eekuasepinniW Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Hrm. This looks acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Fropa just came through here with heavy rain and wind gust to 34mph. No lightning. Temp just before fropa had reached 50.8F and now 10 minutes later has dropped to 45F. Rain is letting up now. 1.95" storm total so far so will probably end up with a bit over 2" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 B- Decent downpour for January. One single extra-bright lightning flash. Sounded like the other side of the bay got blasted with wind...just 33mph on my side. 1.66" rain so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Probably 5 or 6 good flashes so far. A buddy posted this photo of his yard from Jeffersonville, VT near the base of Smuggs on the west slope. Good thing that car was there to break the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Good thing that car was there to break the fall.lol. Actually doesn't look too bad considering what's sitting on the hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Good thing that car was there to break the fall. Haha yeah and like mreaves said, the car looks pretty decent considering the size of that tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Wow, WCAX just reported a 106mph reading on Mt. Mansfield. 72mph in Underhill. Pleasant Valley, not Paradise Valley like I said earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 0.60 inches of rain here in Orwell, with thunderstorms from 4:53 pm to 5:30 pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 All of a sudden it is snowing nicely here in St J. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Had 2.33", most coming 3-9 PM yesterday. Sandy is running about 12,000 cfs (still ice in the Mercer gauge) and the Kennebec is forecast to get just over flood stage in AUG - would only wash part of the lowest parking lot. Winds were moderate here, maybe gusting to 30. Still white ground at home, about 4" at the stake, but in AUG just patches and piles, with the lawns bare. TS 8:30-8:45 last evening would rate 2-of-10 in July but was pretty neat for January, only the 2nd Jan thunder I've had since moving to Maine on 1/23/73. Other one was 1/9/78 in Ft. Kent, part of a 4-day sequence that saw temps go from -28 to 46 to -32. That TS hit about the same time in the evening as yesterday's, and the temp dropped from 41 to 17 in less than an hour. Edit: Must've been quite the sudden gust to rip that oak out of the ground. Nice smooth bark is a sign of a vigorous (before yesterday) tree, but the lack of big roots sticking out of the rootwad is puzzling for a tree of that size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Event totals: 0.2” Snow/1.10” L.E. Based on the BTV NWS forecast discussion, it seems that the snow we’ve been getting this morning is lake-effect and not specifically from the backside of the recent synoptic system, so I’m cutting off that system at yesterday’s precipitation and the totals stand as noted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The CPV isn't expecting much this week but at least the ski areas should get a few inches. The downside is the Euro is pointing to at least a partial cutter this weekend now, before a transfer to the GOM. That would introduce p-type problems for a time. We shall see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The CPV isn't expecting much this week but at least the ski areas should get a few inches. The downside is the Euro is pointing to at least a partial cutter this weekend now, before a transfer to the GOM. That would introduce p-type problems for a time. We shall see. The snow across the higher terrain this week is looking less exciting. Frankly, i'm not surprised by any cutters at this point. That's the pattern for the winter. Why should it change now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 2.47" of rain yesterday, 42 mph wind gust, Reduced to just piles of snow, Look to add on Tues night/Weds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Still full snow cover here but reduced. Tuesday rebuild and sort of optimistic for the weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The snow across the higher terrain this week is looking less exciting. Frankly, i'm not surprised by any cutters at this point. That's the pattern for the winter. Why should it change now? This winter is all about grasping at straws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Event totals: 0.3” Snow/0.02” L.E. We’ve had some pretty heavy snowfall at times this morning, and apparently it’s from the lake-effect moisture making its way over here to the Greens. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.3 inches New Liquid: 0.02 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 15.0 Snow Density: 6.7% H2O Temperature: 28.4 F Sky: Snow/Graupel Snow at the stake: 2.0 inches There was some additional accumulation after I left the house, so I’ll add that in the next report. We were up to Stowe and back yesterday afternoon, so I got a general view of the snowpack east of the Greens, and didn’t notice any dramatic changes in coverage, but things are surprisingly different now west of the Greens. Just dropping down from our area to Bolton Flats revealed a notable drop in snow depth, and from Richmond westward into the Champlain Valley the ground is essentially bare. A quick look at the CoCoRaHS precipitation numbers suggests that it wasn’t excess rainfall, since the numbers on the west