eyewall Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Steadily accumulating snow is ongoing once again here. We could make that run up to 7 or 8 inches depending on what we see on the back side with the meso effects. I know NWS has some uncertainties about exactly how that will set up and if there will even be Champlain Effect banding. I just hope it is blocked enough for a few hours to where we hit that warning level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Event totals: 9.7” Snow/0.56” L.E. Details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 2.9 inches New Liquid: 0.20 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 14.5 Snow Density: 6.9% H2O Temperature: 29.7 F Sky: Light Snow (1-5 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 11.5 inches Our NWS point forecast was for something in the 8”-14” range for this event, so we’ll have no problem achieving that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 The photogenic phase of the storm is ending now as the winds pick up and blast the snow out of the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Looks to be 7 inches here, but kids home from school knocked my measuring board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 17 minutes ago, ApacheTrout said: Looks to be 7 inches here, but kids home from school knocked my measuring board. Lol, so funny. My two young ones trampled over mine too and they had to get a little tongue lashing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 42 minutes ago, eyewall said: The photogenic phase of the storm is ending now as the winds pick up and blast the snow out of the trees. Yea, that kind of sucks to not be able to see it in the morning. This was probably the best paste job I have seen since moving here 3 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Snow has tapered off to flurries. 6 inches here in the Noosk as of 8:30pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 We are now seeing those high ratio snows in bands on the back side.Sent from my VS995 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 9 inches here as of an hour ago. Light stuff since. 14.5 since Saturday AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 same up here. 9" Let's see what today brings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 1.6" of fluff over night brings total to 10.1". Nice event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 About 8.5 inches here, on 0.50 inches of melted. That's for the storm total, not a 24-hr total. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Looks like 7 inches here in Winooski will be the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 With the last 1"-1.5" of fluff overnight, we ended up around 10". I did a horrible job at measuring this storm but that seems about right. If my neighbor said it was closer to 8.5", I wouldn't argue much either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Was surprised to find another 2.4 inches this morning, 11.4 total for the storm as of 6:30 am,. Was still snowing at that time. It was fun inching the Prius down the unpalyed driveway this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Event totals: 11.9” Snow/0.71” L.E. I was up working at midnight, so I was able to make snow measurements at that point, and I’ve got those along with this morning’s standard 6:00 A.M. measurements. Details from the 12:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.3 inches New Liquid: 0.10 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 13.0 Snow Density: 7.7% H2O Temperature: 24.4 F Sky: Light Snow (1-4 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 11.5 inches Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.9 inches New Liquid: 0.05 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 18.0 Snow Density: 5.6% H2O Temperature: 19.4 F Sky: Light Snow (1-4 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 11.5 inches The snow depth at the stake has started to stagnate with settling keeping pace with new accumulations, but the backside snow was really cranking when I left the house this morning, so we’ll see what that does today. I reset our webcam snowboard this morning, and I can see that there are already a couple of new inches of accumulation, so I’ll have some additional snowfall to report on later today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Well I guess 7 isn't the absolute final as we are no doubt adding a few tenths now with this band swinging through as I post this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 School was canceled for my older son yesterday, so I was home with him. Since the storm had only started up yesterday morning, we waited until midafternoon, the headed up to Bolton Valley for a quick ski tour in the new snow. On the way up to the Village, we noted the state of the snow at the Timberline Base (1,500’) and one could certainly have made some turns there if they wanted to, but some of the taller brush was still showing so I’d say it wasn’t quite ready for prime time at that point. We toured in the Wilderness area from 2,100’ up to around 2,800’, and we measured depths of the new snow in the 6” to 9” range, with some spots approaching 10” near the top of our