noski
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http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/mountain/point/ You likely know about this, but I heard it on the news this morning and thought it was interesting.
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NOAA Mtn Top Weather Site
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FWIW it was 12F this morning on the top of Mount Washington and a -15 F windchill!
Vermont NWS Adds Mountain Forecast Site
Burlington's NWS Station has added a special mountain weather forecast site for hikers and skiers that gives the forecast information specific for certain peaks. Read about tt here:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...-Service-adds-Vermont-N.Y.-mountain-forecasts
Here is a link to the new page:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/mountain/point/
You click on the mountain logos and it gives you the narrative forecast including a chart for temperatures, wind direction, wind speed, and wind chill for every three hours.
Burlington's NWS Station has added a special mountain weather forecast site for hikers and skiers that gives the forecast information specific for certain peaks. Read about tt here:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...-Service-adds-Vermont-N.Y.-mountain-forecasts
Here is a link to the new page:
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv/mountain/point/
You click on the mountain logos and it gives you the narrative forecast including a chart for temperatures, wind direction, wind speed, and wind chill for every three hours.
Huck_It_Baby
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Perfect. Thanks for the link....I didn't know of this.
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It is very cool but there are a couple of caveats to any point forecast. If you look at the elevation for Mt Ellen, for example, you can only get a point at around 3000', not the summit. Secondly all the baseline info is from the nearest NWS station which for here in the MRV is the station at the airport in Berlin. The NWS then uses weather based algorithms to take the baseline data and produce the point forecasts.
I think is about as accurate as you can get and lots of fun to quickly check mountain weather and forecasts anywhere around the country. The other cool thing is that your getting the baseline weather info from the same source as the weather folks on the net, tv or radio. It's the forecast that is the sticky wicket for those folks. :lol:
I think is about as accurate as you can get and lots of fun to quickly check mountain weather and forecasts anywhere around the country. The other cool thing is that your getting the baseline weather info from the same source as the weather folks on the net, tv or radio. It's the forecast that is the sticky wicket for those folks. :lol:
billski
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Just saw this on the BFP this AM. Thanks for the link.
It's a nice step forward. As SRO said, it's all about the altitude. I'd much prefer a Webcam or better yet a weather station at base, mid and peak, as Stratton Mountain has. In many ways, real time is more valuable information before during and after a storm.
Now, if we could get Albany NWS off their butt and take mountain forecasts more seriously - First, a snowforecast map (like the other offices do, duh!) and a mountain forecast like Burlington does. That would go a long ways towards appreciating the mountain weather in the southern Greens.
mondeo
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The link shows over 4000' for the Mt. Ellen summit. It's not the full forecast you get for the normal click on the map point forecast, but it does give temps.
Not today John. While some colder air was trapped in the lower valleys or base level from overnight (and with calm winds), the problem is that temps aloft, being brought in or "advected" by southwesterly winds, are well above freezing. It's a little counterintuitive but there's no way to get snow out of these showers with snow levels waaay up around 11 or 12,000'. Hope that helps.
billski
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Weather. Can't live with it, can't live without it. :roll:
drjeff
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Yup! One of the biggest things that the early season New England ski operations need is a prevailing wind direction from the North or Northwest, since especially at this time of year, winds out of almost any other direction are going to have a significant warm component to them, even way up in the atmosphere :smash:
drjeff
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Yup! And Winn I'm sure your getting ready for the next few months and trying to figure out what always seems to be that age old battle in early season Northeast storms, which what will win the battle, the cold fronts from the North and West kicking out the warm air ahead of the low, or the warm air associated with the low staying entrenched along the East Coast. This is the time of year especially where I'm not quite sure how meterologists maintain their sanity in the Northeast!
:lol:Yup! And Winn I'm sure your getting ready for the next few months and trying to figure out what always seems to be that age old battle in early season Northeast storms, which what will win the battle, the cold fronts from the North and West kicking out the warm air ahead of the low, or the warm air associated with the low staying entrenched along the East Coast. This is the time of year especially where I'm not quite sure how meterologists maintain their sanity in the Northeast!
Who said we had any sanity to begin with? :smile:
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