side are half what I reported from our location, so presumably it was temperatures/winds that ate up the snow. After today’s lake-effect snow, the next system appears to be the clipper/redeveloper on Tuesday/Wednesday, and the BTV NWS forecast discussion is calling for totals in the 3-6” range above 1,000’: .SHORT TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AS OF 420 AM EST MONDAY...AS WE PROGRESS INTO THE TUE/WED TIME FRAME, THIS MORNING`S MODELS AND ENSEMBLE MEANS (SREF/GEFS/EPS) REMAIN IN GOOD AGREEMENT SHOWING A RATHER ROBUST NORTHERN STREAM CLIPPER LOW PROGRESSING FROM THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES INTO THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY. AS THIS OCCURS, ROBUST MILLER TYPE-B SECONDARY DEVELOPMENT SHOULD OCCUR ACROSS THE GULF OF MAINE AND INTO THE CANADIAN MARITIMES. INDEED, SOME OF THE THIS MORNING`S DETERMINISTIC DATA SUGGEST RAPID DEEPENING OF THIS SECOND LOW TO NEAR THE 970 MB VICINITY ACROSS NOVA SCOTIA/NEW BRUNSWICK BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AS IS TYPICAL WITH SECONDARY DEVELOPMENT AT THIS LATITUDE THE HIGHER IMPACTS FROM THIS SECOND SYSTEM SHOULD LARGELY OCCUR OFF TO OUR NORTH AND EAST. HOWEVER, A COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN THE CONTINENTAL LOW AND LINGERING LAKE EFFECT MOISTURE ON TUE/TUE NIGHT, AND LIGHT TO MODEST NORTHWESTERLY OROGRAPHIC FORCING ON WEDNESDAY AS THE MARITIME LOW TAKES OVER MAKE FOR A RATHER CHALLENGING 36-HOUR PERIOD. WITH CLIPPER-TYPE LOWS PASSING TO OUR NORTH/NORTHWEST, GENERAL CLIMATOLOGY AND SYNOPTIC PATTERN RECOGNITION WOULD SUGGEST A DEEPENING SOUTH TO SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ACROSS THE AREA WITH WIDESPREAD LIGHT SNOWS/SNOW SHOWERS, MOST PREVALENT ACROSS NORTHERN NEW YORK AND THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF VERMONT. HOWEVER ONGOING LAKE SNOWS WILL CREATE AN ADDITIONAL LAYER OF COMPLEXITY. AT THIS POINT I USED A MULTI-MODEL QPF/SNOW- RATIO SOLN TO DERIVE THE TWO DAY TOTALS, WHICH SUGGEST AMOUNTS GENERALLY RANGING FROM 3-6 INCHES ACROSS THE ADIRONDACKS, ST LAWRENCE VALLEY, AND GREEN MTNS OF VERMONT ABOVE 1000 FEET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Wow, WCAX just reported a 106mph reading on Mt. Mansfield. 72mph in Underhill. Pleasant Valley, not Paradise Valley like I said earlier. I wonder if that's a private WCAX station up there on their engineers building? Wouldn't surprise me if they have their own anemometer up there as they have a private web cam and other stuff. If so, that would give credit to the MMNV1 117mph reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 2.47" of rain yesterday, 42 mph wind gust, Reduced to just piles of snow, Look to add on Tues night/Weds This is mostly what remains on the rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 This is mostly what remains on the rock. That's way more the I have. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 We just have plow piles and a few patches in the shade left but otherwise bare ground is back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 We just have plow piles and a few patches in the shade left but otherwise bare ground is back. I would say that we are still at 90% give or take. Steep slopes that get a lot of sun or areas that were pounded down, like my front yard by my son's snowmobile, are back to bare ground. My backyard is fully covered except for the snowblown paths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Solid cover here still... doesn't even look like much was lost. You can walk across it without leaving a single footprint. Thoroughly enjoyable gust to 42mph. Pretty steady, too. Ten minute average is 26 mph. 1.67" rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Solid cover here still... doesn't even look like much was lost. You can walk across it without leaving a single footprint. Thoroughly enjoyable gust to 42mph. Pretty steady, too. Ten minute average is 26 mph. 1.67" rain Strange. You torched as bad as I did I think. I saw LCI had 54F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 My glacier this morning. Haven't measured it, but we're probably down to 1" of concrete after being at 5" Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Still full cover of about 3" or so. Can walk on it no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Can play hockey on the yard here on the valley bottom in Stowe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The BTV seasonal snowfall futility record is 25 inches I believe. I don't think that will fall this season, but we may still see a similarly awful number in the realm of 2011-2012. Of course even if January fails, there is Feb and March which can throw that complete speculation out the window. I don't know what the count is since the last warning event here, but it is closing in fast on a full 365 days I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The BTV seasonal snowfall futility record is 25 inches I believe. I don't think that will fall this season, but we may still see a similarly awful number in the realm of 2011-2012. Of course even if January fails, there is Feb and March which can throw that complete speculation out the window. I don't know what the count is since the last warning event here, but it is closing in fast on a full 365 days I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Bridge Jump.jpg Not quite yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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