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Nice! Usually there is a noticible difference in snow depth between here and Williston/Burlington, not right now though. Nice that you can see Vermont at it's finest during your visit. :snowing:

Thank you and yes I picked the right time! I plan on skiing Smuggler's notch on Tuesday before headed back home.

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Ripton, VT the big winner around with 15".

Pretty classic blocked flow event... good call with the Froude numbers being so low.

West side of Mansfield looks sweet on the Underhill web cam and folks skiing the Teardrop trail are reporting a foot of fluff. This side of the mountain I've only got 4" at 1,500ft and 6" at 3,000ft. The flakes have been so small...its like pixie dust. This stuff has been battling dry air and downslope the whole time.

Its not often the BTV NWS gets 10-11" while my 3,000ft snow board gets 6". BTV's beaten us in the past 2 events at my 1,500ft and 750ft measuring locations.

I will say this event took 3,000ft over 100" cumulative on the season...with 101" as of 12pm today. That does not include October snowfall, though. Snow depth is 42 inches at 3K and a wind-packed 18" at 1,500ft. The hardwoods at 1,500ft are not nearly as effective at blocking the strong winds ripping out of the Notch as the evergreens at 3,000ft.

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Event totals: 7.8” Snow/0.35” L.E.

The last round of upslope snow this morning was incredibly dry, and I stacked 3 cores in my analysis to get a good sampling. The snow/water ratio in the report below comes in high because of rounding to two decimal places in the liquid content before Excel does the calculation, so it’s more like 60 to 1, but in any event, it’s very dry. It’s settling so fast that the stake has a lower reading than it did at 7:00 A.M. this morning, before the addition of this latest snow.

Details from the 1:00 P.M. Waterbury observations:

New Snow: 1.9 inches

New Liquid: 0.02 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 95.0

Snow Density: 1.1% H2O

Temperature: 19.4 F

Sky: Partly Cloudy/Flurries

Snow at the stake: 17.5 inches

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Event totals: 7.8” Snow/0.35” L.E.

The last round of upslope snow this morning was incredibly dry, and I stacked 3 cores in my analysis to get a good sampling. The snow/water ratio in the report below comes in high because of rounding to two decimal places in the liquid content before Excel does the calculation, so it’s more like 60 to 1, but in any event, it’s very dry. It’s settling so fast that the stake has a lower reading than it did at 7:00 A.M. this morning, before the addition of this latest snow.

Details from the 1:00 P.M. Waterbury observations:

New Snow: 1.9 inches

New Liquid: 0.02 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 95.0

Snow Density: 1.1% H2O

Temperature: 19.4 F

Sky: Partly Cloudy/Flurries

Snow at the stake: 17.5 inches

LOL 95:1. Nice.

I had 6:1 and 33F here for a time in CT yesterday lol

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Wow... west slopes got bombed today.

Bolton with another 10"... Smuggs with 12"... Underhill State Park with 12"

Low inversion level meant we only picked up around 1" today as none of that moisture was able to make it over Mansfield. Photos look like it was huge flakes on the other side, while we had very small pixie dust. Snow growth zone must be real low, too...that stuff was probably forming at like 2-5,000ft in the atmosphere. It was snowing pretty good this morning with the moon showing...there were no clouds above like 4-5,000ft yet 10-12" of snow fell on the west side, lol. That stuff fascinates me.

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Video from the surprise this morning:

Man that is awesome. Didn't see anything like that on the east slope of the Spine.

Those flakes are freakin' huge. That's the definition of good snow growth, lol.

That reminds me a lot of the January 1-3, 2010 event in the Champlain Valley. I was in Burlington at the girlfriend's for that event and I remember waking up to it just pouring palm sized dendrites. That's how you get some huge accumulation numbers real fast. That type of snow was stationary for a long time in that 2010 orographic blocking event, and led to the record 33.1" at KBTV.

If you have a moment, as a meteorologist you may find this very interesting as last night and this morning was very similar in at least the low inversion and blocking mechanism:

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/02Jan2010/

It would be sweet to have you up here all winter with the obs and discussion. We are always welcoming and looking for more NNE posters.

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So how would you classify yesterday's event? The SNE and NNE (or at least VT) events almost seem like they were separate. Does that make sense or am I completely off base?

You're right. NNE (outside of ME) was a combo of the primary low ad WAA snow. SNE was a little bit of over running snow with most coming with that bombing low. I had 3"/hr rates. I received 9.5" from 4pm to 10pm. Crazy stuff. I've never seen it that heavy in VT. EVER. I'm sure it is over near PF but not in my snow hole that I call home up there lol

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You're right. NNE (outside of ME) was a combo of the primary low ad WAA snow. SNE was a little bit of over running snow with most coming with that bombing low. I had 3"/hr rates. I received 9.5" from 4pm to 10pm. Crazy stuff. I've never seen it that heavy in VT. EVER. I'm sure it is over near PF but not in my snow hole that I call home up there lol

Yeah the NEK is known for snowpack retention and cold temps. They don't usually get the high rate snowfall.

