I see at 1:20pm the snowfall jumped up to 7" at the summit and 3" at the base... although there were numerous morning updates stating 3" and then 4" and then the sun came out. Then at 1pm it jumped to 7"...what changed between like 9-10am when it was updated with 3-4" and 1pm when it hit 7"? Even at the base of the mountain there's no way the base area picked up an extra 2" after like 9am. If you see 3" out there at 7am, don't wait until 1pm to updated it.
I ski Sugarbush about 75 days a season but the consistency this season in the snow report seems especially low for whatever reason. Its just very jumpy in the snowfall totals. I might have made the drive from Montpelier today if I knew it was 4-7" at mid-mountain and the summit even as early as 9-10am I couldve left and been on slope before noon. And I know it didn't snow anything extra after about 9am. So that sort of inconsistency lost a skier visit today.
I'm more annoyed at myself for not going truthfully. But theres a big diff between 1-3" and 3-7". And this season Ive noticed a lot of large jumps in reported snowfall at the 1-2pm updates even when no additional snow has fallen. The site was updated for lift holds all morning, why couldn't the snowfall have been updated because anyone who looked at the weather could tell you the snowfall at 9am was the same snowfall at 1pm. An additional 3-4" didn't fall in that time so the 7" should've been known very early.
/end rant.
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