Vermont Snow Updates 2008-09

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008: 6:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 2.2 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.54 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 4.1
Snow Density: 24.5%
Temperature: 34.5 F
Humidity: 98%
Dew Point: 33.8 F
Barometer: 29.94 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Light Snow/Rain
Storm snow total: 2.2 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.54 inches
Current snow at the stake: 6 inches
Season snowfall total: 18.7 inches

Last night at around 10:00 P.M. was when I first noticed that it had started snowing, and it was very light at first, but the intensity and crystal size picked up over the next couple of hours to reach light to moderate snowfall and crystals of perhaps 2 to 3 mm diameter. The snow still seemed to accumulate rather slowly after acclimating to the way the incredibly dry upslope snow piled up so quickly over the weekend. The snow on the snowboard was already quite soggy when I checked my accumulation this morning, but there was over a half inch of liquid equivalent in there and that will hopefully help to develop a base layer of snow around here the way the upslope snow couldn’t. The yard snowpack has moved from a level of 5 inches last night before this event started, to 6 inches now, and the water content in there has already more than doubled based on my calculations (the weekend event delivered only about 0.33 inches of liquid equivalent despite 14.2 inches of snowfall). There’s still snow falling from the sky, but it’s very wet and seems to be partially melting into rain as it falls, so I’d suspect we’ll be changing over to just rain at some point, especially down at this elevation.

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J.Spin
 
I was out and about in the valleys of Northern Vermont today so here’s the lowdown on what I saw there in terms of temperatures, snowfall, and snowpack. After my 6:00 A.M. morning observations from the house in Waterbury (495’) which featured 2.2 new inches of wet snow and a mix of light snow/rain falling from the sky, the mix gradually seemed to turn more toward rain. At around 11:00 A.M. I headed to Morrisville, and the temperature was a fairly consistent 37-38 F for much of the drive. It seemed like the precipitation was very close to being wet snow, but I couldn’t confirm any flakes in the air or crystals on the windshield so I wasn’t sure. I thought that the trend would be toward more liquid as the day went on, and the return to snow (especially for the valleys) wouldn’t be until the evening, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Because of an accident on Route 100, I had to take Stagecoach road southward when I left Morrisville, and it turns out that the road gets up to around 1,000’ in elevation. As I started to head up in elevation at about noon, the temperature dropped to 36 F, and the rain mixed and eventually changed over fully to wet snow. Another encouraging sign was that the temperature remained at around 36 F even as I dropped back down in elevation and passed through Waterbury, Bolton, Jonesville etc., which was actually colder than it had been earlier in the morning when I’d left Waterbury. The precipitation was back to a snow/rain mix in those lower elevations, but at that point I was fairly sure the mountains had remained mostly snow throughout the event, and that was confirmed by the mountain reports from Scott and Geoff. The snow mixed out and the temperature rose to around 41 F as I got to the Champlain Valley. When I returned to Waterbury a few hours later, the temperature dropped back down from 41 F in the Williston area to 37 F at the house, although we didn’t appear to have any snow mixed in with the rain that was falling. In terms of valley snowpack, there’s nothing in Burlington as Scott mentioned, and coverage really doesn’t start to get continuous until the Jonesville/Bolton area. Out in the rest of the mountain towns along route 100 through to Morrisville, they all have a decent covering of snow, although I’d say the snow in Waterbury seems to be a little deeper than the Morrisville/Stowe areas from what I saw. We’ve currently got ~4 inches at our back yard stake, and it’s very saturated with water. The rain was really pouring down through much of my driving today, and if all of that was snow for the higher elevations, then they got a real shellacking of a base. I just checked my rain gauge, and between the snow and rain we’ve received down here today, we’ve already picked 1.11 inches of liquid, and we’ve still got precipitation coming down.

Here are the latest numbers I’ve seen reported by the Vermont ski areas in terms of snowfall:

Jay Peak: 6 inches (10:00 A.M.)
Smuggler’s Notch: 6 inches (4:09 P.M.)
Stowe: 8 inches (12:00 P.M.)
Bolton Valley: 4 inches (A.M.)
Mad River Glen: 8 inches (11:00 P.M.)
Sugarbush: 12 inches (1:22 P.M.)
Killington: 13 inches
Okemo: 10 inches (P.M.)