We'll usually get that sort of stuff once a season from an upslope event...of course with synoptic storms, its all just luck and being in the right place at the right time.

I think its important though to note, that getting 3"/hr rates in synoptic snow is much harder, and usually more impressive (like Valentines Day up here when BTV got 12" in 5 hours) than with meso-scale snow.

Last year's February 25 upslope event was the last time I had 3" per hour snowfall... but its pretty easy to accomplish when snow growth is so maximized (ie, 3"/hr but under 0.1"/hr qpf).

And this photo from that event is from the Stowe Medical Center down in town. We were getting around 2"/hr in this down in town, but visibility wasn't all that restricted. Its just that the flakes are so freakin' huge that it does this for a couple hours and all the sudden you have another 3-4". To get the higher rates in synoptic snow, the visibility is often much less.

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You're right. NNE (outside of ME) was a combo of the primary low ad WAA snow. SNE was a little bit of over running snow with most coming with that bombing low. I had 3"/hr rates. I received 9.5" from 4pm to 10pm. Crazy stuff. I've never seen it that heavy in VT. EVER. I'm sure it is over near PF but not in my snow hole that I call home up there lol

Yeah the NEK is known for snowpack retention and cold temps. They don't usually get the high rate snowfall.

We'll usually get that sort of stuff once a season from an upslope event...of course with synoptic storms, its all just luck and being in the right place at the right time.

I think its important though to note, that getting 3"/hr rates in synoptic snow is much harder, and usually more impressive (like Valentines Day up here when BTV got 12" in 5 hours) than with meso-scale snow.

Last year's February 25 upslope event was the last time I had 3" per hour snowfall... but its pretty easy to accomplish when snow growth is so maximized (ie, 3"/hr but under 0.1"/hr qpf).

And this photo from that event is from the Stowe Medical Center down in town. We were getting around 2"/hr in this down in town, but visibility wasn't all that restricted. Its just that the flakes are so freakin' huge that it does this for a couple hours and all the sudden you have another 3-4". To get the higher rates in synoptic snow, the visibility is often much less.

I have always thought that for most of VT, or at least my area, we get most of our snow from multiple small and medium events and rarely get the large jackpots like they do closer to the coast. There are winters when it just snows with what seems like very little provocation and it seems like we'll get a couple of 2"-4" or 3"-6" events per week punctuated by an 8"-12" type a few times. And as PF noted, snow retention is great in large parts of the state.

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Saw some serious wind on Mansfield today with wind chills of 30 below zero.

Highest gust today was 92mph and highest sustained wind was 67mph. I'd love to know what the primary NWS station reported up there.

Chairlifts ran in this stuff, too...just like they ran in the 125mph wind gust a couple weeks ago. Wind holds have been pretty much non-existent this season even though we've seen some pretty crazy wind speeds.

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Saw some serious wind on Mansfield today with wind chills of 30 below zero.

Highest gust today was 92mph and highest sustained wind was 67mph. I'd love to know what the primary NWS station reported up there.

Chairlifts ran in this stuff, too...just like they ran in the 125mph wind gust a couple weeks ago. Wind holds have been pretty much non-existent this season even though we've seen some pretty crazy wind speeds.

Bolton had a wind hold this afternoon on one of the lifts..we were snowshoeing over there and it was rather calm in the woods

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Man that is awesome. Didn't see anything like that on the east slope of the Spine.

Those flakes are freakin' huge. That's the definition of good snow growth, lol.

That reminds me a lot of the January 1-3, 2010 event in the Champlain Valley. I was in Burlington at the girlfriend's for that event and I remember waking up to it just pouring palm sized dendrites. That's how you get some huge accumulation numbers real fast. That type of snow was stationary for a long time in that 2010 orographic blocking event, and led to the record 33.1" at KBTV.

If you have a moment, as a meteorologist you may find this very interesting as last night and this morning was very similar in at least the low inversion and blocking mechanism:

http://www.erh.noaa....ents/02Jan2010/

It would be sweet to have you up here all winter with the obs and discussion. We are always welcoming and looking for more NNE posters.

I really do want to move but finding work is the challenge! I wish I was there for the 30" event and I will look at that.

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I see that BTV updated the storm total snowfall map since the last posting in this thread, so I’ve added it below along with the various numbers. In line with the blocked flow, on the updated map you can really see how the darker blue accumulations are able to sneak through the mountains via the Winooski Valley/I-89/Route 2 corridor – very cool stuff. They must have used this thread to grab that last 1.9” I recorded as of 1:00 P.M., because I haven’t sent that in to CoCoRaHS yet; this is the only place I posted the data. It’s great to see that the data in the thread are being used.

