powderfreak Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Man, you vt guys get the most unreal sky conditions. We never seem to get cool shots like that over here. The Champlain Valley especially...its like a little bit of Kansas right here in New England, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 From BTV this afternoon: SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL VARY GREATLY DEPENDING UPON ELEVATION...BUT THINKING BY SUNDAY MORNING SUMMITS OF THE GREENS FROM SUGARBUSH TO MANSFIELD TO JAY PEAK WILL SEE AROUND 6 INCHES ALONG WITH THE UPSLOPE AREAS OF THE NORTHERN DACKS ABOVE 3500 FEET. MEANWHILE...2 TO 4 INCHES IS LIKELY IN THE MIDSLOPE AREAS AND A DUSTING TO 2 INCHES ABOVE 1000 FEET BY SUNDAY MORNING IN THE FAVORABLE UPSLOPE REGIONS. LITTLE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED IN THE VALLEYS AT THIS TIME. They didn't change the verbiage since early this morning. That's the same thing Taber wrote at 3:30am. Personally given what the ECMWF and GFS had at 12z, some accumulation is likely but I'd lean more like 2-3" at the summits. I'm stoked for the final weekend of summer operations at the resort...can't wait to check the Toll Road for snow/ice early Saturday and Sunday mornings, haha. Might be time to break out the chains for the four-wheelers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Road trip to Estcourt Station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Looks like SR going to try to open Monday Today at Sunday River Huzzah! The day you've been waiting for since May 2 is finally here: Opening Day of the 2015-16 winter season is planned for Monday, October 19. Nobody makes snow like Sunday River, and every year we open as early as we can. With a few days of cold weather on the horizon our snowmaking team thinks they can pull it off by Monday. All plans will depend on weather and snow conditions so make sure to check in right here for updates over the next few days, but our planned schedule will be to open for the day on Monday then move to our regular early-season lift operations of weekends-only until mid-November. Expected terrain for Monday will be the T2 trail on upper Locke Mountain, serviced by the Locke Mountain Triple with mid-station loading. The lift will spin from 9am to 4pm, with the last upload from the base at 3pm. Lift tickets will be $29 and available at Barker Lodge along with other skier services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 From BTV this afternoon: SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL VARY GREATLY DEPENDING UPON ELEVATION...BUT THINKING BY SUNDAY MORNING SUMMITS OF THE GREENS FROM SUGARBUSH TO MANSFIELD TO JAY PEAK WILL SEE AROUND 6 INCHES ALONG WITH THE UPSLOPE AREAS OF THE NORTHERN DACKS ABOVE 3500 FEET. MEANWHILE...2 TO 4 INCHES IS LIKELY IN THE MIDSLOPE AREAS AND A DUSTING TO 2 INCHES ABOVE 1000 FEET BY SUNDAY MORNING IN THE FAVORABLE UPSLOPE REGIONS. LITTLE ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED IN THE VALLEYS AT THIS TIME. And so it begins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 My coldest October temp here since 2006 is 22F back on 10/29/13. MEX has 21F for CON and 25F for LCI right now. Usually I fall smack dab in the middle of the two. Time to kill the vegetation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Looks like SR going to try to open Monday Today at Sunday River Huzzah! The day you've been waiting for since May 2 is finally here: Opening Day of the 2015-16 winter season is planned for Monday, October 19. Nobody makes snow like Sunday River, and every year we open as early as we can. With a few days of cold weather on the horizon our snowmaking team thinks they can pull it off by Monday. All plans will depend on weather and snow conditions so make sure to check in right here for updates over the next few days, but our planned schedule will be to open for the day on Monday then move to our regular early-season lift operations of weekends-only until mid-November. Expected terrain for Monday will be the T2 trail on upper Locke Mountain, serviced by the Locke Mountain Triple with mid-station loading. The lift will spin from 9am to 4pm, with the last upload from the base at 3pm. Lift tickets will be $29 and available at Barker Lodge along with other skier services. Got the same email. I was like, already??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 29/27°F was the temp this am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 29/27°F was the temp this am Same here. Up to 31° now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Same here. Up to 31° now. Yes, Same here as well, 31.1°F now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 My coldest October temp here since 2006 is 22F back on 10/29/13. MEX has 21F for CON and 25F for LCI right now. Usually I fall smack dab in the middle of the two. Time to kill the vegetation. Recorded 14 on that date. Bottom of October at my cold pocket is 12, on 10/31/2002. That '02 stretch was by far my coldest for mid-autumn - minima for 10/30 thru 11/4 were 19, 12, 26, 14, 8, 11. On 11/2/2002, Farmington's high of 29 was their earliest autumn sub-30 max on record, data back thru 1893. