tamarack Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Saw -30s for only the 4th time in 16 yr here, -30 in 1/2005, -36 and -34 in 1/2009, and -31 this morning. Odd to think it might be 75F milder by Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Bottomed out at -21F this morning, already up to -4F. Looking forward to do some snow shoeing this afternoon, we have 13" on the ground here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 4, 2014 Author Share Posted January 4, 2014 It bottomed out at -17.2 here. Back up to -8.5 now. http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KVTPEACH2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWxWatcher Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 -23.2 at 3:14am, currently at -7.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Little bit of snow on the back deck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Max 15.2 Min -11.2...kind of a bummer considering it was -10.5 at 9pm. Light mixing and clouds pretty much ruined the ability to push -20F. Now we try to mitigate the cutter damage on Monday. Looks like we'll have some ZR thanks to in-situ damming, but it doesn't look like too much of a big deal to me. Of course any icing warrants a WWA though. After the cutter we will get some sloppy seconds of the Arctic outbreak to our west. And then comes the dreaded January thaw... And oh BTW...the speed limit from Canterbury to the VT border is now 70mph on I93. That should make the M***holes happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Nice sunrise and alpenglow up here this morning.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Anyone witness diamond dust this AM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Anyone witness diamond dust this AM? Not up here, but its funny you mentioned that because I was really hoping for some this morning...would've made the sunrise that much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Max 15.2 Min -11.2...kind of a bummer considering it was -10.5 at 9pm. Light mixing and clouds pretty much ruined the ability to push -20F. Now we try to mitigate the cutter damage on Monday. Looks like we'll have some ZR thanks to in-situ damming, but it doesn't look like too much of a big deal to me. Of course any icing warrants a WWA though. After the cutter we will get some sloppy seconds of the Arctic outbreak to our west. And then comes the dreaded January thaw... And oh BTW...the speed limit from Canterbury to the VT border is now 70mph on I93. That should make the M***holes happy. I drove today from the Lakes Region over to the Fairlee VT area, then down to White River Junction and back east. The pines in many sheltered areas are just loaded with snow. Tomorrow night could be real tough on them. Wonder how much of the qpf will be below freezing?? By the way Brian, I got a $175 speeding ticket 2 months on Rt 93 just north of Exit 20 for going 77mph. The officer said they were rasing the speed limit in the future but for now it was 65mph. 11mph over put me in a higher range. I may have posted this back then, but I was down in Concord and heading back up here and there was a sharp warm front between Concord and my house moving north.. I wanted to punch back through it going north. I like an idiot told the officer this, he was not impressed. Im such a weather weanie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Sunset Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 46 degree swing today from -24F to +22. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Only topped out at 13 here today--back down to 7 at last look. Didn't see any diamond dust and yep, heard about the speed limit increase on 93. Could use that on 91 around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Winter Weather Advisories are up throughout all of Vermont and Northern New York, although they are generally for sleet and freezing rain and their effects on travel as the headline below suggests: With that said, the point forecast here calls for the full gambit of precipitation types with ~3/4” of liquid equivalent and frozen material on the front and back ends, so hopefully it’s a good addition to the total liquid in the snowpack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Yeah it is about as low end an advisory you will find here I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Sneaky cold around here last night--got down to zero. Back up to 9 atm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Sneaky cold around here last night--got down to zero. Back up to 9 atm.Yeah...definitely overperforming. MOS had upper single digits for CON and they managed -4F. Min here was 0.5F.Looks like a little ice and then we tickle into the 40s tomorrow. Then we get a midnight high for Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Yeah...definitely overperforming. MOS had upper single digits for CON and they managed -4F. Min here was 0.5F. Looks like a little ice and then we tickle into the 40s tomorrow. Then we get a midnight high for Tuesday. Clouds up here allowed us to get no lower than 15F... and you can definitely see the clouds and temp relationship this morning across northern NY and northern VT. Also looks to be warming from the top down now, as the 1500-2,400ft higher elevations in southern VT that were brutally cold yesterday morning, are now the warmest around that area. I noticed the St Lawerance Valley is seeing snow now (MSS). