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

[Warp Daddy]

We are STILL getting absolutely POUNDED in the St Lawrence river Valley and have been since 3 am , I just plowed the second time since 10am . We are in POW yesterday i skied in teh Best POW in many a year all trails open baby !!

 

[Zand]

Light freezing rain here right now. Just went outside for the first time today. Had to go out the garage because I couldn't even get out the front door. We probably got about 8" before the ice, but it's impossible to tell because there are drifts out there of 3'+. The trees are all caked with ice and the wind is howling. Lights have flickered a few times. The light icing on the snow is holding most of it down which of a good thing... otherwise we'd be down to bare ground in many places by now. This will help the snowmobile trails greatly by adding a very good base and if we get more snow on this crust it'll be beautiful out there.

 

[JD]

Hammering in Stowe. Looks like we are gonna get a great back half of this storm on Mansfield. Left the hill with 12-15 new at 2:30.

 

[loafer89]

Light freezing drizzle, and thick fog here in Coventry. I had to shovel out the 4-5" of heavy wet snow left in front of my garage that the plow cannot reach and it was heavy work. Thankfully I have a junior snow removal companion in training.

The bare driveway surface is good for ice skating:-o

 

[loafer89]

I posted too soon, its now snowing again. Of course it would be after I finished shoveling the driveway:evil:

 

[bdjeep]

We got about 8 inches here in metrowest Boston, with a thin crusty sleet/freezing rain layer that is still falling. Messy stuff...very glad I bought a snowblower back in Sept. Don't know how I survived without it.

Too soon to tell, but Friday's rain forecast for metro Boston has changed to possible snow. This has been an incredible December.

 

[Greg]

We're up to 29F and finished the daylight hours with intermittent freezing rain and snow. I'm glad our snow pack didn't take much of a hit with this one.

 

[Zand]

Just had a big squall come in. Started off as heavy freezing rain for 5 minutes, went quickly over to sleet, and now huge snow flakes are pummeling down. Snow depth is pushing a foot and a half here. Very nice base-making storm.

7 PM edit: Temp has gone from 25 to 29 and back down to 23 here in the last 45 minutes. Still snowing.

 

[loafer89]

Just had a big squall come in. Started off as heavy freezing rain for 5 minutes, went quickly over to sleet, and now huge snow flakes are pummeling down. Snow depth is pushing a foot and a half here. Very nice base-making storm.

7 PM edit: Temp has gone from 25 to 29 and back down to 23 here in the last 45 minutes. Still snowing.

Thats what we just finished off with and it gave us a coating of new snow and the temperature dropped from 32.5F to 29.3F in about 10 minutes.

More snow is off to the west in NE P.A and may clip me in about 1-2 hours.

 

[Zand]

A rogue snow shower just popped up right over us and it's sporting very heavy snow and big flakes. It also doesn't seem to be moving too quickly so maybe we can get a little more accumulation.

 

[awf170]

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.

I was Marc's friend with the long hair and the car the couldn't get out of the parking lot Monday morning. So have you got out skiing yet? Monday was quite awesome.

 

[koreshot]

I was Marc's friend with the long hair and the car the couldn't get out of the parking lot Monday morning. So have you got out skiing yet? Monday was quite awesome.

Austin, did you guys get out Sunday/Monday? How was it?.....


.... lie to me and tell me it was bad, so I don't feel bad about not going.

 

[awf170]

Austin, did you guys get out Sunday/Monday? How was it?.....


.... lie to me and tell me it was bad, so I don't feel bad about not going.

It was really windy and cold. The double didn't run at all Sunday and they shut down the single at 1 pm. The single line was so long Sunday that I only got in 4 runs. I have a little bit of frostbite on my chin, I couldn't get my car of KingM's lot Monday morning, and the lodge was so crowded that we had to go upstairs to eat. Sugarbush was on wind hold Monday so it was crowded.














(Well, I didn't lie to you, but I might have left a few things out)