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  1. powderfreak
    Decent inversion right now…. the lowest elevation is king of the cold right now.
  2. powderfreak
    That is insane. A +15 or -15, doesn’t matter but 15 from normal in the means is hard to comprehend.
  3. powderfreak
    10F at 10pm. The inversion has been lingering. Should break tomorrow. The 34F at ORH is a sign.
  4. powderfreak
    I’m impressed with MVL (-1.4), BTV (-1.9) and MPV (-2.4). Its a low bar these days to be below normal during a winter month… but after last winter‘s torch, damn it feels like winter. Last December was +7.8 at MVL. Holy shit that is warm. -1.4 this year is almost a 10 degree swing in the means. The heating bill feels it. Its the difference between monthly mix/max means of 37/24 and 29/15. Sensibly speaking, it’s a big difference to keep the highs below freezing.
  5. powderfreak
    It hasn’t been bad up north for snow. Places have had coverage consistently since November. There was a healthy 2” rain storm in mid-Dec but temps were like 34F so it wasn’t as bad as recent years’ thaws. It’s been a below normal month of December. Thats going to snow in the north. As the seasonal jet lowers, suppression becomes a concern up here in January and February before the jet migrates north again.
  6. powderfreak
    From this morning… super sharp inversion, but no visible signs of it either. It was 9F in the base area (where I took this with my phone), but 29F at the top of the lifts. It was below zero in town at this time too. From 1500ft to 3600ft (ridge is 4K)… a 20 degree temp rise on the lift ride up.
  7. powderfreak
    -8F Its 29F at 3,600ft top of the FourRunner Quad. Just the FourRunner Quad alone, it’s over 20 degrees warmer at the top than bottom right now.
  8. powderfreak
    The inversion is strengthening again this evening as the atmosphere radiates. 3,600ft… 23F 1,500ft… 13F 750ft… 0F 730ft… -1F The river plain is the surface of the moon in these patterns with a fresh snowpack. Lowest solar angle of the year. Energy bills ramping up quickly over this last stretch here.
  9. powderfreak
    Wolfie quick to counter snowy, but what about RadarMan’s area? 30 burgers are tough. I think October 2011 in the northern Berks?
  10. powderfreak
    Anytime the temperature gets under -25F in New England, there's a good chance it's a fake -25 to -30 unless it's a mountain site.
  11. powderfreak
    Haha brutal. No mercy.
  12. powderfreak
    Pretty much sums it up.
  13. powderfreak
    -9F now.
  14. powderfreak
    -4F at 11pm at the ASOS on RT 100. Similar in the local river valley here. The inversion is incredible. Over in NH, it’s -4F at HIE while it’s +27F on MWN? Heating bills for sub-zero cold in town, when it’s pleasant at the summits.
  15. powderfreak
    -2F at MVL and -1.3F here. We’ve had some cold this month.
  16. powderfreak
    Slalom Hill had a minor slide today… the snowpack is layered and several reports of heavy sloughing and fracturing snowpack in the steep high elevation natural snow. Interesting that the low elevation snowmaking released energy as well.
  17. powderfreak
    The mountains are really in some of the best shape for the holiday period that we’ve seen in some time. The terrain openings right now and the healthy snowpack (11” above normal) without a true grinch storm makes this first half of the holiday period a good time. It may certainly change by early next week though. But it’s been full winter for a few weeks it’s seemed with sustained cold for snowmaking and decent natural snow.
  18. powderfreak
    2F A cold Christmas evening.
  19. powderfreak
    Decent inversion.
  20. powderfreak
    Stout inversion developing. Mountain is above the clouds and sunny. Valley is socked in and temp dropped down to 9F at 9am. Odd to see it drop between 8 and 9am. 9F.
  21. powderfreak
    Added another quarter inch today for a total of 6” from the clipper.
  22. powderfreak
    5.7” here.
  23. powderfreak
    Flakes just went small and steady. Synoptic flakes. Sounds like a low hiss outside as it falls. Dogs back was coated quickly but not by fluff, this is more QPF 8-10:1 type stuff all the sudden.
  24. powderfreak
    I know what Mark was talking about in terms of flake type… but to me the wind thing doesn’t hold much weight. It can absolutely stuff fluff on the mountain with great snow growth in 60 mph winds. Same with Lake Effect bands. It’s all snow growth related. Stronger lift will see better growth as is often the case. Flake size will decrease quite a bit in the lulls.
  25. powderfreak
    The orographic band has migrated eastward. Lifting NE with the initial fronto moving through… but also standing wave in nature.
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