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It almost never happens. even if you go back to December 2010 when we had some extreme cold and some suppression misses, eventually when the deep eastern trough started to lift out we got the inevitable Archimbault event with a big coastal for Boxing Day. if the deep cold for January that we see in the ensembles unfoldS for a couple of weeks, we will get snow.

I’ve said it 100 times before in this forum and I’ll say it again. There is very rarely ever a solid cold and snowless stretch in winter in New York City. The number one ingredient for snow in New York City/Coastal Plain in the winter is the cold. We almost always at least find some moisture source to give us snow if we have the cold. Could be a clipper, could be a mauler, could be a Miller A, could be a Miller B, but give me as cold as you can possibly give me and it’ll almost always snow in our area. In fact for the New York City and coastal plain area, the number one tell for me that there is a good chance there may be snow coming in the next few weeks is when you guys start talking about suppression depression. It almost never fails.

I always said I’d never get sick of the cold but I have to admit at 50yo now you can feel it creeping up on you a little more. Always hunting a good snowstorm, but very little use for just sustained cold without a good storm. Warmer weather is just easier, but I also hate the heat for too long That’s why I could never live in the deep south and go through stretches of heat where it’s just a hopeless feeling that you’ll never get cooler weather. Months on end. I often think about the perfect climate, maybe it would be something in an area like southern Colorado where you get a good amount of snowstorms, but very changeable weather and plenty of sun, no humidity and some warmth. The summers are hot, but not too bad and you get plenty of snow in the winter, but not the deepest of cold. Maybe a place like Telluride, Colorado . One thing about the cold in the Northeast is it just bites more. My son has been in college at Montana State in Bozeman and although they get some very deep cold out there, the dry conditions and the generally sunny weather often just makes it feel a lot better. New England cold with some humidity in the air and wind, it just stings more. He’s back from school this week and said the last few days just feel colder to him than anything he’s experienced out there even when it’s been well below zero.

CanAm?

Still much cheaper to heat from 17 than it is -4. Also makes a big difference where it starts from by the time it makes it to this latitude.

Uh oh the spin is starting lol

West Wardsboro, VT. About 1,900 ft, between Stratton and Mount Snow.

Rains may come mid week but for now looking good at the cabin. Close to 2 feet on ground.

I mean, it is what it is, we’ll recover, but it’s a real shame to get a monster wet system like this week after all the gains that were made. And this is a moisture laden, slow-moving , south to north system with rain all the way into Canada. Oh well.

Not sure what you are looking at. There is no front end snow and probably 80% of this is rain and a lot of it. Places like Stratton or Killington Vermont are probably going to see 3 inches of rain and then maybe an inch or two of snow if they are lucky on the backend. All guidance shows this.

We all know it’s coming. The ski resort wipeout begins this week with a 3” rainer and then 60 Christmas week.

But yet he’s never banned

Overnight long range looked terrible

That’s what I was saying earlier. It may not be as warm as recent cutters of yore, but that’s a good 3” qpf Belleayre mudslide wipe out the early season gains cutter.

Unfortunately, that day 6 cutter looks like a high QPF resort wrecker event. All these early season gains could go up in smoke.

I drive through Bennington at least every couple of weeks on the way to my cabin near Stratton. The lack of snow in Bennington is almost astounding. There’s almost never snow there all winter. But go up route 9 into Searsburg and Woodford and it’s a whole different story.

Yes, about half the pond is ice covered currently. The areas that get more shade.Yes, about half the pond is ice covered currently. The areas that get more shade.

With Stratton not opening today, decided to snowshoe at Grout Pond. Beautiful day in the woods. Had about 16 to 18 inches of snow here at 2400 feet.

Take me, to the magic of the momentOn a glory night…….

Classic my kid’s gone so the team had an easy path dad comment lol

You know the funny thing is if you didn’t read weatherboards like we do or follow and chitchat about the models and all that, back in the day you would’ve thought this was probably just your average warm and humid summer week in July. If you rented a place down the shore for a week, you’d have a mixed bag, sun, cloud, humid, fog on the beach some, typical days of summer. Not really much to see here to be honest. Just kind of a very warm and humid week with a mixed bag and nothing really to see here.

Dense fog rolled in for the finale of the Lavallette fireworks. Went from clear to soup in a few minutes.

Stratton closing in on 30” with this final surge

Why not just buy a pass for those who want to enjoy it. People buy gym memberships and pay ridiculous amounts of money, you can buy an ikon pass at their discount rate and you get a renewal discount every year and generally can get it for under $1000 a year. I ski 20 to 30 days a year cost me maybe $30-$40 per day of skiing. i’m not trying to poo, poo it for the average middle-class family on a budget, but the idea that skiing is too expensive of a recreational sport I just don’t buy. You can generally get equipment for almost nothing or even for free. People give it away all the time on Facebook marketplace or you can go to local ski swaps and buy pretty decent equipment, plenty good enough to enjoy the sport for nearly nothing. And you can look for discounts on lift tickets, season passes, or some of the Indy type passes that give you plenty of mountains and it’s a very reasonable cost for the whole season. And mind this is coming from somebody who has four kids and we ski a lot. Most ski rental shops will rent you a decent pair of equipment for the season for pretty cheap and they come along with deep discounts on Lyft tickets, or even a free ticket here or there to many local mountains.