dryslot Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 May see some flakes on weds night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 May see some flakes on weds night Canadian and Euro have some wintery precip on the front end for NNE... usual climo favored spots would obviously have the best shot (ie. ME and NH foothills where the cold likes to stay put). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Canadian and Euro have some wintery precip on the front end for NNE... usual climo favored spots would obviously have the best shot (ie. ME and NH foothills where the cold likes to stay put). A little more dicey where i am, But yes, Those would be the favored location the upslope and higher elevation areas and some of there valleys where its takes much longer to scour out the cold in those areas.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Nws has me all snow Thursday .. they seeing something I'm not or is the ME office just not as detail oriented in the LR as other offices? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Gonna be a real short snowmobile season I guess. At this rate, lakes and ponds won't even be rideable till mid-jan, if we're lucky. Also, it's 51F at my house. Warmer then I thought it was going to be today. Yea for the green lawn:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Nws has me all snow Thursday .. they seeing something I'm not or is the ME office just not as detail oriented in the LR as other offices? No, They usually do well, I see it starting as some frozen but eventually flipping to rain even up in the county Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serbiesnow Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Looks like my high for the day on the north/east side of the hill was 31.5./// no icicle drips nor any type of melting today. It was a good day to go out and do some trail work for the snowmachine club.. beautiful day for sure!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted December 12, 2011 Author Share Posted December 12, 2011 Gonna be a real short snowmobile season I guess. At this rate, lakes and ponds won't even be rideable till mid-jan, if we're lucky. Also, it's 51F at my house. Warmer then I thought it was going to be today. Yea for the green lawn:( Wow, 51, eh? Still in the low/mid-thirties here today and even snow still in the trees some from last week... The past two nights have been quite chilly and the ponds, lakes are starting to show pretty good coverage. Even the mighty Connecticut River had some ice on it this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 No, They usually do well, I see it starting as some frozen but eventually flipping to rain even up in the county Yeah but they had the whole event all snow .. they've fixed it now though to wintry mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Yeah but they had the whole event all snow .. they've fixed it now though to wintry mix. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 lol got my hopes up I'm pretty optimistic that that's the last rain we'll see for a while though.. euro looks to keep us below freezing and a couple opportunities for snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 got my hopes up I'm pretty optimistic that that's the last rain we'll see for a while though.. euro looks to keep us below freezing and a couple opportunities for snow Yes, You should be able to maintain what you have up there as thurs does not look like we see all that much in the way of precip as well as it will be cold in the high 30s, The Euro looks colder in the long run with a couple of chances around the 21st and the 24th so i am optimistic up this way for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serbiesnow Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 17.4F here at 0752 in the Am... another beautiful clear morning with the old snow pack still in tact. Im heading downhill today towards the half frozen CT river to work on the snow laden trees that have blocked our trails... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Thinking PF might be in line for a little orographic magic on friday. Winds line up decently along with low level RH above 80% through h85. Def. thinking some fluffy few inches will be sqeezed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serbiesnow Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Squeeked up over freeing today,..32.6F now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I'm feeling pretty good about our snow chances.. maybe a clipper Sun night and then an OH valley storm Tuesday. Both the Euro and GFS showing those two events. And the GFS+Euro ensembles keep the PV over Foxe Basin with a PNA ridge in the long range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 I'm feeling pretty good about our snow chances.. maybe a clipper Sun night and then an OH valley storm Tuesday. Both the Euro and GFS showing those two events. And the GFS+Euro ensembles keep the PV over Foxe Basin with a PNA ridge in the long range. I am as well, Things are starting to look up, Especially heading into the last week of Dec, Pattern may be starting to trend in our favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Mountain has been socked in "white" for the past hour or so... flurries down the road now, too. Dusting-1" tonight if we are lucky, lol. Just amazing bands of flurries working over the spine, haha. So desperate that 8-10sm --SN is interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Thinking PF might be in line for a little orographic magic on friday. Winds line up decently along with low level RH above 80% through h85. Def. thinking some fluffy few inches will be sqeezed out. Yeah I've been liking Friday's chances for accumulating upslope snow showers. We'll take whatever we can get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Nice light snow falling now down towards the village on RT 108/Mtn Road. Just mood and weenie flakes but the dendrites are nice. Looks good in the flood lights. This is about as exciting as it gets this December apparently... waves of very weak moisture lifting over the Greens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The zone forecast is starting to look somewhat "wintery" aside from the 1/2 inch of rain coming Thursday. Maybe we can come up with some accumulation in the next week.... or