreak]

48 minutes ago, Boston Bulldog said:

Looks like Jay’s claiming 34” at the summit for the cycle that ended last Friday (Based off them reporting 21” over the last 48 hours). Coverage up there was great on Saturday, but I would subtract 10-12” from that for sure. It’s not like it was 3 feet of blower that condensed down, the snowpack was dense and surfy with little room for compaction. 

Love Jay but these reports seem to get increasingly ridiculous. 55” in a drift up against the Tram House perhaps?

I hate going down the rabbit hole.  I do believe they get more on average, but it’s clear there is zero controllable measurements going on and the report is a “vibe” check.

I generally take the lower end of the range as logically acceptable.  The upper end could be found drifted in the Face Chutes, but you aren’t finding it at a controlled sheltered measurement plot.

And honestly, every single event isn’t a 12” range.

Like today, we have 10” at base and 10” at top plots.  Their ranges get massive really quickly by adding up to 50% for the summit.

I won’t lie, that’s how we used to do it 15 years ago and I know exactly how it works.  You know what you have at the bottom, and you just add inches for the top regardless.  You find 10”, call it 10-14”.  You measure 6”?  Call it 6-10”.  Just add inches and say that’s what’s at the summit.  And it escalates totals REAL fast.

That’s the old school Eastern snow report way.

Stowe went from like a 333” average to 275-ish average when I started measuring and not basing it on vibe or adding inches “for the summit”…

The other thing… it’s fukking snowy out there.  If you aren’t measuring or paying attention to time frames, it all blends together.  You don’t know what’s new and what’s not.  What fell two days ago vs last night.  Etc.

[powderfreak]

Just now, J.Spin said:

 

And I guess that 28” snowpack depth is for yesterday, which would be prior to most of this new snow, so it will be interesting to see what today’s depth is going to be.

From 6am… Mike Hayes credit.

[CT Rain]

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

From 6am… Mike Hayes credit.

That's awesome. Glad to see the winter starting with a bang for you guys. 

[powderfreak]

8 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

That's awesome. Glad to see the winter starting with a bang for you guys. 

I’ve been too busy to ski it today so far but the content coming out of the woods around here is crazy for 11/17.

10” on top of the rain crust and all is good again.

[CoastalWx]

7 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I’ve been too busy to ski it today so far but the content coming out of the woods around here is crazy for 11/17.

10” on top of the rain crust and all is good again.

That’s awesome. Happy for you guys. 

[CoastalWx]

25 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I hate going down the rabbit hole.  I do believe they get more on average, but it’s clear there is zero controllable measurements going on and the report is a “vibe” check.

I generally take the lower end of the range as logically acceptable.  The upper end could be found drifted in the Face Chutes, but you aren’t finding it at a controlled sheltered measurement plot.

And honestly, every single event isn’t a 12” range.

Like today, we have 10” at base and 10” at top plots.  Their ranges get massive really quickly by adding up to 50% for the summit.

I won’t lie, that’s how we used to do it 15 years ago and I know exactly how it works.  You know what you have at the bottom, and you just add inches for the top regardless.  You find 10”, call it 10-14”.  You measure 6”?  Call it 6-10”.  Just add inches and say that’s what’s at the summit.  And it escalates totals REAL fast.

That’s the old school Eastern snow report way.

Stowe went from like a 333” average to 275-ish average when I started measuring and not basing it on vibe or adding inches “for the summit”…

The other thing… it’s fukking snowy out there.  If you aren’t measuring or paying attention to time frames, it all blends together.  You don’t know what’s new and what’s not.  What fell two days ago vs last night.  Etc.

What a breathe of fresh air. 

[J.Spin]

39 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

In town I’m at like 8” on the season after 4” last night… JSpin’s gotta be double that.

Your estimate was good - with the addition of this latest storm, that’s about where we are. I just added another past season to the current snowfall progress plot – I hadn’t yet added 2018-2019 because it was a slower start than some of the others, but we’re up to the part of the month where it got going and became relevant, so it’s on there in pink. What’s notable is that this season’s snowfall just snuck above the 2018-2019 season for this date by a tenth of an inch to claim the top spot. Snowfall is essentially running neck-and-neck with that season though, with 2020-2021 right in there as well. It would take a continued strong snowfall performance for this November to be able to hang with those for the second half of the month, but the modeling suggests at least some snow chances, so we’ll see what happens.

[alex]

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Updated my records in the other thread. Leader in the clubhouse until @alex and @powderfreak add in their numbers which are probably 3x mine already!  

Haha I've stopped keeping track. It's too much work lol 

[WxWatcher007]

10 minutes ago, alex said:

Haha I've stopped keeping track. It's too much work lol 

The life we all want  

I told my wife she may get sick of life in SLK if she’s walking outside in early May to snow on the ground and flurries in the air.