Rain, rain, please don't take our snow base away!

Wow! Sounds like you're having a Twin Cities winter! ('cept for the 6
inches of snow in the woods part)

e.

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Subject: Rain, rain, please don't take our snow base away!


We have about 6 inches in the woods around here in Mid-Mich that's been
holding strong for a few days of near-freezing.

Right now it's 35F and rainy, but today it's supposed to spike near 50F
today with rain, even a thunderstorm.

Tomorrow, again with the 50F and rain...but then in the afternoon it'll
drop to 20F!!! Crazy!

Then at night it drops to 1F! Uber-crazy!

Can our snow hold on til tomorrow night? If we're left with even a
crusty base, I'll be bowing and scraping and praising all the powers
that be.

After that the forecast calls for teens for several days, all with
likely snow. If we keep a base...if we keep a base...

--JP

Jeff, you couldn't have described both the conditions and the forecast
HERE in Central New York any better if you lived here.

Still waiting to hear from Clara whether the Tug Hill Try-It races
for this Saturday will be on or off. Normally they have way more
snow up there than we do here but at the moment we seem to be about
the same.

-Mitch


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 wrote:

We have about 6 inches in the woods around here in Mid-Mich that's been
holding strong for a few days of near-freezing.

Right now it's 35F and rainy, but today it's supposed to spike near 50F
today with rain, even a thunderstorm.

Tomorrow, again with the 50F and rain...but then in the afternoon it'll
drop to 20F!!! Crazy!

Then at night it drops to 1F! Uber-crazy!

Can our snow hold on til tomorrow night? If we're left with even a
crusty base, I'll be bowing and scraping and praising all the powers
that be.

After that the forecast calls for teens for several days, all with
likely snow. If we keep a base...if we keep a base...

--JP

In the Twin Cities, it's some freezing spritzle. After that's done, the
temps go in the cellar...stuff like -17 F overnight and -6 F for highs.
All this freezing rain and cold weather means the salting crews are out
in full force. Most of my neighbors haven't pulled out a shovel, but
they've laid down the Bonneville Salt flats on their sidewalks and
driveways.

It sure screws up the base training for the cycling season, but the
running is going pretty well.
Jay (groan and shake your head like Lurch) Wenner

Bjorn A. Payne Diaz wrote:
In the Twin Cities,

What about the pond skiing/ lake skiing? How is that holding up?
I haven't tried it yet this season,
but I've done lots of laps on Jensen lake in past years.

It looks like your season pass to Troll Hallow was a good
investment, Mr. Diaz. I can honestly say my skis have not
touched anything but man-made snow this season. Trollhaugen
is all I have skied.

Ddues, I've skied almost every day since I wasn't puking, long about
Xmas. The less sick I got the harder I skied. Can't help it. It might
melt any day! That's my training cycle. I go as hard as I can for as
long as the snow lasts. When it melts I rest. Well, I've been going
awhile now. I was starting to get tired! Ha, yesterday we got a
snow-dump of 3" and I shoveled the long drive then skied an hour. I was
stumbling at the end. --Skiing harder every day for 2 weeks since being
sick for weeks on end... That's funny! But I can't help it! It might
melt! ...Then I snowblowed a parking lot across town. I was tired.

It rained/fogged/warmed all day today. I just worked and peered out the
window. I feel my legs coming back already.

URGENT BULLETIN! I just checked my digi-temp and darn it's 51F outside
right now at 11pm. RATS!

But it's supposed to be 25F by tomorrow afternoon. Then start snowing a
bit again.

C'mon, hang on base! I only need 2-3 days off! If the base holds maybe
I'll do my first ski-skating of the year on the crusty golf course. Oh
yeah! But who wants to do that? I love a crust but only after all the
good skiing's gone! : ) I mean what kind of fitness is skating good
for? Probably mess up my kick.

Crazy, mon.

Well, that's it. It's gone.

So we had weeks of 25F then 30F and plenty of snow and now we get 24
hrs of 50F which is supposed to be followed by 25F in a few hours, then
0F and snow. Great. Why did that lame spell of 50F have to show up?

I feel your pain. We are at 54° here right now. It really sucks. All
the snow is gone. Even with the next few days of light snow, I doubt
there will be any good skiing around these parts.

June

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Well, that's it. It's gone.

So we had weeks of 25F then 30F and plenty of snow and now we get 24
hrs of 50F which is supposed to be followed by 25F in a few hours,
then
0F and snow. Great. Why did that lame spell of 50F have to show up?

Has this been posted here before?

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html

It's a interactive zoom-in-able snow depth map of the US. If anyone's
been using it for a while now, I'm curious how accurate you've found
it to be?

-Mitch

Looks pretty good for NE based on what I have seen recently.
But no snow above the Canadian border? Why do so many weather maps
persist in pretending that there is no weather in Canada. Drives me
nuts!

Rob Bradlee, eh!

--- Mitch Collinsworth wrote:


Has this been posted here before?

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html

It's a interactive zoom-in-able snow depth map of the US. If
anyone's
been using it for a while now, I'm curious how accurate you've found
it to be?

-Mitch







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Rob Bradlee
Java, C++, Perl, XML, OOAD, Linux, and Unix Training

Agreed, that's the sucky part. Living near the border, which probably
describes the majority of skiers in both countries, it would be nice to
have it all on a single map.

So, northern neighbors, is there a snow-depth map of Canada online
anywhere?

-Mitch


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Rob Bradlee wrote:

Looks pretty good for NE based on what I have seen recently.
But no snow above the Canadian border? Why do so many weather maps
persist in pretending that there is no weather in Canada. Drives me
nuts!

Rob Bradlee, eh!

--- Mitch Collinsworth wrote:


Has this been posted here before?

http://www.nohrsc.nws.gov/interactive/html/map.html

It's a interactive zoom-in-able snow depth map of the US. If
anyone's
been using it for a while now, I'm curious how accurate you've found
it to be?

-Mitch