Winter Weather 2019-2020

Should I make the longer drive to WF over Gore tomorrow?

It won’t be as good tomorrow as today, obviously...but there was still soft cut up powder this afternoon up high, sublime pp down low, and the woods are chock full.

Gore will probably be good too...expecting 97% open.

It looked to me as if Stillwater Reservoir was/is ground zero for this LE.

I think Harv nailed it today @ Big Mac

Looks like WF back into the lake effect snow band

I just booked a room in Upper Jay for Saturday and bought 2-day tix to WF! Spontaneous pow chasing trip!

I’m sure Gore is fun today....but I hope you chose WF.  I was wrong, it’s as good as yesterday.

Thanks for the info yesterday! We’re here at Whiteface and it’s amazing! I skied cloud spin and skyward and McKenzie and wilderness and Mountain run and it’s all amazing. Parons and follies suck though all icy.

Nice call!  These were a couple of the best days I’ve had at WF, you chose wisely!

So.....who’s on board with the Euro models for Friday, and who’s leaning American?  Nor’ Easter before the weekend would be nice!

Some warm and wet today and tomorrow, but the wet seems light today, and the timing for tomorrow night could result in a changeover in time for a few inches of snow in far northern regions.

Anyone else see a potential bombogenesis situation this weekend? Might partially miss us though and only provide heavy surf with some light accums. Fingers crossed!

12z is showing a clipper coming down and some moisture coming up from the south, converging Friday/Saturday.  Looks to be a guessing game right now.  

I'll be in north-central VT, so I'm hoping for something white.

bomo forecast

The Euro models have them coming together too far south and east to bring much snow to Northern NY/VT, whereas the American models have a more favorable track for snow in ski country.

As of now the 500 mb trough is positively tilted and the there is no phasing with the northern stream..thus the system will be heading out to sea..but there is time for it to change

After yet another swing and miss, the pattern looks to warm up considerably starting Monday.  

It looks like an early Spring this year.  

Possibly a decent high elevation ADK/no. VT dump Friday?

Seems like a long shot. NWS has a high of 43 at 3800 feet on Friday.

Not sure how we get past this intact:

I'll be surprised if theirs much snow left come April 1.  Not a lot of natural snow this year, and every month of winter has been much warmer than normal.

I haven't been on skis in 2 weeks and need to scratch the itch.  What's gonna suck less this weekend?  

Whiteface and Sugarbush are supposed to at least get a bit of snow, but Gore will be warmer and with some southern exposure in March sun it might soften up, even if temps are in the 20s.

I'd sooner roll the dice that Gore will soften up.


If there's an upside to this it's that the farmers around here in CNY have started their field work. They have to be happy with an early start like this, hopefully they have a bangin year.