powderfreak

Ha, I’m hoping for 6” the day before Xmas. This stuff is pure clipper fluff at 14 degrees to start off. If 0.40 - 0.50” QPF lands it could get maximized by ratios.

That escalated quickly. We are going to get smoked if the orographic band wants to park on the east side.

I can feel people’s excitement lol. I like 4-8” personally.

Thinking a 3-6” event in this area for Xmas Eve. We’ll see, not completely sold. North of the track will do the best. Its still early enough for decent changes. GFS… Uncle… Mesoscale 3KM NAM too.

BTV did it, first sub-zero reading in 600+ days. A new stretch to beat down the road.

SLK -17F at 10:30pm? That place is the surface of the moon.

-8/-13 still some room to radiate if it can stay calm.

They've spent the last 2.5 hours at 0F to +1F, ha. Not sure they've crossed the threshold yet. BTV doesn't give it up easily these days.

Yeah I’ve seen -25F to -27F on my car before at 5am starting it up and going to the Mtn. Its not as common now it seems, but -20s still happen with some regularity. Last February had a -21F.

Down to 0F with a 7mph wind. -13F chill. They haven’t radiated yet.

Point and click has -12F.

Down to -6F here and dropping fast.

BTV might break the streak! Longest time above 0F since 1882. With clear skies and light winds expected overnight, we expect strong radiational cooling with low temperatures likely below zero at most locations, including Burlington. This would be the first below zero reading in 664 days which is the longest stretch since records have been kept.

The 3sm haze obs in the valleys is classic low level arctic airmass stuff. -SN or HZ, hard to tell the difference. Cold crystals in the air.

Can't hate the progs for the upcoming clipper either. If we can land another 0.30 - 0.50" of SWE to the Greens, things will really be falling into place for the holiday stretch. Been a while since the mountains have lined up to be skiing like this during the holidays. It's winter. NAM GFS EURO

Yeah, we can dream right? It would be so cool to have visibility to lower levels east of the Spine. With these temps the DGZ is literally at the surface, ha.

We had a couple figure skating exhibitions this evening in the Spruce Plaza and fireworks display to kick off the holiday period... Over Easy running until 10pm. It is absolutely brutal outside right now. People were really struggling to stay outside to watch the events. Hammering NW wind blowing snow through the plaza, temps nearing 0F and arctic flakes ripping past. It's a very damp cold if that makes sense, at least up there on the SE side of the Notch. Snowing and blowing, but the flakes are those small shattered almost fog/mist visibility reduction you get in the arctic air masses. Disregard the Top of the Gondola station obviously, that observation hasn't been updating in a while. The other locations show the air mass currently this evening. Tough time to try to throw an outside winter celebration on the solstice, ha.

Yeah a couple friends just SE of BTV airport reported 6". Looks like BTV airport is showing a snow depth of 5". Pretty cool mesoscale event.

Yeah the beam is getting too high up for the low level precipitation. Just to clear the Spine the beam has to be about 4-5K feet and rising the further east one goes. Over your head it's likely hitting at like 7,000ft or so. Definitely struggles to sample the low level stuff in an arctic air mass like today.

It is brutal out right now. 3F at 1500ft, wind chill -20s. Have a fireworks display and ice skating exhibition tonight at the mountain… wind is honking hard, blowing snow, snowing arctic flakes, and it is so cold. Down to -6F at 3,600ft.

That's awesome dude. Those photos are legit. And that's why I haven't seen TK around this weekend, ha.

Legit.

Sneaky event. Classic on-shore QPF look for the low level flow.

Yeah about 1.5" of sparkling fluff here east of the Spine. Still light snow but likely in the flurry visibility range. Did have a couple good bursts of moderate snow but they were short-lived.

Some interior lift up here and excellent snow growth temps, a random decent fluffy accumulation (in short order) is always possible with light QPF at -9C to -18C at 850mb on the progs.