If This Was Only Snow

[Treeskier]

5" of rain here and 6+ in VT that would be 10-12" of snow per inch of rain. What powder days we would be having and everyone else would be doing what we are....Bum-ing.

Just talked to someone who skied Snowbird today. 70 degrees and great corn bumps. Lucky skier......

 

[eatskisleep]

I've been thinking the same lately on that matter.

 

[SnowRider]

Just think, right before this years season NH got that flood problem. Almost a foot of rain. If that had held of maybe a month or less, it :angry: could:angry: have been snow along with that really good December we had!

 

[ga2ski]

I have been thinking the same thing as I have been clearing swales in the yard, vacuuming water in the basement and digging a temporary sump under my deck near where the water is leaking into the basement.:-(

 

[loafer89]

We seem to be in-between rainy areas here on Long Island. Yesterday was clear and 70F, with this strange, round orange thing in the sky, oh now I remember, I think they call it the sun.:lol:

Today is cloudy and cold with a high of only 56F (normal is 68F) I did manage to get some of my lawn repaired after a winter of damage from our dogs. Nature will now take care of the watering the seed for the next week.

Hopefully everyone in the flooded areas of Massachusetts and New Hampshire makes it through this storm okay. I heard that both states have declared a state of emergency due to flooding.

 

[riverc0il]

if the weather were cold enough for this to be snow, i am fairly certain the weather pattern would not have allowed the system to keep pumping moisture. i have not followed this storm, but the weather patterns for the winter are kinda different than spring.

 

[loafer89]

We are in a stagnant weather pattern that has been in place more or less for the last month. When I was skiing at Sugarloaf we had a storm that was stuck in Northern Maine and closing day was cold and snowy while further south it was warm and sunny.

The strong high pressure over eastern Canada did allow for nearly 8" of snow to fall in the U.P of Michigan a few days ago. This pattern is forecast to persist until May 22nd, when the ridge in the west breaks down and the east warms up and dry's out (we hope).

In the meantime another storm is forecast for monday with up to 3" of additional rain.

 

[Geoff]

10" of rain so far here in Portsmouth, NH. Probably another 2" overnight. I wouldn't want to be living on the Merrimack River this week.

 

[awf170]

If only this was snow.... I would have a snow day tomorrow.... oh wait I do.:-D (guess it should be called a rain day though)

 

[meat]

only got a 1/2" of rain over the last couple of days here in northern vermont. most of it was yesterday afternoon, today we had some sun and a few showers with temps in the mid 60s, not bad.

 

[Marc]

if the weather were cold enough for this to be snow, i am fairly certain the weather pattern would not have allowed the system to keep pumping moisture. i have not followed this storm, but the weather patterns for the winter are kinda different than spring.

You are quite right Steve, it would be climatologically impossible for this to be snow. The winds have been prevailing from the SE bringing in all the moisture off the Atlantic, and with it, the stagnant 50's temp.'s from the water.

For snow, a low pressure coming up the cost must collide and slide past NE south of Long Island with a high pressure over Canada which results in the typical winter storm winds out of the NE. The high supplies the cold, the low supplies the moisture. Because of the interference of the cold high pressure winds, the volume of moisture brought inland is drastically reduced.

 

[skibum1321]

All of this rain is wicked depressing though. I haven't seen the sun since last Monday.