Northeastern U.S. Weather & Conditions

The 10% adjustment is for in season reporting when a lower mountain number is not available. At the end of the season Jay provides me with monthly upper (the ones they post in season) and lower numbers. I average those for each month. The spread between upper and lower is generally around 20% which is the reason I adjust 10% in season. The spread was slightly more in 2025-26. So no arbitrary adjustment to final numbers.
 
I knew the Northeast season tailed off on the back end, but I didn't realize how much. I have all my Northeast data for 2025-26 now. The Northeast was 119% of normal at the end of December and 125% at the end of January but ended up at 97% for the entire season.
 
Tony Crocker said:
I knew the Northeast season tailed off on the back end, but I didn't realize how much.
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Ski areas must have been happy about that ^^ as the latter part of the season isn't where most of their revenue is usually generated. Prior to 2025-26, can anyone recall the last Xmas/New Year's holiday when conditions were very good (i.e. there wasn't a damaging rain event)?

I can't remember if Tony addressed it in a different post; however, I assume that his stats confirm how (with the exception of northern VT) the headline for most of the NE season was consistently cold temps, not large snowfall.
 
James is correct. The snowfall was below average in February but skiing was still good with cold weather. The rain and thaw events were frequent only starting in March.

I have tracked Vermont conditions by weekend since 2000. There have been 5 good late Decembers before this year, the most recent in 2017-18.
 
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Tony Crocker said:
James is correct. The snowfall was below average in February but skiing was still good with cold weather. The rain and thaw events were frequent only starting in March.

I have tracked Vermont conditions by weekend since 2000. There have been 5 good late Decembers before this year, the most recent in 2017-18.
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We had a lot of snow in our yard through February and I was thinking it would last until late March or early April and then, boom, we had some warm weather and rain in the middle of March and the sunlight hours expanded and the snow was gone in only a few days. It was remarkable how fast it went.
 
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