NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[powderfreak]

10 hours ago, J.Spin said:

 

Saw 6" overnight at Barnes Camp and that 1,500ft elevation saw snowpack go from 23" to 29".

[bwt3650]

Saw 6" overnight at Barnes Camp and that 1,500ft elevation saw snowpack go from 23" to 29".

Was Snowing hard here at 5am. Potent, but short lived. You might have done a bit better in this one. Eyeballing I’d say 4” here.


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[WxWatcher007]

Love this. Absolutely frigid today. 

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, bwt3650 said:

Was Snowing hard here at 5am. Potent, but short lived. You might have done a bit better in this one. Eyeballing I’d say 4” here.


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Yeah, picked up another 1.5" after that for a total of 7.5".  Total fluff on top of like tilted pond ice on the Front Four lol.  Looks great in photos.  Skis like you want to hold on for dear life.

[das]

Nothing of note here in the valley. 0.3” with most of that coming in a burst as the cold front moved through around 5:30 AM.  
December ended up largely average for my location with 17.5” although I have yet to hit average for an entire season in my seven years here so far. Maybe this will be the first year…

Charlotte, VT
44.29°N 73.24°W
2025/26 Season

11/10 5.0
11/11 1.1
11/21 0.2
11/23 0.3
11/28 0.1
11/30 0.2
12/2 4.2
12/4 1.7
12/6 0.5
12/7 2.2
12/10 1.6
12/14 0.1
12/22 0.3
12/23 4.2
12/24 0.7
12/25 0.9
12/26 1.1”
Total:  24.4”

[backedgeapproaching]

14 minutes ago, das said:

Nothing of note here in the valley. 0.3” with most of that coming in a burst as the cold front moved through around 5:30 AM.  
December ended up largely average for my location with 17.5” although I have yet to hit average for an entire season in my seven years here so far. Maybe this will be the first year…

 

Charlotte, VT
44.29°N 73.24°W
2025/26 Season

11/10 5.0
11/11 1.1
11/21 0.2
11/23 0.3
11/28 0.1
11/30 0.2
12/2 4.2
12/4 1.7
12/6 0.5
12/7 2.2
12/10 1.6
12/14 0.1
12/22 0.3
12/23 4.2
12/24 0.7
12/25 0.9
12/26 1.1”
Total:  24.4”

Just curious, what have been your seasonal totals past seasons? Not many posters in the valleys west of the spine. I think myself, you and maybe 1 or two up in NVT maybe also.

[das]

1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Just curious, what have been your seasonal totals past seasons? Not many posters in the valleys west of the spine. I think myself, you and maybe 1 or two up in NVT maybe also.

Here’s the data dump. I don’t record Traces. The couple of years before, I was splitting time between here and DC so there were big gaps in obs. I’m doing that again now but have deputized (and trained) my daughter. Weather obs are serious business in casa de das.  Ha. 
 

2024/25 Season
12/2 0.1”
12/3 0.4”
12/4 0.3”
12/7 3.8”
12/8 2.3”
12/9 1.3”
12/12 0.1”
12/16 0.1”
12/19 0.3”
12/21 4.1”
12/22 0.1” diamond dust 
12/24 2.2”
1/4 1.2”
1/5 2.1”
1/7 0.2” 
1/8 0.1”
1/9 0.5”
1/11 1.1”
1/19 2.0
1/24 0.3”
1/27 0.1”
1/28 0.3”
1/29 1.1”
2/1 2.5”
2/2 1.1
2/6 3.4”
2/7 0.2”
2/9 5.7
2/13 3.1”
2/16 11.0”
2/24 ~1”
2/27 ~1.5”
3/7 0.1”
3/9 0.1”
3/10 1.5”
3/27 0.1”
3/29 6.3”
4/8 0.7”
Total: 62.4”

2023/24 Season
11/1 0.1”
11/9 2.1”
11/19 0.2”
11/21 3.1”
11/26 0.6”
12/4 0.4”
12/11 0.9”
12/13 0.1”
1/8 8.4”
1/9 3.4”
1/11 0.7”
1/14 0.3”
1/16 6.1”
1/19 0.5”
1/24 2.1”
2/13 1.1”
2/14 0.7”
3/10 1.0”
3/11 1.1”
3/20 0.6” + 0.4”
3/23 8.1”
Total: 42.0”

2022/23 Season
11/17 3.1”
12/12 1.2”
12/13 0.1”
12/17 3.1”
12/18 0.2”
12/23 2.1”
1/12 0.3”
1/13 1.4”
1/20 5.8”
1/23 3.5”
1/26 4.0”
1/30 0.6”
1/31 1.0”
2/2 0.3”
2/17 0.1”
2/24 6.2”
3/1 2.3”
3/4 7.0”
3/15 12.8”
3/25 0.4”
3/31 1.2”
Total:  56.7”

2021/22 Season
11/3 1.5”
11/25 0.5”
12/8 0.6”
12/9 2.9”
12/17 3.5”
12/20 0.7”
1/2 3.8”
1/3 0.7”
1/5 0.2”
1/16 3.1”
1/18 1.5”
1/20 0.8”
1/27 1.1”
2/2 7.5”
2/3 0.7”
2/5 1.1”
2/7 0.4”
2/9 2.7”
2/16 4.3”
2/19 1.2”
2/22 0.6”
2/25 0.5”
3/1 0.2”
3/3 0.2”
3/13 0.2”
04/01 0.2”
Total: 40.7”

2020/21 Season
11/26 0.5”
11/28 0.4”
12/1 0.4”
12/4 0.3”
12/8 1.1”
12/09 0.2”
12/19 5.6”
12/25 0.2”
12/26 0.2”
1/2 2.1”
1/7 2.8”
1/9 0.2”
1/10 0.2”
1/11 0.1”
1/14 0.3”
1/17 7.4”
1/23 0.2”
1/28 0.2”
2/4 17.8”
2/14 0.6”
2/18 2.0”
2/25 9.2”
2/27 0.5”
3/2 0.1”
3/3 0.2”
3/9 0.1”
3/12 5.1”
4/19 4.1”
Total: 62.1”

[powderfreak]

Ended up with a 7.5” measured total in 24 hours at 1500ft.  Gondola was on wind hold so never got to the High Road plot.

Skiing was fluff on top of pond ice or slick hardpack.  Steeper stuff was very sporty.

[J.Spin]

On 1/1/2026 at 6:59 AM, powderfreak said:

Saw 6" overnight at Barnes Camp and that 1,500ft elevation saw snowpack go from 23" to 29".

That overnight snowfall played out similarly here at our site – the underlying snowpack is currently consolidated enough that we picked up 4 inches of snow, and the snowpack depth went up the same amount. We’ve had a lot of continuously settling snowpack over the past couple of months with the types of systems we’ve been seeing, so each round of new snow has typically been compressing the underlying snow. This snow from this recent clipper was fairly dry down here (4 to 6% H2O), so it’s already settled an inch since yesterday.