Winter Weather 23/24

[SayvilleSteve]

We haven't seen the sun in so long that I have forgotten how to squint.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Absolutely, lack of sun gets to me! So is having most the entire winter feeling and looking like early April. Stick and mud season was bad enough when it was mostly limited to spring. Now it lasts for most the winter also

I'm with you!

Mud season is by far my least favorite. At least my dogs aren't around anymore

 

[Andy_ROC]

I started skiing BECAUSE winter used to bum me out. Now I think "it can't snow if it ain't cloudy."

I can't tell you how many people have told me they are excited about Saturday because he sun is supposed to come out!

I'm definitely excited to see the sun Saturday and Sunday. This weekend will be my first time sking my home mountain, Bristol, this season. I've got 12 passes to use or give away.

I've always loved snow but sadly these days clouds most often mean rain not snow.

I'll probably give it one more season to see if next winter is any better otherwise I'm done with prepurchased passes from Bristol. Or as I think more about this, I could split 12 with my buddy. All I'd use Bristol for is some leg training before going west.

 

[wonderpony]

This has been a great winter for yoga, running and riding. It has been a crappy winter for skiing.

 

[tirolski]

A friend in CNY had daffodils popping thru a couple days ago.
Better get at it if yer gonna go.
Might try a flat light morning shift with one of the boys tomorrow...
It should be better this weekend when the sun comes back out.

 

[takeahike46er]

This ski season has been garbage. Last season wasn’t much better.

There’s been piss hot rain on-and-off since last Saturday all the way to the peak tops. The forecast calls for a hard freeze and a 10-day grand total of 6” of snow (if we’re lucky). Get out your ice skates.

I’m not talking about the NE either. I’m talking about SW BC and N WA State—where Mt Baker currently has less snow on the ground at Heather Meadows than at the Mt Mansfield snow stake—despite Baker averaging more than twice as much snowfall.

Further north, Whistler hasn’t been able to run the Showcase t-bar this season due to a combination of the rapidly melting glacier and a lack of snow. The t-bars are too far off the ground to run.

 

[jasonwx]

This ski season has been garbage. Last season wasn’t much better.

There’s been piss hot rain on-and-off since last Saturday all the way to the peak tops. The forecast calls for a hard freeze and a 10-day grand total of 6” of snow (if we’re lucky). Get out your ice skates.

I’m not talking about the NE either. I’m talking about SW BC and N WA State—where Mt Baker currently has less snow on the ground at Heather Meadows than at the Mt Mansfield snow stake—despite Baker averaging more than twice as much snowfall.

Further north, Whistler hasn’t been able to run the Showcase t-bar this season due to a combination of the rapidly melting glacier and a lack of snow. The t-bars are too far off the ground to run.

I have been following the weather in pnw. Just crazy.
No region is really knocking out of the park this year. The best is Colo and they are just around average.

 

[saratogahalfday]

Albany thus far is +7.2 degrees in December, and +5.8 degrees in January, over average.

Those are big numbers.

 

[MarzNC]

Overall, the southeast is doing okay even with a few really warm days. I skied at Massanutten Jan. 24-25 and had a very good time. Never got sticky on the upper mountain even though temps got into the 50s. The NC mountains got snow from clouds earlier this week, meaning over 2 inches.

The snowmakers are used to making as much snow as possible when the wet-bulb temp is favorable on core trails in order to get through the inevitable warm spells (50s daytime) that come in Jan and/or Feb. The snow whales around Massanutten were huge after the cold spell in Jan. 15-21. They got 100% open on Jan. 17, including new trails never opened before that added acreage. Of course, still under 100 acres with 100% snowmaking so not the same situation as at a bigger mountain north of NYC.

Massanutten history from Wunderground (line added at 30 degrees):

Posted January 31, 2024

 

[SayvilleSteve]

Sugarbush is claiming that January was the snowiest January in a decade.