The weather: How GOOD will Friday be?
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jasoncapecod
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As of now the dacks will be butt cold for April with snow showers... very cold air mass will drop down later in the week
AlpineZone
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Heading to the MRV Thursday night. Really hoping they pick up some snow. Either way, it's going to get cold and the natural runs will be rough without some snow.
Sharon
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mmmmmmmmm, refrozen mashed potatoes with a dusting of sugar on top
too soon to tell how the conditions will be this weekend. If it snows a bunch, that could help quite a bit...but if it is just a few snow showers, it could be more like dust on crust.
Looks like by thursday we'll have a better idea of what is going on up there and what the weekend conditions may be like.
stand by
too soon to tell how the conditions will be this weekend. If it snows a bunch, that could help quite a bit...but if it is just a few snow showers, it could be more like dust on crust.
Looks like by thursday we'll have a better idea of what is going on up there and what the weekend conditions may be like.
stand by
jasoncapecod
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I think it rained up and down the east coast on christmas day... maybe a little snow in the higher elevations
J.Spin
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Yes, Christmas proper wasn't all that great with mostly rain and only topping out in some places with about a half a foot of rather dense snow on the back end:jasoncapecod":3uon5jfj said:
http://www.jandeproductions.com/2006/27DEC06.html
New Year's was the better holiday in that time frame with about a foot of fresh up high:
http://www.jandeproductions.com/2006/30DEC06.html
http://www.jandeproductions.com/2006/31DEC06.html
So those two holidays "sort of" fit in with the holiday dumps theme, but not to the exact day and they weren't very big in terms of snowfall. They were just sort of "mini dumps".
The pictures from the days are at the above links, but the text links are available on each one of those pages with more detail about what actually went on in terms of weather and snowfall.
J.Spin
J.Spin
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Here's just a quick update from this morning (Thursday) with regard to the topic (pasted from my SkiVT-L update below) - I'd expect most places around here (Northern Vermont) to be at around a foot of new snow by now. Today's stuff will be pretty tracked up by skiers, but it should do a nice job of covering most thin spots and if the upslope/wraparound portion of the cycle goes into effect this afternoon and tonight then there should be some fresh tomorrow. If Powderfreak is around I'm sure he'll comment on the timing and amounts of the potential upslope/wraparound snow.
This morning's Waterbury/Bolton area report:
As of 7:00 A.M. we were up to 5.8 inches from this event in Waterbury, but it was still snowing so that total should continue to grow. Bolton Valley reported 6 to 8 inches this morning in their early report so I headed up for a few runs. There were only a couple of inches of new accumulation at the bottom of the Bolton road, noticeably less than what we picked up in Waterbury just a few miles to the east. I found about 6 inches of snow in the Bolton Village parking lot when I arrived at around 8:30 A.M. I skinned for a run and then did a few bonus laps off the Vista Quad. There was certainly more snow as you went higher in elevation. The air was pretty calm at most elevations at that point, but there had been a little wind at some point to mix around the accumulations. Hard Luck seemed to be a good representative example of the snow that hadn?t been pushed around by the wind, so I did a couple of checks with my measurement pole in undisturbed snow - finding a reading of 11" on the first check, and 10" on the second check. The snowfall density had dropped to probably the 8-10% H2O range for what was coming down while I was there. The snowfall rate was decent, probably close to 1"/hour at times. There was plenty of powder to ski whatever natural snow trails they had opened and there weren?t many people around to really track them up. I touched down to the base only occasionally on the 180 CMH fatties depending on the pitch of the slope, but most of the time it was bottomless. I found I touched down most on Spillway because it seemed to have a bit less snow than some of the other trails (possibly from some wind) and it does have a pretty good pitch. There is a nice gradient of density in the new snowfall that helps to keep you off the old base layer. That gradient should hopefully continue with more fluff as this cycle keeps going. Bolton is now reporting that they?re up to a foot of snow out of this event, which seems about right for their higher elevation areas.
J.Spin
This morning's Waterbury/Bolton area report:
As of 7:00 A.M. we were up to 5.8 inches from this event in Waterbury, but it was still snowing so that total should continue to grow. Bolton Valley reported 6 to 8 inches this morning in their early report so I headed up for a few runs. There were only a couple of inches of new accumulation at the bottom of the Bolton road, noticeably less than what we picked up in Waterbury just a few miles to the east. I found about 6 inches of snow in the Bolton Village parking lot when I arrived at around 8:30 A.M. I skinned for a run and then did a few bonus laps off the Vista Quad. There was certainly more snow as you went higher in elevation. The air was pretty calm at most elevations at that point, but there had been a little wind at some point to mix around the accumulations. Hard Luck seemed to be a good representative example of the snow that hadn?t been pushed around by the wind, so I did a couple of checks with my measurement pole in undisturbed snow - finding a reading of 11" on the first check, and 10" on the second check. The snowfall density had dropped to probably the 8-10% H2O range for what was coming down while I was there. The snowfall rate was decent, probably close to 1"/hour at times. There was plenty of powder to ski whatever natural snow trails they had opened and there weren?t many people around to really track them up. I touched down to the base only occasionally on the 180 CMH fatties depending on the pitch of the slope, but most of the time it was bottomless. I found I touched down most on Spillway because it seemed to have a bit less snow than some of the other trails (possibly from some wind) and it does have a pretty good pitch. There is a nice gradient of density in the new snowfall that helps to keep you off the old base layer. That gradient should hopefully continue with more fluff as this cycle keeps going. Bolton is now reporting that they?re up to a foot of snow out of this event, which seems about right for their higher elevation areas.
J.Spin