dendrite Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 22.8F now with light sleet and snow grains. Maybe we will flip back over to snow when the better lift arrives. 0.7" new snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 4:25pm was a light sleet/snow mixture past 15 minutes back to good snow.......for the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 CON is over to -FZRA, but I'm transitioning back over to a 50/50 S/IP mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 CON is over to -FZRA, but I'm transitioning back over to a 50/50 S/IP mix. I think we may even sleet for a time here this evening... its going to be very close. At the very least, snow growth will be no better than 10:1 and I wouldn't be surprised to see a 9:1 ratio from this. Incredible temperature swing here today, much like Plymouth, NH saw yesterday... below zero to above freezing in 6 hours. The ASOS at MVL had a 6-hour high of 35F and a 6-hour low of -4F earlier today, 39F change in 6 hours. We torched here to 36F here in Stowe and I even saw 37F at the base of the ski area at 1,500ft at one point and that ends our sub-freezing stretch since early Jan. Ceilings are lowering quickly here... the mountain just disappeared from view so visibility is lowering around us, but no flakes yet. EDIT: Nevermind, steady snow just moved in very quickly. It looks like we have quite a bit of fun between 7pm and 1am. If the new NAM run is correct we should be snowing pretty hard for a time later this evening. Might take a quick nap so I can stay up for this, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 5pm 23.3F light to moderate snow. Large flakes, just pouring snow. 1" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardinalWinds Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Snowing heavily here now, and boy did it move in quick. Fairly large flakes. Temp dropped from 35 to 28 in a one hour span. Nothing but snow in the forecast here, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some ice falling. Don't need the ZR though, with the steepness of my driveway and the road I'm on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 That first band of snow was very intense 2" in about 40 minutes or so. It let up and could also hear some pingers mixed in, then back to solid all snow, picked up another 1.8", so that is were we stand at 3.8" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grambo Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Hard tellin', not knowin'. Afternoon updates should be out by 4:00pm. But welcome! Got a good chuckle from that one. Thanks. I lurked at Eastern a good two years and then finally found out where the majority of the people had gone to recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Wow. CAR thinks the mixing is going to get pretty far north around here. Doesn't bode well for me. WITH TRACK MOVING FARTHER NORTH SO WILL THE LOW LEVEL WARM AIR. EXPECT CHANGEOVER TO OCCUR AS FAR NORTH AS A DOVER-FOXCROFT TO LINCOLN LINE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 That first band of snow was very intense 2" in about 40 minutes or so. It let up and could also hear some pingers mixed in, then back to solid all snow, picked up another 1.8", so that is were we stand at 3.8" so far. Yeah that sounds close to what we are about to experience... it is snowing very hard right now and since its early in the storm, you can see the snow increasing every 10 minutes on the car-tops. LOL at Burlington going from no snow to a solid 30-40dbz in under a half hour. That's snow moving in like a wall. Here's the base radar scan out of Burlington. Wall of snow. And also a good image to show why those of us in the mountains use the composite radar... the base scan doesn't make it over Mansfield and parts of the Green Mountain spine, but it does shoot through the Winooski Valley (I-89 corridor) towards Montpelier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 All snow so far in Ira, VT. 27.5 deg. and 2.5". Huge aggregate parachutes before! Heaviest snow I've seen this season. Unlikely to stay all snow here, but we'll see.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWeatherWatcher Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Temp still falling @ 29F, heavy snow with 0.75" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Damn! Pingers! Seconds after my last post. You can see the 35 dbz just south of rutland on the radar indicating the progression north. Ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 5:30pm Snow and sleet. Picked up 1" in past 25 minutes with my golfball flakes. 2 1/4" total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Damn! Pingers! Seconds after my last post. You can see the 35 dbz just south of rutland on the radar indicating the progression north. Ugh. Bummer. Luckily you should go back to snow (probably briefly heavy) once the low passes this longitude. I'm very interested to see how far north the sleet gets this evening. I think it'll reach its most northward progression between 7-9pm tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if I even see a little sleet or snow grains up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 These are some of the most impressive all-snow radar reflectivities I've seen over in the Burlington area since Valentines Day 2007. BTV must be getting close to 2"/hr in that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Flipping back and forth every minute or so from sleet to very, very heavy parachutes. Fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 I really think we will mix with some sleet for an hour or two this evening... RUC keeps coming in warmer and warmer. 21z RUC gets the H85 freezing line pretty far north and mid to lower level thicknesses aren't all that pretty. Very interesting system as far as how poorly the models handled this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Geez.... maybe I won't have to worry about pingers. That dryslot is charging north like it's on a mission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Still dry here with 28-29F after a high near freezin. Nice roof-shoveling wx, after a low near -10. Almost as impressive a diurnal range as yesterday's incredible 50, with 29/-21. Clouds came in as a shield of altocumulus/altostratus, so that we went from all sun to no sun in about 30 seconds at 1 PM. Just a tiny fringe of cirrus at the front of the "altos". GYX has backed 2" off our forecast, to 4-8" due to mixing (up to 0.1" ice), but AUG area, which was same 6-10" this AM as foothills, now is progged for 3-5" with up to 1/4" ice. Only the mts stayed 6-10", and even there some brief mixing was in the forecast. Should be a nice mess tomorrow morning. Given how far west the models have moved this thing over the past 48 hr, I'll be quite pleased if the current forecast verifies rather than having 2" of armored slush/IP/ZR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simpsonsbuff Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 About 2.5 or so on the ground... haven't seen sleet... Now have just in the last minute or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 4.5 inches in Orwell, VT @ 5:15. All of it since 2:30 pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 6pm moderate snow. 23.3F 3" so far. Some sleet past hour but back to 100% snow at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtWeatherWatcher Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Just got another 1.25" in the last 45 minutes. This is way more fun than watching a foot fall over 2 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vttaconics Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Freezing rain mixing in with the sleet now..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Light fzra at gyx now. maybe a little sleet. 27.2F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Light fzra at gyx now. maybe a little sleet. 27.2F. Just had a blast of snow like we had at the beginning ... should be drilling you in a few. 27.1F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold214 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Just had a blast of snow like we had at the beginning ... should be drilling you in a few. 27.1F Yeah, back over to snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Wow! It is just crushing heavy snow out there. 5pm...snow begins 6pm...2" new, rate 2"/hr 6:20pm...2.5" total, rate 1.5"/hr +SN (ASOS's around the area seem to only be reporting moderate snow but to me, snowfall rates of this magnitude deserve heavy snow regardless of measured visibility). The Champlain Valley is also getting hit pretty good... Snow started at BTV around 4:50pm, by 5:50pm they had 0.11" of liquid, then a half hour later at 6:20pm they got another 0.10" of liquid. At 10:1 ratios that's a 2"/hr snowfall rate at BTV and the ASOS may even be under-reporting the liquid in the snow as it often does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hvysnow79 Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Another inch bringing it up close to 5" for the event. Seems to be like elsewhere a snow/sleet mix, with heavier bursts of all large snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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