powderfreak

Yeah you’re probably doing well on the west slope with this. We are tapering off after 2” or so at 1500ft and 3.5” at 3000ft. Heated plaza still on for Will/ORH.

Snowing and gusts to 50mph.

It’s been impressive. At elevation, or down in the Champlain Valley… a winter with a strong low level jet over the area, consistently.

Interesting. I don't read causation or politics into it unless it is specifically called out. I read it as this "But that goes to show you how warm we have gotten." Could be cyclical, could have some human influence? That statement doesn't really care why, it's just a general fact that we seem to be trending upward on our long-term data sites. This probably sounds incredibly naive, but the topic to me is multi-faceted... so someone saying it is warmer now than it was, when they or their parents were kids... I don't read that as everyone needs to sell their truck and buy a Tesla. It can just be something that is just happening. Argue the causation elsewhere, but making the observation on the data...

Huh? Where in this thread was the discussion about causation? Honestly, maybe I missed it. Coastalwx just said "But that goes to show you how warm we have gotten." And it was off from there.

Solid torch this week. Snow just very patchy now in town. A week ago… Today…

I honestly have never seen someone so triggered by this. To the point you can’t even joke about it. No one mentioned causes for it. Just that it’s warmer.

See I think we are in the sweet spot. There will be complaints once the dews come up. Hand up here. Top 10 day criteria changes throughout the season, but folks love warm, dry, sunny with long daylight.

I don’t think it would matter to me one way or another to be honest. I enjoy the frosty AM, shorts in PM. Feels like spring as it should be, even if it’s well above normal lol. Nights of yore, days of Greta. Plenty of time this summer for dews and elevated mins.

64 here off a min of 24… the best days are the 40 degree diurnal days. Low RH fire weather where the snow has melted. First shorts of the season.

It snowed dry powder in Florida this winter. It’s all good. Who knows what will happen.

The most active game cams are definitely next to water. Water funnels the bigger game to any land bridge... be it coyote, deer, bear, etc. High-quality image you got too at night.

What a great spot for a cam.

21F and a sunny morning.

Euro from 18z makes even more sense. Its going to be hard to get good snows anywhere if its a progressive frontal wave… ME/NH mtns favored due to late wave development. Verification being less robust and NE of current progs seems like the safe play here.

Back over to light snow even on the valley floor. Crazy after having the sliding doors open last evening and it feeling almost humid, that flakes are now falling.

There are different metrics. Skier visits are still counted as an individual unique pass scan on a given day. So if you walk up to a lift, get scanned, that is "1 skier visit" whether you are there all day or just take one run and then go to work. What I was alluding to is when you see the earnings reports and it says "skier visits were down 4% but ticket revenue and units sold was up 5%" is sort of like a sports stadium saying physical attendance was down a bit, but we still sold more tickets ahead of time. I've never seen how many unredeemed days are sold but it has to be a decent number.

Yeah I have no firm data on that but the amount of people using a pre-purchased product to access skiing & riding has to be significantly higher. Also goes to your comment about paid attendance at sports or concerts/shows, vs. actual attendance. In the end, paid attendance is what matters to the business.

Regarding the tipping point… I think you can say that about just about any product or service out there right now. Everyone feels like they are at the tipping point whether you are buying groceries or going on vacation. So here’s the thing, the numbers have been decent this season. I think we’ll find it’s down a little bit, as it was expected to be down with the economy, inflation, there was election unknowns at the start of the winter, folks were less likely to pay up front. However, there’s a supply and demand aspect to skiing and riding… where it’s a very fine line between comfortably crowded and oh my god this is a problem crowded. Ski areas hear both complaints that it’s too expensive but it’s also too crowded. So weekend spur-of-the-moment decisions are definitely getting cost prohibiting. The big resorts want you to decide well in advance if you are coming. They do not have the capacity to absorb all of the already planned folks AND a massive influx of spur-of-the-moment decisions. Luckily there are a lot of smaller non-mega resorts to go to as well. Those places are more price friendly for short term decision making.

Thawing out today… late afternoon scene.

Solid squall line moving across the area now.

Posted by a friend in West Bolton today…

It occurs pretty similarly from upstate NY through VT, NH and ME. I think VT just often gets the headlines due to the large number of dirt roads over large areas... maybe? I dunno, maybe it's just that it's close to more population so we hear about it more than the rural ADK, western ME, N.NH areas? The best mud-season content though usually comes out of VT for sure.

I think it's pretty gross outside on the whole, but that's just the water logged snow, deep mud, filthy snowbanks and moist warmth. Anywhere the lawn is exposed, you sink down like 2" walking on it, footprints filled with water immediately. The driveway is 6-8" deep mud ruts. It's kind of gross as a whole, lol.

Also, what did you have for 2017-18 for total snowfall?