Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 About 1 yr ago...halfway there. what a year they have been having only Feb 1 and 250 inches. Today marks the halfway point in Steamboat's ski season. Fun snowfall facts: • 20+ feet of snow has fallen so far this season. • We've had 21 powder days, with 5 measuring in double digits. • It has snowed on more than 60 percent of days this season. 70 days left to hit the slopes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Steamboat Springs is where its at, holy heck Our loss has been the west's gain this year. Some years we all do well, but this is not one of those years. Hopefully we can at least salvage some good stuff for our late season here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Our loss has been the west's gain this year. Some years we all do well, but this is not one of those years. Hopefully we can at least salvage some good stuff for our late season here. You picked a great year to go out there. just keeps getting better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Steamboat Springs is where its at, holy heck Holy crap. Steamboat isn't even that high in elevation at 6-7,500ft in town. They are a NW flow upslope zone though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Holy crap. Steamboat isn't even that high in elevation at 6-7,500ft in town. They are a NW flow upslope zone though. Telluride right now since yesterday at 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hmmm...steak on the barbie tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hmmm...steak on the barbie tonight? Doc living and lovin the suburban life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 It was 91 on our two Tstats out of the Sun facing south at the base of Sunday River. Mid 80's were probably the consensus, Freyburg was 86 Gray was like 84 so was Bethel and Poland areas, any rate it was baking hot Though the March 1998 torch had slightly higher top end readings for NNE overall, it was a one or two day event. 2012 was nearly a week, and was the warmer in western Maine. A look at Farmington's 5 warmest temps in March, 1893 on, is almost unbelievable (to those who didn't experience it): 83 3/22/2012 82 3/21/2012 80 3/20/2012 79 3/20/1903 78 3/18/2012 (77 on 3/29/1945 is the only other March day above 74.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 what a year they have been having only Feb 1 and 250 inches. Today marks the halfway point in Steamboat's ski season. Fun snowfall facts: • 20+ feet of snow has fallen so far this season. • We've had 21 powder days, with 5 measuring in double digits. • It has snowed on more than 60 percent of days this season. 70 days left to hit the slopes! A friend is there for 3 months said its been good last two weeks. That pic looks like it's near howlison hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Would you describe it as a torch?El torcho fuego! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Doc living and lovin the suburban life. Eh...did it at the old place too but had to look at my close in neighbor's puss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Telluride right now since yesterday at 4 Saw Crested Butte had 28" between yesterday and today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 We briefly peaked at 52F this afternoon. No snow this year here and we can't get a torch right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 An old friend of mine is a coop observer out there...Steamboat 1SE. Looks like he's at 148" on the year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 "Drive By Torch" may be my new favorite term. Definitely the best post from Ginx in ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HimoorWx Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hmmm...steak on the barbie tonight?Affirmative here. Teriyaki tips going on soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 An old friend of mine is a coop observer out there...Steamboat 1SE. Looks like he's at 148" on the year. That's sick and they are only halfway there. The ski resort at 250" is getting close to hitting their 300" average like 2+ months early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 That's sick and they are only halfway there. The ski resort at 250" is getting close to hitting their 300" average like 2+ months early.Kind of a weenie spot to live for cold and snow. Looks like all of their daily records are 32F or less...even in July. SBS has some -50s in there too from earlier in the century. Not much taint in the winter there either...just pow on top of pow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Kind of a weenie spot to live for cold and snow. Looks like all of their daily records are 32F or less...even in July. SBS has some -50s in there too from earlier in the century. Not much taint in the winter there either...just pow on top of pow. Yeah I think all Colorado ski towns have sub-32 record mins in the summer. I went to Steamboat several times and almost moved there at one point. Their summers are just amazing. Like high of 80F low of 40F type stuff and very low dews. Every day is like a 40-50F diurnal range with afternoon thunderstorms rolling off the high peaks. The only thing with Steamboat is they are a lower elevation that places like Crested Butte and Telluride, Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Kind of a weenie spot to live for cold and snow. Looks like all of their daily records are 32F or less...even in July. SBS has some -50s in there too from earlier in the century. Not much taint in the winter there either...just pow on top of pow. That's what is so great about their winters above, say, 7k feet or so. It hardly ever rains. Anyone above 8-8500 feet like literally never rains except the shoulder seasons. So you just stack up snow. A lot of places are at like 70-80% of an entire season and February and March are usually huge months there. April too. Amazing how much they got in January which is often the least snowy at many of those places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Yeah I think all Colorado ski towns have sub-32 record mins in the summer. I went to Steamboat several times and almost moved there at one point. Their summers are just amazing. Like high of 80F low of 40F type stuff and very low dews. Every day is like a 40-50F diurnal range with afternoon thunderstorms rolling off the high peaks. The only thing with Steamboat is they are a lower elevation that places like Crested Butte and Telluride, Aspen, Vail, Breckenridge, etc. I just looked up their record highs...highest is 100F in 6/29/1990.The low was 45F....lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 An old friend of mine is a coop observer out there...Steamboat 1SE. Looks like he's at 148" on the year.elevation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 "Drive By Torch" may be my new favorite term. Definitely the best post from Ginx in ages.if you can't have fun what good is life,hope you feel better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 if you can't have fun what good is life,hope you feel better Just a bad sinus infection. Sucks but getting better. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Just a bad sinus infection. Sucks but getting better. Thanks.Stowe doesn't look to take too big a hit,the beer is always cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Damage In Tolland Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Wow he actually listens to normal young persons music . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerz_nailz Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Just a bad sinus infection. Sucks but getting better. Thanks. It's that time of year, I just got over one. It helps if you can keep the humidity level up in your house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
512high Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 It's that time of year, I just got over one. It helps if you can keep the humidity level up in your house. I can't believe this ! I am on day #2, please tell me the worse if over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I just looked up their record highs...highest is 100F in 6/29/1990. The low was 45F....lol Was looking through some of the normals of the ski towns out west.... I really think my ideal climate matches Crested Butte, CO. The town is at like 8-9,000ft so it gets early and late season snows. You actually average snowfall in September and in May/June. Summer climo is 70s/30s. Snowfall is 197.5" on average (since 1909) and depths in town peak out around 3 feet in February. You can tell its fluffy snow as the total liquid amounts really aren't that much. But if it doesn't melt or have torches, who cares? They get like 200" of snow on 23" of ANNUAL precipitation (as opposed to an average of like 40-50" of annual QPF in most of New England). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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