ski_resort_observer wrote:

Wow, currently snowing very hard, medium size flakes, right now. Probably will stop in 5 minutes and the sun will come out.

The radar shows a pretty nice band extending all the way over from Lake Ontario. Hopefully that flow will persist for a while...

ski_resort_observer wrote:

Wow, currently snowing very hard, medium size flakes, right now. Probably will stop in 5 minutes and the sun will come out.

Check the cam..... http://www.madrivervalley.com

edit. 3:02pm, now only snowing lightly downtown, but looks heavier at elevation. Forecast is for more squalls continuing overnight.

We just came off the mountain at South, where it is dumping. It hasn't let up.

I remember growing up in Vermont, we had a year just like this in 1973. We got 30 inches of snow all winter. Most of the precip was rain. My friend reminded me of the gas shortage too. 55 mile an hour speed limits and a restricted number of gallons pumped.

Back 11 years ago, we also had a very wet fall, right into February. All hell broke loose in March and April and we skied at Jay on their last day in 3 feet of powder. There mighit have been about 75 people there that day.

Not sure what's going on but Norm's webcam seems to be stuck on 10:53 AM, anyone else seeing this?

certainly a beautiful sight, at least as of 30 seconds ago. Yahoo !

The Mad River Glen cam looks pretty sweet http://www.madriverglen.com/?Page=cams.html Hope this is a sign that winter is arriving. The NWS seems to backing off of a big warm-up forecast for us this weekend.

pics

Nice! What do you tell your kids when they ask why the heck are they posing for this photo?

I'll play too since Norm is still stuck on this morning. Most of the time you can double what I have at my place near the Mad River to what's on the mountain.


Wahoo, Norm's just got updated, now that's what it's supposed to look like.

....what do the next 5-6 days appear to have in store for us ? Anybody with current info/thoughts/hopes ?

Certainly a backing off of predicted warmer temps by NWS is a good start !

ski_resort_observer wrote:

Nice! What do you tell your kids when they ask why the heck are they posing for this photo?

Ask? Their a couple of Ham's. His brother took this pic. Oh yea don't leave your car in the Mad Mountain Tavern parking lot over night in the year 2014. It will get burried.

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm still hearing Eye on the Sky saying warm until Sat, or so.

Long - term according to NWS/NOAA shows highs in the teens for next week, overnight 0 to 5 below. That sounds promising. Now if it would only precipitate bigtime during that period, then you know it'd be of the frozen variety.

-JH

Lostone wrote:

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm still hearing Eye on the Sky saying warm until Sat, or so.

F eye in the sky. NWS BTV sez:

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MUCH OF THE EXTENDED WILL SEE THE CWA RECEIVE PRECIPITATION. THE FIRST SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE WESTERN CWA FRI MORN. HIGH PRESSURE OFF THE EAST COAST WILL KEEP TEMPS AT OR JUST BLW FREEZING FOR ONSET OF PRECIP. FRNTL SYSTEM SLOWLY SAGS SOUTH OVER THE AREA INTO SATURDAY...BFR MVG SOUTH OF THE AREA. VERY LITTLE TEMP RANGE EXPECTED FOR THIS EVENT...SO EXPECTING POTENTIAL MIX OF WINTRY PRECIP FOR MUCH OF EVENT...BFR GOING TO ALL -SW SATURDAY AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING. SECOND LOW MVG NE ALONG FRONT FROM SE PART OF COUNTRY WILL ADVANCE ON THE CWA BY SUNDAY MORNING...TAPERING OFF DURING THE DAY MONDAY. AGAIN REGION WILL HAVE CD AIR AT THE SFC PROMPTING A POTENTIAL MIX OF SW/IP/RA/FZRA BFR GOING TO ALL -SW ON MONDAY. THIS IS ALL DEPENDENT ON TRACK OF SFC LOW...WHICH HAS SHIFTED A BIT EAST SINCE 00Z/06Z RUNS

Here is the NWS point forecast at about 3000' somewhere on the Bush. http://www.erh.noaa.gov/forecast/MapClick.php?site=BTV&llon=-73.289583&rlon=-72.594583&tlat=44.400417&blat=43.705417&smap=1&mp=1&map.x=125&map.y=95
-3F for Wednesday night, hope everyone is ready for that...