powderfreak

There is a disappointing amount of photos from today from the folks under that band!

I would think the northern end of that should push west while the southern end works east a bit?

Sounds fun ha.

We are now in the northern part of that band that is reaching down into central CT. It's coming down hard and flake size increased notably. Crazy this band goes all the way down to HFD area. 12z EURO still has a long ways to go. Snows up here through 18z Thursday.

I can't believe its been sustained 1/4sm snow way out here from a low that far away. Definitely bucks the trend. The mountains are going to get feet from a storm that went what east of the Benchmark? We still have days to go up here.

That looks perfect for Ginxy... stoked for him. As usual ORH is just far enough in the right direction to get the pivot point, lol.

The simulated rad products do show sort of rare west flow upslope in your area up through the western side of the ORH hills. Obviously the best and heaviest stuff tonight into tomorrow morning will be west slopes of Litchfield county north through the Berks and Greens, but interesting to see the radar projections keeping snow going western side in your area north to Hubby. Don't see that too often.

Nice man! What are you up to in the past two storms combined now?

Snowing steadily and heavily the past few hours. Visibility has been 1/2sm or lower for the past two hours here with 0.16" in the ASOS bucket. Everything on track for a good synoptic snowfall followed by upslope crushing. KMVL 131654Z AUTO 36006KT 1/4SM SN FZFG VV007 M03/M04 A2971 RMK AO2 SLP070 P0011 T10331039 KMVL 131634Z AUTO 35005KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV006 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 P0008 T10331039 KMVL 131626Z AUTO 36008KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV005 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 P0007 T10331039 KMVL 131554Z AUTO 36006KT 1/4SM SN FZFG VV008 M03/M04 A2972 RMK AO2 SLP076 P0006 T10281039 KMVL 131454Z AUTO 36007KT 1/2SM SN FZFG VV014 M03/M04 A2974 RMK AO2 SLP081 P0001 60002 T10281039 58011

You are going to make Hay. Looks really good for significant west slope upslope all up and down the Greens. You'll probably do better than up here later tonight and tomorrow morning as you have better low level jet dynamics and perpendicular westerly flow.

I'll have to find it but I remember seeing a TV forecast for Vermont out of a BTV news station that just had "2-4 feet" written covering the entire state.

That whole winter was a wet dream or white dream for the interior. Even in ALB it was one of my first few winters really watching the models and I distinctly remember that 12/31 event become a much bigger event as it came closer (we had like 12-14" I think) and then remember the models jacking up the Feb 01 event as we got closer with further NW tracks. Then all events in March seemed to trend snowier, too, at least in the local high country. I do sort of miss the days of crazy model swings...oh wait...

That was a great storm. Around 15" at BTV got the depth up around two feet in mid-December...which is pretty solid for that location. Amazing coastal front there though...you've got 14s next to 30s haha.

Full on haha... love looking at the past photos every once in a while.

Not SNE but time for a weenie revisit to the beginning of last winter...which had several sweet snow events prior to Thanksgiving. Last winter the early season was pretty awesome. October 23rd started it off with 7-11" (elevation dependent) at the mountain... It snowed off and on for that final week of October... adding another couple inches here and there. October 28, 2018 After that there were a few mild weeks in November but winter returned/arrived on November 21st...a solid upslope snowstorm moved in with NW flow bringing heavy snow squalls to the area. Up at the mountain on November 21st. The closest building is "the office." Down the road at 1,300ft. Even down in town, November 21st rocked and broke my almost 2 year drought for a warning criteria event with just over 7" falling in the end. All from some moisture and NW flow. This is how it should look down in the valley prior to every Thanksgiving, haha.

