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18z EURO had a large area of light snows.
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Definitely feeling like a win after bracing for 7-10 days of grass. We keep finding ways in a shitty winter to keep the grass covered, some snowbanks, etc.
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Yeah definitely more snowpack than before the system. Down here in the valley at 750ft there’s 3-4” of absolute concrete now. It’s not deep winter but this stuff has like 1”+ water now frozen in it for 3-4”. It’s gonna stick around. Its a very November vibe after a mixed event with dense net gain. Not deep winter, but it’s winter.
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Snowing at Stowe, changed around 10:45am. Seemed early.
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I think it’s a net gain. 3-4” of slush at the mountain. Lot of QPF. Roads were terrible in town, evergreens were hanging low. Like a couple inches of waterlogged grease.
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Back over to heavy wet aggregates. MVL back to 1/2sm moderate snow from sleet. Tenacious cold wedged in east of Greens.
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Mansfield at 24F at 4000ft and MWN is 19F at 6000ft. There’s still some cold up there.
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Biding our time here on the east side of the Spine. 30-31F and heavy IP. Can see the mid-30s and rain streaming up the west slopes and Champlain Valley.
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Nice. Rains to Maines.
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It was snowing hard there when it started back up but now it’s pounding rock candy sleet. It’s like aggregates of sleet. Wintry outside with the new snow and sleet, dense new covering.
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Got about 2” today. Now something other than snow. Car said 31F at home.
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Dude! I’m pulling for this. That’s awesome.
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Half inch or so this morning. 20F at Mtn Ops Center.
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I had a graphic years ago showing the acreage and aerial extent of the “snow zone” vs a “rain zone” on a storm cutting to the Lakes. Like 1/3rd of the US would see rain from it, but like 1/150th of the US would see decent snow from that same system. Take numbers with grain of salt but just showed how hitting the “snow zone” was so hard to thread the needle while everyone east of Mississippi would see rain from the system.
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Lol I sort of laugh though Wolfie. You give him everything you said he was looking for. He went fishing and caught a wolf. Not sure if 1717 can find a meme for that though.
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The town of Mammoth Lakes had like 70” in 48 hours. That stuff is insane.
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I was watching snow melt on pavement in the sun today despite mid-20s and thought of Nape Season.
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Persistence is the easy forecast at this point. Everyone knows it. The real skill though is always the one who can figure out when to break from persistence.
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Oh I thought you were going to Sunday River. The big mountains will know how to get it serviceable. I would’ve trusted SR’s snow surfaces team. Cranmore I have no idea. That might be a wait and see.
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MRG is closed too. These are core periods of the year to generate revenue for many of the mountains. Especially the smaller guys who generally fly tighter financially, the missed revenue being closed during the peak operating season cannot be made up. You want to be running out of parking right now, instead of shuttering lifts. These winters do hit all businesses, but especially the smaller operations.
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It has been such an insane year out west for many areas. You park upper level low heights in the mean over the west coast into intercontinental west, it’s going to absolutely dump.
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Yeah Okemo has had very high remarks all season. They’ve been annual contenders for snow surfaces and snowmaking regardless of the ownership. Their local Ops team is one of the best operators.
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He always seemed much more enthusiastic about snowmobiling and skiing when he’d be up in Bolton Landing/Lake George. Not sure what happened? Or if it’s just a perpetual glass mostly empty type personality that gets annoyed and needs to troll people who still hold optimism about winter.
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Mansfield Snow Cam got just shy of 2” in an hour from 7pm to 8pm. Nice pulse up.
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Interesting. The El Niño’s recovered pretty decently. Some huge storms later in 06-07 and 82-83. What was 1964-65? That’s another sneaky one near this season’s depth and that recovered to around 60” of snowpack.
