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Tuesday, January 22nd 2008
East Haven Mountain Report
Posted By: Greg Gordon in Weather Conditions
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This note regarding snow depths and density and weather related matters on East Haven Mountain in Northeastern VT was sent Tuesday, Jan 22 to the Hydrologist at Burlington's weather serrvice office:
Hi Greg,
Yesterday at 1130:
29” on top (at 3000') containing 8.6” of water
27” @ 2500’
22” @2000’
17” @ 1500’
10” @ 1000’
I’m pretty confident that these measurements are an accurate representation of what’s over there on E. Haven Mtn.
Brooks are running well for this time of year. There is still no frost in the ground anywhere though the ground is not sodden as it was a couple weeks ago. Small streams are now ice covered for the most part. The ice storm of the 11th is still in evidence as temps have remained below freezing since then and ice in trees has been slow to sublimate. There was about ¾” of buildup during the storm above 2800’. Snow pack is quite dense with only 3-4” of new snow on the old cover, so there has been virtually no settling for some time…a typical dry January so far. The Chickadee numbers are back down to where they usually are this time of year…probably a 30-40% drop from November’s huge population…presumably starved to death.
Snow cover can best be described as “undulated:” during the thaw of Jan 6-9 it melted from both top and bottom and with so much water in the ground and on the move beneath snow pack during the warm up, deep holes (many of them to ground) developed in the pack. The net result (apart from the odd appearance of the landscape, is that walking is difficult. One good snow storm with a little wind would go a long way toward leveling things up once again. No sign of Moose on my route. They’ve headed for greener pastures, I suppose.
See you in 2!
Greg
wwwShilohNH.com
Hi Greg,
Yesterday at 1130:
29” on top (at 3000') containing 8.6” of water
27” @ 2500’
22” @2000’
17” @ 1500’
10” @ 1000’
I’m pretty confident that these measurements are an accurate representation of what’s over there on E. Haven Mtn.
Brooks are running well for this time of year. There is still no frost in the ground anywhere though the ground is not sodden as it was a couple weeks ago. Small streams are now ice covered for the most part. The ice storm of the 11th is still in evidence as temps have remained below freezing since then and ice in trees has been slow to sublimate. There was about ¾” of buildup during the storm above 2800’. Snow pack is quite dense with only 3-4” of new snow on the old cover, so there has been virtually no settling for some time…a typical dry January so far. The Chickadee numbers are back down to where they usually are this time of year…probably a 30-40% drop from November’s huge population…presumably starved to death.
Snow cover can best be described as “undulated:” during the thaw of Jan 6-9 it melted from both top and bottom and with so much water in the ground and on the move beneath snow pack during the warm up, deep holes (many of them to ground) developed in the pack. The net result (apart from the odd appearance of the landscape, is that walking is difficult. One good snow storm with a little wind would go a long way toward leveling things up once again. No sign of Moose on my route. They’ve headed for greener pastures, I suppose.
See you in 2!
Greg
wwwShilohNH.com