Ha, interesting you say that because I was like that in Burlington during college and then the two years after UVM that I lived there. After a while you realize how it works the more frustrating part is not being involved *at all*. I actually enjoy the difference between mountain and town. I mean, it is just as close as a lot of people are to their nearest major supermarket in any suburb. As a meteorology weenie, there really is so much small micro-scale stuff that is absolutely fascinating. I think what also helps is although the snow is significantly less than it is just up the road...you are still on the higher end of snowfall for a large portion of the population. BTV to me was much more frustrating because there you weren't getting anything. Forget 2sm -SN with dim moon all night long leading to 2" on the car in the morning and 4-6" at the mountain from some weak-sauce shortwave, at BTV you had 10sm bright moon....and I gotta say, growing up in the Hudson Valley where Logan11 crushed me in every event, you appreciate the number of flakes that fall from the sky. Like you said, I also spend so much time up there... at least 6 days per week during daylight hours during the winter...that it is essentially home as well. There's also something appealing about knowing the mountain is getting more snow. As a hardcore skier (130-150 days per season I have skis on my feet), the snow at the mountain is more important anyway. For a non-skier, I bet it would be a bit more of an issue to be so close to big snows, haha. I can enjoy watching it fall and shoveling it, but I can't enjoy it in my yard like I can on the mountain. There are a couple rare times when home gets more snow due to some weird flow/inversion level and I find myself more annoyed by that. I can't ski that, haha.

Sort of reminds me of a stretch this past winter that brought snow to the mountain on 21 of 23 days...with 80" at 1,500ft and 108" at 3,000ft during those three weeks. At the end of it we just needed a break, haha. My wife hated me...every 5 minutes looking outside because even if it was just 3sm -SN at home it would be 1-2"/hr up at the office. Highly localized period of crush. I still can't believe I had 375" at the 3,000ft board when the winter before I only had 153".

That's the way to run a snowstorm...love when you spend a while tracking a big one but once you get that post storm depression, you realize there's one right behind it.

Wasn't there a decent 6-12" event like 4 days after the early March 2001 biggie? I have a lot of AFDs from BTV that month and it's insane how everything trended snowier leading up to events...starting with 3/5/2001 which was going smoke cirrus in a lot of VT even 48-72 hours prior. In reality all of VT got like 20-40". Then there were two more big bombs that had over 24" each for the mountains I think on 3/22 and 3/30. Both of those looked like rain or something other than snow based on reading the AFDs a few days out.

Similar ratio here, lol. 2.8" frozen on 1.40" liquid. I think we had mostly freezing rain in that that then switched over to a mix of very wet snow and sleet. I lost some branches around the yard from the ice.

This is awesome! Been a while since I've seen a sight like that at home with wet snow that isn't like 3-5" but 8"+. It's not a true blue bomb until the windward side of the trees have 6" of paste going up and down the trunks. I get to see that on the mountain all the time (not that hard when you have the ability to search up to 4,000ft in elevation to find the rain/snow line) but haven't had one in the valley at home in a while. I love going just like 300-500ft higher in elevation from the actual rain/snow line and its just pure paste on everything. By the time you are 1,000ft above the rain/snow line its back over to pretty much powder. Would love to see a good blue bomb at home one of these seasons. Like a solid 8-12" of pure cake.

Ahhh the March storm named Stella...that's remembered around here by skiers like Nemo in 2013 in SNE. I recorded 37" at 1,500ft and 52" at 3,000ft in 48 hours. BTV was over 30" too. We actually got a bit shafted in town with 20" as the best banding was in the Champlain Valley down to BGM. Huge gradient in the few miles from here to the base of the mountain. That storm even went a bit too far NW for areas east of the crest lol....though 20" in my yard was still the biggest storm here since March 2011 brought 27".

That period did really nothing for us up here, grasshoppers with patience are still waiting lol.We know the Sultan of Frigidair will sniff out any potential well in advance.

When are you ever down on a possible snowstorm?

If it was a deep uniformed easterly flow with no inversion as I think Will mentioned earlier, you'd definitely have an unblocked flow. Probably centering the heaviest QPF over the crest with equal amounts on east and west slopes, or maybe even favoring the lee side a little bit due to the strong wind causing drift. But then you'd see a very sharp QPF gradient as you got to the end of that spill over.