ah! new england!

[cweinman]

Hey, calm down everyone. Don't you know that Alta gets much more snow?

ROFL. It is kind of pathetic that we are excited over the prospect of 4 to 8 inches of snow. God, those of us in the east outside of northern VT have it bad .

 

[icelanticskier]

Hey, calm down everyone. Don't you know that Alta gets much more snow?

ROFL. It is kind of pathetic that we are excited over the prospect of 4 to 8 inches of snow. God, those of us in the east outside of northern VT have it bad .

whatever. where you been or not been skiing this year? alta, northern vt and the rest of us could really use 4-8 inches now. it's gonna happen, maybe not at alta or northern vt but, southern areas more likely-go where it snows.

rog

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Plattekill on Saturday. Anyone else going?

 

[J.Spin]

Check out the attached snowfall map from wxrisk.com as his first guess. Apparently the 12Z NAM run just trended towards a lot more precipitation. NWS office in forecast discussion up here in central New York has just gone from saying north may not even need any advisories to talking about winter storm warnings for tomorrow.

We'll see what the GFS does (I hate that model).

I'd still say go somewhere south based on the accumulations they seem to have received in Central and Southern New England, but I've pasted in my EasternUSWX weather update below to provide at least a valley update for this area. It looks like we fell fairly well in line with that initial estimate map. The sub 4% H2O ultra fluff we got won't do wonders for covering up the old base, but tomorrow should be pretty fun up on the hill anyway - I'm thinking of taking out the Teles as dropping the knee in fluff like that is always a fun sensation.

February 22nd, 2008: 7:00 P.M. update from Waterbury, VT.

New Snow: 3.8 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.14 inches
Ratio: 26.4 to 1
Snow Density: 3.8% H2O
Temperature: 21.6 F
Humidity: 83%
Barometer: 28.76 in Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Light/Moderate Snow
Cumulative storm snow total: 3.8 inches
Cumulative storm liquid total: 0.14 inches
Current snow at the stake: 27 inches
Season snowfall total: 158.7 inches

There were about 2 inches of new snow accumulation in Burlington when I left there at around 6:00 P.M., and it looked like we had about double that at our house in Waterbury. When I finally measured the accumulation off our snowboard at 7:00 P.M., I found 3.8 inches of new fluff. And boy what fluff it is – the flakes have been in the 0.5 to 1.0 cm range in diameter, and are building some fantastic loft. I haven’t been measuring liquid equivalent for every storm this season, but this is one of drier snowfalls we’ve had. The boys have been playing out back in the new snow this evening, and they’ll let themselves fall into it and it’s so light that it really explodes up into the air when they hit it. My wife and I both guessed independently on the water content in the snow based on the look and feel, and each came up with our best guess of 4% H2O. That was confirmed when my liquid measurement revealed that it was 3.8% H2O, or a snow to water ratio of 26.4 to 1. Even if this event hasn’t thrown a ton of liquid equivalent down for the ski areas up here, the skiing should be pretty decent with this new accumulation on top of the bit the resorts got earlier this week. I wasn’t expecting too much in terms of skiing tomorrow, but now I’m a little more psyched to get out and check out this new champagne powder. The central and southern New England ski areas should get a nice boost from this event. There’s been another 0.3 inches of accumulation on the board since I cleared it, but the snow looks like it’s shutting off so 4.1 inches might be where we end up with this event. The snow at the stake is at 27 inches, but I suspect it will drop a couple inches with the way this snow is going to settle.

J.Spin

 

[icelanticskier]

yo j,
glad you got some snow up north. even at low densities the bc above 2500ft will be very nice where there are no old tracks. i was skiing an adjacent ridge to mansfield wednesday with about 3 inches of new that had just fallen on a non crusty base of sponge. skiing was fabulous. the resort was like skiing on plate glass especially in the compacted trees.
cotton brook area could be the ticket with 4 inches more.
have fun
rog
approaching 8 inches in places down on the seacoast averaging about 8% perfect. i'm posting a report of my powder night at powderhouse tonight.

 

[J.Spin]

yo j,
glad you got some snow up north. even at low densities the bc above 2500ft will be very nice where there are no old tracks. i was skiing an adjacent ridge to mansfield wednesday with about 3 inches of new that had just fallen on a non crusty base of sponge. skiing was fabulous. the resort was like skiing on plate glass especially in the compacted trees.
cotton brook area could be the ticket with 4 inches more.

Yeah, I bet Cotton Brook will be skiing pretty nicely after these last couple of events. Today I'm heading up with Mom and the boys, so I don't think I'll hit Cotton Brook, but I do have a fun Cotton Brook report to get out at some point - there's been so much good skiing that I can't keep up with my reports. Anyway, the snow has picked up again here and we're at 4.7 inches for this event at the house; it's really just light snow but this fluff piles up quickly. I've pasted in this morning's weather/snowfall update below:

It looks like a general 3 to 6-inch event for the VT ski areas around here, although I'm surprised that the southern areas aren't reporting much more than the northern areas on SkiVermont.com. Mount Snow says 6 inches in the past 24 hours, and Stowe reports 5 inches, although Stowe probably received less liquid than Mt. Snow and got there on fluff factor. The snowfall has actually picked up here in Waterbury now, although this is probably drifting in from the mountains as I can see some blue sky trying to appear overhead. This morning's weather details are below:

February 23rd, 2008: 6:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT.

New Snow: 0.5 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.02 inches
Ratio: 25 to 1
Snow Density: 4.0% H2O
Temperature: 17.8 F
Humidity: 89%
Barometer: 28.70 in Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Flurries
Cumulative storm snow total: 4.3 inches
Cumulative storm liquid total: 0.16 inches
Current snow at the stake: 27 inches
Season snowfall total: 159.2 inches

We picked up another half inch of fluff overnight to bring our event total to 4.3 inches. A mere 0.5 inches of fluff doesn’t equate to much liquid of course, but I’m getting a bit better at measuring very small amounts of melted snow with the equipment I have, so I was able to determine a number of 0.02 inches of melted precipitation. That does indicate a snow density of 4.0% H2O, and since the snow consistency appears identical to last night’s 3.8% H2O reading, that provides some confidence in the measurement. I thought we were done with this event, but there’s still snow falling outside and another two tenths on the snowboard so it looks like it wants to keep going a bit longer. Montpelier is our reporting station for The Weather Channel local updates, and over the past couple hours that I’ve had the TV on this morning, they’ve been reporting light snow, so there’s still a bit of something out there. There are also some echoes on the BTV composite radar, although it seems to be having a hard time picking up the flurries/light snow we’re getting at the moment.

J.Spin