wxeyeNH Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Have gotted dusted with snow the last 2 nights. Just trace amounts. Turnng out to be a mostly sunny nice mid winter type day. 29F at noon with a NW breeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 59 minutes ago, powderfreak said: The Green Mountain snow fence capturing passing moisture. NH thanks you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 1 hour ago, dendrite said: NH thanks you. lol saving your truck and chickens from the white stuff since winters of yore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 3 minutes ago, powderfreak said: lol saving your truck and chickens from the white stuff since winters of yore. Wish I could funnel that over Brian’s fanny to my backyard. Got the sustained cold at least, but not fond of frozen brown ground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Event totals: 2.7” Snow/0.10” L.E. We picked up an additional 0.4” of extremely dry fluff with this morning’s activity, and there’s still a bit of light snowfall around this evening that I’m attributing to the same system. There do appear to be chances for light snow continuing through the weekend and into next week: Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Burlington VT 329 PM EST Fri Dec 7 2018 .SYNOPSIS... A few weak disturbances will bring chances for light snow showers over the weekend and early next week, as well as reinforcing shots of below normal temperatures. Details from the 5:00 P.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.4 inches New Liquid: Trace Temperature: 20.1 F Sky: Light Snow (1-2 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 10.0 inches 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Suffering through another powder day on Mansfield...these last 4 weeks will go down in the sea scrolls of yore for best start to a ski season I've ever seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 It is not often that you see a map like this down here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 28 minutes ago, eyewall said: It is not often that you see a map like this down here: Nice to see you post Jeremy. Is Raleigh under all kinds of snow emergancy's? 5" probably shut the city down. Glad your getting some snow down there. Happy Holidays..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 8 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said: Nice to see you post Jeremy. Is Raleigh under all kinds of snow emergancy's? 5" probably shut the city down. Glad your getting some snow down there. Happy Holidays..... Yeah down here this will be a disaster. Hundreds of thousands of power outages too, especially wherever a period of ZR occurs. The infrastructure can't handle it with little in the way of snow removal equipment. It will be high impact if it pans out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Event totals: 2.8” Snow/0.10” L.E. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.1 inches New Liquid: Trace Temperature: -2.9 F Sky: Partly Cloudy Snow at the stake: 10.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 So glad to be back up in the north country. 0.5f In Warren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Climbed Cardigan this morning /afternoon. Driving up 93 was surprised not to see really any snow until exit 18, Northfield. Built pretty quickly after exit 20, Laconia. Two feet of snow on higher elevations of mountain. Driving back towards Newfound Lake, I was looking up at the ridge for wxeyenh's house! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Big flakes falling in the flood lights. What a stretch of days with snow falling. Great snow growth, cold low level generated stuff. Pulse of moisture on westerly flow, snow blowing downwind of radar echoes a bit too probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Big flakes falling in the flood lights. What a stretch of days with snow falling. Great snow growth, cold low level generated stuff. Pulse of moisture on westerly flow, snow blowing downwind of radar echoes a bit too probably. Yeah, we're officially in the snow growth zone here at GYX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Organizing Low Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 winter rolls on not much else to say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Light snow falling here at my house. The mountain has really been pumping snow (worried about possible rains?), and in these temps (just warmed up above 0) it looks (and sounds) like a volcano from my house lol. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted December 9, 2018 Author Share Posted December 9, 2018 I had 1.2" of dendrite fluff from a seemingly random blob of lake effect moisture that drifted down from the WNW. It's amazing what happens when a little puff of moist air in the DGZ gets lifted over the Green Mountains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Another morning, another fluffer nutter coating on the car. About 3/4", just blows right off as you drive away. Wintry appeal on all the little twigs and branches with this round of calm snowfall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Event totals: 1.3” Snow/0.01” L.E. I didn’t know about the snow falling last night until I saw PF’s post with the radar image, but I caught it in time to make some 12:00 A.M. observations. We’ve already had some fluffy rounds of snow this season, but indeed last night’s snowfall was right up there. Sometimes you can get a sense of the flake structure by the rate at which the snow fall through the air, and last night that rate was slooooooow. I’ve had some cores this season where I could only pull a trace of liquid, so didn’t calculate the snow to liquid ratio, but last night’s analysis (0.88 mL of liquid from a 1.1” core) did actually round to 0.01” of liquid and allow for a calculation. It’s the highest ratio I’ve seen so far this season. Details from the 12:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 1.1 inches New Liquid: 0.01 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 110.0 Snow Density: 0.9% H2O Temperature: 14.7 F Sky: Light Snow (2-10 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 10.0 inches Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.2 inches New Liquid: Trace Temperature: 12.9 F Sky: Flurries Snow at the stake: 10.