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1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Yea. I expect it keep ticking north too. North of 84 is safe.

I’d love for it to be safe for north of 89. 

1 hour ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Just get me double digits...no JP fetish here.

Who hacked Ray's Tandy?

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

12z Euro is pretty zoinked this run, Definitely came north.

Ooh Dryslot is back.  That can only mean good things for the northerners.

2 minutes ago, Prismshine Productions said:

Considering I recently moved, what exactly is PD so I know for future reference?

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President's Day

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Big balls of sleet coming down.

1 minute ago, 512high said:

oy Ray, that would be great for everyone , just saw a motorcycle drive by my shop......dear god

I beg to differ, that would not be great for everyone.

On 2/6/2024 at 1:07 AM, EMontpelierWhiteout said:

I find the Stowe snow report to be pretty accurate to conditions. No real bs making it sound better than it is like some other resorts.   Yes, a “fun challenge” has been the pretty common “not so great but you are not going to die” refrain for some of these post-marginal events or dry periods. 

10 minutes ago, bwt3650 said:

Stowe and Jay are the best reports out there. They both give actual details on the conditions rather than “it’s going to be a great day” and they update several times a day. I think the mountain ops details are important too. If you know the mountains, you can figure out what pods will open next and how the trails will ski based on the snowmaking.


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I can't speak for Jay but the Stowe report can almost entirely be attributed to @powderfreak.  His dedication to having an accurate accounting is key.  He pretty much documented the development of his system on this board.

3 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Man, hook me up with EPS member 34....some mood lightining would be nice, too.

37 would be a kick in the nuts for everyone.

6 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Is the lake totally frozen and able to walk on it?

Lol. You can swim in it. I’m not even sure if the harbor in Burlington is froze over. 

20 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

This is pain personified. Bright side is this would likely earn me a day off 

And there would be plenty of snow for you to come up and ride again.

23 minutes ago, Sn0waddict said:

For our Maine friends

@dryslotjust awoke from his slumber.

28 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

I don’t really follow the ICON that much. Its a bit noisy for my liking. I treat it like the other JV models. It’s prob better than the NAVGEM and JMA and those types, but I’d never weight it more than the GGEM or Ukie. 
 

It mostly has any use at all because it comes out early so sometimes we can get a better sense of what the gee tal model trends will be on that particular cycle. 

Now you've done it.  George is going to challenge you to a duel!

41 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I don't like the look of that....lots of members inland. The mean is pulled south by the seaward outliers. Looks good for Powderfreak.

3 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Mar 13-14 2023

Seemed ok to me. 

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

Somethings definitely not adding up, different groups along with an experienced ski instructor, something was wrong, and we may never find out the truth.

And I think they fired the ski instructor. That certainly doesn’t seem like an attempted cover up. 

3 hours ago, beavis1729 said:

Yeah...and this has sort of gone unnoticed.  I had two snowmobiling trips planned in northern WI this season, and both were cancelled since they haven't been able to open the trails.  The most shocking stat of all is that essentially the entire state of WI has bare ground...on February 6th!  There are no words to describe how ridiculous this is. North of 45N, they typically have 10-25+" on the ground now.  The entire Midwest had a 7-day period of winter this season - that's it.

I’ve been reading the snowmobile forums. The upper Midwest is bleak. Not even much riding on the UP. It hasn’t been great here but at least we’ve had a little. 

51 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Like one in a million?

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Notice some bulbs coming up today.

In Powderfreak’s picture?

7 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Awesome.  Looks very good.  Sounds like you’re liking your new machine.  That’s a beautiful thing.
 

My buds went up Thursday to our cabin in Sinclair/Cross lake, and rode out to River De Loop on the St Lawrence in Quebec. They stayed overnight at Hotel Levesque, and rode/looped back to N Maine yesterday.  They said it was fabulous.  Was bummed I couldn’t make it this go around(work responsibilities), but I’ll get up again soon.  Your pictures looked great. 

It was free weekend in Quebec. One day I’ll get up there. 

9 minutes ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

While my approval rating is at an all time low, here are some of the pics I took today up at the top of the 2000 ft MSL road in Newbury, Nh. So awesome to see the Sun finally coming out. Snapped decent photos of Okemo and Killington. I think I can get Stowe, but will need perfectly clear weather - no dice today. Also need to bring my real camera, not my cell phone.

I’m in these pictures. We snowmobiled from Woodstock to Ludlow today. You really have to blow them up to see me though. 

1 hour ago, Layman said:

Does that kind of mileage beat you up at all is it totally gear dependent?  A ride like that sounds awesome to me and the pics you guys post look great.  It's something I'd really like to try with the family sometime, although I imagine a rental/guide service won't be doing tons of miles over a few short hours.  

It depends on the sled you ride and the trail conditions. Modern sleds have great suspensions and rider position. It makes rides like the one @dryslotdid pretty comfortable. It also depends on trail conditions though. If you really bumpy conditions, comfort can be severely reduced. 

2 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

Didn't do as much as you but had fun, great conditions.

 

We had good conditions in central VT too. 

32 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Last night we were +28 on the minimum and the day was only +10.  Mean temp once again near freezing with no snowmelt despite a +19 daily departure.

What a wild pattern.  Like the highest possible departures you can get while still being able to keep water frozen for the most part.

This has been like the exact opposite of that January a few years ago that was below on temps, above on precip and below on snow. Was that 2015?

1 hour ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said:

When I think climate engineering I'm thinking reactive measures vice preemptive measures, so stuff like switching to renewables (though hugely important) wouldn't fall under that definition, while something like carbon capture would. And while I know there are several companies, research institutes, think tanks, universities, whatever, engaged in coming up with ways to either mitigate solar radiation or remove carbon from the atmosphere, you are correct in pointing out that they aren't at scale because they aren't profitable.

The mantra I used to hear from climatologists is that money and intellectual effort is better spent not on figuring out ways to pull carbon from the atmosphere, but on how we ensure it's left underground in the first place.

A crude example might be as follows: A company develops some sort of carbon capture infrastructure that requires power. Given that this is a green energy project, the company ensures that their device is run off locally installed solar panels. Under that aforementioned mantra, it would be better just to take the power from those solar panels and plug it into the grid - bypass the silly hardware. By doing so you've prevented more carbon from leaving the Earth's crust than you could've ever captured from the air. Crude example but that's the gist of it.

To Tip's point, and like you've highlighted, we're already there. If we had a magic button that switched all of our energy needs away from fossil fuels we would still have more carbon in the atmosphere than desired. And so now we have to look at those climate engineering projects and begin to envision them at grand scales.

And that's when the clown show starts because some of the options on the table are pretty drastic, zany, and downright absurd.

Anyway let's bomb Krakatoa!

I think Spaceballs had the answer all along. Something to suck out all the bad stuff.  Just need to figure out how to leave the good stuff.

10 minutes ago, J.Spin said:

I’m seeing reports of 2 to 3 inches of new snow from the resorts in their early morning reports, so it’s going to be a nice addition, but we’re not talking the levels of snow/liquid that would be needed for a thorough resurfacing. It is actually snowing here in the BTV area at the moment, and the short-term models show the snow continuing through tonight along the spine as they have been, so we’ll see what additional snow they pick up through tomorrow. Watching the Bolton Valley Live Cam you can see that things look nice with the new snow, but the event would definitely need to be a couple notches bigger to really kick things up.

I even had a dusting here this morning.