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Colorado snowfall so far this year
On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 13:47:28 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote this crap: On 02/02/2015 08:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote: On 02/02/2015 05:11 PM, Richard Henry wrote: On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8, wrote: Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO? from a water/snowpack point of view - http://graphs.water-data.com/ucsnowpack/ California snow is way below average, continuing the drought - I don't remember it ever being "average" or "above average" here. Granted, I was an English major, but it still seems like something is wrong here. http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/PLOT_SWC The expected El Nino patter has meant a lot of storms for the 2 BCs (Baja California and British Columbia) but darned little where it counts. Too slushy too early to spend the time/gas (even at today's prices) for a couple of hours. I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky and two meh. Proof that I was an English major. Delete one "sucky". Wuss, I was a math major. Anyone can learn English. |
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lal_truckee wrote:
On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote: I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky and two meh. (That's six...) I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there. It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of the off-shore high. It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that crusty heavy surface. I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of snowmaking due to the normally warm temps. Unfortunately, our forcasts currently show heavy rain for the next week. But then again, we started last year pretty slow, and mid February started the best powder spell I can remember. I'll keep hoping our temperature will drop that few degrees we need to make the switch. And, I'll keep going up every chance I get when it won't be actually raining for at least the morning. |
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On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8, wrote:
Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO? According to http://bestsnow.net/, the following are percentages of normal as of Jan 31: Breck: 104% Copper: 114% Keystone: 98% Loveland: 95% Narrative: "A-Basin opened one snowmaking run on October 17 and has been 95+% open since mid-January. Most of November was stormy in this region, so much more terrain than usual was open for Thanksgiving. There was little snow the first half of December so base depths settled to the 2 foot range. The pre-Christmas dump of up to 3 feet of dense snow pushed the base depths into the 4 foot range for very good holiday skiing at most areas. There was another 1-2 feet over the holidays. January snowfall was about half of normal, but many areas are close to average for the season due to the better earlier months." |
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On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 8:30:19 PM UTC-7, Dave Stallard wrote:
On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 7:37:34 AM UTC-8, wrote: Anyone know if the snowfall so far this year is "normal" in Summit County, CO? According to http://bestsnow.net/, the following are percentages of normal as of Jan 31: Breck: 104% Copper: 114% Keystone: 98% Loveland: 95% Narrative: "A-Basin opened one snowmaking run on October 17 and has been 95+% open since mid-January. Most of November was stormy in this region, so much more terrain than usual was open for Thanksgiving. There was little snow the first half of December so base depths settled to the 2 foot range. The pre-Christmas dump of up to 3 feet of dense snow pushed the base depths into the 4 foot range for very good holiday skiing at most areas. There was another 1-2 feet over the holidays. January snowfall was about half of normal, but many areas are close to average for the season due to the better earlier months." That sounds about right. The SNOTEL gauges are not all near the resorts and are better for predicting spring runoff. Generally they are a better indicator of actual snowpack than the reports issued by the resorts but not always. The thing about the SNOTEL gauge is that it's an actual measurement and not subject to any human interpretations unlike the reports from the resorts. What I wonder is how Breckenridge is always over 100%. I don't think I have seen them report anything under 100% in the last five years or more. The bottom line is that skiing is really not that great in Summit County right now but the base is ok so what really matters is how much snow they got last night. |
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The Real Bev wrote:
On 02/04/2015 11:20 AM, Bob F wrote: lal_truckee wrote: On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote: I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky and two meh. (That's six...) I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there. It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of the off-shore high. It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that crusty heavy surface. I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of snowmaking due to the normally warm temps. This season and toward the end of the last, the Snow Summit groomers seem to have lost their touch. Big frozen ridges between passes, holes that aren't filled in, and just generally inadequate. I can see there will be problems with only a little snow, but they can push enough in from the sides (I assume, anyway) to be able to at least do it right out in the middle. When I complained they apologized and said they'd mail me some lunch vouchers. Nothing yet... I remember a day or 2 like that. I suspect a recently "graduated" trainee. |
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On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 8:36:39 PM UTC-8, Bob F wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: On 02/04/2015 11:20 AM, Bob F wrote: lal_truckee wrote: On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote: I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky and two meh. (That's six...) I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there. It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of the off-shore high. It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that crusty heavy surface. I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of snowmaking due to the normally warm temps. This season and toward the end of the last, the Snow Summit groomers seem to have lost their touch. Big frozen ridges between passes, holes that aren't filled in, and just generally inadequate. I can see there will be problems with only a little snow, but they can push enough in from the sides (I assume, anyway) to be able to at least do it right out in the middle. When I complained they apologized and said they'd mail me some lunch vouchers. Nothing yet... I remember a day or 2 like that. I suspect a recently "graduated" trainee. Grooming trainee or customer relations trainee? |
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According to the automatic snow sensors, Mammoth is now getting its biggest storm of the year.
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/jspplot/jsp...cookies=cdec01 They only need to make up for 6 dry weeks. |
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 20:34:24 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
wrote this crap: According to the automatic snow sensors, Mammoth is now getting its biggest storm of the year. I'm glad it's not here. But this crappy weather is giving me time to practice the banjo. This signature is now the ultimate power in the universe |
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On 02/05/2015 08:36 PM, Bob F wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: On 02/04/2015 11:20 AM, Bob F wrote: lal_truckee wrote: On 2/2/15 8:33 PM, The Real Bev wrote: I've gone 5 times this season. One excellent, two miserable, one sucky and two meh. (That's six...) I've got about 15 days, not very interesting days; not enough natural to support off-piste. But snow-making has kept the groomers open with good coverage top to bottom and skiing is there. It's interesting that the rank and file, who only ski the groomers anyway, are the ones claiming hysterically NO SNOW while the rest of us practice our carves and slalom turns while awaiting the dissipation of the off-shore high. It's been a horrible season so far up here near Seattle too, but I've had 13 fun days. When everything is frozen, I stay on the groomers and work on carving, and when we get a little new snow, the off-piste may be a challenge, but I can have great fun taking it on. Yesterday was a tiny bit of new at the top on heavily rained on old snow. I had perhaps my best day yet on linking turns through that crusty heavy surface. I am really impressed by how well the grooming staff can keep the mountain going. They've been doing an incredible job of keeping the rocks covered, and the groomed runs usable. This, of course, in an area without the option of snowmaking due to the normally warm temps. This season and toward the end of the last, the Snow Summit groomers seem to have lost their touch. Big frozen ridges between passes, holes that aren't filled in, and just generally inadequate. I can see there will be problems with only a little snow, but they can push enough in from the sides (I assume, anyway) to be able to at least do it right out in the middle. When I complained they apologized and said they'd mail me some lunch vouchers. Nothing yet... I remember a day or 2 like that. I suspect a recently "graduated" trainee. Perhaps I'll send them a polite email. They'd better make it extend into the 2015-6 season -- Accuweather says this one is pretty much over as far as I'm concerned. FWIW, Brian Head was wonderful over the weekend. I drove exactly 1,000 miles in the rental car. That was weird. -- Cheers, Bev "It is never fallacious to properly cite Donald Knuth in lieu of providing your own argument." --Sun Tzu |
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