Vertical drop

[Tin Woodsman]

I think it is safe to assume from the averages provided that the temperatures at the respective mountain bases aren't as drastically different as some might believe. Likewise, temperatures at similar elevations (summit of little WF/summit stowe) probably do not differ by 5 degrees on average. A five degree average is quite a substantial difference. If a such temperature difference were the case, WF would have gotten a lot more snow earlier in the season when every storm was producing mixed precip. for the entire northeast.

I will search around to find the data, but I am 99% certain that the Dacks as a whole are colder than the Greens. The simple fact is they are further to the NW - the direction where the coldest air comes from. Saranac Lake just a few miles from Whiteface is regularly the coldest town in the US.

As for the claims in the post above, that's nonsense. If a storm is currint up to the Great Lakes west of the Appalachians, everyone gets rain/mixed precip. That's just the way it is. Any variations from that are on a storm by storm basis and have little to do with long term climatalogical factors.