The Official 12/16 - 12/17 Storm Discussion Thread

[wa-loaf]

Uh oh, spoke too soon. 7 inches with sleet coming down hard now and it's still 17 degrees. Went out to get gas for the snowblower and had some fun in our unplowed street on the way.

 

[loafer89]

We have about 5" of snow/sleet here with a sreaming south wind. Right now it's just snowing very lightly and 24F. Hopefully the freezing rain stays away as rain on top of 12" + of snowpack will make for a potential flood.

 

[KingM]

Absolutely dumping in the MRV at the moment. We've got Marc from AZ staying at the inn, together with a couple of his buddies and a whole bunch of other storm chasers. A couple of people really should have thought twice about what kind of car they were driving before they headed into the teeth of a major Vermont snowstorm. One guy could barely even escape the parking lot; I have no idea how he'll make it up the Sugarbush Access Road.

It's tough knowing that I've got to stay in today and fight to keep the business from getting snowed in, when I really want to be up skiing. But I imagine I'll get my days in this week.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Jay Peak could have 3 feet by Tuesday morning...one of the guys from www.paskiandride.com is heading up there on the 19th, I'm very jealous. It's light freezing rain right now in Allentown..it should get above freezing for a bit this afternoon and then tonight everything should freeze solid..

 

[Warp Daddy]

Seroius dumping here this am

 

[nelsapbm]

Dumping in the Champlain Valley too. Just ran up to the store and can tell you that the road crews can't keep up. It's coming down at least an inch an hour.

 

[billski]

Changed to ice pellets /hail about 9AM here in Lex. Mass. Winds starting to pick up to maybe 10mph so far. There was about 6-8" of fluffy stuff on the ground. The ice should ruin the poofy part, but if it gets and stays cold, we'll have a nice base. Have to checkout snowman-making potential later. Just as well, I am still aching from the Friday pow day.

I was surprised when my wife came home from our weekly shopping trip with milk and bread. I wonder if the milk and bread thing is a vast Vermont Dairy Coop conspiracy?

10;15 check that - it just turned back to snow, temps @30..

 

[loafer89]

I am about to go out for breakfast supplies. I just got all new Nokian winter tires for my car on friday, so I am eager to test them out. After the drive home on thurday with all season tires I figures it was time to change them with all the driving that I do in winter conditions.

We keep going back and forth between snow and sleet. Still stuck at 24F

 

[loafer89]

The new tires are great and I charged up the steep hill to our house and through the deep snow in our driveway. It's now freezing rain/sleet and 26F.

 

[ajl50]

Radar Showing huge dry slot up over adks, btv and mountains. Looks like the secondary low needs to form soon here. Showing signs of that happening over delmarva right now -- if you want more heavy snow this low better get organized fast.

 

[nelsapbm]

Yup...we're in a lull. Hasnt snowed for about an hour. The best is yet to come though!

 

[Warp Daddy]

Its been puking here all am just plowed about a foot have standing snow in my backyard thats KNEE deep now , and still going strong

 

[wa-loaf]

We're back to snow and temps are in the teens. Just cleared out about 8+ from the driveway. I'll probably have to give it another sweep before dinner.

 

[Zand]

Big dry slot over us on the radar but it is lightly snowing with a crazy wind. We probably have a good 6" from this morning with more to come. Currenlt up to 18 degrees with the wind chill hanging around 5.

 

[loafer89]

We just got our driveway plowed out, and it's still freezing rain and 31F.

 

[jaja111]

Changed back to snow in WNY, intermittently. What was purported to wind up being 12 inches overnight, turned out to be 2 inches of sleet by morning. In another dry slot now.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Here in the A, temps are finally above freezing at 33 degrees..apparently Scranton changed back to moderate snow..this storm is great. Everybody as far south as Spring mountain is going to end up with a net gain in snowpack..not as much as origionally forecasted for some but better than last seasons 60 degree rain.

 

[ajl50]

secondary reorganizing very well. Going to work out very well I think for whiteface, northern vt. weird ass storm

 

[Greg]

We just got our driveway plowed out, and it's still freezing rain and 31F.

Weird here. NWS was calling for a high of 38F and we barely made it to the current high of 26F. Mostly sleet today. Tough to measure, but probably 4". We had a bit of freezing rain but nothing is falling currently. Hopefully we'll pick up a bit of snow with the wrap-around. If we get a few inches of snow this week, the woods at Sundown will be ready.

 

[loafer89]

There is a coastal front nearby to our east with Willimantic at 37F, while my father in Enfield 16 miles NW is at 24F.

We have a light freezing drizzle and 32F.

I think the storm is just about over for me, and I am happy we did not get the heavy rain and flooding that was predicted.

Looks like I will be in Maine this weekend. Sunday River, Sugarloaf and Saddleback, saturday-monday.