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NNE Winter. Will it ever snow again?


mreaves

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Never know...   My latest in season for measurable (May 14) and 1"+ (April 29) came in 2002, after a pretty awful winter.  The earliest dates for last measurable (March 11) and 1"+ (March 6) came in 2009, after a winter that saw snowpack peak at 49".

I had snow on May 25th a few years ago...it was probably the perfect setup at the latest possible time of the year for me to get accumulating snow (0.4"). I'm sure a similar "perfect" system for your location would push you into June.

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Looks like Pittsburg Nh did ok. Finally getting to a 12" pack. 

 

Did my bi-weekly snow survey and we have a 12" snowpack at 1,550ft....containing a whopping 4.5" of water.  Once in the 33-50% range of water content, you're at like half ice and its also a "ripe" snowpack when it starts to warm up. 

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Here's a funny one from this morning here in VT in the Burlington suburb of Richmond, VT.

 

Dugway Road (where Huntington Gorge is)... police responding for a VID (vehicle in ditch) call, the Richmond cruiser shows up first and goes into the ditch.  Then Williston PD offering mutual aid sends a cruiser, which also ends up in the ditch.

 

Guess it was icy.

 

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Here’s what I’ve seen for snow totals for the Vermont ski areas from Winter Storm Quo; the north to south listing is below:

 

Jay Peak: 4”

Burke: 5”

Smuggler’s Notch: 5”

Stowe: 4”

Bolton Valley: 4”

Mad River Glen: 3”

Sugarbush: 3”

Pico: 1”

Killington: 1”

Okemo: 0”

Bromley: 0”

Magic Mountain: 0”

Stratton: 0”

Mount Snow: 0”

 

Just as one might imagine with way this storm transpired, I’d say the trend is as clear as day with respect to what happens as on heads south.

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Here's a funny one from this morning here in VT in the Burlington suburb of Richmond, VT.

Dugway Road (where Huntington Gorge is)... police responding for a VID (vehicle in ditch) call, the Richmond cruiser shows up first and goes into the ditch. Then Williston PD offering mutual aid sends a cruiser, which also ends up in the ditch.

Guess it was icy.

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That's hilarious if nobody was seriously hurt
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Event totals: 1.9” Snow/0.44” L.E.

 

We picked up another 0.7” today during the morning blitz of big flakes.  True to form it started snowing when I was a few hundred feet from the house on my way back from town, so there’s been a bit of additional snow this evening.

 

Details from the 7:00 P.M. Waterbury observations:

 

New Snow: 0.7 inches

New Liquid: 0.04 inches

Snow/Water Ratio: 17.5

Snow Density: 5.7% H2O

Temperature: 17.4 F

Sky: Light Snow (1-2 mm flakes)

Snow at the stake: 2.0 inches

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That's hilarious if nobody was seriously hurt

Lucky they didn't go over the other side in an unprotected stretch. That road has some pretty decent drop-offs on the river side.  Also got completely washed out this past summer in a local thunderstorm- foot-diameter cobbles thrown against a cabin's frontside down by the river- pretty wild. Steep terrain around there. 

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Event totals: 2.0” Snow/0.44” L.E.

 

Yesterday evening there was an additional tenth of an inch of snow after my 7:00 P.M. observations, and that should mark the end of this storm.

 

Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations:

 

New Snow: 0.1 inches

New Liquid: Trace

Temperature: 5.2 F

Sky: Partly Cloudy

Snow at the stake: 2.0 inches

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I had snow on May 25th a few years ago...it was probably the perfect setup at the latest possible time of the year for me to get accumulating snow (0.4"). I'm sure a similar "perfect" system for your location would push you into June.

 

We were too far east for that one, nasty 46/42 with 1"+ RA.  I think early June snow would be very unlikely here at 385', but the nearby foothills above 1,000' might be a different story.  We had our lawn sort of whitened on June 10, 1980 in Ft. Kent @ 525', and an inch or more fell on higher ground west of Allagash (and probably there was measurable in the back settlement at 970', to where we moved a year later.)  My first supervisor up there said he was on the PQ border across from St-Pamphile and woke up to 3" snow on June 17, 1964.  30 miles to the SE, Clayton Lake recorded no snow, just rain and low-mid 30s.

Edit:  We saw snowflakes at our back settlement home on 8/29/1982, and if we'd been home that July 4, probably also would have seen flakes or IP, as where we were at 570' in Allagash had mid-30s showers.

 

that's one of the sled groomers up north.

 

That's where the snomo registration $$ goes; off-road gas tax money as well.  Those $200K machines don't get purchased without major grants from the ORV Division.

 

Comment on that NNH webcam image - nice and wintry, like a normal mid-Dec.  Early March pic should include 6-ft high banks along the road and the fence no longer showing above the snow.

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Yes, the back roads in VT were slippery.  This wasn't that far from the pictures of the police.  I think its from the Hinesburg police.
 
 
http://www.wcax.com/story/31369910/slick-roads-send-vt-police-cruisers-sliding

 

P.S. I tried posting the video only about 8 times but finally just posted a link.  My technological abilities FTL  :cry:

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