NNE Cold Season Thread 2024-2025

[alex]

Snowing pretty well here, temp 31F. I was in Boston last night and got an inch or two there, I was surprised to come home to another 4-5”. Definitely helped cover up some of the skied up areas from the weekend in the glades. Stake at 15”

[#NoPoles]

Rain mixed in

[powderfreak]

Yeah it’s been like a white rain.

A half inch sloppy coating.

[#NoPoles]

White rain here. It was a rain snow mix around 630pm, now it's mostly snow but it's still above freezing.

[tunafish]

3 hours ago, powderfreak said:

You’re not the only one lol.  The Stowe Family is always arguing with me that there’s more snow.  

I think this is more common than we realize.  Meaning, the public's perception of total snowfall compared to that of the observer (or even weenie).  

This is my 4th winter doing obs for GYX. Friends around town will ask me how much we got, and each year, for almost every event, their response when I tell them the amount is the same:  "that's it?"

People perceive a 4" event to be 6", or 10.5" to be 13".  And that's in a place that, for the most part, see's less variability than your locale in term of amounts across a geographical area.

[backedgeapproaching]

25 minutes ago, tunafish said:

I think this is more common than we realize.  Meaning, the public's perception of total snowfall compared to that of the observer (or even weenie).  

This is my 4th winter doing obs for GYX. Friends around town will ask me how much we got, and each year, for almost every event, their response when I tell them the amount is the same:  "that's it?"

People perceive a 4" event to be 6", or 10.5" to be 13".  And that's in a place that, for the most part, see's less variability than your locale in term of amounts across a geographical area.

I mentioned the other week a coworker of mine on a zoom called said "at least a foot" near ORH when that event no one had more than 6-7".  Well, this morning on a another Monday morning zoom a different coworker who lives somewhere around Taunton Mass area said definitely 4-5". Who knew my team was loaded with slant stickers 

[backedgeapproaching]

Pretty decent rainfall going on down here. 

.30" and counting. Raining at all elevations looks like in SVT. Need some CAA to get here.

[dmconno]

Wow, @powderfreak you/Stowe finally got the Gondola webcam back up an running, good goin'! Solid snow amounts thus far showing 5" on the web cam stake. 

[DavisStraight]

22 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

I mentioned the other week a coworker of mine on a zoom called said "at least a foot" near ORH when that event no one had more than 6-7".  Well, this morning on a another Monday morning zoom a different coworker who lives somewhere around Taunton Mass area said definitely 4-5". Who knew my team was loaded with slant stickers 

I get the opposite reaction, we can get a foot with all the channels hyping the storm and my brother-in-law will always say we got less and they over hyped, it wasn't that bad. He drives 2 miles to work and back home so it's not like he has a commute, drive on the pike with a foot of snow and you'll feel differently about 12 inches.

[powderfreak]

12 minutes ago, dmconno said:

Wow, @powderfreak you/Stowe finally got the Gondola webcam back up an running, good goin'! Solid snow amounts thus far showing 5" on the web cam stake. 

It’s a new cam with a live view.  That old one was static low-def. A nice base area observation point there at Midway base lodge.

[J.Spin]

I didn’t get a chance to post the BTV NWS maps earlier, but the storm train is rolling on and Winter Weather Advisories have been up in the Northern Greens. I’m seeing projected accumulations of 4-8” for the local mountains, and our point forecast down here in the valley has 2-4”.

[borderwx]

Cleared 5” new this AM, no mixing up this way

Down to 17F now

Winter wonderland


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[J.Spin]

30 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Talk about going into the snow portal… holy sh*t at 1500ft.  The ski area is just stuffed with snow.  Its dumping near 1”/hr upslope after 7” of denser snow overnight.

There has to be 24-30” on the ground at 1500ft now.  Road snowbanks are taller than SUV’s.  Last night took this up another level with some good QPF rich snow.  This little pocket up here is buried.

I just checked that radar, and what a classic look of the spine getting lit up with that northwest flow:

[borderwx]

12. Still heavy snow. Off the charts good skiing today




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[powderfreak]

1 minute ago, J.Spin said:

I just checked that radar, and what a classic look of the spine getting lit up with that northwest flow:

Flurries and light snow in town but once up Harlow Hill it’s pounding.  Classic Stowe side gradient.

Once you get to Binghams Falls and past there, it’s just full on buried.

[mreaves]

4 minutes ago, J.Spin said:

I just checked that radar, and what a classic look of the spine getting lit up with that northwest flow:

I'm at the office in Waterbury today and its been like a snowglobe all day.