Based on what Okemo indicated in their on line snow report, it sounded like they went over to rain even at their summit, so it appears though there was a dividing line between Killington and Okemo (according to Geoff it was the Renson Magic Line©, not the Sugarbush Doogie Line© in effect for this event).

J.Spin
 
I don’t have any new snowfall to report from Waterbury (495’), but I checked the rain gauge again this morning and we’d picked up an additional 0.3 inches of liquid since I emptied it yesterday evening. This brings the combination of snow and rain at our location to 1.41 inches of liquid for the event, so I suspect there should be at least that much liquid equivalent that fell as snow in the mountains. The Mt. Mansfield stake data (~3,700’) as of 6:08 P.M. yesterday indicate that the high temperature was 29 F, and they had picked up 1.1 inches of liquid (surprisingly close to the 1.11 inches I’d found in my gauge as of that time yesterday). There will probably be a bit more snow/liquid equivalent in today’s stake report base on what we picked up overnight. After the snow/rain from this event, our yard snowpack stands at 3 inches, and it’s a bomber base now that the temperature is back below freezing. As of yesterday evening the snowpack at the Mt. Mansfield stake was 12 inches, and even up there I’m sure the snow was much wetter than the weekend upslope fluff, so presumably that will substantiate the base. Waterbury observations from this morning at 6:00 A.M.:

Temperature: 30.6 F
Humidity: 98%
Dew Point: 29.9 F

J.Spin
 
There’s not much going on in terms of weather right now in Vermont, but here’s a quick update on some of the valley conditions I’ve seen in the past 24 hours.

I hadn’t paid much attention to the mountains yesterday when I was in Burlington, as they were hidden at the start of the day and the weather on the UVM campus was rather benign. Later in the afternoon when I was heading back to Waterbury, I had dozed off on the bus leaving Burlington, but woke up in Williston to a nice sight – it was snowing in the mountains. It didn’t look like anything too heavy, but there was an obvious demarcation line of snow in the air a bit past the initial foothills. Starting at around Richmond, and continuing through to Waterbury, there were flurries and occasionally light snow floating down. Those flurries continued through the evening, although when I went to bed there was nothing new on the snowboard. Our temperatures were in the 34 F range, so it seemed like it would have been difficult to accumulate anything with such light snowfall.

I didn’t expect to find any snow on the snowboard this morning, but there were a couple tenths of snow and graupel so I recorded some observations

Thursday, November 27th, 2008: 8:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 0.2 inches
Liquid Equivalent: N.D.
Snow/Water Ratio: N.D.
Snow Density: N.D.
Temperature: 34.0 F
Humidity: 98%
Dew Point: 33.3 F
Barometer: 29.97 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Mostly Cloudy/Flurries
Event snow total: 0.2 inches
Event liquid equivalent total: N.D.
Current snow at the stake: 2 inches
Season snowfall total: 18.9 inches

The snow at our back yard stake was at 2 inches this morning, and it seems to be slowly decreasing as we’ve been having fairly seasonable high temperatures above the freezing mark in the lower valleys. I noticed that Stowe reported a new inch of snow in the past 24 hours, but accumulations seemed to be fairly minimal from this event, even for the mountains. From Justin’s MRG report, it sounds like conditions are rather hard off piste right now, but the base in Northern Vermont appears to be quite substantial and primed for the next dump.

We headed down to Southern New England for the holiday this morning, so I got to see the general state of the snowpack along the I-89 route. The Waterbury/Montpelier area seemed to have a couple of inches of snow on the ground, consistent with what we’ve got at the house. After Montpelier, as we crossed through the Green Mountains and stayed up in the higher elevations (>1,000’) the snowpack was noticeably deeper (3-4 inches) and coverage was quite consistent. As soon as we dropped back down in the Bethel area near the White River, the snowpack tapered back to an inconsistent inch or two, and within about 10 miles the snow was entirely gone save for an occasional strip along the edge of the highway left over from the plows. There was no snow down in the Connecticut River Valley, but as we rose back up in elevation, we got back into an inch or two around the Whaleback Ski Area. The Trails of Whaleback had a couple of inches of natural snow, and only looked suitable for junkboarding. Within another 10 minutes of travel all the snow had disappeared and that was essentially the last we saw of it as we headed south save for a few plow strips in New Hampshire.

