Possible Nor'easter for 11/27

[billski]

Oh man, it looks like NVT is gonna get its first hit

 

[KingM]

Oh man, it looks like NVT is gonna get its first hit
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If, by Northern Vermont, you mean the part of Vermont northeast of Montreal...

 

[riverc0il]

If, by Northern Vermont, you mean the part of Vermont northeast of Montreal...

The images change as they are three days out so those images are now for Sunday instead of Saturday and indeed the storm will be out of New England by Sunday.

 

[billski]

If, by Northern Vermont, you mean the part of Vermont northeast of Montreal...

Damn! Those lines were perfectly aligned last night at 3 days out. Let's look at 2 days. It's promising, but a little less so now:
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wwd/winter_wx.shtml

 

[riverc0il]

I imagine that those maps do not include localized upslope so I wouldn't be too worried...

 

[billski]

I imagine that those maps do not include localized upslope so I wouldn't be too worried...

As a skier, that's always in the forefront of my mind; I just take my good news any way I can get it. I see NWS forecasts, which are typically below 2000' as a harbinger.

 

[JD]

Looks real ify. Gonna be one of those touch and go situations with the changeover. Looks like plenty of moisture....over an inch of rain forcast.

 

[bigbog]

My 4x8 trailer could hold a good amount of shavings.......

Glenn, you renovate..ie expand it a little, drive it up to the JP parkin' lot and imho you could get some of us @overnight rates...LOL..
...Will check take a look NW(Maine) for any snow Saturday...

 

[KingM]

At this point, I'll take four inches of snow and a pattern change to cold over anything we've had so far.

 

[polski]

All signs point to this event being extremely elevation-dependent -- assuming the inversion finally goes away, that is ;-) -- especially given the mild temps on the front end. I'm a little surprised to see snow ratios of up to 12:1 forecast but still figure this should be good base-building stuff, and with strong winds expected Saturday we'll want stick-to-your-ribs snow anyway.

I'm looking for a chance to earn turns Sunday (and notch November on my belt!) but am even more interested in the two systems expected next week. Hoping the first isn't NCP washing out whatever base we start to get this weekend. The second is a week+ away but early indications are we'll be in a colder pattern by then.

 

[Masskier]

Excellent update by Scott over at

http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weather/

Basically it looks like North central and northern Vt above 2000 ft could get 10-24". YEA

 

[billski]

Excellent update by Scott over at

http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weather/

Basically it looks like North central and northern Vt above 2000 ft could get 10-24". YEA

Hit me with your best shot, fire away!!:flame:

Agenda revised:
Before:
Clean gutters.
Bag leaves.
Add mounting brackets for new qiver addition

After:
scrape storage wax off skis, adjust bindings
Load ski bag
Load iTunes ski playlist
Load car, shovel, brush, scraper, overnighter "emergency kit".

 

[Johnskiismore]

Excellent update by Scott over at

http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weather/

Basically it looks like North central and northern Vt above 2000 ft could get 10-24". YEA

YIPEE! Please share some with Cannon!

 

[polski]

Roger Hill also was working on Turkey Day. He thinks Jay could get a foot by Saturday night with 30% chance of 16" at the summit, plus lingering light snow Sunday. He's still looking for even heavier accumulation later next week, though FWIW NWS BTV now seems to think the low Monday won't produce much snow.

 

[JD]

With the absence of March snow last year, and the lack of any this fall, it's been a while since a good ski. I guess I'm ready.

 

[WJenness]

Pinks and blues starting to work in on Intellicast:

-w

 

[billski]

Pinks and blues starting to work in on Intellicast:



-w

Good old Warp-ville!

 

[polski]

At this early stage it looks like southern VT may be a little ahead of the more northerly Greens, though that probably will get flipped when we move from the nor'easter to the upslope part of the program. Aside from the radar imagery, from Twitter within the past hour I see K-ton reports 2" at peak and wet snow at base; Okemo 1" at summit (and their snowguns sit "foaming at the nozzles," heh); Bretton Woods 1-2" at base, more up top; Jay says "it's snowing folks." And I see some big snowflakes among the raindrops in the MRG MadCam at the bottom of the Single.

Changeover seemed to happen pretty early, during heavier precip from the nor'easter. All good.

 

[psyflyer]

Its snowing very heavy here on Burke Mt. I live at about 1200-1400 ft(not sure exactly) and it started snowing about one hour ago. Right now we have a solid half an inch on the ground here and the slope looks like all covered with white (lower slope). I drove to the upper mountin at about 2 p.m. and it was already snowing with what it looked like a good coating on the top of the mountain. This is really heavy, inch-thick snowflake snow and its piling up pretty fast. Its looking like a friend and I will hike it tomorrow especially if it keeps going at this rate. SWEET!

 

[billski]

Batter up!

Burkie is burnin' it up!
FINALLY! Glory, glory halelujia!