Ha, I feel like there’d be just as many folks wishing they wouldn’t open these days. Parking lots would be packed regardless. Hundreds of uphillers enjoying carte blanche.
This would totally be Mansfield, folks praying it remains closed to skin. Huge lines of skinning traffic and headlamps heading up every morning.
This isn’t necessarily geared towards you in particular, but that line of thought has to be one of the more classic weather weenie plays to run … “this one is gonna be real exciting… the models don’t know it yet, but it will be. Trust me.”
I agree. To open Friday for here I think snowmaking needs to be done by Wednesday, to allow to drain/cure and then time for pushing it all out. Also punts any cold late in the week to another set of runs… honestly I’d just run gangbusters all week long to take advantage of it and not worry about turning it off to get a decent product quality and spending a couple days pushing when it’s cold. Who knows. It looks like a good cold shot, I’d max it out.
Yeah the SLK 1,600ft rad pit lol.
Anything 1,000ft that radiates too is probably ideal to be honest if we want to go down the “best” rabbit hole.
Pete/SkiMRG always had a great spot for that… like 1300ft but in a hollow.
I’d take the elevation AND the radiational cooling. You can have both, doesn’t have to be one or the other. Though this discussion inevitably turns into a competition for some reason lol.
In the summer you do get the cooler days that you love to post about up there on the hilltop. We know you enjoy hitting 84.6F while posting about 90+.
I dunno, most posters seemed to have mentioned frost it seems. Even ineedsnow right next to ORH at 1000ft has been in the 20s I think?
Regardless of real vs fake cold, there seem to be a lot who have frosted I guess was my point. Sure there are areas that haven’t.
We should do a poll on here .
Some can’t seem to stick to discussing weather… that’s been the age old reason for getting booted. Some topics are better left to other mediums/forums/social media spaces, ha.
Ah gotcha, I thought you were implying above normal temps again. I misinterpreted “mild.”
You really mean just normal early Dec temps and not going straight into well below normal, constant winter weather, sub-freezing, fare.
What are the average highs Thanksgiving into early Dec? What you describe sounds normal to be honest.
Looks like even 1,000ft in ORH has an average high in the 40s on Dec 1st?
A lot of the records MVL is beating are Nov 2006… another banner start to a winter.
Neither of those years though had even a prayer on the long range, so we can avoid that at least, ha.
Up at the picnic tables now, shorts and t-shirt.
Near 60F, another record high (maybe the 3-4th this week?). Hair dryer south wind. Hope everyone is enjoying it outside.
Hard to make snow right now.