Allenson Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Radiated real well last night before the clouds rolled in. Got all the way down to 5F--I was quite surprised at how we sunk last evening. Then the snow came in. Had a fresh 1/2" as of 7am. Light snow still falling. We were right on the nose for 3 inches of pure fluff this morning. Unfortunately fluff on ice is slippery and I went feet over head while making my way to my car. I'll be sore tomorrow morning. Good for the snow, bad on the fall. I've done the same thing and can certainly relate..and I have the same thing going on at home right now--fluff on ice. A couple years ago I went ass over tea-kettle in the driveway and landed square on my head. One of the few times I've literally seen stars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Bolton had about 1.5 inches of new snow in the lot this am. Skied very very nicely around timberline. Something like 5-6 inches of fluff on top of an edgable crusty layer. Thinking 1-3 is about right today. PF your comment on elevation dependence but not temperature is interesting. I was watching the event unfold from up high and I notied that the downsloping of the winds as you went down the mountains seemed to dry out the air and thus lower the RH. Snow was evaporating in this environment. So while at the ridgeline it was collecting heavy snow a few thousand feet down it was way less due to evaporation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Bolton had about 1.5 inches of new snow in the lot this am. Skied very very nicely around timberline. Something like 5-6 inches of fluff on top of an edgable crusty layer. Thinking 1-3 is about right today. PF your comment on elevation dependence but not temperature is interesting. I was watching the event unfold from up high and I notied that the downsloping of the winds as you went down the mountains seemed to dry out the air and thus lower the RH. Snow was evaporating in this environment. So while at the ridgeline it was collecting heavy snow a few thousand feet down it was way less due to evaporation Well, half inch to an inch at the base but when I went to the 3,000ft snow board there was 1.5" on it from last night, so sounds very similar to what you saw in the bolton parking lot. And yeah I was thinking about downsloping, but yet similar elevations on the west side of Mansfield had the same numbers as around 1,000ft on the east side... ie 3" at Jeffersonville, 2.5" Underhill, etc. They wouldn't have been getting downsloped per se... but that reasoning would hold weight here on the east. My only thing is when we do "downslope" on the east or get blocked by a ridgetop inversion, we get the sunny skies to develop like a mile out from the ridgeline with the "wave" shaped cloud. That also usually focuses the heavy snow on the west side and that didn't necessarily happen yesterday. My guess would be similar to yours but that it was mostly just low RH in the boundary layer. That's why all the main progs were showing ridiculous squall parameters but yet weren't spitting out much QPF, with the exception of the BTV WRF which was wayyy over done because it took those squall parameters and turned them into summertime thunderstorms, dropping .5-1" of liquid in like a 3 hour period. Had there been moist llvl RH, I bet most of the inhabited areas would've picked up 6" or so, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Good ponts PF. On other news it's looking like in/around burlington right now. Steady light snow falling thru am. Prob. 1-2 inches accumulated along the grassy surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Perfect winter day. Steady light snow all day, 23F no wind. Snow has been quite light, 3 mile vis stuff but finally at 12:45pm we are down to 1 mile or so with larger flakes.. Only a bit more than an 1" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Good ponts PF. On other news it's looking like in/around burlington right now. Steady light snow falling thru am. Prob. 1-2 inches accumulated along the grassy surfaces. I just left the hill... 1-2" from this little WAA event so far. Snowing steadily but lightly. Down in town maybe an inch and roads are snow covered. Looks like winter and I feel like its been snowing for 4-5 days straight now, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 We were right on the nose for 3 inches of pure fluff this morning. Unfortunately fluff on ice is slippery and I went feet over head while making my way to my car. I'll be sore tomorrow morning. Cold powder atop glare ice is probably the nearest thing to a frictionless surface we'll encounter outside of physics lab. It's a rare winter when I avoid at least one sudden descent to horizontal in those conditions. Still -SN in AUG, but eentsy flakes instead of the feathers we saw mid-morning. Temp in low 20s but the stuff is partially melting on windshields in the p.lot - pretty sad when the snowfall is so light that late Jan sun angle melts it even at 10F under the freezing point. After 7 hr of near-constant snow, I think we're still working on the first 1/4". