NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[sankaty]

Funny that the KENX radar now shows a hole over us but it's snowing harder and with better growth than it has at any time this evening. Maybe the beam picks up snow differently depending on what altitude it's being generated?

[dmcginvt]

2 minutes ago, sankaty said:

Funny that the KENX radar now shows a hole over us but it's snowing harder and with better growth than it has at any time this evening. Maybe the beam picks up snow differently depending on what altitude it's being generated?

you never know what your gonna get with radar in VT, it's the nature of the business

[WxWatcher007]

38 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I was wrong.

This mid level band has gone nuts.  Fluff factor under this strong lift has been great.  Outside of the deeper lift, it’s sand… but in the band, this is fluff.

Pure powder. It makes a big difference even though the snowfall intensity may be lower than earlier today. HRRR has it going a couple more hours and then we're relying on tomorrow. Just want to get to a respectable total. 

[dmcginvt]

3 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Pure powder. It makes a big difference even though the snowfall intensity may be lower than earlier today. HRRR has it going a couple more hours and then we're relying on tomorrow. Just want to get to a respectable total. 

Yup totals will depend on tomorrow evening, but I think we will still wake up to more than expected....you want science, all the dog tracks from the past 2 weeks are filled in.  Thats an epic feat...I jest that its science, but it is a big deal it shows how much snow we got and thank goodness I was getting sick of them.

[dmcginvt]

Also PF, I saw something where they said jan 83 was the biggest storm in Albany.  Is that true.  Is it only 24 hr.  Because I know that area has had way bigger storms.  I remember you being from albany from ne.weather on usenet

[J.Spin]

4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Sometimes I just get gun shy of 10-20" forecasts on like 0.75" water.  Though the soundings are ideal... the DGZ is super deep. As long as the air is saturated it should be larger flakes... which is intensity driven.  As soon as the rates diminish, that arctic air wants to dry up a bit.

I mean, the whole column is essentially in that -12C to -18C zone up to 500mb (18,000ft).

 

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

I was wrong.

This mid level band has gone nuts.  Fluff factor under this strong lift has been great.  Outside of the deeper lift, it’s sand… but in the band, this is fluff.

 

1 hour ago, dmcginvt said:

I went for a snowshoe, its coming down so hard and its soooo fluffy, rap and hrr both showed vv and rh giving the omega despite pw being less than ideal, the lift is what's doing it.

Well, the modeling certainly knew what it was talking about with the snow growth potential. At least when snowfall rates were on the higher side, I was seeing flakes up to 20-30 mm in diameter, but midnight observations here still had flakes up to 20 mm. I wasn’t sure if that 6 PM to 7 PM snow ratio would be maintained for the whole 6 PM to 12 AM block, but LOL, no worries there. This most recent block’s snow density just came in at 4.2% H2O for a 24:1 ratio – that impressive for an entire snow collection period, and indeed it’s right up there with the quality of upslope snow. This has certainly been some of the loftiest snow I’ve seen with temperatures hovering around the 0 F mark, so some unique conditions have come together with this system. At 24:1, even 0.75” of liquid produces 18” of snowfall, so the forecast numbers certainly aren’t crazy for areas that are in the banding.

[WxWatcher007]

4.5” total so far

Cleared before going to bed. Still got nice snow growth right now. Hopefully tonight and tomorrow produces.