powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Drifts and scour. Upper mountain snow plots showing 3”, Midway parking lot filling in. Who knows how much is out there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froude Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 44 minutes ago, powderfreak said: I was thinking your home base must be doing well? Earlier I saw 7.6” in Jericho and 8.0” in Waterville with snow continuing. Only a couple here in Fairfax but my mom sent a photo of a nice stack on their deck in Underhill Center. Their place cleans up in these. Feels like the good ol days lately with some clippers and lots of NW flow. Going to check in on lift serve tomorrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 Any guess which direction the wind is blowing? Could be 6, could be 12 out there. No clue. It’s a moderate snow the last couple hours just whipping everywhere. This one is going to be hard to get an accurate measurement on anywhere….. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 How much longer is this going to last for you guys? How much you have now since it started?I’d just be guessing here, but probably 6-9 maybe? Should last into late Thursday/early Friday. There might be 12-18 out of this cycle I’d guess; maybe a little less. Between the last cycle that started new years and when this one finishes, I’d say 36-48”.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakkelWx Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 where would be a good place to move to considering upslope snow, in the future? for reference i plan on learning the HVAC trade and for a couple years stay down here then move north to one of the snowier spots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 26 minutes ago, bwt3650 said: Any guess which direction the wind is blowing? Could be 6, could be 12 out there. No clue. It’s a moderate snow the last couple hours just whipping everywhere. This one is going to be hard to get an accurate measurement on anywhere…. . Nice, that looks like a healthy snow plot 4-6” of new snow. Scour 0” over old pack and 12” in the drifts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 High Road at midday. Wind just filling everything in between the trees. The board starts 2” off the ground, so when the whole thing fills in, it tries to capture the real snowfall. If this stake started at the packed out snow level, it would be 2” higher over most readings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 58 minutes ago, JakkelWx said: where would be a good place to move to considering upslope snow, in the future? for reference i plan on learning the HVAC trade and for a couple years stay down here then move north to one of the snowier spots. What is your commuting tolerance? And, is it just upslope you’re interested in? The job market is best in Chittenden County but if you don’t mind commuting, living in Lamoille County could work or even farther east around Hardwick is fine. HVAC techs can pretty much find work across the state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakkelWx Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Just now, mreaves said: What is your commuting tolerance? And, is it just upslope you’re interested in? The job market is best in Chittenden County but if you don’t mind commuting, living in Lamoille County could work or even farther east around Hardwick is fine. HVAC techs can pretty much find work across the state. i've driven to florida the entire way from dover in one go twice to meet family, i don't think it'll be too much of a problem. but that was with dry roads. i know it snows a lot up there, but experience will come and i'll be just fine. Mostly interested in upslope, bigger coastals usually miss the area i'm interested in, but i can chase anyway. I buy bulk foods a lot, rice and beans, that sort of stuff. Shouldn't have too much of a problem with groceries. Cost of living seems lower there than NY or NH/MA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Just continues to blow and snow. 2” at the plots and 3 foot drifts. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 First week of 2025 in the books. Pretty much normal at MPV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froude Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 14 hours ago, Froude said: Going to check in on lift serve tomorrow. Scratch that. One check on the overnight totals and current temps and I think it's a good day to catch up on things inside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 Scratch that. One check on the overnight totals and current temps and I think it's a good day to catch up on things inside.It’s still pretty brutal at least up here. One upper mountain lift and you have to duck into the woods immediately to get out of the wind. I’m sure back country is better, but any break is going to throw the wind right in your face.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 Had a break in the snow this morning, now back to a light mist like snow. Overnight totals not that impressive. Jay went 2-4 in the last 24 hours which is actually light. I’d say more like 6, but blown all over.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 3 hours ago, bwt3650 said: Had a break in the snow this morning, now back to a light mist like snow. Overnight totals not that impressive. Jay went 2-4 in the last 24 hours which is actually light. I’d say more like 6, but blown all over. . I have no idea how you’d tell. We have 3-5 foot drifts and then nothing. Like this Smuggs photo… 2” overnight and this haha. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwt3650 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 I have no idea how you’d tell. We have 3-5 foot drifts and then nothing. Like this Smuggs photo… 2” overnight and this haha.It’s all a guess..what I do know is this weekend should be sweet.It’ll be nice not to have these lunchtime temps with a 30 mph wind... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Holy arctic. It's 5.3° and snowing lightly. I was just out back with a guy working on my snowblower in the uninsulated, unheated shed. He had no gloves on. I'm frozen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 3 hours ago, bwt3650 said: It’s all a guess..what I do know is this weekend should be sweet. It’ll be nice not to have these lunchtime temps with a 30 mph wind.. Dude anything is going feel balmy if it’s like 15F with little wind. This has been a pretty gnarly stretch in the high elevations. We’re going to report/record a storm total of like 6” with monster drifts and thigh deep snow in areas . Toll Road: Stafford wallowing through thigh deep from the Stone Hut last night. