j24vt Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 A couple crappy cell phone pictures of the blow down in Goat Woods at Stowe from this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Freezing MiseryMist just cancelled my midnight run to the mailbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongIslandWx14 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Well, better stay in Long Island then. I'm also certain that by 12/27 there is going to be packed powder conditions from Killington through Jay. Yes, it will not be fun to go skiing 12/24-26. But with cold moist air inflowing off the great lakes I'm certain at least 4-6" of snow will fall along the spine by saturday. Groom that in and 90% of the tourists will not even know a thing. still like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 still like this? Yep. That cold front will over produce in many places along the green mountain spine. For trail skiers by sunday conditions will be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 A couple crappy cell phone pictures of the blow down in Goat Woods at Stowe from this morning. Isn't it pretty darn impressive in person? Pictures can't do it justice until you are standing on Midway looking out at the Notch, at a view that was never there before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Yep. That cold front will over produce in many places along the green mountain spine. For trail skiers by sunday conditions will be great. i agree for trails with man made snow. they'll be fine by the weekend. curious how the natural base holds up. what is down is different than what I have observed in the past. It came down like cement and consolidated evenly. so even in spots where its steep or heavily trafficked with skiers it is solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 i agree for trails with man made snow. they'll be fine by the weekend. curious how the natural base holds up. what is down is different than what I have observed in the past. It came down like cement and consolidated evenly. so even in spots where its steep or heavily trafficked with skiers it is solid. All the natural snow isn't melting...that stuff has some substance to it. But it won't look pretty afterward, you'll start to see the areas that were thin from skier traffic and stuff like that. Those high traffic natural snow areas are holding up right now, but they'll take a beating. But there's still going to be a firm base for future snows to land on. I wouldn't plan on skiing much if anything ungroomed after Wednesday...as usual lately, this will be another holiday period of groomers and snowmaking, haha. This is where fixed snowmaking equipment comes in...dust 'n run programs where you just dust a trail for 6 hours then move on. With fixed equipment you can be firing up other trails as you shut down the previous list, rather than having to do equipment moves between projects. Just value out the water to where you want it to go and fire it up. The challenge for grooming is you have to groom literally everything, but can't overload the fleet as you want them to be able to take their time and get a good till. If they groom too fast, it cuts down on the quality of the till. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongIslandWx14 Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Yep. That cold front will over produce in many places along the green mountain spine. For trail skiers by sunday conditions will be great. Disagree, time will tell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 18Z NAM quite juicy before the warmup. Over .25 frozen before 850mb line moves north of my area. Grey Maine not very concerned in their morning disc. but maybe we could see a couple of inches of snow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Disagree, time will tell Well obviously. Seriously, by sunday, trails will be fine. A little snow is possible as the trailing cold front pushes through on Thursday night - friday (and frankly this alone could be 4" - we've all seen that happen) and then a second front pushes through from a border hugging low Saturday. Again not a huge dump but another 1-3" type even possible. By sunday many green mtn spine resorts could have 4" of new snow. Which when combined with re-surfacing and good depth on the groomers makes for really good piste skiing and the view is of winter as the trees get recovered. Thursday. Not so much. Pure crap. Wednesday. No dice. But if you want to wear the negative nancy hat, by all means, go on and rock that. I've got plenty of them myself and wear the hell out of them. I am a Philadelphia sports fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 31.1F light snow almost moderate at the moment.. Very light snow started an hour ago but right now iit's coming down quite steady with large flakes with good snow growth. I'd estimate about 3/4 mile vis but nothing on radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Light snow falling here too...nothing steady though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Picked up almost 1/4" of an inch of snow in 20 minutes. Now back to just flurries 30.6F. Unusual for it to snow that hard and not see anything on radar. Echoes are starting to come in off the ocean. A couple of days ago with that 960 something low I thought we were really going to torch. Now I bet with CAD I'll stay in the 30's or low 40's for most of this storm. It will be interesting to see how much bare ground I will have. Couple of inches of snow tonight will only help then maybe a layer of freezing rain on the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongIslandWx14 Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Picked up almost 1/4" of an inch of snow in 20 minutes. Now back to just flurries 30.6F. Unusual for it to snow that hard and not see anything on radar. Echoes are starting to come in off the ocean. A couple of days ago with that 960 something low I thought we were really going to torch. Now I bet with CAD I'll stay in the 30's or low 40's for most of this storm. It will be interesting to see how much bare ground I will have. Couple of inches of snow tonight will only help then maybe a layer of freezing rain on the pack. Still going to torch from wed till Sat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 31.5F -SN We will be wiped out easily Gene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Blech. image.jpg Looks like mine, And will be gone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 Still going to torch from wed till Sat Man you are a gloomy Gus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 -SN dusting up the car and road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Man you are a gloomy Gus.And i thought i was a debbie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I checked the water content in the snowpack here this evening, and it's at 1.88" based on the average of two cores. I would have thought it would be in the 2 - 3" range based on what I found when I cleared the back deck the other day, but presumably there's been some melting/sublimation over the past week or so. There's not much frozen precipitation expected with this next system, so it will be interesting to see where the water content in the snowpack will be subsequent to this event. I also took a look at where season snowfall sits, and with mean for this date at 38.6", this season is still about a half foot ahead of average. However, that surplus is due to November, because December itself is now running behind average pace. Current snowfall for the month is 22.9" and the mean is 26.7" through this part of December. We'll have to see what happens over the last week or so of the month, but at the current season snowfall total, this season would fall behind average pace on December 28th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 -SN dusting up the car and road. He is banned, Nice batch of SN moving thru right now here, 30.4°F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 He is banned, Nice batch of SN moving thru right now here, 30.4°FYeah, what happened there? Probably some posts that got deleted before I could read them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Just a previously banned member with many accounts. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Just a previously banned member with many accounts. Carry on.Damn, knew I should have gone with that answer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 sock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Decent snow growth in the heavier "bursts". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 23, 2014 Author Share Posted December 23, 2014 We got measurable, lol. Like .1-.2". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 Looks legit for here, Decent rates right now in these heavier echoes that move thru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 I just saw that there are Winter Weather Advisories posted for the upcoming event – the advisories are in a stripe that includes the Rutland County area. The point forecast here calls for snow accumulating to less than an inch, then switching to mixed precipitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted December 23, 2014 Share Posted December 23, 2014 yes nice flakes...fluffy and accumulating. Drove up from Concord at 9pm. Rain in Concord, snow when just off of the main drag in Boscawen heading up to Webster. All snow at 400 ft, sticking on the roads about 600ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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