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 I was up at the mountain yesterday morning for what was actually Bolton Valley’s first “official” day of the season, and can pass along a quick report and some pictures. Temperatures were cold to start, with single digits F, and then it was well up into the teens F by the time I left around midday. The settled powder depths we found were just about a foot everywhere, so I suspect the 14 inches they’re reported over the week is a bit on the low side, but it could depend where during the settling cycles they made their measurements. Bottomless powder turns were available on moderate and low angle terrain, but anything with a black diamond pitch or more, you’d still be hitting the subsurface at times because there just wasn’t enough liquid equivalent to get to that level. Skiing was still fine on those steeper pitches, but mid and low-angle stuff was really sweet. I took a trip up through one of the main single family home neighborhoods up there, which I think goes up to around 2,400’, and they are loaded with snow. The snowpack is probably only about two feet or so, but after the addition of this week’s fluffy snow you can see a lot of spots where it’s just piling up on roof lines, roof snow is merging with the ground snow piles, etc. I’ve got a few images from the day below, and the full report is available at our website. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Great shots. Drool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 Picked up 6-7 here in Durham, NC: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Nice Eyewall! Missed your snow pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Looks like we've got moisture on the increase this evening from the north. Light snow falling as our nightly snow streak continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Have to thread the needle to find the fresh powder after a busy weekend, enjoying the mid-winter turns while they are here. This week should be sweet, some sunshine and reasonable temps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Are we still in record territory regarding the snow stake? 20+", that's insane upslope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, MarkO said: Are we still in record territory regarding the snow stake? 20+", that's insane upslope. 48" at the stake... record for today is 56" in 1981. Looks like December 5th was the end of the record breaking streak for snow depth. Very solid base with a deep layer of settled powder on top. There seemed like at least 3" of fluffy snowfall last night in the Notch area and off the Gondola, too. It all helps out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 11 hours ago, powderfreak said: Nice Eyewall! Missed your snow pics. Thank you! Just northwest of me saw 14" and plenty of areas of a foot or more in the Triad which is very rare in these parts. The unfortunate thing is the rain after that. The high terrain got a couple of feet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Event totals: 0.2” Snow/Trace L.E. Based on the BTV NWS forecast discussion I’m attributing the snow from last night into today to the weak cold front passing through the area. There was very light snowfall evident through much of the Winooski Valley westward until about Richmond this morning, and the sky began to clear from that point on. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.2 inches New Liquid: Trace Temperature: 24.3 F Sky: Flurries/Light Snow (4-12 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 9.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 11 hours ago, powderfreak said: Have to thread the needle to find the fresh powder after a busy weekend, enjoying the mid-winter turns while they are here. This week should be sweet, some sunshine and reasonable temps. Indeed the powder is staying great with these temperatures, so it’s really just skiers chewing things up at this point. I was back up at Bolton yesterday afternoon for an outing with the family, and the couple of additional inches of fluff nicely topped things off. It wasn’t going to reset areas that had already been tracked of course, but it did put a new layer on everything, and the powder depth seems to be staying right around the 1-foot mark in areas not affected by wind etc. Spending time at both Stowe and Bolton each season, we do notice how the lack of high-speed lifts and lower overall skier numbers lets the powder last a lot longer at Bolton. You don’t get that big Mansfield vert, but it’s hard to beat the high snowfall/low key vibe there. A few shots from yesterday afternoon’s outing: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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