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Upper elevation woods finally starting to get real good. Made the mistake of stepping out of my binding to try and step up to something and fell in to my chest. Follow the traverse through the holes in the snow and forest... To the land of Ullr... So soft and fluffy up there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 -SN, Weenie flakes all morning not amounting to much so far, Maybe .5" so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 1.8" snow today, just cloudy now 30F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Added another 1.6" during the day today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Added another 1.6" during the day today. Nice...yeah I didn't measure but was estimating around 2" at my place between last night and today. Must've made for a slow bum race today...especially through the flats from the schuss start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 I was sick all weekend and am still not 100%. Ran out of Tuck Sauce about halfway down the course. Tons of fun on the gliding course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Looks like 1.3" will do it here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Event totals: 1.1” Snow/0.07” L.E. Today’s snowfall produced another 0.6” of snow at the house. Burlington picked up something similar and the ground has a good covering of white now. Some details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations are below: New Snow: 0.6 inches New Liquid: 0.03 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 20.0 Snow Density: 5.0% H2O Temperature: 30.4 F Sky: Cloudy Snow at the stake: 11.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 surprisingly heavy freezing rain right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 surprisingly heavy freezing rain right now. Yea saw the advisory, tough early AM up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 27F with ZR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 GYX hoisted a WWA for here, For SN/IP/ZR.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Had 1.8" of 15:1 snow, which took about 18 hr to come down. Patches of zr on my commute this morning, first one before the pickup was warmed so I had to pull over until the windshield cleared enough to see. Pretty rime ice on the twigs, those which were visible in the fog. Jan totals for MBY: High: 27.42 Low: 8.48 Mean: 17.45 That's +3.26 and 4th highest of 14, topped by 02, 06, 10. (Watch out for 2014.) High: 41, 1st and 24th. High min: 29, 24th High mean: 35, 2nd and 24th Low: -24, 22nd Low max: 7, 15th Low mean: -5, 15th Precip: 3.24", +0.35" Snow: 23.4" That's +2.8" from avg but only +0.6" from median. 9 of 14 Januarys have had from 22.6" to 27.5". Last 5 Jan: 27.5" 26.5" 24.8" 24.6" 23.4" Don't like the direction it's going, but that's amazingly consistent for something as stochastic as snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 GYX hoisted a WWA for here, For SN/IP/ZR.. Heck of a way to run a torch. We will mix out later, but we've avoided the worst of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 getting snow up there Jeff? just frzr here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 33F here with drizzle... looks like there was some sleet pellets on the car but nothing to measure. Another snowy shot from the mountain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Heck of a way to run a torch. We will mix out later, but we've avoided the worst of it. Forecast was for 40 today, Now gyx says mid 20's this PM, We probably will do the same later today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 getting snow up there Jeff? just frzr here zr here as well mahk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 GYX hoisted a WWA for here, For SN/IP/ZR.. Mostly the ZR. The occlusion sweeping through will actually help us warm up today. At the very least should start the downsloping to dry out east of the mountains. It's 50 at KPVD, 40 at KBOS and 30 at KPSM...at one point it was 52 at KRUT and in the lower 20s in NH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Anybody seeing any accumulation of that ice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Mostly the ZR. The occlusion sweeping through will actually help us warm up today. At the very least should start the downsloping to dry out east of the mountains. It's 50 at KPVD, 40 at KBOS and 30 at KPSM...at one point it was 52 at KRUT and in the lower 20s in NH. Holding on for dear life. Portland has crept up to 29 according to the infallible Time & Temp Building display. How warm do you think PWM gets today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Holding on for dear life. Portland has crept up to 29 according to the infallible Time & Temp Building display. How warm do you think PWM gets today? I am forecasting 44 right now, I think it will probably end up < 40 (maybe even on the next update). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 Although OWD just mixed out to 56 after 42 last hour. So if we can pop some sunshine...(though I think that's more likely for southeastern NH). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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