J.Spin
 
damn dude! That's a lot of words and way too much detail for some snow. can't u condense it? It's like a clinical study or something.
 
snowgun":14ncvh56 said:
...way too much detail for some snow.
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This is a strange concept of which you speak. ;)

snowgun":14ncvh56 said:
can't u condense it? It's like a clinical study or something.
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LOL, I am a scientist, so that type of writing is par for the course. Actually though, while I could condense things down to "Hey, it's cold, we got a couple inches of snow", people can just go to the typical weather/ski area web sites and pick up that sort of stuff. The detailed reports provide something a little different that you can't get elsewhere, a more comprehensive view of what's gone on with respect to recent snowfall/snow density/snowpack/temperatures/humidity etc. in the valleys of Northern Vermont, or in the local mountains when I'm up there. In addition to the facts, it's also about providing a "feel" for what's gone on with respect to snowfall and recent weather. With that said, I know that many folks don't care about the details, so perhaps I'll put a one phrase summary at the beginning of the more detailed reports to accommodate those interests.

-J
 
Summary: 1.4” new snow in Waterbury (495’) as of 7:30 P.M.

We were up at Bolton Valley this afternoon for some skiing, and when we were leaving from the main parking area (~2,100’) at around 4:00 P.M., it hadn’t started snowing, but it sure felt close. I didn’t see when the first flakes started falling here in Waterbury (495’), but at 4:50 P.M. I was heading off to the supermarket and it was already snowing in the light to moderate range. The temperature was a degree or two above freezing at that point, and there wasn’t any notable snow accumulation, so I’m guessing the snow started sometime between 4:30 and 4:45 P.M. When I went into the supermarket, I suspected that things were going to look quite different when I came out, and that was definitely the case. It was about 6:30 P.M. when I finally left, and there was probably a half inch or so of new, somewhat wet snow. Everything was plastered with snow, I had to take some time to clean off all my car windows, and the parking lot was already getting a bit greasy.

As of 7:30 P.M., we’ve received 1.4 inches of snow here in Waterbury, and we’ve got moderate to heavy snowfall with flakes in the 0.1 to 0.5 cm diameter range. The snow doesn’t appear to be too wet now, it’s probably in the ~10% H2O range, but I’ll have that number later. Here are the 7:30 P.M. temperature and humidity data:

Temperature: 32.3 F
Humidity: 93%
Dew Point: 29.7 F

In terms of the snowpack, we were down to ~1 inch here in Waterbury before this event. We also headed up into the higher elevations (Bolton Valley) today, so I can provide an update on the mountain snowpack there as well. I hadn’t planned on skiing today, but after hearing Robert Pfister’s report from Smuggler’s Notch, it sounded like conditions were quite good, with some new snow over the bomber base that was set up with the warmer storm last week. Up on the mountain in the 2,100’ to 2,400’ range where we were skiing, conditions were actually pretty good. There is a very substantial base of perhaps a foot or so of consolidated snow, and we found a couple inches of fresh powder on top of that. The underlying layer isn’t even all that hard; it’s more of a crunchy/bonded sugar type of base, so the turns were fun.

I’ll have a Waterbury weather update with more snowfall and weather data later this evening.

J.Spin
 
Sunday, November 30th, 2008: 10:00 P.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 2.7 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.32 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 8.4
Snow Density: 11.9%
Temperature: 32.2 F
Humidity: 97%
Dew Point: 31.1 F
Barometer: 29.77 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Moderate/Heavy Snow
Storm snow total: 2.7 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.32 inches
Current snow at the stake: 4 inches
Season snowfall total: 21.6 inches

At approximately 9:25 P.M., I looked outside and the snowfall had really slowed to almost nothing. The flakes that were falling were quite granular, and there was even some sleet coming down. I figured that was going to be it in terms of snowfall tonight, but as I was out clearing the snowboard at 10:00 P.M. it was already snowing again in the moderate to heavy range. Within a few minutes there was a substantial coating on the snowboard again; there’s another 0.3 inches of snow on the board at this point (~10:30 P.M.) and we continue with moderate snowfall.

