MaineJayhawk Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 In Portland now ... light snow fa la la la la .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWMan Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Nice powdery coating from the band that broke out in this area a couple hours ago. Looks wintry for the moment; will try to live in the moment..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 In Portland now ... light snow fa la la la la .... Paaaa rum pa pumm pummmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 0.5 as of 1pm. Starting to fall more as sleet than as snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 We are trending better it seems Must have snowpack or snowmobiling. Our neighors have sleds and apparently there is a great trail up to Mt. Kearsage....11 miles from our door. Snow increasing now and snow growth improving a bit. You should be in it quickly, don't worry if it starts as snow grains or grapple. Enjoy it, I'll be on my way to London tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Sun angle has reached its lowest point and never climbs more than 23.4° above the horizon here, or 19.4° if you're in northern Maine. Only 6 days until we start gaining daylight again! It's snowing, btw. Ground is covered with this stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Must have snowpack or snowmobiling. Our neighors have sleds and apparently there is a great trail up to Mt. Kearsage....11 miles from our door. Snow increasing now and snow growth improving a bit. You should be in it quickly, don't worry if it starts as snow grains or grapple. Enjoy it, I'll be on my way to London tonight. On the doorstep here, Good luck and have a great time Mark while over there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Busy studying for my dynamics final, but its snowing and my mood isn't TOTALLY miserable because of it 21/19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Light snow here in Rutland. Hope to be home before any mix starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 19.0F here, Weenie flakes just starting here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Bow Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Snowing lightly since noon here. 23 with about .3" of snow grains/needles. Radar looks weak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 as for the colder trend on 12z GFS... 850mb level cooling off more, but 500mb warmth for duration. pretty interesting setup. can th the mountains clean up on the backside is the question. #2 seems to hangout for a while, with temps borderline. wondering where that upslope signature is... seems LL moisture not really there with N-NW flow as the cold air wraps in later tues-weds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Man this is going to be close... especially at elevation. The 12z CMC is a tick cooler again... these models keep getting a bit colder and further SE with the secondary. You know what, it may just happen because usually in these set-ups over here in NW New England we'll get sort of screwed while SNE cleans up because of redevelopment occurring further SE than models prog. This time its way too warm, but maybe that SE trend can help us hold more sleet or something. Its got a sleet look to me for some reason. But look at this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Between 12:00 P.M. and 2:30 P.M. we’ve picked up another 0.4” of snow, so it’s been falling in the 0.1-0.2”/hr range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Man this is going to be close... especially at elevation. Whoa that’s tight, but remember… it’s the Northern Greens we’re talking about. Snowfall intensity has picked up a lot here now, going from that ½ mile visibility to more like ¼ mile visibility. I can see a band that moved through our area at the I-89/Chittenden County/Washington County junction – flakes are bigger now as well, with numerous ½” to 1” flakes in there, so accumulation should bump up a bit. You should be getting that in the Stowe area soon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 0.8" new. Light snow. 21/19 still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Well, that was indeed a good burst of snow, the snowboard went from 0.4” to 0.9” in depth in the 2:30 P.M. to 3:00 P.M. block, so the snow averaged 1”/hr during that time. With regard to my earlier plot of season snowfall, we’re actually close to moving back ahead of 2006-2007 snowfall through this point in the season. Another round or two of snowfall like that and we’d be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Yeah, PF...lots of sleet like I have been thinking. Lots of warming aloft later tomorrow as that primary gets going over NYS...if it stays farther east, I wouldn't be surprised if Mansfield sees all frozen. Even lower elevations may be a lot of sleet through Tuesday morning at like 33F or something as 850mb-925mb should be below freezing or pretty damn close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEK_VT_Upslope_Event Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Sleet wouldn't be a bad base building scenario. Any updates on storm #3 which was progged for next weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Sleet wouldn't be a bad base building scenario. Any updates on storm #3 which was progged for next weekend? As of now, still rainy...but its way out there. Lots can change in a few days, as we have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Whoa that’s tight, but remember… it’s the Northern Greens we’re talking about. Snowfall intensity has picked up a lot here now, going from that ½ mile visibility to more like ¼ mile visibility. I can see a band that moved through our area at the I-89/Chittenden County/Washington County junction – flakes are bigger now as well, with numerous ½” to 1” flakes in there, so accumulation should bump up a bit. You should be getting that in the Stowe area soon: Different story on the western slopes most of the day. Had some pretty good downslope winds (30-40 mph) and not much more than glorified flurries. Could barely call it a tenth of an inch as of 2pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Different story on the western slopes most of the day. Had some pretty good downslope winds (30-40 mph) and not much more than glorified flurries. Could barely call it a tenth of an inch as of 2pm. 3:30pm 1.1" on RT 108 in Stowe at 750ft. Technically its 1 and 1/8th, lol. I need a ruler with tenths here at home. Not worth taking any pics yet, though. Hoping we can get to 2" as that would cover the grass blades. I used to experience that every single storm in Jonesville... SE flow ripping downslope off 4,000ft Camels Hump into the Winooski Valley. At least we used to see some pretty substantial downslope winds though... lost power a lot, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Man this is going to be close... especially at elevation. The 12z CMC is a tick cooler again... these models keep getting a bit colder and further SE with the secondary. You know what, it may just happen because usually in these set-ups over here in NW New England we'll get sort of screwed while SNE cleans up because of redevelopment occurring further SE than models prog. This time its way too warm, but maybe that SE trend can help us hold more sleet or something. Its got a sleet look to me for some reason. But look at this: I have been commenting on that as well Scott, We keep getting these ticks cooler and these subtle shifts, Again we see it on the 18z Nam we go SN/Frzrn/RN and back to SN, If we can keep this trend going and get this secondary further east in subsequent runs we could be looking at a decent event of frozen here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 As of now, still rainy...but its way out there. Lots can change in a few days, as we have seen. That one trended better i thought as well for up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Baby steps in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Baby steps in the right direction In ANY other damn set up that it is CLASSIC for NNE snow...like c'mon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 With the Gondola opening yesterday, I was able to bring out the snow board to its home location at 3,014ft (about 2/3rds of the way up the mountain)... what a great measuring spot. Kudos to my ski patrol friend who found this one. A nice hole in the forest with flat terrain and no wind. The snow falls light and straight down in here. These photos were from around 10am, and my friend who checked this at last run at 4pm reported 1.75-2" of snow at 3,000ft. Makes sense with 1.1" down in the village. I had left the snowstake up there since last season (but took the snow board down) and found 6.5" of depth right now at 3,000ft. We'll have to see where we go from here. I'm going to imagine 6.5" is a pretty darn low "snowpack" for that elevation on the Spine in mid-December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 In ANY other damn set up that it is CLASSIC for NNE snow...like c'mon! Lacking the colder air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 1.1" new as of 5pm. 10" finally on the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted December 16, 2012 Share Posted December 16, 2012 Right around an inch here so far. Temps haven't budged from the low 20s....yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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