Long Range Forecast Report Card 09/10

I was looking through last summer’s long range forecasts. What I found looks pretty good in retrospect. Caveat: I haven’t followed the weather out west. We’re really looking at the Northeast.

Bastardi’s Call

The biggest, baddest of all the long term calls comes each summer from Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi. Accuweather is known for making bold calls and hyping them bigtime. They’ve gone down in flames recently, including Bastardi’s call for 08/09. This year his call, made in mid-July, was SPOT ON for the northeast.

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Nick Z Productions

Nick Z comes from a long line of Gore skiers. And he’s the CEO of Nick Z Productions which is quickly becoming a dominant force in the northern New Jersey home snowmaking market.

What follows is the story of a man with a vision.

This year the New Jersey home snowmaking season extended ten weeks, from mid-December through March. Nick worked hard to put out the best product in the neighborhood.

Snowmaking

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Lost Gore Skiers: Point of Exit

This is a spot many Gore Mountain regulars would probably recognize. It’s on skier’s right on Chatiemac, maybe 50 yards above the Highline.

Point of exit

When I skied past the spot on Saturday 3/6, a group of patrollers were gathered. It seemed close to the recent point of exit for the skiers who were lost on 2/28. I asked them half jokingly if it was the “scene of the crime.” Heads were bobbing North and South.