I was out at Shawnee on new years eve day also. Got there about 10 am and stayed until about 4. When we got there the snow was absolutely amazing, and it was still coming down. Good soft snow with a nice day. But around 2 o clock the wind got almost unbearable to the point the lighter people had a hard time moving across the non steep areas, I saw a few people stopped dead in the their tracks.
This was actually my first time at Shawnee and the mountain is superb, I took a quick liking to their park because it's the only one that has such a nice long jump set out of any of them, the one at Blue Mountain is decent but in too advanced of a park for me to feel comfortable learning.
I will definately be back to Shawnee this year!