J.Spin
 
Monday, December 1st, 2008: 6:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 0.6 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.32 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 1.9
Snow Density: 53.3%
Temperature: 34.7 F
Humidity: 98%
Dew Point: 34.0 F
Barometer: 29.50 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Rain
Storm snow total: 3.3 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.64 inches
Current snow at the stake: 4 inches
Season snowfall total: 22.2 inches

At about 11:00 P.M. last night our snowfall started to become granular, and I didn’t check on the precipitation again before going to bed, but it was probably transitioning to sleet. This morning the precipitation was rain, and the accumulation on the snowboard was saturated with water. Whereas yesterday morning the yard snowpack was down to ~1 inch, this morning there are 4 inches there and it’s very dense stuff, so thus far this event has represented a substantial increase in the snowpack, at least down at our elevation. I didn’t pay attention to the snow on the ground for the entire trip to Burlington this morning, but in the Williston/Burlington area there is a somewhat variable coating of slushy snow up to about an inch. Here on the UVM campus (380’) the ground is mostly white.

Now that it is December 1st, our November Waterbury snowfall is complete and this event makes November 2008 the snowiest at our location since I started recording in 2006, even edging out November 2007 (18.8 inches) and obviously ahead of November 2006 where we amazingly received no snowfall.

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J.Spin
 
The bit of snow that was on the ground in Burlington yesterday when I arrived in the morning was quickly gone, as the NWS indicates they reached a high of 49 F.

I emptied my rain gauge here in Waterbury yesterday evening after collecting the contents of the Sunday/Monday system, and we received a total of 0.69 inches of liquid from the event. I collected 0.64 inches of liquid equivalent (3.3 inches of snow/sleet) of the snowboard through 6:00 A.M. Monday morning, and then a little more precipitation fell after I left for Burlington. With yesterday’s warm weather, my thermometer recorded a high of 46.9 F, so we lost a couple inches of snowpack here and there are two inches of snow at our stake.

At the Mt. Mansfield stake (~3,700’), 0.65 inches of liquid equivalent was recorded from the same system, and the high temperature measured there was only 31 F, so I suspect most of it was frozen in some manner. The current snowpack reading at the Mt. Mansfield stake is 18 inches, which ties the highest reading of the season recorded back on November 22. The previous 18 inch depth was reached from a lot of upslope snow however, so no doubt the current 18 inches are a lot more substantial in terms of liquid equivalent.

It’s been mostly clear here in Waterbury this morning, but we’ve been having some flurries, and from the radar it looks like a little more snow is headed this way.

J.Spin
 
At Killington, my driveway is a skating rink. The mountain is flat 'n fast after the snow-to-sleet-to-drizzle event.
 
Summary: 0.6” snow in Waterbury (495’) overnight

Friday, December 5th, 2008: 6:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 0.6 inches
Liquid Equivalent: N.D.
Snow/Water Ratio: N.D.
Snow Density: N.D.
Temperature: 22.5 F
Humidity: 75%
Dew Point: 13.5 F
Barometer: 30.21 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Clear
Storm snow total: 0.6 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: N.D.
Current snow at the stake: 1 inch
Season snowfall total: 22.8 inches

E said she saw a touch of snow in the air yesterday in Morrisville, but I didn’t see any while I was in Burlington. Last night at around 8:00 or 9:00 P.M., we had some flurries/light snow coming down in Waterbury, but it seemed to stop quickly and I didn’t expect to get any accumulation. However, this morning I was pulling the car out of the garage and noticed that even the driveway areas that hadn’t had any snow left on them were now covered with white, so I went and checked the snowboard. There sat 0.6 inches of fluffy snow, nothing super dry, probably just 4-6% H2O by my estimates, but I didn’t try to do the water content for such a small amount. Here on the UVM campus in Burlington (380’) there’s essentially no new snow and the ground is bare, although when I looked very closely I could see an almost unperceivable skiff on a few surfaces. So, I guess Burlington got a few flurries as well, and temperatures were clearly cold enough to keep such a small amount of snow from melting. It does sound like more snow is on the way even for the valleys this weekend, so I’ll update on that as warranted.

