Allenson Posted December 27, 2011 Author Share Posted December 27, 2011 Now that the intensity has picked up, seeing solid sleet, occasionally some wet mangled flakes mixing in. 32F. Tick-tick-ping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skierinvermont Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Just in from our Upstate NY, ON, QC forum... Schroon Lake in the Dacks: "Snowing heavily, 1 1/2" so far 30*" All rain now (maybe zr) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Nice spill pic....... Don't be misled ... this old man still has game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Don't be misled ... this old man still has game. This one don't, Maybe 20 years ago....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWxWatcher Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Mix of rain and snow, 31.7F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 Yuck. Rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 We picked up a couple tenths of an inch of snow earlier, but it looked like it was going to change over to something else around 5:15 P.M., so I collected that as the front end snow portion for the event. However, it is really dumping out there now, inch an hour type snow, so there will be a bit more to report. There is a huge blob of red echoes headed this way though, and it’s hard to imagine that’s snow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 A joyous 36-37 here in at Redrocks. Raining heavily with a few massive wef flakes thrown in. Just check the SPC mesoanalysis page and it looks like there are negative 850s from about the bush north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted December 27, 2011 Share Posted December 27, 2011 And now snow bombs are falling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Interesting that us way down here went to a mix of rain and snow around 6pm as the intensity picked up. I see at 7pm the automated Plymouth station reported 2.5 miles in light snow but don't believe that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Interesting that us way down here went to a mix of rain and snow around 6pm as the intensity picked up. I see at 7pm the automated Plymouth station reported 2.5 miles in light snow but don't believe that. Yeah...I think the AWOS is struggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Just drove from Burlington to warren. 89 has 1-2" of slush through Bolton. It was about 34 there but dropped to 31 in the mrv with light to moderate rain. Same inch or 2 otg. May have to take a drive up to 2500' and see what it's doing up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yea- please do. It's a BONE Chilling 35 and pouring rain right now in red rocks. SPC Meso analysis has 850s about 1-3c. Seems a little warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Event totals: 1.0” Snow/0.33” L.E. The snow came down quite hard until about 7:30 P.M., at which point sleet started to mix in. That continued, with snow mixing in at times, until around 8:30 P.M. when it seemed to be mostly liquid. So I’m calling 8:30 P.M. the cutoff time for the front end frozen portion of the event at this location. That front end provided a third of an inch of water as frozen material, which will hopefully represent a good chunk of the liquid for the event. Our NWS point forecast is calling for another tenth to quarter inch of liquid tonight, and then 2 to 5 inches of snow on the back end starting tomorrow: Tonight: Rain, mainly before midnight, then a chance of drizzle. Patchy fog after 1am. Low around 34. East wind 6 to 8 mph becoming south. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Wednesday: Rain and snow showers likely before 11am, then occasional snow showers. Temperature falling to around 21 by 5pm. Breezy, with a west wind between 14 and 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Wednesday Night: Occasional snow showers, mainly before 10pm. Low around 1. Wind chill values as low as -14. Northwest wind between 14 and 16 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. This may not be the ultimate pattern for snowfall, but clearly something changed around mid month because accumulating snowfall events have been hitting us pretty frequently. In fact, over the past 10 days the storms have been coming at a rather fervent pace of one every other day – there have been storms on the 17th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 25th, and now the 27th as indicated in the signature below. If the potential clippers were to come through on Thursday the 29th and Saturday the 31st, that would continue the trend. Although we haven’t had many huge storms, 14 accumulating snowstorms as of Dec 27th is actually a decent pace that is better than average based on my data from the past five seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Yeah we had a solid inch of snow before it changed to rain... roads are a mess with slush and ponding of water now. This will be awesome when it all freezes up tomorrow morning into a big frozen slush skating rink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 This is from about an hour ago... our inch or so of new snow is slowly falling off the cars, haha. Still I'm surprised at how little damage the rain is doing... but I guess that's what a 33/32F rain does as opposed to a 48/47 type thaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bch2014 Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 If the radar is correct, Sugarloaf might end with a net gain even out of the front end of this storm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Up to 38 here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well, as expected the small base we were building here has been wiped out overnight. Just a few snow piles remain. Currently 53 with a warm SSE breeze. Hopefully we can start building the base back up on Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Well, it actually wasn't too bad here. Picked up a half-inch of sleety slush at the outset of precip and even when it went over to straight rain, much of it fell at 32.5--33 degrees. Ended up with 0.62" of liquid (now at a whooping 51.80" for since 1/1/11) and still have 3" at the stake. The south winds kicked up right before I hit the sack for the night. One last glance at the thermometer showed a spike up to 38 and it hit 40 sometime overnight but now already back down to 34. Let's pick up some backside later today and heres to a nice clipper come Friday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 If the radar is correct, Sugarloaf might end with a net gain even out of the front end of this storm! I worked at the 'Loaf for a few winters back in the mid/late 90s and I can remember several inland runners where we actually ended up with a net gain of snow...at least on the mountain itself. It would start as some sleety snow, turn over to rain, wash some snow away and then the backside ended up being quite fruitful snow-wise and our snowdepth would actually be more than before the event started.... Now that I think about it, I've seen that sort of thing happen here too.... Just gotta get through those hours of suckage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 just over 1" rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 What little snow there was is gone, Looks like we may get a few inches friday night with the clipper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 just over 1" rain. All snow except a few straggling mounds along the road are gone. But optimism abounds as snow is in the forecast for the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 36 here and it just started snowing. From what i can see the snow on the trails of lincoln peak seems to have held up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Event totals: 1.0” Snow/0.75” L.E. The rain gauge contained 0.75” of liquid this morning, so the event thus far has come in as 0.33” frozen and 0.42” liquid. The snow at the back yard stake has consolidated a couple of inches, but there’s a lot of liquid in there now so when it freezes up it should be good base material for the slopes as adk mentioned earlier in the thread. Snow is visible on the radar off to our west in Northern New York; BTV NWS suggests it should be into Vermont by later this morning: Some details from the 7:30 A.M. observations are below: New Snow: 1.0 inches New Liquid: 0.75 inches Temperature: 36.9 F Sky: Partly Cloudy Snow at the stake: 4.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 36 here and it just started snowing. I figured it wouldn’t be too long before the snow came in when I saw your post. We had a few sprinkles earlier, but as of ~8:45 A.M. we’ve got snow falling. It’s generally light, but more substantial at times with flakes up to ¾” in diameter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 If the radar is correct, Sugarloaf might end with a net gain even out of the front end of this storm! That's how it looked last night but ended up being mostly sleet to freezing rain to rain. No gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 it is dumping at Smugglers Notch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 held all our snow up here (even on the blacktop in the drive). it surged to 38F and punched a few holes in the snow pack, slushed up good, but its snowing now on this side. perfect rink resurfacing. just what the doctor ordered to seal the woods in a bit. snowpack above 2000' up here closing in on 12" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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