powderfreak

Yeah we had wet non accumulating snow at 5am in Stowe when I got up. Driving up Mtn Road, like 1 out of every 5 cars had some white on them haha. First found snow accumulations on grass near the Toll Road base (as is often the case) at 1,200-1,300ft and maybe a half inch at 1,500ft. I drove to 1,800ft on Spruce and found about 1.5". Big snow gradient on the trees around 2,000ft.

A buddy posted this on social media from Sunday on Mansfield. The Toll Road cuts through the snowpack there on the upper reaches is still pretty deep!

Good upslope there on prolonged NE flow under a deform band. Air coming out of the flat Northern Champlain Valley ran into 5,000ft peaks and they got like 4" of QPF on the upper mountain. I remember some runs had the low moving further north turning winds to NW from NE, which would've favored VT but. It stalled too far south keeping NE winds going for a long time.

Whiteface in the Adirondacks had deformation delight and got 30-36" in that Memorial Day Weekend storm.

I don't think there's a lot of leaves out there in the areas that have best chance, say 1000ft and higher but still wet snow is wet snow.

A rare Dryslot sighting in the NNE thread! Holy crap that is a lot more widespread than any other run to date.

12z EURO has MVL at 34F with snow early Tuesday morning.

Yeah, it's crazy what a short term dump of water coupled with continued ski area melt will do to area waterways. Nothing will flood but everything went from low water to raging really fast. 1.76" at the base of the ski area station now and I live a half mile SW from the 1.4" station in town. The river that follows RT 108 from mountain to town is really moving.

Some impressive rain this morning. Already 1.20" rain since midnight at home and 1.61" up at the office. With the snow melt there is an eye-opening amount of water coming down off the hills. Whitewater in every little creek. 0.85" in 3 hours at MVL.

From yesterday in the main thread... pulling this thing out of the woods means it's probably going to snow again. ----- No new snow at 3,000ft Stake...I ended up pulling it out and bringing it down this evening for the season. Still 20-30" on the ground in that 3,000ft elevation band. 

Crisp clear lakes, rivers, mountains to escape the heat and some might argue the mountains do thunderstorms pretty well comparatively. Lines of storms go nuts once they hit the terrain usually.

Cinco de Mayo was a beautiful one. With some buds showing on trees in town, maybe we are starting to turn the corner! Upper 60s at MVL and beautiful 50s up on the mountain. Got quite the sunburn today, probably means its time for a new NNE thread.

3 years ago we had no snow all winter, record low snow, and then ended up with a 3-6" plowable event on April 26th. Mother Nature loves that shit. Like no HHH all summer but Then some October week it's like 87/70.

Postponed the Red Sox game tonight to a doubleheader tomorrow. I had no idea how big of a rain shield that was down there. I figured most were enjoying these crisp blue skies except E.MA. Thank god this wasn't February...would be suppression depression.

Beauty up this way. 68F and drying out. Swimming season has begun for the pup again... but that snowmelt water flowing down off Mansfield is a bit too cold for me, ha.

Closing weekend coming up for Stowe...it does seem time after a long winter. There will be plenty of earned turns over the next 2-3 weeks.

Completely random but I just came across this while searching VT State Police briefs for a DUI arrest record of someone this past winter... But holy crap this stuff happens in today's world. Disabled vehicle at 12:30pm was all it took to kill this woman from hypothermia in VT... like man it would suck to find out that's all it took to kill your loved one. Car troubles on a sunny cold day. "Dec. 19 at 12:30 p.m., a woman died of hypothermia on Herring Brook Road in Moretown. Police said Janet Franz, 70, of East Montpelier began walking on the road after her vehicle became disabled, but died before she could reach help. Police do not consider her death suspicious."

Probably not rare at all. Big QPF is easy there, just need temps and at 2-3kft not that hard to do probably. Just looked like a sweet storm.

Ha a friend is out there. Their van is stuck in like tire high snow on the road there.

Hatcher Pass, Alaska with like 36" in 24 hours. Looks legit.

What a day. Bluebird and despite the temperatures, the snow in the sun softened into perfect corn. The top inch or two was just fast but soft peel away corn snow. 117" snow depth at the summit stake.

There was some NNE mtn-top undercast this morning. Whiteface web cam showed undercast and so did MWN. Mansfield was right at the level there at 4kft, sloshing back and forth. Though now mid-level clouds have pushed in again with the next shortwave energy crossing NY state. But good call on that undercast as this stratus has just been wedged in. Can see the inversion sloshing a little on the Mansfield temp graph. Brief spike as it went warm, calm and sunny above the inversion and then the clouds swarmed back in and it cooled off again.

Probably will only be them and Killington at that point anyway.

Champlain Valley might be the best place up this way as they see more available sunshine than anywhere else up here.

Damn, 22" still. I'm down to 8-10" though there are a lot of snow free areas popping up around town.