LOL. That would be deep coverage where I live. Been incredibly warm (all-time records). I swear the grass is starting to grow again and is turning greener and my wife noticed bulbs coming up in our flower garden last weekend. And there are new buds on our Lilac bushes. Supposed to be 70 here tomorrow. First time I can remember no skiing at all over Christmas in this part of New England. A total wipeout for the ski areas.Marc_C":mn6zdjfw said:
From my sometimes faulty memory, I would say the worst start to the ski season in the Northeast during my skiing lifetime (50 years or so). I would also say that the "21% of normal" snowfall so far in the 2015/2016 ski season is a very optimistic estimate.. So far, we have had 0% of "normal" snowfall. Some snow is predicted to fall tonight into tomorrow but may turn to sleet, freezing rain and then just plain rain in some sections of New England.Tony Crocker":875swoii said:I was in NYC Dec. 11-22. 5 of those 10 days it was warmer in NY than in LA. And Christmas Eve in NY was warmer than any of the days I was there.
I have the Northeast at 21% of normal snowfall as of Dec. 23. There is no Nov/Dec in my snow data even close to that low. That 21% is also worse than California at this time during any of the past 4 drought seasons. And of course the temperatures are having an even bigger impact than the low snowfall.
I think it's a fairly easy call that this is the worst holiday ski season in Northeast history. Fortunately I have the 7 western regions collectively at 129%. And Utah is still the lowest of those 7 western regions as percent of normal at 108%.
http://bestsnow.net/seas16.htm
I don't track southern New England/mid-Atlantic snowfall as it tends to be less than 150 inches average. This means:berkshireskier":2ug9ryyf said:I would also say that the "21% of normal" snowfall so far in the 2015/2016 ski season is a very optimistic estimate.
Certainly, most ski areas in the southern and the mid-parts of New England average 100 to 130 inches of snowfall per season (and some years quite a bit less than that) but the bugaboo for almost all ski areas in New England (even farther North) is how much of that snowfall eventually melts away with warm spells or gets rained away during the course of the season. That is one of the reasons I question the validity of the "21%" of normal snowfall quoted above. Any snow that has fallen, including all the way up into Canada, is long since gone. It was 65 degrees on Christmas eve day in Burlington, VT and in the 50's on Christmas day. Tony is right that the quality of skiing in much of New England does, to a large degree, depend on how much cold weather (and the persistence of that cold weather) occurs for snowmaking. That was the unusual thing about last Winter. It was consistently cold (even brutally cold) right from the middle of January until the first week in March. And real snow that did fall stuck around and it was great snow-making weather.Tony Crocker":9l39arjv said:I don't track southern New England/mid-Atlantic snowfall as it tends to be less than 150 inches average. This means:berkshireskier":9l39arjv said:I would also say that the "21% of normal" snowfall so far in the 2015/2016 ski season is a very optimistic estimate.
1) Most areas with snowfall that low don't keep records, and
2) Ski quality is more dependent upon temperatures/snowmaking than natural snow.
Last year was of course an exception. Which explains why I had the upper New England areas I track at 90%, while the areas farther south that I don't track had far above whatever normal snowfall is.
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