tamarack Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said: ...and then there have been seasons where SNE gets pummeled and we just suck cirrus storm after storm re: 2002-03, or 2009-10 if one includes the MA. BWI with 7" more snow than CAR is something one would never see again in several lifetimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 21 hours ago, wxeyeNH said: The front came through here with a short lived snow squall. About 1/2". This puts me at 95" on the season. Alex, are you keeping snowfall records? I see that on the snowfall thread that Phin and J Spin have just under 150". It looks like we are not over just yet. Unbelievable that I have not hit 50F yet this year. I am but on a Google sheet (easier to access) and not as religiously as I used to. It’s annoying to keep track of all the little 1-in her we get. Also lost a couple of weeks of data in the middle but it was a very bleak period anyways. I’ll tally it up soon. All in all, the second half was great and the ski season was after all better than the last few if I remember correctly. The spring skiing has been great and the resort is closing next weekend with 100% top to bottom coverage (and deep) and glade skiing still available. Doesn’t happen that way all the time. of course I have some concerns about the melting… there’s a lot of snow out there still. 17” at the stake in my yard. Hopefully it will happen slowly! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Down to 15" here but it's dense, probably ~50% LE. Fortunately, it looks like a slow release is likely, at least for the next week. Dry 50s with cool overnights would get the job done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Out like a lamb & lion.Bluebird skiing in the morning, enjoying apres with snow showers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patriot21 Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Looking about 2-3" so far. Last night for the wood stove this winter, gonna start using the boiler until the heating season is over. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 89 was awful tonight from Middlesex to Bethel, simply awful. Probably the 2nd worst commute of the season- certainly top 3. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Nothing better than an over producer. 3.5" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 About 3”. It was absolutely dumping big, heavy, wet flakes for an hour or two. Still some light snow falling. 32.9° 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted April 1, 2023 Author Share Posted April 1, 2023 Still holding onto snow, but barely. About 3”. The pack for what will be April 1 is unbelievable. With the torch tmrw and nothing spectacular in the future, I’m guessing tonight will be the high point til next season.. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 While knuckle drive from North Conway to Bretton Woods. White out conditions and snow covered roads. I couldn't see more than 10 feet in front of me. Hard to tell when the road curved. Almost drove off the edge a few times. Made it out and about a half mile past the AMC Center, the snow just about disappeared. Maybe a half Inch and only light snow at the center of Bretton Woods. Attitash announced they are staying open one more weekend and will close for the season at the end of Easter Weekend. They look to have had a band right over them. Hope they cashed in. Cranmore is already closed for the season. I was there today and there are already bare patches showing up on the mountain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 3" of snow last night. Actually there could have been a bit more because it was still snowing when I went to bed and it was raining when I woke up and still almost 3" Wet snow and 32.2F rain is destroying the birch. Those trees seem to have elastic memories so if the snow melts quickly they will be okay... I think... By the way this winter we had overwintering Bluebirds. Lots of them. There is one on the apple tree in the picture. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 March 2023 numbers: Avg. max: 40.42 +1.75 High - 50, 27th Avg. min: 21.42 +4.88 Low - zero, 1st. Only the 2nd March w/o subzero low (2010, low was 11) Avg. min was 3rd highest Mean: 30.92 +3.31 Precip: 2.85" -0.61 Jan-Mar: 9.84" +0.09" Greatest day: 0.91" 4th Snow: 27.9" +11.0" 6th highest and only March in the 20s. Snowiest: 12.1" 4th Pack: Avg. 22.8" +4.8" Peak: 36" 4th DJFM temp: 25.49 Mildest, topping 25.21 in 2015-16. Temp Snow DEC +5.04 +4.4 JAN +9.14 +9.9 FEB +1.48 -6.3 MAR +3.31 +11.0 Of course, in this wacky winter, the month closest to avg temp was the only one with BN snow. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 The system currently working its way through the area has been named Winter Storm Uriel, and it’s actually provided a nice addition to the snowpack so far. There hadn’t been too much coverage of its snow potential in the forecasts, presumably because it was one of those systems passing well to our northwest with anticipated front end and back end snow, but mixed precipitation and rain in the middle. I was in Burlington yesterday afternoon when the storm started up, and the snowfall came in with some decent intensity right away. Temperatures were marginal in the Champlain Valley, so the snow didn’t accumulate very rapidly, but there was probably about a half inch of new snow on the UVM campus when I was heading home to Waterbury. I arrived at the house to find that the boys and one of their friends had just loaded up their car and were headed up to Bolton for some runs. My older son was on his alpine gear, but asked me to bring his Telemark equipment to switch over if I came up to the mountain later. In my mind, I was certainly not planning to head out for a session. It didn’t seem worth it to head up to the hill for what I thought was probably an inch or so of new snow atop the spring base that had probably gone through some freeze-thaw cycles over the past couple of days. But apparently, Mother Nature was going to convince me otherwise. It just kept dumping snow down at our place in the valley, and of course, Bolton’s Webcam at their main base showed the exact same thing as we watched it on the TV. I couldn’t quite get a feel for the amount of new snow from the webcam, but my snow analyses from the house revealed that we’d already picked up a few tenths of an inch of liquid equivalent in the snow we’d had. Before long, I texted the boys