NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[tamarack]

3 hours ago, mreaves said:

@tamarackI took Rt.2 to Bangor today. Thought of you as I drove through New Sharon

We were taking our daughter to PWM for her flight to PHL, so we'd have missed even if we tried.  (And the snow in PHL and Harrisburg canceled her flight.  She and a couple dozen fellow 'refugees' are overnighting in the secured section of the airport, and will catch the 5:20 AM flight to DCA thence to PHL, probably on a 2nd airplane.  Fortunately, she had no checked baggage.)

Sandy River was up thanks to yesterday's warmth, but nothing serious.  If we get an inch-plus at 50° on Monday, could be some excitement.  Ice cover should still be thick and solid, and a 3-mile jam formed from Farmington Falls to the head of rapids in New Sharon last December during ice-in.

[powderfreak]

This was a solid thaw.  Noteworthy.

We lost 20” of snowpack at home, and 21” at the base of the mountain.

42” to 21” this week at 1,500ft.

[J.Spin]

I’d seen in the BTV NWS forecast discussion that Winter Weather Advisories were going up in association with the next system moving into the area, but there wasn’t any specific mention of alerts here in Northern Vermont. Now that I look at the BTV NWS alerts map though, I see that the area is surrounded by Winter Weather Advisories and Winter Storm Warnings, and some of the projected snow accumulations are substantial, so there’s certainly a lot going on. The Event Total Snow Accumulation map shows some areas of 6-8” shading here in the Northern Greens, and some of the mountain point forecasts are coming in with 12”+ of snow through Sunday. The BTV NWS forecast discussion does highlight the QPF only topping out around 0.4” with shadowing in many areas due to the track, but they also point out the locally higher amounts possible along the western slopes, and the accumulations map certainly highlights that. Some models show >0.5” of liquid along the spine, and we’ll see how things evolve with the next update ahead of the system. With the spring cycling and refreeze that the snowpack has seen over the past few days, it’s going to take a decent amount of liquid equivalent for resurfacing of the slopes, but every bit of liquid that comes with this system will increase the angle of terrain that comes into play and enhance the potential for decent turns.