CardinalWinds Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Was 3.5" total here from last night...snow stopped about 15 minutes after my last post...lol. Only 13° here at three in the afternoon. Pretty darn impressive for March 16th under full sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 'Twas a good day on the mountain. Likely the best morning of the season for me. I put up a few more photos in the Ski Thread, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Best day of the year so far for me... no one here at all. 5-6" at the base and 8-10" at the summit. Still snowing. 38" at 3,000ft in the past 7 days. I have no idea what happened last night but it freakin' dumped. Drifts on the sides of the trails...bigger drifts from this "non-event" than the big "blizzard" lol. drifts.JPG Its all knee deep in the woods on top of the more dense layer from yestereday's warm weather. tracks.JPG Its like being in candy land out there today. trees.JPG Looks great. People are nuts, the same folks that packed Killington in October to pick their way down an overcrowded wrod are probably now crying about lack of golf and beaches. I was out at Dartmouth Skiway for the first time on Saturday. With a summit only around 2k' the warmer temps softened and slowed the surface a bit much. Interesting weather with some sun and some showers with a variety of frozen precip. Some just plain IP, some melted/re-frozen flakes, maybe graupel and hail too, not sure how to identify all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Best day of the year so far for me... no one here at all. 5-6" at the base and 8-10" at the summit. Still snowing. 38" at 3,000ft in the past 7 days. I have no idea what happened last night but it freakin' dumped. Drifts on the sides of the trails...bigger drifts from this "non-event" than the big "blizzard" lol. Yeah, that was the sort of event we haven’t had as much of this season, but it’s helping this March keep up with its redeeming ways – it brought the snowfall here to within a foot of average, and in terms of deviation from the mean, it’s the closest we’ve been since the turn of the year. The north to south listing of available snowfall totals from this event at the Vermont ski areas are below: Jay Peak: 3” Burke: 2” Smuggler’s Notch: 4” Stowe: 9” Bolton Valley: 6” Mad River Glen: 5” Sugarbush: 5” Middlebury: 0” Suicide Six: 0” Pico: 2” Killington: 2” Okemo: 0” Bromley: 0” Magic Mountain: 0” Stratton: 2” Mount Snow: 3” Accumulations really fell off in the southern half of the state, and the Smugg’s through Sugarbush stretch was really quite the place to be today for fresh snow, with accumulations peaking in the Mt. Mansfield area. There were certainly no complaints being at Stowe today as the Northern Greens try to make up ground from snowfall deficits earlier in the season: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 BTV dropped down to -7F this morning, setting a new record for March 17. The old record was established in 1885. There's a few frozen shamrocks out there this morning. As well as school buses that won't start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Nice shots, J.Spin! I was talking with some friends and thought I saw you, E and the boys in the Spruce base area around noon, heading into Spruce Camp probably for lunch. Its funny because I recognized the ski jackets we see in the photos, as well as in the Bolton Valley advertisements. Looks like you went for a hike, must've been a great day for it. I haven't been up top since the big storm, but Profanity looked like it had been loaded in and was about as wide as it gets. Your photo looks like something from out west. And the Hazelton zone has been skiing very nicely lately. I went in there first run after the big storm last week, and it really opens up once the base develops. As is the case in a lot of Green Mountain forests, once you put down a 3-6 foot base, everything seems to really open up, as opposed to the more densely packed spruce/fir forests in the Adirondacks and Whites. Even hardwood forests in the Adirondacks though seem much more densely packed than the hardwoods in Vermont. Overall, March is certainly going to go down as the best ski month (as it should, although some recent years its been hit or miss) in this area this season...especially seeing as the cold is going nowhere and there are a couple snow chances in the next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Looks dry and sunny the next couple days, before additional chances for snow on Wed/Wed night in sort of a SWFE type look with CAD east of the Spine. Then there's the chance for some other light to moderate event to traverse the area next weekend. Wednesday Night Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulation possible. Lows in the upper 20s. Chance of snow 70 percent. Thursday Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow or rain showers. Highs in the upper 30s. Chance of precipitation 50 percent. Thursday Night Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Friday Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s. Friday Night Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Lows around 20. Saturday Snow likely. Highs in the lower 30s. Chance of snow 60 percent. Saturday Night Snow likely. Lows 10 to 15. Chance of snow 60 percent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 So yesterday I drove to Boston to record the last of a few songs for an upcoming album I am working on and it was pretty tough going through the Greens. The snow at 5-6am was still moderate to heavy at times with I-89 completely snow covered. I couldn't help but think of how good the skiing probably was. I am hoping to go a couple of more times before the season ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Temp was about -13 at my place this morning. I don't know quite when the wind quit - it was still gusting into the 20s at 10 o'clock last night - and there was some scattered cirrus form the MA storm at sunrise that actually might have modified the radiation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 COLDEST ST. PATRICK`S DAY ON RECORD (129 YEARS, -6 IN 1885) INBURLINGTON WHERE WE HIT -8 SO FAR. CHECK BACK A LITTLE LATER TOSEE IF IT GOT ANY LOWER AND FOR OTHER RECORDS.DID SEE A -29 AT LAKE PLACID AND SARANAC LAKE (KSLK) NY, -25 AT SUTTONVT, -20 MILTON,VT -19 NASHVILLE VT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grambo Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 For the ski buffs who share all the awesome pictures, here are some pictures of the "original skiers" in China: http://www.outsideonline.com/photo-galleries/outdoor-adventure/skiing-and-snowboarding/The-Last-of-the-First-Skiers.