ascent. I’d say the accumulations up there at that point weren’t all that different than what we had down at the house, although the flakes were pretty small, and the powder a reasonable middle-weight variety, so I’d say they’d picked up more liquid equivalent. In terms of the powder skiing, although it certainly wasn’t champagne dry snow, the moderate heft to it was decent for keeping you up off the base. At this stage of the season we can of course use some snow with plenty of liquid in it to build the snowpack, and if what’s up there gets topped with fluff form the back side of the storm, it should produce some excellent powder skiing. I’m sure they’ve had a few more inches up there now like we’ve had down at the house, but I’ve added a few shots from yesterday below: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 NWS also came in with 7.1 inches before this current band and Milton had 8 inches so definitely on that cusp of warning level here in the CPV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 We ended up at about 14" though it's still snowing. Almost 2 feet since the weekend, not bad at all! We are well ahead of last year now (just updated the snow table). Headed to Boston for a few days, grrr... I'd rather be home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 18.5F Moderate to heavy snow squall. Vis 3/8 Nothing on radar but been snowing steadily for past hour. Sun dim vis. so very low level snow. About 1/4" new. Temp slowly falling... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 I’ve put together the north to south listing of available snowfall totals from the Vermont ski areas for this latest storm. I’m using the available 48-hour, 72-hour or storm report snow totals for the list. Jay Peak: 19” Burke: 25” Smuggler’s Notch: 25” Stowe: 23” Bolton Valley: 24” Sugarbush: 14” Pico: 20” Killington: 20” Okemo: 16” Bromley: 12” Magic Mountain: 14” Stratton: 12” Mount Snow: 15” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adk Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 3 minutes ago, J.Spin said: I’ve put together the north to south listing of available snowfall totals from the Vermont ski areas for this latest storm. I’m using the available 48-hour, 72-hour or storm report snow totals for the list. Jay Peak: 19” Burke: 25” Smuggler’s Notch: 25” Stowe: 23” Bolton Valley: 24” Sugarbush: 14” Pico: 20” Killington: 20” Okemo: 16” Bromley: 12” Magic Mountain: 14” Stratton: 12” Mount Snow: 15” Yea, that has to include the sun-mon snow for the northern mtns. Stowe had 7" Monday and that's the only way it gets to 23"...what's interesting is that Killington had ZERO monday. They just got crushed yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 36 minutes ago, adk said: Yea, that has to include the sun-mon snow for the northern mtns. Stowe had 7" Monday and that's the only way it gets to 23"...what's interesting is that Killington had ZERO monday. They just got crushed yesterday. Yeah, I’m guessing that must be the case. For Stowe I can see that working out, since I had to use the 72-hour total since they don’t give a 48-hour total. For those other northern mountains though, they’re calling it their 48-hour total, so it seemed like it would be mostly this latest storm, but I guess some of that lake-effect stuff was included in there as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 This is turning into one of the snowiest stretches since I moved here. Heavy, heavy snow today. Not home to measure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 This is turning into one of the snowiest stretches since I moved here. Heavy, heavy snow today. Not home to measure SweetSent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 16 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: Sweet Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Full arctic gear for the ski with the dog. Sitting at 3F with howling winds, blowing snow. Doesn't get much better if you love winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 A few after shots from this one from the Banana Belt and an obligatory Jericho Old Mill shot (facebook sourced): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 Event totals: 15.2” Snow/0.78” L.E. The snow was really coming down at the house this morning – I saw on our webcam snowboard that we picked up and inch from 8:30 A.M. – 9:00 A.M., so the rate was ~2”/hr. during that period. The radar doesn’t show much now, but if indeed this is the end of event, it’s already delivered quite well. A 15.2” total for the storm is actually even a bit over the 8-14” that was in our NWS point forecast, but I’d say they did their typical great job of forecasting for a challenging, mountainous, microclimate-riddled area. After that very slow first 1/3 of the month, a shot like this event was much needed to get December snowfall back on track. Details from the 6:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 3.3 inches New Liquid: 0.07 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 47.1 Snow Density: 2.1% H2O Temperature: 12.9 F Sky: Light Snow (1 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 12.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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