powderfreak

Immediately after the rain stops it’s back to “Well, seems kinda dry out.”

It's pretty crazy how the wet-bulbing works this time of year. At 12:30 we were ripping 1 mile visibility in snow at MVL. METAR KMVL 271630Z AUTO 34007KT 1SM -SN BR VV014 02/M01 A2990 RMK P0002 Now at 6:30pm it's 48F and the sun is out.

Dumping at the mountain and just flipped to wet snow in town now. Huge flakes. METAR KMVL 271540Z AUTO 32009G16KT 2 1/2SM -SN BKN015 BKN024 OVC031 03/00 A2987 RMK P0002 BTV has a narrow bright band around it, they might be close to flipping over too down there.

Definitely localized up there… the area serviced by lifts on the east side gets a lot of snow water equivalent in the winter. Then it preserves it too. It’s a microclimate zone on the higher elevation east side. Avoids the direct sunlight in the afternoon that the west side gets in the spring. The west side of Mansfield is pretty torched to the summit.

About an inch of rain today on the mountain. Luckily things dried up between 1-4pm for some Saturday afternoon laps. Then proceeded to rain hard from 4:30 onward. Two rounds of 3-5 hour “showers”… but did get to enjoy the break in precip a bit. Closing day tomorrow. Time to shut ‘em down here. Stake down to 65”… similar to the above pictured elevation band.

Nice to get a week’s worth of water down on a Saturday. Thats a win against Stein.

None, he decided it 4 days ago and won’t waiver.

I guess I just don’t see why you arbitrarily toss guidance once your mind is made up days in advance. I don’t have an opinion other than based on some guidance you could see maybe an inch or so. Not sure what threshold constitutes a soaker vs showers. Even a half inch is a solid ground soaking rain.

Try the latest one, not what was on Twitter earlier. Thats 9z this is 21z.

Looks it. And before you say I’m calling for inches, I have no skin in the game but find it funny how hard you try to duck, dive, and weave model data that shows a solid soaking.

The best type of days… 72F off low of 30F. A 42 degree diurnal range.

Using very minimal heat up here… the day time warmth and sun seem to do most of the work… our biggest windows and slider doors face south. Doesn’t cool off as much at night inside with everything locked up. Beautiful morning out there.

30F and frozen while picnic tables stay warm.

Only 4 more days before we shut ‘em down. This morning might’ve been the the best one left. 72” at the stake on a 54” average. It’s time though. I’m ready. Bring the warmth.

Gotta feel the breeze somehow…

Windows and doors open, nice breeze.

Who’s going to get the last word? Gotta win at all costs.

To be fair it does look pretty dry on the models over the next week (ECM/GFS/GGEM). I can see the concern for Stein if you are looking to play devil’s advocate.

Are you back on the summer program of tossing all modeling that shows rain at all times?

37/21 currently… it should drop now that the wind has gone calm. 28/21 at SLK, ha. Growing season is so short in those high elevation valleys like SLK. Nice day overall though. The fields that got an early application of manure sprayed seem to green up real fast… especially after a heavy 1”+ rain. This is all cow corn in the summer.

It’s when the buds unfold right? I honestly can see how there’s some subjectiveness to it. I don’t consider budding trees making the canopy turn a slight color as leaf out… I want to see at least some decent opening of the leaves. I feel like folks judge it on a spectrum, like fall foliage. “Leaves are changing” in the autumn to one person may mean you saw a red tree along a swamp. To another person, it’s all still green. “Leaf out” in spring to one person may mean some green buds mixed with sticks with one warm spot seeing some opening. To another person they are waiting for widespread green and opening of buds.

Weather station at Mtn Ops Center had 1.64” rainfall. Now it’s 38F here in town with damaging NW winds. Had to be gusts near 50mph around 4am when I was heading out. Wild ride the past 24-48 hours.

Jealous of the dry sunny heater down there today. Must be nice.

Just sharing the weather vibe up here. Wish we had sun and dry ground, but it was definitively the first “warm season” day of the year.

1.35” and humid. It felt different today. First legit warm season day in terms of how it felt, even with clouds and rain. It wasn’t a nice day though… humid mud season vibe. Standing water, squishy ground everywhere. Could tell the ground was thawing today.