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Quick jump in the past hour: 15 & climbing. Heading out for a ski--get some sun & powder before the crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Quick jump in the past hour: 15 & climbing. Heading out for a ski--get some sun & powder before the crap. I wish I could get out there today ahead of the cutter of death, but I am stuck working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Southeastern VT is taking it home right now...and that sounds like it continues over towards Dendrites' area and a lot of the southern half of New Hampshire. The only other time I can remember lower elevation areas rivaling Mansfield's upper elevation snowpack was in January 2011. A bunch of SNE spots came up into the 35-40" range and I remember that being about equal to what was at the Mansfield stake at that time. It takes a special pattern of jackpotting (plus the northern Greens getting shafted) over several events to get lower elevation areas south or east of here to rival the big mountain's snow depth. That's what we've got now though. What's also interesting to me is that we haven't really had a true upslope event since the several we had in November. December was almost completely devoid of a true, decent upslope event. Those often make up for missing the synoptic storms, as that's the bread and butter up here when synoptic events haven't been working out. Sure we've had the like 2-4"/3-5" type fluffers, but there hasn't been any true 10+ type events that can seem to happen at least once every few weeks. I think the progressive pattern and jet stream has really been hurting us there...as low pressure systems haven't been able to wrap up and park themselves anywhere to our northeast. They've been mainly open waves with weak to no closed circulations to advect Atlantic moisture on cyclonic flow back into the area for the terrain to work with. And if we do get an upslope window, its really pretty short as the fast flow keeps the systems moving very quickly...and duration is certainly one of the main variables of a decent upslope event. We definitely haven’t been receiving the usual allotment of snow up here in Northern Vermont in the past few weeks, but after getting out for some turns yesterday, I realize that we’re pretty spoiled in general. I was curious how the skiing was going to be, since it seems like we’ve missed the more notable recent events, and I was surprised to find that even the snowpack at Bolton’s Timberline area is respectable. Here’s an excerpt from my report yesterday: “At the base elevations down at ~1,500’, the snowpack had a few different layers. Going from the top down there were 3 to 4 inches of powder, with what appeared to be a thin crust below it, then another inch of powder, and then some denser snow. All told it was only about 5 to 6 inches in deep, but there was enough substance to it that it seemed like it would provide some decent skiing. Up above 2,000’ it was notably deeper, with more base and a snowpack hitting the 7-10” range.” That’s west-facing terrain down low at ~I,500’. While the snow deficiency here is certainly real, I think part of the perception is because accumulations haven’t been robust, but there’s definitely liquid in that snowpack. This most recent storm seemed paltry in terms of accumulations, but we got almost a third of an inch of liquid equivalent out of it at the house, and that certainly represent some snowpack building. There were dozens of tracks out there at Timberline, and while the snowpack there wouldn’t support lift-served skiing yet, people are clearly finding the skiing good. If it wasn’t for the amount of liquid in the snowpack, there’s no way people would be skiing it that much. I actually ran a snowpack liquid analysis this morning here at the house to send in to CoCoRaHS and see where things are at before this next event. It’s currently at 2.41”, up from the 1.71” when I last measured on 12/23. And, it certainly looks like there’s the potential for more gain from this next system, with some frozen and close to ¾” of liquid in the forecast. I’ve added a couple of images below from yesterday’s report; I stopped for quite a while at sunset because it was a stunning one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Yes JSpin, we are quite spoiled...I posted some pics in the Ski Thread yesterday too. It's more like the longer I live here the more I expect it and the personal goal posts move more towards what the perceived "normal" snowfall is. When I was in Albany in high school I would've paid money to have what we have now, haha. I guess you can get jaded to some extent when spoiled...haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 I made an effort today of hitting a summit for sunrise. I chose Mt Hight (to the east of the Presidentials and a bare summit offering 360° views) and hoped for a show from the Northern Presidentials. Things were going fine when in microspikes, but turning onto a lesser-used trail necessitated the use of snowshoes, which slowed me dramatically. I watched Washington glow pink through the trees, but by the time I hit the summit they were their regular white and black. Still a wonderful day with summit temps at 25° and winds a benign 8mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 2:30pm and Im 36.6F. Plymouth and Laconia, the 2 closest reporting stations around me are 28 and 30F. Warmer air is just 500-700 feet off the deck. Melting has started! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Heh..26.4 here off of a max of 29.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 2:30pm and Im 36.6F. Plymouth and Laconia, the 2 closest reporting stations around me are 28 and 30F. Warmer air is just 500-700 feet off the deck. Melting has started! and 20 minutes later I have dropped back to 31.7F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 and 20 minutes later I have dropped back to 31.7F We only made it up to 23 today and it's now 22F, will be interesting to see how long it takes to get to freezing here in CT River Valley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 28 will do the trick for a high here today. Easing back now--24 with high clouds and a fuzzy crescent moon. I wish I could get out there today ahead of the cutter of death, but I am stuck working. I hear that. I've spent many-a nice winter's day at the office dreaming of the trails & slopes...but at least we have great windows at work through which to look at the blue skies and fresh snow, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 We only made it up to 23 today and it's now 22F, will be interesting to see how long it takes to get to freezing here in CT River Valley Cooler in the valley today...! I skated a lap on the lake yesterday. Don't know if you've been out but it was pretty good and the day was just about perfect. The outside lane was the one to take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Awesome day out on the trails today, Our local club serving free lunch to all the riders Chile, Dogs and burgers with all the fixins, Running in the deep powder off trail, And groomed trails flat and fast.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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