The Official 12/10 - 12/12 Storm Discussion Thread

[Greg]

I'm really liking where this front has set up for the passage of this next low. Central VT seems to be in the sweetspot...as close to the changeover line as possible w/o getting one...

Yep.

 

[hardline]

Idael scenario for ski area locals. A dump, and no one can drive here from down south. Yes, this makes me sound like a dick, but when locals have a snow covered Mtn to themselves in a w/e it's a pretty special thing....

Once about 5 years ago we got a big overnighter and it was still dumping in the A.M. I was coming up to harlow hill by the matterhorn and the car 2 up was going SLOW. I knew they wern't gonna make it up the hill so I let them get way ahead. I got a goot jump at the hill and as I closed on them I saw the first car stop and go sideways....I put the pass on as the car behind them did the same thing. The cars behind me stacked up like a log jam. It turned into kind of a car jumble and closed to road for over an hour. First few laps on the quad were really fun with only about 20 people there...
Moral of this story. If you're coming up, come early. And hit harlow hill with a good head of Steam.

i never new it was called that. but used to hate it when people would take it to slow you would always have to pull the same move you did.

shit i really wish i didnt have to work till 1am tomorrow. i would so be on my way to stowe.

 

[BushMogulMaster]

Forecast is looking good for 3000' at Mt. Ellen:

Thursday Night: Snow. Low around 20. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches possible.

Friday: Snow, mainly before 1pm. High near 24. North wind between 6 and 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.

If you look at the NWS weather graph, it looks like we'll end up with around 15" at 3000'. Hopefully a few more on Summit.

 

[Zand]

Sorry Greg, but this shouldn't be official. You haven't complained about sleet yet.

 

[jaywbigred]

As of right now the forecast looks pretty good for the drive up 87/Thruway on Friday night as long as they have enough time to clean it up.

And even in southern VT, looks like a net gain event with a chance to turn out well at altitude. Anyone want to venture a guess what conditions will be like Saturday at places like Stratton, Mt. Snow, and Okemo?

 

[Euler]

As of right now the forecast looks pretty good for the drive up 87/Thruway on Friday night as long as they have enough time to clean it up.

And even in southern VT, looks like a net gain event with a chance to turn out well at altitude. Anyone want to venture a guess what conditions will be like Saturday at places like Stratton, Mt. Snow, and Okemo?

Well...the NWS forecast for West Dover is predicting 1-2 Thusday, 3-5 Thursday night, and 3-5 Friday. It looks like we will be, as usual, in the mixing zone so we might get burned and just get an icy mess out of this, or, if all goes well, we might wind up with a foot of snow. We'll know Friday morning!

 

[Euler]

ARRGH! NWS just updated the SOVt forecast, now they predict little to no snow and massive amounts of freezing rain :angry:

 

[ALLSKIING]

ARRGH! NWS just updated the SOVt forecast, now they predict little to no snow and massive amounts of freezing rain :angry:

Go north.

 

[drjeff]

ARRGH! NWS just updated the SOVt forecast, now they predict little to no snow and massive amounts of freezing rain :angry:

Gotta get the center of this storm to move just a bit East!!! Right now, it's projected to be on basically a Montauk Point-Groton-Providence-Boston path, we need it to go Martha's Vineyard-P'town-Southern tip of Nova Scotia line.

50 miles one way or another will make a HUGE difference across Southern and even central VT where 50 miles East will likely eliminate any chances of any mixing in central VT.

Gotta love the variability of this system, where SW Louisana will get more accumulating snow out of this system then basically all of Southern New England with the current forcast

 

[drjeff]

BTW, on the accuweather forums, the hype about this storm is amazing! Almost 350 pages, 6800+ posts and over 250,000 views!! (and all of these will grow ALOT in the next 36 hours or so)

http://forums.accuweather.com/index.php?showtopic=9313&st=6800&start=6800

 

[from_the_NEK]

Holy crap this is a big storm! And look at the Pool of deep blue in LA.

BTW, Greg, can you move the Weather Forum into the Skiing and Snow Boarding forum for the winter? I think it was like that last year.

 

[bvibert]

Any chance they'll open MRG on Friday, so I don't have to wait until Sunday to go skiing?

Sounds like it'll be a Saturday opening at best..

 

[Greg]

Holy crap this is a big storm! And look at the Pool of deep blue in LA.

BTW, Greg, can you move the Weather Forum into the Skiing and Snow Boarding forum for the winter? I think it was like that last year.

That is a pretty impressive radar.

Moving the forum...

 

[billski]

Southern NH predictions?

my uneducated guess is niar to sleet.

 

[tjf67]

Calling for 6 to 12 in the dacks. If Mother Nature sneezes it could miss us to the east. K and the loaf are going to be the big winners out oif this one. k may get rain but the loaf is going to get dumped on

 

[frozencorn]

My sister called yesterday from Houston, where it was snowing.

61 here and snowing in Houston. WTF?

 

[Greg]

Josh Fox MRG blog update:

http://madriverglenweather.blogspot.com/2008/12/by-razor-thin-margin.html

 

[drjeff]

This is REALLY F'd up!

CNN has live video of it snowing in NEW ORLEANS right now!

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream2

 

[Greg]

Anyone else dying for the Burlington NWS office to update its forecasts? They're all about 7 hours old.

 

[danny p]

yup, patiently waiting...