powderfreak

It’s 64/34 at MVL… just huge roaring gusts here. Well mixed and a dry mild right now. Glad we haven’t lost power yet to be honest. The weird thing is the MVL winds are lacking. The terrain around here makes such a difference on mixing and thermals. This morning it was calm at home and gusting 40mph at MVL… now it feels reversed as the wind backs more westerly.

Damn. 60 dews.

Hail mixed with ZR. This is wild. It is pouring at 31F at 1500ft and 26F at 3,600ft.

Thunder sleet for the past hour.

Evidently these guys don’t give a f*ck… there’s still (widely) patchy snow on the ground here and just found a tick embedded in my upper back.

18F. Its 4F at the picnic tables.

I’m not going to lie, the sunny days this time of year get people going. But it is winding down. The spring break vacations have finally ended, a lot of visitors from Florida and the southern states the past 2-3 weeks. The destination guests are far fewer this week and now it’s largely local/regional diehards. Snowpack at elevation is still above normal, but the valleys have melted out again after the recent 7” snowfall down here. Nature’s fertilizer? Or just soggy ground, ha? It’s mud season.

Move to higher ground watch… in larger basins than normal.

Mixed precip.

Not a single part of that quoted tweet referenced climate or trends. It just says a “very quiet stretch.” It has been. What’s the issue?

This summed up today. Fog, mist, freezing rain and sleet. Temperatures hovering around 30F at all elevations. Glazed donut. Low visibility. After 9” yesterday. And possibly 60F tomorrow.

This is a phenomenal photo. Hope you have that high-res.

The waterwheels are always turning.

Damage.

The secondary spike in depth is common this time of year. Sometimes it happens later in April, other times in March, but there’s usually a rebound in depth after the first real spring melt. 9” at 3,000ft on Mansfield for the initial wave of precip. The next wave tomorrow morning is going to be IP/ZR/RN.