eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 That Wall of snow rotating up into Central and NW Vermont is amazing on radar. Some wild Microclimates there, someone probably sees a foot in a few hours as this pivot over the Lake and into Adirondacks. No sign yet of a transition in BTV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 What the heck is going on in Stowe to cause that PF? Seems further toward the mountain would be a bit more easterly upslope? I hope the mountain itself is Snowing, A good weenie would drive to the mountain at 1600' and capture the transition to snow ! Which I hope it's doing at the mountain base Dude it is the oddest thing I've ever seen... ever. jvt24... it is still raining pretty much at Topnotch on 108. Meanwhile by Piecasso near my home... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 PF perhaps much like a summer Tstorm outflow boundary some compressed heating before rapid dynamic cooling. Probably flip heavy soon, is it WNW of Stowe Village? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 been dumping here for at least the past 35-45 mins. 2"+ accumulated. pine in the driveway dropped a branch. glad to have moved the cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Dude it is the oddest thing I've ever seen... ever. jvt24... it is still raining pretty much at Topnotch on 108. Meanwhile by Piecasso near my home... snow1.jpg snow2.jpg Love that first pic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Posted this in the other thread, but check this out. Right now it is snowing harder with a lot more accums lower in elevation in town. Here's what is happening and has been happening all evening. Craziest thing I've seen since living here. 950ft its +RN, sometimes mixing with snow, closer to Mt Mansfield (picture). Note low accums on car windshields. At 750ft its +SN with 4"+ down. This map corresponds to current observations and photo sites. Even up at the 1,500ft base area its a mix of rain and snow. I've never gone from dumpage in town to not at the mountain. Never. But it is dumping all snow above 2,000ft at the mountain. The only thing I can think of is NE wind is downsloping off the Sterling Ridge to the north, whereas in town its not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The first sign of transition is here with some sleet and snow trying to mix in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Posted this in the other thread, but check this out. Right now it is snowing harder with a lot more accums lower in elevation in town. Here's what is happening and has been happening all evening. Craziest thing I've seen since living here. 950ft its +RN, sometimes mixing with snow, closer to Mt Mansfield (picture). Note low accums on car windshields. rain.jpg At 750ft its +SN with 4"+ down. snow1.jpg This map corresponds to current observations and photo sites. Even up at the 1,500ft base area its a mix of rain and snow. I've never gone from dumpage in town to not at the mountain. Never. But it is dumping all snow above 2,000ft at the mountain. The only thing I can think of is NE wind is downsloping off the Sterling Ridge to the north, whereas in town its not. map.jpg Just responded to you in the other thread. That's my guess anyway... Lol not much else makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 SN/IP now with some large flakes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Got an unconfirmed report of a foot at 1650' in warren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Trees coming down. One lucky home owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 dumpage here too, down now to 30F, on our second hour of toilet paper squares pouring down, huge flakes, 4" and counting... good call on blowing snow now mreaves, belt breaker weight to this pack, gluing onto everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 dumping here for almost 2 hours. ~5" now, with 9"+ at the stake. Trees are crackin' left and right, with one narrow miss in the driveway. briefly lost power twice here in two hours. and the white mountains are still geologically distinct from the rest of the Appalachians. Any questions, just ask! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Parachutes mixed in with a little sleet now. Ground white in a hurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 lost power for a third time tonight just now. reports of a foot don't seem outside the realm of possibility. easily 6"+ here with all the slop from earlier thrown in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Wow these aggregates have some real weight to them when they hit you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 About an inch so far but the rate has slackened some now. It may not be remembered for the amounts, but the flake size was impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Posted this in the other thread, but check this out. Right now it is snowing harder with a lot more accums lower in elevation in town. Here's what is happening and has been happening all evening. Craziest thing I've seen since living here. 950ft its +RN, sometimes mixing with snow, closer to Mt Mansfield (picture). Note low accums on car windshields. rain.jpg At 750ft its +SN with 4"+ down. snow1.jpg This map corresponds to current observations and photo sites. Even up at the 1,500ft base area its a mix of rain and snow. I've never gone from dumpage in town to not at the mountain. Never. But it is dumping all snow above 2,000ft at the mountain. The only thing I can think of is NE wind is downsloping off the Sterling Ridge to the north, whereas in town its not. map.jpg I would have to agree that was the cause. Like Nittany I can't see any other viable reason it would occur that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j24vt Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Picked up an addition 3.5" as of 10pm for a total of 6.1" so far. Transitioning to sleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Trees coming down. One lucky home owner. Treesdown.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Wow these aggregates have some real weight to them when they hit you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 So far, I've only seen about 30-45 minutes of sleet and that was when I was still at work in Montpelier. All snow here, looks like 8-9". Just snowblowed in case we get some rain over night. That snowblower has been the best $200 I've spent. I figure I just need to use 5 or 6 more times to have it paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Event totals: 3.4” Snow/1.23" L.E. After the parachute fest of massive snowflakes a couple hours back, rain began mixing in with the snow, and the snow just hasn't been able to accumulate beyond where it was after that episode. I'll tell you one thing though; those big flakes have a lot of liquid in them – in the past 6 hour period we've picked up an additional 0.97" of liquid. I actually had to get the total liquid from the rain gauge because the snow on the snowboards was just too saturated to carry all the water. The core of the snow was one of the wettest I've ever taken though – 1.2 inches of the snow contained 0.68" of liquid. The snowpack has really been substantiated now in terms of liquid content. I can see where the BTV NWS was still calling for the big overnight accumulations – if you were staying all snow with any sort of decent ratios in this moisture flow, you would have a lot of inches. The current mixture of snow and rain continues out there with some slow additional slushy accumulations on the boards. Details from the 10:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.2 inches New Liquid: 0.68 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 1.8 Snow Density: 56.7% H2O Temperature: 33.1 F Sky: Snow/Rain (5-15 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 7.0" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The parachutes have ended here with more normal sized flakes and a few ice pellets mixed in at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Picked up an addition 3.5" as of 10pm for a total of 6.1" so far. Transitioning to sleet Haha, nice total. I'm identical with 6.25" as of 11pm. Look at how lumpy that snow surface is. Those were tops of the charts in terms of size of flakes. Like the mass and weight of small pinecones. Getting up the driveway after driving up to the mountain was tough...the heaviest/wettest snow I can remember in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Perfect. And on we go to round two tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 Wow nice. It is coming down good here again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 The scene tonight: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Perfect. And on we go to round two tomorrow. Good for the base. It may not ski the prettiest, but a good QPF dump into the surface is what we need. Even where it was raining with frozen cores, it was a very slushy rain. Like a 3:1 ratio, so I think its a net gain for liquid in the snow everywhere in this area. We need that for the fluff to sit on, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2014 Author Share Posted December 10, 2014 Nice eyewall...may not verify warning but that looks like a wintery night. Always fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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