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 First snowfall map from BTV of the season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 First snowfall map from BTV of the season... Early season very elevation dependent, Jury is still out up this way for and accumulation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I'm guessing we see some Sunday flakes but no accum outside of the mts and perhaps some taller foothills. Have not seen a single October flake here since the Octobomb. In the 14 years here prior to 2012, we had flakes in 10 years and measurable snow in 5 of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Early season very elevation dependent, Jury is still out up this way for and accumulation Yeah its elevation dependent both for temps and upslope precipitation production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Yeah its elevation dependent both for temps and upslope precipitation production. Time of day will play a part as well, If it falls at night i could see some accumulations at some lower levels, But i have not really looked at any models in depth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 First snowfall map from BTV of the season... Excellent, thanks for getting that up. It doesn’t look like temperatures are going to be much of an issue based on a quick look at the Mansfield graphical point and click graphical forecast: I suspect there are plenty of riders getting those junkboards and rock skis ready for whatever happens, but even at a minimum I’m sure they’ll be happy to just hike in the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 BTV still with awesome AFD's...now even telling us when the best photo taking will be. I remember last year they told us to bust out the rock skis for early season turns. Half the time I'm thinking this is exactly what I want to know, its like they write these things for me. MONDAY SHOULD OFFER THE BEST CHANCE FOR SOME PHOTOGRAPHY OF SNOWIN MOUNTAINS ABOVE THE FOLIAGE AS ONCE THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGHCLEARS THE AREA WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT ONLY PARTLY CLOUD SKIESALLOWING THE SUN TO LIGHT UP ANY POTENTIAL SNOW STILL ON THEMOUNTAIN SUMMITS. THE GOOD, OR BAD, NEWS DEPENDING ON YOUR LOVEOF WINTER IS THAT BY MONDAY EVENING THE FLOW ALOFT WILL GO ZONALAND TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO MODERATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BACK TONEAR NORMAL TEMPS IN THE MID 50S WITH MOSTLY QUIET WEATHEREXPECTED INTO THE MID WEEK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 That is awesome Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Caught a glimpse of Mt Washington through a temporary clearing... nice to see it snow covered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 First snow this afternoon at Stowe. There's a vid on the FB page: Facebook.com/stowemountainresort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Nice! I'm hoping we see something down here in the valley in the near future... but it's nice to know it's coming, either way! Work just officially approved my 2-day work remotely request, so I'm now officially spending more time in NNE than SNE... First snow this afternoon at Stowe.There's a vid on the FB page:Facebook.com/stowemountainresort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ono Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Some frozen super fine grain stuff was spitting out in Burlington 20 mins ago. Pinged off my down vest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Some frozen super fine grain stuff was spitting out in Burlington 20 mins ago. Pinged off my down vest. Yeah we had some of that earlier today at least down to the office at 1,500ft...pinging off the jacket. Precipitation today started out as graupel and pellets, and that actually gave us most of the small accumulation as those things fall fast and accumulate faster than they can melt on the warm ground. The graupel eventually changed to all flakes and then tapered to flurries. First seasonal accumulation on the picnic tables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 I was just thinking about our weather in general over the past many months down in my area of Central New England. From the lay persons view what a great stretch of endless great weather. Warm, dry and its goes on and on. Great for the general population and outdoor activites. Tourist bureaus must love it. However from a weather enthusiast point of view what a long,long boring stretch of little to talk about. Looks like it could be a mild and dry winter too. For those of you north of me enjoy the first upslope and cool shot of the season. Something to make the weekend a bit "fun" weatherwise. Just ran the GFS forward and maybe 150 hours out could be the next chance of anything happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I went up the Bolton Road this morning and caught some snow. It started as graupel and became pure snow a little before 9am. It then coated the ground up there. I will post some leaves with snow shots later on. Here is an Instagram of when the coating began at 2000ft: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Jackman and Northeast Carry this am.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 And a little snowliage from Sugarloaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 I went up the Bolton Road this morning and caught some snow. It started as graupel and became pure snow a little before 9am. It then coated the ground up there. I will post some leaves with snow shots later on. Here is an Instagram of when the coating began at 2000ft: Nice job heading to the snow eyewall. We were pretty close to snow even down here in the valley last night – temperature was 37 F when I checked and we had precipitation that you could tell was pretty borderline. We’ll be on the lookout for anything as we head through the weekend because even our valley forecast has got flakes in it now: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted October 17, 2015 Share Posted October 17, 2015 Jackman and Northeast Carry this am.................... Looks like everything in Jackman has melted now based off the Bishop's Motel webcam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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