Winter Weather 22/23

[jasonwx]

Standing by this. Closed today because of blizzard conditions, not ncp.

my kid is going there next week

 

[Low Angle Life]

Welp I got what I asked for, reservoir levels are back to normalish, our local north flowing brook breached its banks earlier this morning. Good news is that it also replenished the levels of all the local skating ponds.

 

[jimmypete]

I dunno - Did the ski areas of southern PA, West Virginia, The Poconos, or the hills of Northern NJ ever rely predominantly on natural snowfall? I don't remember Vernon Valley/Great Gorge being a particularly natural snowy place back in the 90s.

I know everyone hates the "back in the day" stories but I can distinctly remember in the 70's as you drove from central Jersey to Sussex County and to ski Great Gorge/Vernon Valley [Mountain Creek] there was a change in the weather patterns. Once you got North into Morris County you started to see snow on the ground most of the time in Jan and early February, the temperatures at Vernon were a good deal colder than my home town in Union County. Groups would rent "ski" houses in Greenwood lake to party and drive to Vernon. Of course there were fluctuations in temps and precipitations but the tendency was more snow. Now the State's weather seems universally the same, very little difference from mid jersey way up into Orange and Rockland County in NY, the Poconos also were like a different climate zone, not so much today.

 

[Campgottagopee]

I've never seen it go from rain to wind ripping and snow. Holy!

 

[Tjf1967]

I'm driving in rain headed into the flash freeze

 

[Harvey]

Barely snowing at Gore base even though radar doesn't show it yet.

Snowing good on the summit.

 

[Tjf1967]

I hit it. It's a lot worse now than it wasn't that picture. This is going to be a long slow ride

 

[Campgottagopee]

I hit it. It's a lot worse now than it wasn't that picture. This is going to be a long slow ride

Hopefully you have a couple tall boys and a PR.

 

[Milo Maltbie]

I don't remember Vernon Valley/Great Gorge being a particularly natural snowy place back in the 90s.

I skied Great Gorge on my 21st birthday, which was mid-March. IIRC it was winter at the top and spring at the base. but I'm sure it was mostly natural snow that season, which was before the 90s.

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[Milo Maltbie]

... I can distinctly remember in the 70's as you drove from central Jersey to Sussex County and to ski Great Gorge/Vernon Valley [Mountain Creek] there was a change in the weather patterns. Once you got North into Morris County you started to see snow on the ground most of the time in Jan and early February, the temperatures at Vernon were a good deal colder than my home town in Union County...

That's what I remember as well. Great Gorge was like a different planet than Brooklyn.

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