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  1. powderfreak
    There could be a whole lot of reasons, maybe labor costs and staffing demand are out of whack and they know they won’t have the people needed to safely operate. Or they have figured out they need a capital investment to operate. Did some pre-season testing or inspection and found out some sort of infrastructure doesn’t meet code or has a mechanical issue? Maybe a big expense that wasn’t expected popped up? Sucks.
  2. powderfreak
    That hasn’t changed, haha. The costs to operate and what you need to pay people has skyrocketed in the service sector. Previously if your business could barely survive while paying folks $10/hr, then when that goes immediately to $20-25/hr just to get a local high schooler to work for you… now you’re f*cked.
  3. powderfreak
    46F with -RN. Feels like October.
  4. powderfreak
    Main concern this season is more rain than normal and a mild winter in the means with Nino. We’ll get storms that cut and rain, and some that suppress partly cloudy. Both are concerns most winters, no?
  5. powderfreak
    What’s the cancellation policy?
  6. powderfreak
    Temps struggling to drop outside of the Spine with clouds and wind.
  7. powderfreak
    Finally some frost advisories.
  8. powderfreak
    Yeah I don’t know if tonight will radiate that well. Over this way it’s like cold season precip of light showers in lake effect streamers off Ontario on broad SW flow. For the first time radar looked more cold season. Flakes can’t be that far off for the 1500ft and above zones… within a couple weeks? Graupel first.
  9. powderfreak
    We got down to 45F at 7:30pm… then it started raining again and we are back up to 52F. Funny watching it drop when dry or no clouds, then showers move in and it’s back up again.
  10. powderfreak
    36F at the summit with some showers moving in. Might need to get to the picnic tables.
  11. powderfreak
    Heavy rainer.
  12. powderfreak
    2.51” in the stratus this morning. Leaf accumulation of 2-5”.
  13. powderfreak
    Over 2” here now… we are on the light side compared to just west/southwest locally. Most models nailed a decreasing gradient through VT from west to east today.
  14. powderfreak
    1.65” and pouring. 50F.
  15. powderfreak
    Adirondack High Peaks area getting crushed… 3-6” Keene Valley, Wilmington (Whiteface area).
  16. powderfreak
    That’s the time of death on summer right there. FROPA through and we falling.
  17. powderfreak
    Yeah it’s such a wide range of dates… we’ve been shoveling snow off the deck at the top of the Gondola as early as like the beginning of October and then I know we’ve also waited till November for the first dustings. We’ve had a 24-30” pack in late October (I think 2005 or 2006 it was) after a couple big events… or watching grass grow in mild/dry. Thats why my gut says mid-October as a mean blend of early and late. Tons of variance.
  18. powderfreak
    I’d honestly have to look at the old Coop data, that has/had the longest reliable data. Off the cuff I’d say mid-October.
  19. powderfreak
    I’m gonna need it near FVE like the GFS for a day or two of cyclonic upslope. Thanks in advance.
  20. powderfreak
    Torrential sheet rains. Seems small droplet but dense if that makes sense. Soaks very quickly.
  21. powderfreak
    Some satellite image works that show foliage from space. Imagery is crazy in this day and age. Mansfield zoom. Stowe southeast of the crest, Smuggs northwest of the divide.
  22. powderfreak
    I’d imagine sun angle and mixing has at least something to do with it. In just two and a half months the sun angle starts rising. Right now, there’s residual summer warmth with cold season solar. It wedges.
  23. powderfreak
    The wedge that develops there (during the cold season under the surface inversion) is a fun phenomenon. SE of the mountains, just pocketed in those CAD areas.
  24. powderfreak
    BTV still 70F on the blowtorch southerly flow. It’s pretty impressive. 67F MVL.
  25. powderfreak
    Oh I hope it didn’t sound like I wasn’t enjoying it! Ha. Been outside till dusk every single day. The rain and cold afterwards will suck… won’t enjoy that as much for sure for being outside. I hope by mentioning the historical relevance that it didn’t come across as I am yearning for cold. This has been a great stretch of blow torch.
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