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I’d hoped to head up to the mountain for some turns yesterday afternoon to see how accumulations were settling in from our current system, but it was a bit close to sunset after I finished the work I wanted to get done. I wasn’t too worried about it though, since this is another long-duration system, and the snow accumulations are slowly building up. I did manage to get out for some turns this morning on my way into Burlington, so I can report on that outing. In the weekly forecast, today had the coldest temperatures of any day, with valleys in the single digits F. So, in that respect, this wasn’t my preference for days to get out, but it’s been snowing, and it worked out. In most respects, the weather up at the mountain was sort of status quo for what we’ve had over the past several days – at the Village elevations it was still in the single digits F. In this case, the temperature was barely in the positive category, but it can definitely get far worse in January. A big current factor in comfort on the slopes though is the wind – those winds are still howling out there with this system. With that in mind, I started the morning with an ascent via the Wilderness Uphill Route to get my body up to temperature, and that worked well. Then I was warm enough to take a trip up the Vista Quad and make another run. Bolton Valley was reporting 6 inches for their 48-hour total/storm total as of this morning, which doesn’t seem like much, but this system has brough decent moisture with it. The flakes have been small in many areas because of poor dendritic growth. Combine that with those winds blowing it around and packing it together, and measuring accumulations in the mountains has been tough. For example, I’ve recorded almost a foot of snow from this system down at my house in the valley, not because we actually got more liquid equivalent than the higher elevations, but because we’re sheltered from the high winds, and the dendrites can actually stack up with loft and not get smashed and compacted. In any event, we’ve recorded about a half inch of liquid equivalent from this storm so far at the house, so the mountains have probably picked up somewhere between a half inch and an inch of liquid. In areas protected from the wind, such as by the Miso Toh Kome hut, there are some snow stacks that give you a nice sense of how much has fallen with this event in unscoured areas, and the stacks looked like they were about 10 inches deep. In terms of the ski conditions, with a lot of its terrain facing west, those usual exposed areas at Bolton without snowmaking are scoured down to just a couple of crusty inches. Areas out of the wind have lots of great medium-weight powder though. Measurements I took in protected, non-drifted areas in the 2,000’ to 2,500’ elevation range revealed up to 20 inches of powder, so where it’s not blown away, even the lower elevations of the main mountain are really starting to accumulate quite a stack of surface snow atop the base. I skied Lower Turnpike on my touring run at Wilderness, and being protected from the wind, it had great snow wall-to-wall, with some spots having a foot of powder, and others just a few inches of powder if they had seen grooming and/or skier traffic. With the cold temperatures, the snow was a bit slow, but not so slow that I had trouble maintain speed even in those deeper areas of powder. Off Vista, I stayed away from Spillway and Hard Luck, which are much more exposed and get scoured, and chose Vermont 200, which is much more protected. It had just a couple of small scoured spots, but beyond that it was a playground of 1 to 3 feet of nearly untouched powder depending on whether or not you were blasting through a drift. Although we’re not currently getting tons of champagne powder turns from this system with its prodigious winds, I did notice one great thing that this current system is doing. Aside from some nice resurfacing outside of the exposed areas, the winds are really filling in any of those deeper water bars in the lower elevations that just hadn’t managed to get there yet. I really noticed it on Lower Turnpike – there are those certainly water bars in lower elevations where you have had to shift to a certain spot across the trail because it’s got the smoothest transition for crossing. That issue has largely disappeared now with this meaty snow being driven into the hollows of the water bars by those winds. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 A bit drifty at the office in Waterbury today. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froude Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Best snow of the week falling here right now. Another 3" of fluff down this morning, maybe 6 or 7 for the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 1 hour ago, Froude said: Best snow of the week falling here right now. Another 3" of fluff down this morning, maybe 6 or 7 for the event. The most insane wind I can remember here this morning. Blew down the old school red snow fence at top of Quad by the Octagon. I also found a large tower pad in the Spruce base from halfway up the Meadows Quad. The Lookout Cam looks haggard like it’s been in battle with Mother Nature for days. Now accumulating parts of trees as they get shredded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Pretty blustery down here in Waterbury too. I snapped this at lunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Been nasty down here, obviously not to that same level as you guys in NVT. My kids do a half-day on Thursdays starting this week for JISP( Junior Instructor Snowsports Program) at Bromley(All local schools do). Notified yesterday it was cancelled because of temps/winds. Been mostly cloudy, windy and on and off snow showers with minimal accumulations (couple tenths) past few days. I have an older house, wind just seems to seep in every crack and crevice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRVexpat Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Looking at radar returns and the flow still looks quite blocked. Will be at MRG tomorrow to sample whatever blew into the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froude Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 5 hours ago, powderfreak said: The most insane wind I can remember here this morning. Looked like some 80 mph gusts up there last night? That lookout cam is hilarious, snow stake begging for mercy. Was a great day to be on the west side. 30:1 fluff still falling nicely in Underhill this evening, finally shut off here at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderwx Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Impressive display out there todayClimbed to 2500’ with ambitions of skiing. Got stood straight up by a gust and promptly turned around:) That wind was serious. Should be an interesting ski tomorrow.Our valley fields are down to grass and the occasional 6’ drifts. Up to 10F tonight though . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 3 hours ago, Froude said: Looked like some 80 mph gusts up there last night? That lookout cam is hilarious, snow stake begging for mercy. Was a great day to be on the west side. 30:1 fluff still falling nicely in Underhill this evening, finally shut off here at home. That cam is the poster child for this event haha. The thing had an extra flip in it the other day… we think the wind literally pushed it enough to trigger the flipping mechanism. That thing looks like it just went through battle for the past 72 hours of 50-80mph wind and sub-zero cold. It’s like, “I’m still standing. I might have a black eye, missing a shoe, and struggling but what else ya got another Nature?” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 2 hours ago, borderwx said: Impressive display out there today Climbed to 2500’ with ambitions of skiing. Got stood straight up by a gust and promptly turned around:) That wind was serious. Should be an interesting ski tomorrow. Our valley fields are down to grass and the occasional 6’ drifts. Up to 10F tonight though. One of the more impressive walks from staff parking to the Mtn Ops Center at 5am this morning. I don't have to, but the morning walk in the elements really sets the tone of the day to me. The snowbanks were getting sculpted into hard slab, which only happens in high, sustained winds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 I don’t want to anger the SNE weenies but this pattern has been amazing. Wish we could just have this all season long lol. Not sure what’s changed but after the 3-4 days of wind and small flakes we now have giant flakes piling up fast. So nice. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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