Mansfield Stats

[billski]

In addition to the stake, the NWS has put together a dandy little look-up table of Mt Mansfield records for each day of the calendar year.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/mountain/

Today in Mansfield history:
Mount Mansfield, VT October 6
Record High 68 ºF 2005
Record Low 13 ºF 1965
Record Precip 2.45 in. 1991
Record Snowfall 2 in. 1986
Normal high 48 ºF
Normal low 35 ºF
Normal precip 0.20 in.

 

[ta&idaho]

Valentine's Day 2007 must have been quite the love-ly storm.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/mountain/xml/MMNV1_recsAndNorms.xml

 

[TheBEast]

Nice, me like!

 

[x10003q]

Great site.
Jan 2, 1981, I drove up to Stowe for 2 weeks of skiing and partying with some fraternity brothers. It was one of the coldest 2 weeks I can remember in all my years of skiing. As I looked at the records I noticed the following records:
Jan 3, 1981 -32
Jan 4, 1981 -34
Jan 5, 1981 -37
Jan 11, 1981 -27
I skied in jeans and a corduroy CB jacket with a hat, goggles and a scarf. I remember piling on 3 of those wool ponchos they gave out at the bottom of the single and double chairs. I put 2 over my body and wrapped one around my head. One of my nutty brothers from Michigan skied w/o a hat and some Ray Ban Aviators. He claimed it was colder in Michigan. Everthing was cool until the Ray Bans froze to his head and he got a touch of frostbite were the arms of the glasses touched his head.

Good times.

 

[UVSHTSTRM]

I was expecting more impressive snow totals for a 24 hour period and single storms.

 

[JD]

Alot of storms last 36-48 hours. Valentines 07 was 40-50 inches total. An inch an hour average for 24 straight hours is pretty incredible for the east coast.

 

[Tin Woodsman]

I was expecting more impressive snow totals for a 24 hour period and single storms.

Keep in mind that these records have the same shortcomings as the Stake itself. Namely, it's measured only once every 24 hours as opposed to the standard once every six hours. This results in significantly lower annual snowfall totals than Stowe actually receives b/c of settling, melting and blowing snow. IIRC, the annual total there is in the 230" range yet in most years the depth at the Stake approaches 100". Even for the East Coast with its higher moisture content snow (at least for coastal systems), that's a ridiculous snowfall to snowpack ratio. This tells you that the snowfall total is low.

 

[JD]

keep in mind that these records have the same shortcomings as the stake itself. Namely, it's measured only once every 24 hours as opposed to the standard once every six hours. This results in significantly lower annual snowfall totals than stowe actually receives b/c of settling, melting and blowing snow. Iirc, the annual total there is in the 230" range yet in most years the depth at the stake approaches 100". Even for the east coast with its higher moisture content snow (at least for coastal systems), that's a ridiculous snowfall to snowpack ratio. This tells you that the snowfall total is low.

shhhushhhh!

 

[AdironRider]

Its even pretty rare to see 24" fall in a 24 hour period out west. Even two seasons ago in Jacksons record setting year, I think it only happened once. Same with Christmas day last year. Thats a serious storm to drop that much snow that fast. Most systems drop that over 2 days even in the west.