NNE Cold Season Thread 2025-2026

[powderfreak]

14 hours ago, qg_omega said:

Week late on an historically cold winter is a bit odd

 

That is weird.  Lake Erie by contrast has the most ice in late January in like three decades and is almost fully covered.

Wonder if the persistent NW flow causes a lot of wind there and water movement at Lake George?

[J.Spin]

Since we’re right around the midpoint of the snowfall season around here, I did a quick check on where the Vermont ski areas stand for season snowfall thus far, and the north to south listing of totals is below. The four resorts along the spine of the Northern Greens are all reporting 200-300”+ for the season so far. It would naturally be difficult to keep up that same snowfall pace for the entire second half of the season, but that would certainly result in some solid overall snow numbers. As is typical, the numbers drop off a bit to <200” for the ski areas in the Central Greens, and some areas are even <100” in the Southern Greens. These numbers are all subsequent to the strong boost from Winter Storm Fern last weekend, so some of those snowfall numbers in the south must have been quite low prior to that. A quick look at the season snowfall totals thus far for the Vermont CoCoRaHS sites shows that several of them have seen more snow than any of the resorts in the Southern Greens - and CoCoRaHS sites are generally going to be valley/non-mountain locations. That disparity may be a function of the season thus far being characterized by more progressive/northern jet stream patterns vs. coastal or southern jet stream events.

Jay Peak: 309”

Burke: 118”

Smuggler’s Notch: 218”

Stowe: 218”

Bolton Valley: 222”

Mad River Glen: 138”

Sugarbush: 154”

Saskadena Six: 50”

Pico: 140”

Killington: 140”

Okemo: 84”

Bromley: 117”

Magic Mountain: 73”

Stratton: 106”

Mount Snow: 88”