NNE Cold Season Thread 2024-2025

[dmcginvt]

I love the fact that at least my area doesnt have to live and die with every run.  The past I dont know 6 weeks?  Have been unreal.  I dont have an amazing snowpack.  But the mtn does.  Nickel and dime has kept us in winter wonderland.  The mtn is unreal.  So much snow everywhere.  (except on the trails).  Its been a long time since I have seen it personally.  The fact that it isnt going away and more is coming.  no words.  best winter in a long time.  The train of storms coming will be all over the place, if we get more 3 to 4 out of it fine.  Let them sne folks eat cake, even the mid atlantic.  We are doing just fine here.

[J.Spin]

I hadn’t had a chance to check out the BTV NWS maps for our current storm (Winter Storm Freya), but now I’ve seen their thoughts. The advisories map is fairly straightforward with Winter Weather Advisories across the board. Our point forecast in the valley calls for 2 to 4 inches of snow from the storm, with 1 to 3 of that during the day today, but it looks like we’ll easily surpass the 3 inches today since we’re already beyond that point. In general, that seems to align with the Storm Total Snowfall Forecast map with areas of 3-4” and 4-6” shading in the Northern Greens.

[bwt3650]

Just checked the Mansfield stake site to see how this winter compares and only 2018 saw more snow at the Mansfield stake as of this day since 1986...quite a run this winter with more on the way.

[borderwx]

Cleared 4”, but the chimney is whistling so who knows for sure

Started the day with another sub zero dog walk, -8F

Some pingers on my way to check the mountain at 1:30. Skied through the break in the action, a wind loaded mess, but only a touch of sleet mixing

Curious what the morning brings




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[Froude]

Northern VT resorts over 200" and Sunday River just passing 60" today blows my mind. Feast or famine this year on the northwest flow.

[mreaves]

8 minutes ago, Froude said:

Northern VT resorts over 200" and Sunday River just passing 60" today blows my mind. Feast or famine this year on the northwest flow.

I was in Bethel for a family reunion this weekend and took a drive up to SR.  Seemed like plenty of snow.  Of course I don't live in one of the favored VT areas so I may not be able to judge all that accurately.

[timp]

3.3” today. I’ve only been up here five years but this is what I assume an old school winter feels like. Negative temps abundant, a smidge over 95” on the winter and 22” on the ground. The shovel piles around the cars are getting massive. 

[MRVexpat]

1 hour ago, borderwx said:

Cleared 4”, but the chimney is whistling so who knows for sure

Started the day with another sub zero dog walk, -8F

Some pingers on my way to check the mountain at 1:30. Skied through the break in the action, a wind loaded mess, but only a touch of sleet mixing

Curious what the morning brings




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Sweet! I'll be there this weekend. Excited for my annual big Jay lap. Hopefully the pow stayed fresh. 

[GCWarrior]

 Didn’t notice because they had mechanical problems today but DJs Tramline at Cannon was open yesterday.  They must be getting some decent density snow to get that run open so early.  Very rocky. 

[D@no]

For what it’s worth up at Stowe at 1300 feet, small flurries so far no freezing drizzle fingers crossed!


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[Froude]

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

I was in Bethel for a family reunion this weekend and took a drive up to SR.  Seemed like plenty of snow.  Of course I don't live in one of the favored VT areas so I may not be able to judge all that accurately.

Glad to hear it for their sake.. I'm guessing they are good at retention over there. Smuggs is at 212" but was wiped to the ground just before New Years. Two different ways to get there.

[J.Spin]

Yesterday morning I headed up to the mountain for a quick ski tour via the Wilderness Uphill Route to check on the round of upslope snow that had fallen during the overnight. Our winter weather pattern over the past week has been a bit of a whirlwind to keep track of, with another system coming through every day or two. In any event, Bolton Valley is reporting over two feet of snow in the past week, and this stretch has also driven their season snowfall total past the 200-inch mark. In the Village and all across the resort, the layers and layers of snow just keep stacking up to create a deep snowpack and some picturesque winter scenes.

We’re pushing farther into February now, but yesterday morning still featured some of that January cold, with lows in the single digits F. In fact, the Village was just barely in the positive digits F when I arrived. Thankfully, there wasn’t much wind at the base area elevations, and the clear skies and February sun were helping to take the edge off the chill.

There weren’t any issues to worry about with respect to the new upslope snow disturbing the right-side-up gradient in the powder – my liquid analyses from the house indicated that the snow was super dry, coming in with ratios in the 2 to 3 % H2O range. The cold temperatures did make the snow somewhat slow though, and that was definitely felt on lower angle slopes. I only toured up to the 2,500’ elevation mark, so the effects of wind weren’t too apparent, but you could see that the new snow had been pushed around and settled a bit from its initial ultra-low density.

The forecast says we’re moving into a slightly warmer weather pattern now though, and even at relatively high elevations in the Northern Greens, we’re not expected to have any more of those days with high in the single digits F for the foreseeable future. The first system in this pattern is Winter Storm Freya that is passing through the area now, and these upcoming storms look like they’ll have some decent moisture for resurfacing the on-piste areas at the resorts.