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Bolton Valley started running their lifts yesterday, and E and I took the boys out for some turns this morning, so here’s a conditions update. The snow report indicated that they had 17 trails open, and that they would even have part of the Wilderness area open on natural snow. We took a run off the Vista quad for our first run in the morning (8:30 – 9:00 A.M. range) and Sherman’s Pass was really nice man made packed powder. We ventured over to Wilderness on that run, and while there is sufficient natural coverage over there, they hadn’t really done much grooming. It seems like they perhaps took one pass, or maybe they just rolled it, because the snow was very chopped up. The best skiing we found over there was actually in the couple inches of powder over the snow that they hadn’t groomed. There is a crusty base below the powder, but it is unbreakable and the low-angle terrain skied very nicely. However, unless you’re going to check out some of that stuff, I’d stay away from Wilderness until they groom it more. We spent the rest of the morning on the Mid Mountain Lift doing the Bear Run route, and some areas of snow gradually became slicker simply due to traffic. It was holding up reasonably well however, and there was still plenty of soft snow when we were done around noon. There’s enough natural base (probably a foot or more of very durable stuff) to open some more terrain if they wanted to, but it appears to be more an issue of snow quality, not quantity. The natural terrain just has that couple inches of powder over a slick base, so unless they hit it hard with the groomers, options other than low angle terrain aren’t very safe.

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J.Spin
 
Summary: 6.5” new snow in Waterbury (495’) as of 8:00 P.M.

I first saw flakes this morning when I was out checking on the snowboard – I looked at my watch and it was 8:51 A.M. It continued to spit flurries occasionally like that until around 10:15 A.M., when we started to have some consistent snowfall. Even then the snowfall was extremely light, and the flakes were very tiny (<1 mm diameter) so there was no accumulation. At around 11:30 A.M. the flakes got a bit bigger and the snow finally started to accumulate.

We had about an inch of new snow accumulation at the house when Ty and I headed up to Bolton Valley in the 2:30 to 3:00 P.M. timeframe to catch the fresh powder at the end of the day. Already on the ascent of the access road we had to pass two cars that just couldn’t seem to move on the steeper inclines, whether due to two wheel drive and/or lack of snow tires. From a temperature around freezing and light to moderate snow down at the house, we found ourselves at 24 F in the top tier of the village parking lots (~2,100’) with heavy snowfall. There wasn’t much wind at that point, but I could tell by eye that the snowfall had to be in the 1 to 2 inch per hour range. We caught the last part of the ski day, which was nice and powdery, and I’d say they were already working on 3 to 4 fresh inches by the time we were leaving the slopes at around 4:00 P.M. At that point I was pretty sure the snowfall was close to the 2 inch per hour range because after about 45 minutes away from the car, we returned to find and inch and a half of new snow on it. The wind had started to pick up a little by that point, but it was still pretty tame.

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The trip home was slow – I’d say it took us in the range of 40 minutes or so where it normally takes us about 10. Most of the time was spent coming down the mountain on the access road, as the 2 inch per hour snowfall had covered the road up very quickly. Everyone took it justifiably slow, and at times we were at a standstill. Even down at around the 1,000’ elevation range I’d say the snow was still falling at roughly 2 inches per hour or more. While I was stopped in traffic I had to kick my windshield wipers up to the third notch because the windshield was getting covered in just seconds. There were a few spots on the lower part of the road where the wind had picked up, and combined with the heavy snowfall and snow falling off the trees, I couldn’t see past the hood of the car momentarily – another reason everyone was taking is so slow. There were several cars off the road, one up in the flats around 1,000’, and then three more had slid off right at the final steep pitch above route 2 - which is only in the 300’-400’ elevation range. Just as we got past all those cars, we looked up directly above us at the I-89 bridge at the Route 2/Bolton Valley Access Road intersection, and there was an ambulance attending to another incident. Then, a couple more miles down route 2 toward Waterbury, there was a police car attending to yet another incident on the highway, or perhaps controlling traffic for the one near the bridge. The snow back down in the valley was only falling at about an inch per hour, but the wind was howling in the open areas as it had been increasing since we’d left Bolton Valley. On the way home through Bolton Flats there were various sections of whiteout, and places where the location of the road wasn’t obvious so I had to simply follow the tracks of previous vehicles. Arriving home not long before we did, my wife said that she also saw various accidents in her short trip into the center of town. I’d say the bottom line is, don’t travel through the upslope regions tonight if you can help it. Even though many of us knew this was coming, I think a lot of people got caught off guard by how fast it came in and ramped up to very heavy snowfall and wind.

