NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[WxWatcher007]

28 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

12z HRRR getting a look at the Tuesday night snows... I'm starting to think this could go fairly decent.  Most models are putting around a half inch of QPF in the area of central/northern VT, with more along the Spine.

It could be sneaky snowy heading into Wednesday AM.

Getting a little snow here today. Tomorrow looks pretty good and agree it may go into Wednesday. Models also starting to sniff another weak fast mover diving down on Christmas Day. Fast flow ftw. 

[das]

Nice midwinter day here in Burlington.  Light snow for the last 3+ hours with at least a couple more hours upcoming.  Highs in the low 20's.  Will be a nice "commute" home to Charlotte at 5pm.

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[powderfreak]

Nice little snowy evening for the holidays.

[powderfreak]

Also, this high-res Canadian panel tomorrow night has me salivating.

This would be a crushing from 2am to 8am... with 850mb temps falling to -12C, great snow growth, serious upslope moisture.  This would be a pummeling for the ski areas.

Curious how this clipper works out.

 

[WxWatcher007]

2 hours ago, das said:

Nice midwinter day here in Burlington.  Light snow for the last 3+ hours with at least a couple more hours upcoming.  Highs in the low 20's.  Will be a nice "commute" home to Charlotte at 5pm.

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Love it. How long have you had a place up here? IIRC, you had it when I still lived in DC. 

16 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Also, this high-res Canadian panel tomorrow night has me salivating.

This would be a crushing from 2am to 8am... with 850mb temps falling to -12C, great snow growth, serious upslope moisture.  This would be a pummeling for the ski areas.

Curious how this clipper works out.

 

We'd do nicely even back here, though probably not as nicely as areas to my north. The NAM is hot for the region. 

[powderfreak]

23 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Love it. How long have you had a place up here? IIRC, you had it when I still lived in DC. 

We'd do nicely even back here, though probably not as nicely as areas to my north. The NAM is hot for the region. 

I think you'll do quite well too.  Upslope looks a bit unblocked which should help drift your way on the backside. 

[WxWatcher007]

An inch today up here. Exceeded expectations. Still -SN out there. It’ll look like an underperformer all day, and then go right to fluff after sunset. 

[powderfreak]

Been snowing big fat fluffy flakes for a bit.  Almost 2”?  All air.

[mreaves]

59 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Been snowing big fat fluffy flakes for a bit.  Almost 2”?  All air.

Maybe I just missed it but I didn’t really expect snow today. Maybe half an inch?

[powderfreak]

21 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Maybe I just missed it but I didn’t really expect snow today. Maybe half an inch?

Yeah nice 2.25” of fluff stacked nicely on all the trees and even power lines.  Looked festive driving home from Waterbury.

It wants to snow this year.

 

[J.Spin]

At some point during the day today Alexa alerted me that we’d been put under a Winter Weather Advisory, and it looks like the BTV NWS advisories start up at 7:00 A.M. tomorrow morning and cover a good chunk of the state outside the Champlain Valley. The most recent Event Total Snow Accumulation map shows totals in the 8-12” shading for the higher elevations of the spine around here. Down in the valley our point forecast suggests something in the 5-10” range through tomorrow evening, and the map has us in that next tier of 6-8” shading, so those projections seem to correlate fairly well.

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

It wants to snow this year.

That’s the feeling I’ve been getting too. We obviously haven’t had the accumulation the mountains have but it’s seems to snow at any opportunity.