dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 It sits in a little bowl at 3,100ft between the tops of the Sterling Mountain double chairlift (Smugglers Notch Resort) and the Sensation Quad chair at Stowe. Smuggs occupies the north and west side of the pass, and Stowe has terrain just over the ridge on the east side, as well as the Mansfield east side. I bet its tough to go clear and calm up there, but the surface there may be able to do it. Literally 6ft or lower type surface. The air is always moving up at that elevation it seems. It doesn't get much weenier than this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Very true on it being a weenie spot...it's a 280-300" per year site probably based on 20-30 year averages. Most likely around 300" from 1990-2011 and 280" now after several low winters in the past 5 years. That's a snowy spot up at the top of the notch with higher terrain around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 LCI is reporting rain for the first time in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 LCI is reporting rain for the first time in my life. MVL is reporting a trace of rain so far while my Stratus has 0.35" in it. Can we trade stations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 MVL is reporting a trace of rain so far while my Stratus has 0.35" in it. Can we trade stations? Send me your next 10 thunderstorms and I'll mail you LCI and some coupons for Wendy's that I'll never use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 MVL is reporting a trace of rain so far while my Stratus has 0.35" in it. Can we trade stations?LCI has no rain gauge setup so sure. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 LCI has no rain gauge setup so sure. lol Haha, so it'd be a pretty even trade then. Just about 0.60" in the Stratus so far and there was a very brief lull but looks like the SSE flow is keeping the precipitation going over the Spine and east slopes. Base of the ski resort up to 0.78" on the east side, while the west side spots in Underhill are 0.35-0.5" so there's definitely some orographics helping from the low level jet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 .25" today from round one. Have been in a break now for the main action. Hoping the whole region gets 1-2". Seems like a sure bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Highest totals so far coming out of the elevated eastern slopes of the Spine... both the Stowe base area and Mad River Glen base area stations above 1,500ft are approaching 1.0" of rain so far today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 .43" so far. Like PF said, setup favors the east slopes with the strong S/SE flow, getting some gusty downsloping effects here. Still think we should crack 1"+ once the main batch comes trough currently in NYS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 .25" today from round one. Have been in a break now for the main action. Hoping the whole region gets 1-2". Seems like a sure bet. 0.13" so far. Where's my 1-2"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Man that is a big area of heavy rain moving through northern NY and entering the Champlain Valley. SLK ASOS up to 1.51" with 0.50" in the last 30 minutes. Most of the PWS in the Adirondacks are in the 1.5-2.0" range with heavy rain occurring. The Green Mountain spine and immediate east slopes are above 1.0" now and will add it up quickly as this moisture feed increases. I'm at 0.71" in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Our LCI coop updated with 0.53 so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Our LCI coop updated with 0.53 so far..71 in my vp2.75 in the stratus gauge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 It's been a good while since we've had widespread rain like this. Very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 Very heavy rain...short duration almost tropical downpours. BTV with 0.30" in 12 minutes. I'm now well over an inch at home but can't tell much beyond that without emptying the Stratus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 There it is...MVL actually recording some rainfall in this torrential stuff after having only 0.07" (10% or less of reality at the time) through 5pm. The new way you can tell if it's raining hard is if anything is getting into the MVL tipper. Like I told Dendrite, I have no idea why or how it does it, but once the OB goes +RN it starts recording something lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 6:40pm. Moderate to heavy rain .75" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 This really is the heaviest rain I've seen in a while. Local Davis PWS are showing 1.4", 1.7", 1.8"...so we are somewhere in there and just pouring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 7:15pm 1" heavy rain is still west so we should end up over 1.50". Best rain in along time. Great for crops in all of New England. Good deep soaking of topsoil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 7:15pm 1" heavy rain is still west so we should end up over 1.50". Best rain in along time. Great for crops in all of New England. Good deep soaking of topsoil. Yeah it's been raining non-stop since like 9am...river out back has come up like 2 feet and it's a muddy torrent right now. Thankfully it was so dry before this. Not often 1.5-2.0" rainfall comes in a 10-hour long soaker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I must be getting screwed. 0.35"...sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I must be getting screwed. 0.35"...sucksWill check the stratus when I get home. Over 1" at FFDN. Hopefully there's poop in the tipper slowing the flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I must be getting screwed. 0.35"...sucks I think you were just on the edge of getting into better rains. The SW part of the state will be the relative screw zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I must be getting screwed. 0.35"...sucks I saw your total and just assumed there was something wrong with your tipper. 1.16" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 1.62 here at the southern end of the Champlain Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 I think you were just on the edge of getting into better rains. The SW part of the state will be the relative screw zone.I'm almost an inch below Franklin Falls...I guess it's possible, but it seems extreme for something not hugely convective yet. Either way it'll still end up a decent drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 heh...the stratus has overflowed so we're over 1". Guess I should check what's in the tipper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I must be getting screwed. 0.35"...sucks0.27" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 Was hoping for 1.5". Got 1.29", pretty decent. It's nice that it was a long duration soaker for lawns and gardens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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