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NOUS41 KBTV 301916

PNSBTV

NYZ026>031-034-035-087-VTZ001>012-016>019-310714-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

SPOTTER REPORTS

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT

214 PM EST SUN DEC 30 2012

THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE STORM THAT

HAS BEEN AFFECTING OUR REGION. APPRECIATION IS EXTENDED TO HIGHWAY

DEPARTMENTS...COOPERATIVE AND COCORAHS OBSERVERS...SKYWARN SPOTTERS

AND MEDIA FOR THESE REPORTS. THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR

HOME PAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/BURLINGTON

********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL********************

LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS

SNOWFALL OF

/INCHES/ MEASUREMENT

NEW YORK

...CLINTON COUNTY...

4 ESE PERU 5.3 600 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

PLATTSBURGH 3.5 950 PM 12/29 BROADCAST MEDIA

...ESSEX COUNTY...

3 SSW TICONDEROGA 8.0 722 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

2 N LAKE PLACID 5.0 830 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

...FRANKLIN COUNTY...

1 SW MALONE 5.0 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY...

2 SW OGDENSBURG 4.7 700 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

OGDENSBURG 4.5 404 PM 12/29 TRAINED SPOTTER

3 NW GOUVERNEUR 3.0 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

VERMONT

...ADDISON COUNTY...

RIPTON 15.0 1047 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

STARKSBORO 7.0 824 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

SALISBURY 6.9 1200 PM 12/30 PUBLIC

ORWELL 6.5 342 PM 12/29 TRAINED SPOTTER

1 NE NEW HAVEN MILLS 6.0 945 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

1 NE VERGENNES 4.0 800 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

SOUTH LINCOLN 3.8 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...CALEDONIA COUNTY...

3 NNW SHEFFIELD 4.9 835 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

4 N WALDEN 4.4 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

2 NE SUTTON 4.2 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

WHEELOCK 4.0 724 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

HARDWICK 3.3 1123 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

LYNDONVILLE 3.0 635 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

ST. JOHNSBURY 2.0 1125 PM 12/29 BROADCAST MEDIA

...CHITTENDEN COUNTY...

2 NE UNDERHILL CENTE 12.0 927 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

1 NE SOUTH BURLINGTO 10.6 946 AM 12/30 NWS OFFICE

2 NW WESTFORD 9.6 1045 AM 12/30 NWS EMPLOYEE

1 E NORTH UNDERHILL 9.5 936 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

2 SE SOUTH BURLINGTO 9.3 941 AM 12/30 NWS EMPLOYEE

WILLISTON 8.5 1000 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 NNW JERICHO 8.0 945 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 NNE JERICHO 8.0 1008 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

1 SSE HUNTINGTON 7.0 1200 PM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

MILTON 7.0 1025 AM 12/30 NWS EMPLOYEE

1 SSW UNDERHILL 7.0 933 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 NNE HUNTINGTON 6.6 940 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 WSW UNDERHILL 6.5 931 AM 12/30 TRAINED SPOTTER

ESSEX CENTER 5.8 735 AM 12/30 NWS EMPLOYEE

1 E NASHVILLE 5.8 851 AM 12/30 NWS EMPLOYEE

1 NW BURLINGTON 5.2 756 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

COLCHESTER 4.0 700 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

1 SW MILTON 3.5 1059 PM 12/29 NWS EMPLOYEE

...ESSEX COUNTY...

1 ENE AVERILL 6.1 800 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

1 N ISLAND POND 4.0 1015 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

GILMAN 2.5 600 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...FRANKLIN COUNTY...

FAIRFAX 8.0 859 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

GEORGIA CENTER 7.0 859 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

BAKERSFIELD 6.5 1124 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

2 W NORTH FAIRFAX 5.5 732 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

ST. ALBANS 1.8 750 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

...GRAND ISLE COUNTY...

5 SSE ALBURGH 2.0 900 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

...LAMOILLE COUNTY...

JEFFERSONVILLE 5.0 923 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

3 SSE JEFFERSONVILLE 4.5 841 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

JOHNSON 4.5 842 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

MORRISVILLE 3.8 906 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 SSE SMUGGLERS NOTC 3.5 742 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

3 NE HYDE PARK 3.2 822 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

STOWE 3.0 742 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

...ORANGE COUNTY...

CORINTH 5.4 730 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

2 NW CHELSEA 4.5 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

WILLIAMSTOWN 4.0 914 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

NEWBURY 2.0 300 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

...ORLEANS COUNTY...