We got back home around 5:00 P.M. to find a nice slug of fresh snow at the house, and I made my usual observations:

Sunday, December 7th, 2008: 5:00 P.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 4.3 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.15 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 28.7
Snow Density: 3.5%
Temperature: 25.9 F
Humidity: 88%
Dew Point: 21.6 F
Barometer: 29.71 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: Heavy Snow
Storm snow total: 4.3 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.15 inches
Current snow at the stake: 6 inches
Season snowfall total: 27.1 inches

Knowing this event was coming, I took a few intermediate snowfall observations throughout the day. From the data it’s clear that we were averaging snowfall at over an inch per hour for much of the evening. The temperature drop just during the past couple of hours has been quite impressive. The snowfall appears to be slowing down a bit now, but we’re also getting some wind down even into the sheltered location of our neighborhood and that is decreasing the loft in the snowfall.

12:30 P.M.: 0.3” total accumulation, 33.6 F, 73% RH, DP 23.9 F
1:00 P.M.: 0.5” total accumulation, 33.4 F, 75% RH, DP 24.4 F
2:00 P.M.: 0.7” total accumulation, 32.5 F, 77% RH, DP 24.2 F
5:00 P.M.: 4.3” total accumulation, 25.9 F, 88% RH, DP 21.6 F
7:00 P.M.: 6.2” total accumulation, 16.7 F, 87% RH, DP 12.0 F
8:00 P.M.: 6.5” total accumulation, 14.5 F, 83% RH, DP 8.4 F

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J.Spin
 
Summary: 6.6” new snow in Waterbury (495’)

Monday, December 8th, 2008: 6:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 2.3 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.08 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 28.8
Snow Density: 3.5%
Temperature: 0.0 F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: -6.5 F
Barometer: 30.33 in. Hg
Wind: Calm
Sky: P Cloudy/Flurries
Storm snow total: 6.6 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.23 inches
Current snow at the stake: 7 inches
Season snowfall total: 29.4 inches

After running at over an inch per hour for several hours yesterday afternoon/evening, the snowfall quickly slowed down by about 7:00 P.M. Wind also came in to our location at the tail part of the event and we probably saw it in the 10-15 MPH for a bit. Compared to the November 22nd upslope event, this one had a bit less than half the snowfall, and the snow was perhaps a touch more dense at 3.5% H2O. There’s already been some settling, as the 2.3 inches on the snowboard was down to just 2.0 this morning, and there are only 7 inches at the stake this morning whereas there were 8 last night. The overnight was also the coldest of our season thus far, with our temperature right on at 0.0 F this morning, although I’ll have to check the thermometer this evening to see if we dropped any lower than that. Here at my location on the UVM campus in Burlington, they do have a nice coating of white, and it looks like they got about an inch of so of snow. Out at the airport, the Burlington NWS says they received 2.2 inches. Here are the snow totals I’ve seen from some of the Vermont ski areas as of this morning, listed north to south along the Green Mountain spine:

Jay Peak: 6 inches
Stowe: 8 inches
Bolton valley: 7 inches
Sugarbush: 8 inches
Killington: 11 inches
Okemo: 5 inches
Stratton: 2 inches
Mount Snow: 3 inches

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J.Spin
 
I can confirm the 11" at Killington. You had to pick carefully this morning. Some things were wind scoured/drifted.
 
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008: 8:00 A.M. update from Waterbury, VT

New Snow: 0.8 inches
Liquid Equivalent: 0.06 inches
Snow/Water Ratio: 13.3
Snow Density: 7.5%
Temperature: 13.1 F
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 6.6 F
Barometer: 30.45 in. Hg
Wind: ~5 MPH
Sky: Light/Moderate Snow
Storm snow total: 0.8 inches
Storm liquid equivalent total: 0.06 inches
Current snow at the stake: 6 inches
Season snowfall total: 30.2 inches

We bottomed out yesterday evening at -4.7 F here in Waterbury according to our thermometer, and since that time the temperature has been rising, reaching -1.7 F at around 11:00 P.M., 10.4 F at 6:30 A.M. and 13.1 F at 8:00 A.M. Steady snowfall is continuing at a light to borderline moderate pace, but the flakes are fairly small in diameter (1-2 mm) and aren’t accumulating with very much loft.

J.Spin
 
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