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Yeah solid gradient. Got 30s near the international border and well into the 60s in parts of SNE. There's a huge gradient from NE VT over to the Champlain Valley where the sun has broken out.

So jealous. High of 41F at MVL so far and thick, low OVC obscuring the clouds. Preserving the pack?

Oh man. I'd watch that from the top of the mountain for that one for sure. No doubt there's probably only a 30% chance of actually seeing it without clouds. Today would've been a no go. Guess it would get dark though regardless.

Wild weather day for sure. Sunny and near 50F early this afternoon up at the ski resort. Then we got the rare treat of it snowing legit snowflakes at 45F (like double and triple check the thermometer) with the really dry low levels in place. We just missed the thundersnow complex that hit Jay Peak (check their social media) to our north and the sun came back out. Then we started getting 50mph winds knocking shit all over the base area, trash can lids were like frisbees. Now its 38F and pounding a mix of graupel and snowflakes in town with a white coating starting to take hold.

We are down to probably 12-14" here along the river in town. Bare spots showing up on south facing and sunny spots, while some shaded yards are probably still 20" or even more. Call it 0-24" but I think 12-14" is good for level ground without excessive sun or shade. The dog struggles mightily leaving the Rec Path as the snow is getting that isothermal punchy thing going where the ice layers have broken down. Not supportable to walk on anymore.

Must be an error in the formatting...p-type and temp look weird. Saturday...Snow likely. Highs around 50. Chance of snow 60 percent.

My wife is gonna lose it. First thing she asked this morning was "Why did it snow?" I tried to make the claim that a little 1-2" coating just covered the mud and dirty snow and she claimed she loves the mud. Because mud is the next step to green and she hasn't seen the yard since like Halloween.

Nothing says April 1st like watching dry powder blow across the yard from last night's fake fluff. 26F with winds gusting 20-30mph and plumes of powder blowing off the rooftops. The sun looks deceivingly nice out again.

1.5" or so overnight at home. Ski area up the road pulled 4" last night.

Now that is some debris. That's a pretty impressive covering. It was a real windy winter. I've seen scenes like that before up at the ski area but not this year so far. Probably hasn't melted yet. Still probably 3 feet at Barnes Camp area at the base of the ski area at 1500ft up here in the northern latitudes. Here in town at 750ft we are melting out to probably a foot around my place. Some areas still look real deep (shady properties) and others have melted out (sunny/south-facing) to the ground around town. Highly variable snow cover this time of year as it starts melting out.

Flipped to big fat flakes here at the base of the ski area. Meh, over it ha.

Pretty cold March on the whole for the country and New England relative to normal. I wasn't paying attention I guess as I didn't realize how sustained the chill was here this month. Since the normals are rising and mean temperatures are going up, below normal is probably harder to "feel." -5.1 at 1V4 -4.5F locally at MVL -4.2F at MPV -1.5 at BTV *One of these is not like the others. Widespread chill. -20.2 departure for March at BZN Bozeman, MT. Holy crap.

Yeah I was just curious how you'd do that when listing high temps. I'm sure there's the ol' temps every 1-3 hours throughout the day graphic too?

Not sure a win but when giving a high temp for the day don't you give the highest temp of the day? Shouldn't matter if it's at 12pm or 5pm, right?

I think I heard Ski Patrol was flagging the high snow marks on some trees in order to look at them in the summer. The Upper Liftline is incredible. Even if those rocks melt quicker that is one massive drift shaped into the mountain that happens to occupy the Upper Liftline area.

Speaking of deep snow... the last 23" storm of dense snow really took everything to the next level. I love how this trail sign for Goat has the arrow pointing diagonally down. Like, "this is usually where we want you to go, but this year the arrow should be level or pointing up." *Only closed because it was frozen solid early this morning. The steeper ungroomed terrain opened up once the snow softened as is the usual spring SOP.

Skiing spring corn snow in the sunshine, then watching baseball this evening...love this time of year when the seasons cross.

That sounds about right. High-end snowpack in the hills. Hopefully it goes slowly. The river through Stowe still has ice and snow on it except for the main channel.

Let's go Red Sox!

I gotta find that photo...

This is awesome from NWS out in Reno... sounds like fun. Love that they are even mentioning ski area impacts. I think I've seen BTV list that once before when we had some convective graupel storm that was triggering lightning in the spring. I doubt that is in the drop down box for impacts though in the NWS database, ha. Greater Lake Tahoe Area CA-Greater Lake Tahoe Area NV-Greater Reno- Carson City-Minden Area NV- 220 PM PDT WED MAR 27 2019 ...Line of Thundersnow Heading Toward Donner Pass, Lake Tahoe Region... * At 215 PM PDT, NWS radar was tracking a line of heavy precipitation with embedded thunderstorms moving up the west slopes of the Sierra between Blue Canyon, Auburn, and Placerville. * Impacts include: rapid visibility reductions to near zero with sudden snow accumulations on roadways, increase in traffic incidents and delays, lightning that could affect ski area operations. Consider delaying travel over Sierra passes until this band of heavy snow moves off, likely after 4 or 5 PM.

That seems so far away... can't wait, ha. This afternoon was perfect and got home at 5pm to take the dog for a walk....man it'll be nice to walk without post-holing out to the Rec Path. The snow does not seem to be melting much these days, which is either good that it's going so slow its hard to notice or bad because we are going to get a climax flood event at some point.

Yeah that's nuts. We have clear and calm and usually MVL can dip a bit but that's a big difference to those sites NE of here. Even SLK was only near zero but it was starting to warm aloft.

I still can't believe that -14F. Was anything else close to that?

From 5F this morning to 42F this afternoon. Almost getting the 40F diurnal range.