just get lucky with some freak upslope stuff. It seems apparent that synoptic storms are not going to get it done here in the next week or two, gotta hope for rouge meso-scale stuff. Maybe we can get a norlun throw in somewhere, haha. VTZ006-140915-LAMOILLE-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...JOHNSON...STOWE945 PM EST TUE DEC 13 2011. WEDNESDAY NIGHT...CLOUDY...SNOW...SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN LIKELYAFTER MIDNIGHT. SNOW AND SLEET ACCUMULATION A DUSTING TO 1 INCHPOSSIBLE. ICE ACCUMULATION AROUND A TRACE. LOWS IN THE UPPER 20S.LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS. GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CHANCEOF PRECIPITATION 70 PERCENT.. THURSDAY...RAIN WITH FREEZING RAIN LIKELY. HIGHS IN THE LOWER 40S.SOUTH WINDS AROUND 10 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. CHANCE OFPRECIPITATION 90 PERCENT .THURSDAY NIGHT...RAIN OR SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY. LIGHT SNOWACCUMULATION POSSIBLE. LOWS IN THE LOWER 30S. WEST WINDS 10 TO15 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH. CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 60 PERCENT.. FRIDAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A 50 PERCENT CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS.HIGHS IN THE LOWER 30S.. FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 15 TO 20.HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I never saw any precipitation in Burlington today, but when I got to the Waterbury Park and Ride it was spitting a few flakes of snow. We had the same thing going on at the house, which wouldn’t have amounted to much, but when I checked the snowboard around 10:30 P.M. there was a tenth of an inch down, so clearly there had been an uptick in snowfall at some point. There’s still moisture out there in the northwest flow, so I’ll update tomorrow morning if there is any additional accumulation: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The zone forecast is starting to look somewhat "wintery" aside from the 1/2 inch of rain coming Thursday. I’m actually excited to see what the snow totals turn out to be at the end of next week in accordance with the list of events you noted in your post in the pattern change thread: I think we've got some wintery chances at least over the next 10 days... no big whoppers like we need but at least some things to keep it interesting.Tonight... flurries with a dusting-1" Wed Night/Thurs... snow/sleet/zr to showers Friday... snow showers up and down the cordillera on NW flow Sunday/Monday...clipper like feature? more light snow? Tuesday (a week out) this keeps looking more wintery... That’s five potential winter events in the next week, so aside from the fact that our natural snowpack is on the low side, it’s hard to complain about that. Even when we’re in the zone and the Greens are cranking out their magic in mid season, we don’t always have five winter events in a week, so this should be a lot of fun. The snowmakers have been working hard to put down a man made base, so each one of these events means a chance for skiing a bit of fresh snow on top of that. I’m a big fan of lining up the events and seeing how they verify like you did in your post. Anyway, event #1 is in the books already here with a tenth of an inch down – right in the range you mentioned. Hopefully these events can come to fruition and keep us cruising well ahead of December 2006 in terms of snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I was talking about this with a mutual friend and we agreed that what's really noticeable is that we haven't been able to preserve any snow that has fallen and northern VT got shut out of the last storm. When it comes down to it, it's pretty rare that you get between 8-12 inches of snow the day before thanksgiving and within a week, it's ALL gone. Had we had that base down, the 4/5 inches that fell last would would have really opened up some terrain. I know I'd be skinning Bolton and likely much of stowe at least- never mind a few mellow bc lines. I mean we've basically been in a dry december pattern for a week- 10 days now but just didn't carry any snow over. Two things on friday- somebody down in central VT is tapping a lake band and the WRF looks wet. I like. Of course this makes sense because I have to move into a new condo this weekend and only Ullr would feel compelled to muck up my plans by forcing me to ski powder on saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Event totals: 0.5” Snow/0.01” L.E. Noting a large area of snow coming in from the northwest on the radar last night, I checked outside around 12:30 A.M. and found that indeed the few small flakes that had been falling had bumped up into steadier light snow with some bigger flakes up near the half inch mark in diameter. This morning at observations time there was a fluffy half inch on the snowboard with a bit of snow still falling. Some details from the 6:00 A.M. observations are below: New Snow: 0.5 inches New Liquid: 0.01 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 50.0 Snow Density: 2.0% H2O Temperature: 32.0 F Sky: Flurries/Light Snow Snow at the stake: 1.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted December 14, 2011 Author Share Posted December 14, 2011 Snowing out this morning. It felt, tasted and smelled like snow when I went to bed last night and sure enough, I awoke to some fresh white. A few tenths of fluff to the tune of 0.01" of liquid thus far. Looks like some interersting stuff tonight,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Yep, could be dicey on the drive to work in the pre-dawn hours tomorrow. Eyes on the road, hands upon the wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 0.3" overnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Dusting in Barre overnight. Maybe a tenth of an inch. 29.5° on my thermometer when I left home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 It is whiter this morning than it was out there when I went to sleep. j24vt's 3/10ths looks about right. Since I did not have to get up at 4am this morning I am in no rush to go outside, haha. Lazy morning, then up to the mountain for an hour or two before tonight's mixed bag and rain tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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