Rain Sucks

…..In the middle of January.


And then, to top it off, I have a good friend living out in Colorado, and he's texting me pix and reports from Steamboat, which is in the midst of a two day storm on top of a lovely base. sheesh.

Benny Profane wrote

…..In the middle of January.


And then, to top it off, I have a good friend living out in Colorado, and he's texting me pix and reports from Steamboat, which is in the midst of a two day storm on top of a lovely base. sheesh.

We have no one to blame but ourselves, we choose to live here...

JasonWx wrote

Benny Profane wrote

…..In the middle of January.


And then, to top it off, I have a good friend living out in Colorado, and he's texting me pix and reports from Steamboat, which is in the midst of a two day storm on top of a lovely base. sheesh.

We have no one to blame but ourselves, we choose to live here...

Nah, it's where my job is. If only I could find something in my field in Denver. Or even Burlington.

Burlington? It's raining there too! Go spend some of your 138k and jet set to da boat!!!

The Weather Network has invented a word for this event: wintermission.

Rain in the Winter in the North East isn't as rare as we'd like to think, that's why God invented snowmaking

I'm here to post in this important thread as is destined to become a classic.

Wintermission =
Polar Vortex =

the polar vortex is our enemy..it puts us too deep into the cold air and blocks all the storms. And when it slips off the coast,   we get into a southwest flow..

JasonWx wrote

the polar vortex is our enemy..it puts us too deep into the cold air and blocks all the storms. And when it slips off the coast,   we get into a southwest flow..

I dunno about that. Was the so called polar vortex in place last weekend? Cause Friday-Sunday were incredible...

Fact is we do have a really bad rain/thaw/warm up every season. But this year is particularly brutal for the more northern areas that have missed out on many storms that went south. And it is following up on the Christmas thaw as well without major base building. Thankfully we enjoyed a really long stretch of cold weather to lay down man made.

But natural snow skiing is taking a bigger than usual hit right now. Mansfield stake is under two feet and more than a foot below average not counting any melting and compacting that happened today. The majority of northern New England areas are less than 50% open today. MRG has only operated the Practice Slope at best for three weeks now. With the thaw behind us, we'll need an immediate influx of cold and snow to get things back on track. Otherwise we are hurting.

All that said, my current 2013-2014 season is already better than either of the past two seasons is their entirety.

Hey Jason I skied fresh powder each day Jan 1-3  amid the Polar Vortex.  Snowing like hell at -5 degrees F works for me because the slopes were empty.  And if it is not snowing the weather is ideal for snowmaking...I'll take that over any January Thaw or Wintermission or just plain Rain.  But alas we live in the northeast and will ski anything.  I was out skiing yesterday...When are you coming back to Gore?  We never really got to take you into the trees

Jan 3, 4 and 5 of this year were probably the best 3 consecutive days of skiing ever for me.

Maybe tied with the three days I skied at Jay with River et al in 2011.

the snow  fell before the deep cold air..we need seasonable cold air..A block in Greenland and nice high sitting over quebec..
look what happens after a arctic air intrusion.. a massive warm up..  we are in a yo-yo pattern..

still it's only mid January..the interesting part of the winter is just about to start..

my wife is taking my daughter to FLA in Feb..I will make my return to Gore then..
 

Bears seem to like to the weather. Bypassing the hibernating

http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sierra/bear-stops-by-heavenly-mountain-race-course/-/12970852/23872490/-/11b4hcz/-/index.html?absolute=true

This weather has me so bummed out.  I'd take the polar vortex over this crap any day.

 I feel like that quote that I think Scotty uses where the old man screams at the clouds.

Ugly radar today with rain all the way up to Maine. It has been raining all day with temps around 45 here in North Jersey. Yuk.

The NFL must be praying that this doesn't happen at the Super Bowl. Cold rain just blows.

this is just bad
yesterday Hunter was excellent..

There will be egg all over the NFL's face if it is 38 and raining on Superbowl Sunday..

Well, really, if they wanted good weather, New Jersey on 2/2 was a real bad bet.

I'm praying for snow on 2/2 not to screw up the SuperBowl, I could care less either way but I always pray for Snow, specially in the CATS