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Well this would be interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 so I have a meteological question. If a warm March is known as "Morch" what's a cold snowy mid wintery March? Manuary? Mebruary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbutts Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Well this would be interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Well this would be interesting... Interesting, yes. Definitely not funny, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 so I have a meteological question. If a warm March is known as "Morch" what's a cold snowy mid wintery March? Manuary? Mebruary? Mbrrrrrr!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Sunday River Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Sunday River was skiing there on friday. Good conds, but some ice which was surprising. I guess the winds during the storm wiped the new snow clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 was skiing there on friday. Good conds, but some ice which was surprising. I guess the winds during the storm wiped the new snow clean.no ice for me,Sat warmth softened that up I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Sunday River Nice pic steve, Does not look like spring up there..........lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Didn't feel all that springey today, either. Temp was 20/-14, which was 26F below my avg for St.Patrick's Day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Two years ago tomorrow marked the beginning of the greatest 5 days of March in Vermont history. High Temperatures of 76, 79, 80, 81, 81 http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/March2012Warmth.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 On the flip side Nittany, MVL put up a -27 departure yesterday with an average temp of 2F (21/-17), lol. Talk about opposites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Bobbutts--nice Dartmouth Skiway shot. The Upper Valley is my hood and I'd recognize that shot of Smarts Mountain anywhere. Bet the frost heaves going out the Dorchester Rd were bone-jarring. That road is always one of the worst, locally. I was pruning apple trees for some clients only a couple crow-miles away on Saturday--the Goose Pond valley, just a bit south of the Skiway. Anyway, cold continues, obviously. Had a -11F yesterday, -9F as I type this morning. While it's been cold, I would guess that Morch from two years ago was way more anomalous than is this cold snap. Just a hunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Anyway, cold continues, obviously. Had a -11F yesterday, -9F as I type this morning. While it's been cold, I would guess that Morch from two years ago was way more anomalous than is this cold snap. Just a hunch. Yeah, certainly, though this March so far is giving the whole "Mother Nature loves her averages" saying a boost of confidence. We'll see where it shakes out. MVL was +10.3F for March 2012, and through March 17th, this year is -13.3F. That will certainly come up over the next several days, but if we do get another cold shot of -20C H85 air back in here over the last week of the month, the negative monthly departure could be pretty special. Anyway, solid inversion this morning... I've been seeing anywhere from +6F to +11F up at the summit level, and its -11F down in town. Currently +1F at 1,500ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yeah, certainly, though this March so far is giving the whole "Mother Nature loves her averages" saying a boost of confidence. We'll see where it shakes out. MVL was +10.3F for March 2012, and through March 17th, this year is -13.3F. That will certainly come up over the next several days, but if we do get another cold shot of -20C H85 air back in here over the last week of the month, the negative monthly departure could be pretty special. Anyway, solid inversion this morning... I've been seeing anywhere from +6F to +11F up at the summit level, and its -11F down in town. Currently +1F at 1,500ft. I'd be VERY happy if this March and April averaged out. Really cold march. Really warm april. Perfect IMO. Looks like there are three solid chances for snow upcoming. Wed-thursday looks like upper elevations might see a nice dose of snow. WRF is very moist but with a south wind and no orographic enhancement I have a hard time believing .75" 12 hr totals (at least if that's all snow). Saturday looks like a low will track out of our sw and swing right overhead. Be better if it was dropping in from the west/northwest for enhancement but w/e. Seems like a 3-5" type event given the winds. Next week has that "stormy" feel to it. Hopefully it plays out that way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 beautiful morning on the Mt., river bottom low of -16F and a base lot start temp of -6F funny to hear the birds sing at 0F snow wicked chalky, alpenglow at sunrise wicked inspiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Bobbutts--nice Dartmouth Skiway shot. The Upper Valley is my hood and I'd recognize that shot of Smarts Mountain anywhere. Bet the frost heaves going out the Dorchester Rd were bone-jarring. That road is always one of the worst, locally. I was pruning apple trees for some clients only a couple crow-miles away on Saturday--the Goose Pond valley, just a bit south of the Skiway. Anyway, cold continues, obviously. Had a -11F yesterday, -9F as I type this morning. While it's been cold, I would guess that Morch from two years ago was way more anomalous than is this cold snap. Just a hunch. If the cold continues to reload thru the end of the month, I see it as equally (though less spectacularly) anomalous. That 5-day heatwave in 2012 was unprecedented for NNE March. Prior to that, Farmington COOP had recorded March temps above 74 only twice in 120 years: 79 on 3/20/1903 and 77 on 3/29/1945. Then they had 78, 71, 80, 82, 83 - incredible heatwave and yet the month as a whole was 1F less mild than in 2010 and not even in their top 5 for March. Assuming the modeled gfs temps are close to being correct, this month as a reasonable chance of eclipsing 1984 as their coldest March ever. It's an opinion question: Which is more anomalous - an unprecedented 5-day heatwave, or an unprecedented month-long cold period? Meanwhile, on our regularly scheduled program - another double-digit negative, looked quite similar to yesterday's -14. Including today, I've recorded 47 subzero mornings this cold season, plus 3 more right at zero. My previous best for such readings was also my coldest DJFM (until now, perhaps) of 2002-03, with 43 subzeros and five zeroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 The Euro is spitting out 4-6" for northern portions of NY, VT, and NH on Saturday with a fast moving system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Two years ago tomorrow marked the beginning of the greatest 5 days of March in Vermont history. High Temperatures of 76, 79, 80, 81, 81 http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/events/March2012Warmth.pdf Well if you think of today's 30F as 272.04 Kelvin and 2012's 80F as 299.82 Kelvin the difference really doesn't seem as great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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