Winter Weather 21/22

[Temp6]

Don’t sleep on the southwest. A buddy and I are gambling on wolf creek next week. They also caught that last mega dump that hit taos and a similar pattern remains in place. Sw flow Monday through Friday bodes well with both Euro and gfs models this morning in good agreement. We’re going for it with the motto that sometimes like in history, weather repeats itself.

In any case wolf creek has always been a top spot on my list and the southwest, as mentioned above, has had the best snow conditions overall so whatever happens should be good skiing.

 

[jasonwx]

Sw looks ok
Northeast is bleak so is Cali

 

[jimmypete]

pretty poor season, wasn't so much the lack of snow, but the fact that early on couldn't even get a consistent cold week without rain interfering, the only bright spot in the CATs so far has been the meager snow storms have been able to give a pretty good product with some judicious snow blowing, Since right before MLK Hunter has been ok to good, will see if this latests rain coming Thursday puts another nail in the coffin of the winter.

 

[tirolski]

2022 has been drier but colder than normal.
Without snowmaking we’d be screwed.
Thank yer snowmakers & lifties.
Sometimes they’re the same people.

 

[NYSkiBlog]

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[MarzNC]

Don’t sleep on the southwest. A buddy and I are gambling on wolf creek next week. They also caught that last mega dump that hit taos and a similar pattern remains in place. Sw flow Monday through Friday bodes well with both Euro and gfs models this morning in good agreement. We’re going for it with the motto that sometimes like in history, weather repeats itself.

In any case wolf creek has always been a top spot on my list and the southwest, as mentioned above, has had the best snow conditions overall so whatever happens should be good skiing.

Yep, Wolf Creek for the win in the next week or so. Will get twice as much as Taos. From an easterner's perspective, I don't think of Wolf Creek as being in the "southwest."

Even for WCSA, it's been feast or famine. They couldn't open 7-days a week until mid-December, which is unusual. Luckily my early season trip was just after the first big storm and they opened 100% for the first time the day I and my ski buddies started our week skiing there.

 

[jimmypete]

2022 has been drier but colder than normal.
Without snowmaking we’d be screwed.
Thank yer snowmakers & lifties.
Sometimes they’re the same people.

The Northeast has been almost totally dependent on snowmaking since the seventies, I hope Vail realizes this, snowmaking is the franchise and when we get natural it's icing on the cake

 

[Temp6]

I don't think of Wolf Creek as being in the "southwest."

My bad. Being closest to ABQ I just immediately think of it as the SW. But now that I look at it, most of colorado looks decently snowy next week. Maybe not epic dump but at least it's something!

 

[MarzNC]

The Northeast has been almost totally dependent on snowmaking since the seventies, I hope Vail realizes this, snowmaking is the franchise and when we get natural it's icing on the cake

Ironically, without snowmaking starting in the 1960s there would be no ski hills in the southeast. The ongoing investment in snowmaking infrastructure upgrades in the last 40-50 years is why a few southeast resorts not only survived the low snow years and recessions in the last few decades, and have even thrived during the pandemic when people were afraid to fly out west.

Snowshoe in WV is the only resort in the southeast on Ikon. Indy has Canaan Valley, Bryce, Massanutten, and Cataloochee. Those are becoming the "feeder hills" that will continue to bring new skiers/boarders onto the slopes.

May snow again in the southeast in a few days.

 

[NYSkiBlog]

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