powderfreak

Passing showers today.

Sorry for not responding earlier dude. My wife and I made some moves this summer and we were at 750ft in Stowe Village... but we finally cashed in on the location, sold our townhome/condo for 4 times what we paid for it back in 2012 and rolled that equity into a house about 10 minutes outside the village. We were ready to leave the village. We are now only 10 minutes away in a neighboring valley at 1,100ft tucked in closer to the Spine. With higher terrain on three sides of us, we seem to radiate quite well (multiple frosts so far), but I will say the daytime temps don't seem to get up nearly as much as the larger valley from the Village out towards the ASOS. We'll see how the winter goes, but I'm interested to see what the differences are compared to over in the village.

At least someone is getting some damage these days.

Jealous, heat’s been on a few times now.

30F at 3,600ft and 41F at 1,500ft… 45F here with gusty winds.

The NW wind is crazy this evening. House shaking gusts at times.

This has to be the most NNE thing ever, haha. Classic. Recorded the first snowflakes on Mansfield today and first graupel at home.

We snow, legit flakes as this squall moved through at 3,600ft. Temp 35F.

Ha, right. It must be getting cold upstairs because we’ve seen more frozen cores in this. Summits are in the 30s now. The old low 50s but with dry low levels… gets real gusty, then rain before 90 seconds of frozen and back to rain before ending.

First frozen of the season. Heavy graupel. Completely frozen at home in this core.

Got 32F here. Third frost of the season.

Ok so it's hitting dew or small items at the surface. Is it any object, like houses, trees, etc? Or is it stuff that's very small, certain size and characteristics that are similar to hydrometeors? Sorry if I'm being dense, want to really wrap my head around this once and for all .

Ok, that makes sense. So the beam isn’t really hitting anything per se.

There’s something about fall golf that does it for me. The course is usually in the best shape of the season, and the leaves are great when still on the trees, ha. Hitting a ball into leaves, no bueno. Im playing a charity event at the Stowe Mountain Course on Tuesday, can’t wait. It’s the one time of year I get out on that track. Probably going to be frigid with those 850s.

I’ve been in this game too long to not fully grasp what ground clutter is… can you give me the digest version of it? What’s the beam hitting?