and let them know that I was on my way up. I was really curious about the accumulations up at the Village elevations, so as soon as I parked and got out of the car, I headed to an undisturbed location to check out the depth of the snow. I was surprised to get a new snow depth of 6 to 7 inches, and I figured there could have been some drifting around the parking lot area as there often is, but the measurement was quite encouraging. The timing of my arrival was great, and I caught the boys right at the base of the Vista Quad, so we all hopped on together for a run. It continued to snow steadily, and the conditions were looking really good – folks below us on the trails were making virtually silent turns aside from the usual steep and heavily used spots like the middle of Spillway. Up at the Vista Summit, I checked the new snow depth in the clearing right below the wind turbine and measured 7 inches. The snow wasn’t enough for a full resurfacing of all pitches of course, certainly not the center of very steep, high-traffic trails like Spillway, but the periphery of the steep terrain was skiing really well, and mid-level pitches were great. Based on my snow analyses back at home, I bet the mountain had picked up a half in of liquid equivalent by that point. I’d say the quality of the skiing was just a touch below the conditions we had back on Sunday with the 6 to 7 inches of new snow that we found then; that round of snow may have had just a bit more liquid equivalent in it. The boys were mixing things up with a bunch of runs through the terrain park on Valley Road, but fresh tracks were easy to get just about anywhere off Snowflake with the continued snowfall. While riding the Snowflake Chair, we saw a couple of guys skiing some of the unlit Snowflake trails by headlamp, and those were probably some sweet turns because all those trails were essentially untracked. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 On 3/31/2023 at 11:03 PM, bwt3650 said: Still holding onto snow, but barely. About 3”. The pack for what will be April 1 is unbelievable. With the torch tmrw and nothing spectacular in the future, I’m guessing tonight will be the high point til next season. . What was your pack at after the snow last night ..30”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 I love all the photos in this thread. I post plenty but I think the best observations are through photos. The NNE crew comes through. In other news, it's crazy that this past warm front and wind didn't hit the snowpack at all. Shows just how much water is in this. It is a legit mountain snowpack at the ski areas. Everyone has had some big QPF events this second half of winter (last 6 weeks or so). Snowpack has been sitting 79-83" lately after the 90" peak. High temp today was in the mid-10s. Different world above 3,000ft. Daily Hydrometeorological Data National Weather Service Burlington VT 549 PM EDT Sun Apr 2 2023 Station Precip Temperature Present Snow 24 Hrs Max Min Cur Weather New Total SWE ...Vermont... Mount Mansfield 15 79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Hey guys (and Diane). I have not really been following the weather too closely but there seems to be the possibility of quite the ice storm in Northern sections. It is April so even with clouds and rain I would guess ice would not accrate very well during daytime hours. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 GYX discussion had 0.3" accretion as the 'floor' for the W.Maine mts. Forecast has ZR/IP into the foothills, with no accretion noted but '<1/2" IP' included. Forecast here for Wed high temp is 32. March had but one day at/below 32, would be very odd to get another in April. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Had a nice view last night on our weekly evening ski at Burke.Easily the deepest snow pack they have had in years for their last week of operations . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Might be a nasty day in far nrn VT into NH with elevated convection, heavy rain, flooding, and ice on the east slopes above 1K or so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 Nice snowy day at Sugarloaf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 On 4/3/2023 at 3:09 PM, wxeyeNH said: Hey guys (and Diane). I have not really been following the weather too closely but there seems to be the possibility of quite the ice storm in Northern sections. It is April so even with clouds and rain I would guess ice would not accrate very well during daytime hours. Thoughts? How did you pan out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Whineminster said: How did you pan out? Mid 30s and rain right now. I don't want ice. It is very windy. I wouldn't enjoy losing power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkO Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 light glaze out there 30.5/24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 30.7F here with freezing rain. I'm with you, no ice. I don't need to be out of power tomorrow. I'm looking so much to next week with 50s, then 60s and maybe 70F. It's been 5 months (early Nov) since I have been in the 50s. So ready. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 54 minutes ago, #NoPoles said: Mid 30s and rain right now. I don't want ice. It is very windy. I wouldn't enjoy losing power. Where are you? Just got back from Bethlehem it was 35 there, but 29 here at the house and slick af 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Just enough ice to make steps a death trap 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Mixing with sleet but some good accretion 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonegalt Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 River let go last 2 days. Down at my crossing to ITS 88. No trail riding for me! My sign for riders brave enough to cross- Still over 2' with 4-6" tonight. Began around 1600- nice soft fluff on a packed base Vim Toot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 18 minutes ago, gonegalt said: River let go last 2 days. Down at my crossing to ITS 88. No trail riding for me! My sign for riders brave enough to cross- Still over 2' with 4-6" tonight. Began around 1600- nice soft fluff on a packed base Vim Toot! Don’t you drive a barge on the river when it melts? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Plenty of snow for Wolfie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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