NNE Cold Season Thread 2024-2025

[backedgeapproaching]

Tried to get mailbox cleaned out, no shot with that shovel, it's a brick. 

 

[DavisStraight]

9 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Tried to get mailbox cleaned out, no shot with that shovel, it's a brick. 

 

I should have done a better job myself cleaning up Sunday, can't move what's out there now.

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, Froude said:

The wind really made that one of the more impressive storms we've had in years. One from driving in Craftsbury yesterday... overhead snowbanks and stakes lining the road so the plows can find it.

That's a vibe right there.  

[powderfreak]

20 hours ago, J.Spin said:

The storm pushed this month’s total snow to 50.7”, ensuring an above average February with respect to snowfall. That means that for this season, December, January, and February will all end up above average for snowfall, and that’s the first time that’s happened since the 2010-2011 season. Even with the very high reliability of snowfall up here in the Northern Greens, it still seems difficult to get all three of those midwinter months to achieve above average snowfall, so that’s a feather in the cap of the 2024-2025 season.

That's a great stat, especially as your observation database keeps growing.

That 2010-2011 season was my personal favorite up here.  That winter just wanted to snow.  For personal reasons too, as I skied 150 days that year, in my prime with a large lack of responsibilities except take photos for the mountain and measure snow.  The golden days, ha.

[mreaves]

47 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

That's a vibe right there.  

@Ginx snewxdisrobed looking at that picture. 

[qg_omega]

[Ginx snewx]

[Ginx snewx]

On 2/18/2025 at 8:49 PM, mreaves said:

@Ginx snewxdisrobed looking at that picture. 

So much 2011 vibe up there, complete with roof failures, avalanches and ice jams.

[eyewall]

Winooski, North Carolina 

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[borderwx]

Checking out the Mountain View’s in Maine for a few days.

That late Feb sun has the feels.




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[J.Spin]

The Thursday night system brough roughly 4 inches of new snow down at the house with 6 inches reported up at the mountain, and these were our most notable snow accumulations since Winter Storm Jett over the weekend. Other than a weak shortwave/upper-level trough tracking across the region in the Tuesday/Wednesday period, there hadn’t been any systems in the area this week, and mountain temperatures have been on the chilly side anyway, so it’s been nice to have a break and catch up on other things. Thursday night’s forecast did call for an inch or two of snow down in the valley, but since we got a bit more than expected, it seemed like a good excuse to head up for some morning exercise.

I stopped by Bolton Valley for a quick morning tour using the Wilderness Uphill Route and got to the mountain within an hour of opening. So, I was surprised to find that cars were already filling up the third and fourth rows in the Village parking lots. That’s notable for early on a weekday, but I think it’s winter vacation week for a number of schools from around the region, and people were definitely out taking advantage of it. The backcountry parking area had plenty of spots left though, so I was able to park there and get fairly decent access to Wilderness.

I hadn’t thought about temperatures, but they were still quite cold – it was in the lower single digits F up in the Village when I began my tour. There was also some wind, and while it was nothing like what we saw on Monday on the back side of Winter Storm Jett, it was still brisk enough that with single digit temperatures, it must have been cold riding the lifts. I toured in the 2,000’ to 2,500’ elevation range, and even at the lowest elevations I was finding accumulations of 4 to 6 inches of new snow. The new powder was nice, but it was super dry (liquid analyses from down at the house were in the 1 to 2% H2O range), so even on 115 mm fat skis, the turns weren’t bottomless. The subsurface is typically quite soft though, so the turns were still very good aside from spots where there were irregularities in the snow from old ski tracks, etc.

We appear to be moving into a clipper-type weather pattern for the upcoming week or two. The next shot of snow is forecast to come into the area tonight into tomorrow, and depending on how you break it down, the latest run of the GFS has anywhere from 6 to 9 different systems affecting the area through the first week of March. It probably won’t play out exactly as modeled, but it looks like there’s a decent parade of wintry systems poised to affect the Northern Greens for the upcoming period.