J.Spin Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 It looks like snowfall associated with this next system started up around 10:30 P.M. or so with this shield of precipitation moving into the area: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 2 hours ago, borderwx said: What is this heavy snow you speak of Jspin? Tale of two seasons at Burke this weekend Pow feast yesterday and a Spring feast today love March. Hehe, nice. Love March indeed. March and April can be some of the best months of the year – deep snowpack, elevation storms, comfortable temperatures for being on the hill, etc. More regionally though, the greatness of this time of year can be kind of drowned out by the bitching and moaning about the weather during these months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 It is snowing hard. I like the 2.4 degree scan...downward drift and all. The ski area is getting crushed up the road. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Event totals: 0.6” Snow/0.03” L.E. Details from the 12:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.6 inches New Liquid: 0.03 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 20.0 Snow Density: 5.0% H2O Temperature: 32.0 F Sky: Snow (4 to 12 mm flakes) Snow at the stake: 25.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Event totals: 1.0” Snow/0.04” L.E. Details from the 6:00 A.M. Waterbury observations: New Snow: 0.4 inches New Liquid: 0.01 inches Snow/Water Ratio: 40.0 Snow Density: 2.5% H2O Temperature: 20.3 F Sky: Clear Snow at the stake: 25.0 inches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I was a bit surprised to wake up to almost 1" this morning. The late news didn't think there would really be any accumulation as far south as Barre/Montpelier. Memorial Drive, the road from Exit 8 to Montpelier, was glare ice this morning. A woman in front of me tried to stop at a red light and did a 360° spin out into the median. She was ok but looked a little shook up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Went up to the NEK to snowmobile yesterday. They got pummeled with snow, over 2' in some areas. We parked at the state park beach in Island Pond and rode up to Norton on the Canadian border. It was a beautiful day to be outside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 A long winter to get to this... hopefully it melts slowly because the North Country seems primed to have some massive flooding event at some point over the next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Went up to the NEK to snowmobile yesterday. They got pummeled with snow, over 2' in some areas. We parked at the state park beach in Island Pond and rode up to Norton on the Canadian border. It was a beautiful day to be outside.DroolSent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Took a ride from mount Washington Cog over to N Conway . What a gradient at the end of that trip. Places like Bartlett still looked to be hit pretty hard but when you got close toward Glen and the Red Parka Pub big drop off and again drop off in intervale on 302. Places by attitash and NW of attitash were deep. Went up the cog side of Washington and man is it freaky deep (for me) 2850’ was as high as I could go and they got a solid 45” on ground in the woods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Summit trees are buried, 6' trail fencing buried, a whole lot of snow going into April DSCN1059 by Chad, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 15 minutes ago, borderwx said: Summit trees are buried, 6' trail fencing buried, a whole lot of snow going into April DSCN1059 by Chad, on Flickr Maybe best since 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Wow, that is an impressive picture. I think I've seen that once before long ago. 1969 I presume. Jay Peak is the only major NE ski area I've never skied. I have a hard time justifying the drive given I'm primarily a day skier. Of course, I'm planning on leaving my house Friday morning at 4AM to ski Sugarloaf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 I wish it still looked like that Radarman great picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, Angus said: Wow, that is an impressive picture. I think I've seen that once before long ago. 1969 I presume. Jay Peak is the only major NE ski area I've never skied. I have a hard time justifying the drive given I'm primarily a day skier. Of course, I'm planning on leaving my house Friday morning at 4AM to ski Sugarloaf! Actually that's a 'vintage' pic I took in April 2001. Courtesy of a disposable camera, sun bleaching, and a blown out scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Yeah the amount of snow is really impressive up high. Walking up the Toll Road to the Mansfield ridgeline, even groomed you are walking at like the top of the trees. Hard to comprehend being like 10 feet off the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 6 to 12 Monday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 You can start seeing some diurnal increases in the river downstream from us. Pretty cool. Stake at 31" so still a long way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 12 minutes ago, alex said: You can start seeing some diurnal increases in the river downstream from us. Pretty cool. Stake at 31" so still a long way to go. I’m usually pretty happy to have this much snow on the ground on February 27, for March 27 it’s pretty rare. I’m at 1200’ but driving up the hill it gets deep after 1500’ or so as PF pointed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 