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Latest forecast for the Plattsburgh, NY area in northeastern NY state (in the center of the path of totality) is for mostly clear and sunny skies in the afternoon of April 8, with a forecasted cloud cover of 18%. Of course, they may get 1 to 2 feet of snow later this week from a powerful coastal...

Thanks, Tony, for all that information! Yea, my estimate of, maybe a 20 to 25% chance of a clear or mostly clear day in upstate NY in early April was purely a guess based on my anecdotal experience of living in the Northeast most of my life. At this time of year, we seem to get a lot of...

I hadn't really given much thought to travelling to see the total eclipse but now that we're getting closer, I'm thinking I may drive up to northern NY state. I can be in Plattsburgh, NY (right in the middle of the path of totality, with an estimate total eclipse of about 3;30 minutes) in about...

No, the glades were not skiable and were roped off. Basically, the only terrain that was skiable was those trails that had snowmaking. Normally, they try to get to the middle of April, but, unless we get some substantial snowstorms, I doubt they'll make it that long. It really has been a...

Drove up to Montreal on Sunday to visit my daughter and we skied at Mt. Tremblant on Monday, March 4. It was strange driving up interstate 87 (the “Northway”) through the Adirondacks because there was no snow at the lower elevations, not even piles of snow on the side of the road, from plowing...

68" of new snow at Jackson Hole at the top of the mountain, so far in the first week of March. 17" in the past 24 hours.

Thanks for those charts, Tony. Excuse my stupidity ("statistics was, by far, my lowest grade in college), but I'm not sure I understand the "total water as the percent of total snow" chart. I assume the higher percent number on the chart mean more "liquid precipitation" (i.e., rain) in the given...

Welcome to the post-climate change world in New England - terrible Summers - warm, humid and rainy - and horrible Winters - warmer, mostly rain with some snow, along with flashes of cold that just freeze all of the liquid precipitation that has fallen. Even the Fall seasons, that generally used...

I had an acquaintance who would spend six weeks every winter heli-skiiing with CHM (the only skiing he did, I believe) and I once asked him how many vertical feet he had accumulated; he casually replied, "Oh, I think something over 14 million". I'm not sure if he had 14 separate one-piece CHM suits?

Yea, I was supposed to go up this weekend but the weather forecast is for maybe some rain on Friday, even at Mt. Tremblant, and then turning very cold and windy on Saturday. Does not sound like a pleasant day to ski. I admit I've become somewhat of a skiing wimp when it comes to cold weather, as...

Not here in central New England. Almost completely bare ground in the Berkshires of western New England. We've had very little snow and quite a bit of rain and warmer temps. The local ski hills have been able to make enough snow to get almost 100% of their terrain open but no natural snow on...

Interestingly, I just looked at the live web cams for both Grand Targhee and Jackson Hole. Looks like almost no one is skiing at either resort this week. Pretty much ski on to all of the major lifts at both resorts and GT is reporting thin coverage on any south-facing slopes. I wonder if a lot...

I would guess Killington thinks it is prestigious to host a World Cup race and probably think it is "free" publicity for the resort. I'm not sure it drives huge numbers of skiers to go to Killington over the course of the Winter but I have no numbers to back that up.

I don't even consider what some of the "extreme" skiers do on extremely steep (and narrow) terrain (like here) to be even "skiing". They just throw their skis back and forth across the fall line (with "jump turns") and try to set an edge to stop their momentum down the slope. IMHO, more like...

I can't help but laugh when I read this thread. I grew up two towns over from "Ward Hill" (as it was known in the 60's) and I, more or less, learned to ski there, as a kid. It had, maybe, 200 feet of "vertical" with a T-bar and, I think, 1 or 2 rope tows. Typical small, local, central New...

Yea, I forget the exact dates but I believe my daughter would start the first or second week in September and the first trimester would end before Thanksgiving; then she would have 5 or 6 weeks off, through Christmas and New Year's (avoiding the cold and dark month of December in Minnesota), and...

Yea, my daughter had a somewhat similar schedule when she was in college in Minnesota. They were on trimester system and the first trimester ended right before Thanksgiving; then, they would have the entire month of December off and they would start up again in the first week of January, so she...

https://news.yahoo.com/el-ni-o-back-bringing-155547125.html Story from the LA Times about the possibility of another strong El Nino for next Winter, into 2024.

Just looked at the webcams for Grand Targhee. Snowing moderately hard there today and still looks like mid-winter. They've closed for the season but are allowing uphill climbing. It's a shame that, in a snow year like this one, they close down so early but I guess they run out of paying...

Yea, you can run only so many gates before terminal boredom sets in (unless you're Mikaela Shiffrin).