powderfreak

Hit 57F here today… mostly sunny afternoon was glorious. Spring skiing at its finest. Taking the sunny torch award up here.

Yeah, I mean it’s still been a great winter, snow depth days way up, and shows the overall importance as a skier if getting that deep early season base and then being able to ride that out. Been skiing the glades since November… it really lengthens the ski season. Feel like we’ve been at 30-45” depth in the base area for 2+ months now too.

At 3,000ft we measured only 36” in February, which is kind of wild. It didn’t rain either, just didn’t do much of anything. Should be 70-75” on average. We’ve gone really dry since sometime in January… but snowpack has remained healthy due to the strong early season base. Snowfall was pacing way above normal by like early to mid January and has now fallen back to a normal pace for the high elevations.

Weir is a fun guy to ski with, and he loves snow. It’s those shared passions that unite us all regardless.

Hit 45F and sunny up here.

Pretty nice cold drain down the Champlain Valley… low level sub-freezing air oozing south. BTV now 28/17 with 15mph NNW wind. Its 34F Mansfield Summit, 40F base area and 41F MVL.

Guess it’s the same down in SNE between ORH and everyone else around there. Dripping off rooftops at ORH but locked up tight elsewhere.

Talk about an inversion and fake cold preserving snowpack down low… 3,600ft… 29F 2,600ft… 36F 1,550ft… 39F (Ops building) 750ft… 21F (MVL and local PWS)

What a day. 2” (2.25”) new and then 40 degrees.

Nice morning.

Yeah that’s what I would expect. I don’t remember anyone saying a week of 70s.

That’s really the question… I mean, even if it fails at 60s or 70s… it’s still pretty mild at 50s. It’s not like it’s going to be 38F instead of 65F.

We are currently tied with the blizzard… 0 flakes.

I found those sharp gradients interesting too… like the model couldn’t figure out if it’s fully mixing or not from one location to the next. Figured snowpack was impacting those 2-m outputs.

That SW flow downslope off the Adirondacks can really torch that pocket this time of year.