powderfreak

It’s above average over the last 20 years for mid-January. Plenty of QPF too. We have had some tough seasons over that time. Just like SNE. But this year has produced somehow.

28” snowpack at 1500ft this evening. This is a QPF heavy, frozen snowpack too. I scraped an additional inch off the Barnes Camp board. The snowpack is respectable in both depth and frozen water at the Stowe base area.

Almost as impressive is the next day max of 19F on that MOS lol. A nice 70 degree rise.

Had 2” when it ended at 1,500ft and 5” at 3,000ft. 3K depth went 63” to 68”. Skiing felt even deeper above 3000ft. Top of Gondola might’ve had 6” but we don’t measure up there.

Flipped to snow and a sporty drive to work this morning… greasy, saw one vehicle in ditch.

This thread is one of the best and it’s only a few hours old.

I think 2/14/07 takes the cake for me. We had 6” in BTV before temps hit 0F.

But that doesn’t mean there can’t be region-wide fun winter events though still to come too.

Feel like this is easier said than done for many folks here …

Yup, would rather be around that than eyeore.

Yeah it’s all been made through orographic means with general prevailing southwest/west/northwest flow. Great Lakes and mesoscale mountain areas.

Yeah there’s about 8-10” in my yard. Goes to 30” at 1500ft a few miles up the road at the office, then doubles again to 60” at 3,000ft. Its a very sharp, microscale gradient of orographic precipitation.

I’m outside in the cold quite a bit, but I have started to enjoy the warm season more and more. There are also life things that play into that… winter life vs summer life. But man, late sunsets when it’s 80 degrees and what feels like two hours of twilight from 7-9pm… that’s what I love. Hate 84/68 at 1:30pm lol. Anyway, looks like we’ll take the 15th event and turn it into a nice refresher up here.

Today in the Ranch Valley of Stowe after 1-3” on like a half inch of QPF. Just keep adding SWE to the pack.

Surprised you don’t think your area can do as well as anyone, even the mid-Atlantic.