2 NW DERBY CENTER 6.0 700 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 SW IRASBURG 5.0 800 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

BARTON 4.5 913 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

NEWPORT 4.2 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

MORGAN 4.0 723 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

2 NNE GREENSBORO 3.5 700 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 WNW WESTFIELD 3.0 816 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

...RUTLAND COUNTY...

KILLINGTON 13.0 800 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

MT. HOLLY 12.0 1036 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

HUBBARDTON 12.0 920 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

CASTLETON 10.0 922 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 SW FAIR HAVEN 9.0 1100 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

1 N RUTLAND 8.8 754 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

RUTLAND 8.5 950 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

POULTNEY 8.5 939 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

BRANDON 8.5 914 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

FAIR HAVEN 8.0 713 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

HYDEVILLE 8.0 922 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

MENDON 7.9 906 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

PITTSFORD 7.5 1231 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 N WEST RUTLAND 7.1 515 PM 12/29 COCORAHS

EAST POULTNEY 5.0 328 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

DANBY 3.8 745 PM 12/29 TRAINED SPOTTER

...WASHINGTON COUNTY...

3 NW WATERBURY 7.8 100 PM 12/30 COCORAHS

WATERBURY 6.0 802 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

3 NE WATERBURY 6.0 530 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

4 ENE CABOT 4.3 1000 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 N NORTHFIELD 4.0 848 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

2 W WORCESTER 3.3 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

2 SW EAST CALAIS 2.8 700 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

PLAINFIELD 2.6 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

...WINDSOR COUNTY...

3 N POMFRET 8.6 737 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

1 WSW LUDLOW 7.5 822 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

WOODSTOCK 7.0 800 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

HARTLAND 7.0 712 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

SPRINGFIELD 7.0 950 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

1 S ROCHESTER 7.0 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

4 N BETHEL 6.5 700 AM 12/30 CO-OP OBSERVER

WEST WOODSTOCK 6.0 536 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

SOUTH ROYALTON 6.0 726 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

WEATHERSFIELD 6.0 1015 PM 12/29 PUBLIC

1 ESE EAST BARNARD 6.0 414 PM 12/29 TRAINED SPOTTER

BETHEL 5.5 338 PM 12/29 BETHEL ROYALTON LINE

NORWICH 5.5 813 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

3 S LUDLOW 5.5 815 AM 12/30 COCORAHS

PERKINSVILLE 5.0 947 AM 12/30 PUBLIC

$$

MUCCILLI

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Depending on what you're looking for in a town, Woodbury, parts of East Montpelier, Calais and Worcester are great in Washington. In Lamoille, Elmore, Wolcott, parts of Morristown and Hyde Park are what I'm most familiar with. Of course there is Stowe and Waterbury but I prefer a bit further north.

Thanks, mreaves. I work from home, but I do need broadband access, so I guess that limits me a bit. I'm tired of paying the expensive property tax rate in Montpelier proper, so I have no problem moving out of the city. Maybe a condo up at Bolton Valley? Wouldn't mind being above 2k'! I'm six years divorced, 50 years old, holding down a five bedroom house and I enjoy my solitude. Time to downsize and live my way!

I notice a lot of times Montpelier isn't reported in the snow totals. You'd think being the capital city of the state there would be a dedicated report for all storms. Anyway...ended up with 3.5" at 880' after all was said and done.

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I was surprised to look out when I let the dog out this morning and see it snowing big fat fluffy flakes. There was only a tenth or so on my car so it must've started not long before 4:30am.

There's about a half inch of new snow overnight here at 1,500ft, which with yesterday's snow makes 1.4" in the past 24 hours at 1,500ft on the east slope. Significantly less than what the west slope got...but ya win some and lose some.

I would imagine those west slope communities are picking up more fluff this morning from the radar.

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I was surprised to look out when I let the dog out this morning and see it snowing big fat fluffy flakes. There was only a tenth or so on my car so it must've started not long before 4:30am.

There's about a half inch of new snow overnight here at 1,500ft, which with yesterday's snow makes 1.4" in the past 24 hours at 1,500ft on the east slope. Significantly less than what the west slope got...but ya win some and lose some.

I would imagine those west slope communities are picking up more fluff this morning from the radar.

Looks like there is a dusting out on my car. Oh well it covers up the yellow snow spots out back.

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I was surprised to look out when I let the dog out this morning and see it snowing big fat fluffy flakes. There was only a tenth or so on my car so it must've started not long before 4:30am.

There's about a half inch of new snow overnight here at 1,500ft, which with yesterday's snow makes 1.4" in the past 24 hours at 1,500ft on the east slope. Significantly less than what the west slope got...but ya win some and lose some.

I would imagine those west slope communities are picking up more fluff this morning from the radar.

Flurries in stowe at this time...winds calm...feeling very wintery as it should

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