10 Inches of Snow Falls Overnight at Vermont Ski Resort

Many of Vermont's ski resorts woke up to a dusting of snow yesterday, October 15, 2024. Photos circulated across the internet as the excitement for winter builds.

The storm wasn't done, however. Check out the webcam image below from Sugarbush, VT on October 16, 2024. Looks like an additional 10 inches fell overnight!

Sugarbush's snow stake webcam is truly a sight to behold on this mid-October morning. Seeing snowfall totals hit double digits before November is a treat no matter where you live, and especially in New England.

The webcam above is placed at 3,125 feet above sea level. With both of Sugarbush's peaks topping off around 4,000 feet, it's possible that even more snow fell at the summits. Unfortunately for us snow total lovers, Sugarbush, like most ski resorts across the country, is not reporting snowfall measurements quite yet. We'll have to wait for the season to actually get underway before that happens.

Sugarbush has set Saturday, November 23, 2024 as their targeted opening date for the Winter '24/'25 season. It's unlikely that the snow from today's storm will stick around all the way through to opening day, (temperatures are expected to rise well-above freezing this weekend), but it's worth celebrating nonetheless!

Sugarbush skiers are certainly celebrating this morning, but their close neighbors at Mad River Glen (MRG) are most likely scratching their heads with confusion.

It appears, at least based on webcam images, that the storm didn't deliver at the same level at MRG, besides a few flakes towards the summit of General Stark Mountain. Now, to clarify, MRG's elevation is slightly lower than Sugarbush (the summit elevation is 3,637 feet), but with 10 inches falling at Sugarbush's snow stake webcam at just above 3,100 feet, one might expect to see more flakes accumulated towards mid-mountain at MRG.

POWDER has reached out to our contact at MRG to verify just how much snow fell at the summit. We will update this article once we hear back. In the meantime, check out the webcam images from MRG's base area. Despite the wet camera lenses, the clash of seasons is still quite beautiful.

UPDATE, 4:25 pm EST: Jay Peak Resort, Vermont's snowiest ski resort, is reporting that a foot of snow fell at its peak. Check out the awesome photos from Andrew Lanoue captured on October 16, 2024 below.

Winter has made a brief, yet exciting cameo in Vermont this week, and it has all of us here at POWDER fired up for the season to come.

We're still waiting for Mother Nature to get her act together at our home mountains, but falling flakes, even far away in Vermont, are a sign of better times to come.

Winter is coming. Are you ready?

Related: Over One Foot of Snow Forecasted for Utah and Colorado

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