Boston Bulldog

More southern stream involvement with the clipper Wednesday night on the 0z GFS… but the models have been absolutely all over the place for mid-week. Vorticity features are hundreds of miles apart from run to run. I don’t think this fast flow in the northern stream will be properly resolved for a while. Also the fast flow will make timing difficult for a larger event.

Western slopes are a lot thinner than the spine and eastern slopes, but the Teardrop was still a ton of fun. A true tricep burner of an ascent though. Man, they knew how to cut trails back in the 30s.

Any guesses where the mix line is? It’s ripping east at a good clip right now

Welp so 10” new at MRG… I was wrong lol

Radar looks pretty good for the spine right now, but I think BTV is seeing the same moisture issues PF is. Decent downgrade in totals, especially south of 89

Been the season of the double that’s for sure. The upper single chair has been getting absolutely crushed by wind pretty consistently.

Meh, this all seems like noise to me right now. I'm not taking away too much from 0z so far, some model convergence as expected. Another day or so of maddening model swings (though probably not as dramatic as today) overshadowing ensemble ticks, then we get some improved sampling and we begin to lock in if this thing goes or not. Goalposts narrowing a bit, but still wide.

Considering that myself and many other NE Mets will be departing the region for the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting in NOLA right before this storm, of course it’s going to happen. The atmosphere does have a sense of humor.

Gilpin was indeed where I was for most of the day - man it felt deep, especially on the steeper pitch down by the road. 18” or 32”, it was great. I do hope to ski enough powder to eventually be able to discern amounts while in it! When it’s bottomless and flying in my face, tell me any large number and I’ll believe it.

Skinned out of Jay Pass today and checked out various lines on both sides of the road… that 32” is legit. Faceshots all day in some zones

It was dumping on 89 in Montpelier around 7pm. Route 2 was completely snow covered with a few inches as well. This portion of the event was definitely poorly forecast, BTV only had 20-30% PoPs south of 89 for this evening. HRRR had a little hint of some disorganized banding showing up, but guidance totally whiffed on the subtle boundary and upper level energy injection that created the zonally oriented band that extended beyond the mountains.

Spine has lit up again, good moisture feed in place across the northern ADK as well

Western slope cashing in on blocked flow right now, ski resort cams show that at least some of this is leaking over to the summits

Hoping it works out, though BTV did cut down totals a bit after mentioning a potential shorter duration event trend in their AFD.

BTV blew the upslope horn on the latest AFD Overall, snow totals look to range from less than an inch in the immediate valleys to 1-2 feet for the highest peaks. Most of the snow will fall during the back end of the storm.