23 minutes ago, alex said: You can start seeing some diurnal increases in the river downstream from us. Pretty cool. Stake at 31" so still a long way to go. Forgot the image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 16 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: 6 to 12 Monday? I hadn’t looked at anything in a couple of days, but the latest GFS, FV3-GFS, and ICON runs as of this morning all show that second area of low pressure form along the front that seems to be responsible for the more substantial snows. Essentially every model shows some snow in the Sunday to Monday timeframe, it’s just a matter of how much. The BTV NWS isn’t talking about the wintry aspect in their discussions yet, as they’ve been more focused on the flood potential. They’re happy that temperature trends have been favorable though: .SHORT TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... However, while overnight lows will be above normal in the 30s/40s, model trends over the past few days have been towards only slightly above normal highs in the 40s/50s Saturday and 30s/40s Sunday. This would indicate slower runoff from snowmelt and less potential for flooding impacts. In fact, the latest MMEFS guidance for the mainstem rivers only shows potential for action stage levels. Still bears monitoring, but trends are our friend for flood potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 16 hours ago, mreaves said: I’m usually pretty happy to have this much snow on the ground on February 27, for March 27 it’s pretty rare. I’m at 1200’ but driving up the hill it gets deep after 1500’ or so as PF pointed out. 30" at the stake this morning, but today will end the streak of 30"+ pack after 43 days, a run 2nd only to 2008 when we had a 62-day streak. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 On 3/25/2019 at 12:11 PM, powderfreak said: Mansfield is just loaded with snow. It's hard to even ski the glades because you are skiing in the tree canopy. All the branches that are normally trimmed are at like knee height. I'm 6'3" and can barely get through a bunch of areas. Mountain is a playground. Lots of folks teed it up off the Chin yesterday. Oh man, the Mansfield alpine looked so good on Sunday! You can see all the routes that people have been skiing in your pic, and even the Adam’s Apple seemed to have lots of skiable lines! We didn’t head up because our afternoon was spent skiing The Bruce, but I couldn’t help ogling the sites and snapping some images. I’ve got a couple images below that I took. Is that large snowfield (zoomed in the second image) the Rock Garden? It doesn’t even look like it because it’s so filled in, but I definitely want to hear there for some turns. It’s so great seeing all the great lines that people have been taking with this deep snowpack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Kind of a depressingly cold morning. Temp just fell 2F to 36F with light rain. Earlier this week it looked like today and tomorrow would be around 60F for me. Doesn't look like that will happen. Snow stake down to around 4". Good melt yesterday with bare spots appearing south slope and under apple trees while its still a couple feet deep in the woods Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Was down in Nashua today and the smell of rain on bare ground was awesome. It was so springy. Lost some decent snowpack here, already down to 22" and Twin just a few miles away is maybe 50% bare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 29, 2019 Share Posted March 29, 2019 Oh and our kids adoption is official. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 1 hour ago, alex said: Oh and our kids adoption is official. Congrats to you and your significant other! That kid has no idea how awesome life is going to be in the mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 6 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Congrats to you and your significant other! That kid has no idea how awesome life is going to be in the mountains. Thanks. 2 year old girl (almost 3) and 5 year old boy. They already love skiing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 22 hours ago, J.Spin said: Oh man, the Mansfield alpine looked so good on Sunday! You can see all the routes that people have been skiing in your pic, and even the Adam’s Apple seemed to have lots of skiable lines! We didn’t head up because our afternoon was spent skiing The Bruce, but I couldn’t help ogling the sites and snapping some images. I’ve got a couple images below that I took. Is that large snowfield (zoomed in the second image) the Rock Garden? It doesn’t even look like it because it’s so filled in, but I definitely want to hear there for some turns. It’s so great seeing all the great lines that people have been taking with this deep snowpack. Yup that's the Rock Garden. Completely filled in to almost a western bowl type status. That would be a great corn snow run this spring...wait for a hard freeze and then hit it when the top inch or two is peel away corn. What a fun run and then you get dropped off on Upper Perry Merrill and realize you still have 2,000 vertical feet to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 16 minutes ago, alex said: Thanks. 2 year old girl (almost 3) and 5 year old boy. They already love skiing! Nice, are they siblings to begin with? I have no idea how the adoption process works, ha. But really, congrat's dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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