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Ratios with these clippers will be high.. thus it will not take much moisture to make 4" of snow or so.. normally the ratios are 10:1 .. these temps are conducive to 25:1+ ratios. So .1" of precip will give you 2.5" of snow we should get at least several inches of real stuff.. plus tons of blown stuff.. I think if this pans out... it could be a very long season if we're lucky!

It's going to be cold right through the 20th it looks like.. with a couple snow chances and cold cold temps the amount of new snow on the slopes at the end of this could be pretty ridiculous don't u think?

I was at Bear creek on the lift with an individual who said her friend fell off the lift at Big Boulder and got seriously injured not too long ago... guys stop being tough and put the bar down. there's a reason why its there

Volkswagens ftw about an 1" here in reading. then about maybe a tenth to a quarter inch of ice...

Gonna give Blue a try real soon.. suggestions on the best day to go during the week?

Great conditions tonight.. little if any ice (a little slow obviously due to the fresh stuff). A shame we got a little freezing rain at the end there of this storm. Oh well.. more real stuff mon night/tue and wed night/thursday.. then the coldest weather in about a decade.. highs in the mid teens and lows near zero even down here for a couple days. Its gonna be a fun week!!

Tonight was the first time I was at BB. I had a blast.. i liken the place to a giant adult playground. Definitely will be back. The real snow was an added treat

btw guys.. the guns are back on.. so some fresh stuff for tommorow.. and hopefully from the looks of it about 6" or so of REAL stuff Saturday!!!!

Of course this all is VERY fluid... but on the models this far out this is the most promising its looked for snow for everyone all season. And the supposed 'January thaw' that was originally forecast for mid-month is starting to slip away. It looks like a real good two weeks of pretty much solid snowmaking, even if it doesn't snow! As tony bennett sings.. "the best is yet to come" hehehehe

Hey guys. looking at the weather models... we may be in for a nice weekend. Starting early morning Saturday snow will overspread the entire region (this looks to include even the southernmost resorts) and last through just about the entire day. The track of this storm looks to be to the south, so actually the resorts furthermost to the south look to stand the best chance of the best stuff. Overall across everywhere it looks like a solid 3" at least.. possibly as much as 7 or 8" Monday may bring a few snow showers but nothing substantial.. as may Tuesday... and theres talk of a possible significant event closer to Inauguration Day.. so its looking better!

But my point was a lot of the icy was that ridgy shit. That comes from being compressed by the groomer trucks... it was on a lot of the trails.. all the snow was off the top of it leaving essentially just ice. That had nothing to do with freeze/refreeze from the warmer weather.

Um, it took freezing rain for Bear Creek on Tuesday to be anywhere near as icy as Camelback was Monday. And BC was likely 2-3 degrees warmer than Camelback Monday.. there's plenty of reasons for ice other than warm weather... the ice was there BEFORE sundown.

Talking about theft of services in a public thread is stupid. x2 what TT's saying... Plain and simple, you should be off the slopes when your ticket's expired. Why somebody would ask such a question when they know its against the rules?

Epic depanting fail.

Wow guys.. first time up and that wasn't an impressive outing.. it was way too icy. In fact in parts it was down to just ice.. i know the top of julius cesar was nothing but ice, and my friend told me Asp was dangerous. totally surprised me.. i expected it to be better than that...

Nice Mark - Great job! I'm a newb.. but trust me when i say the conditions lately have been very good to learn on.. you're doing great work. FWIW guys... things are looking up for some type of snow event for Saturday.. not real big but it has the potential to be the first significant -- but not heavy -- snow of the season down here. This is the storm that will usher in the real cold stuff and a reinforcing shot in the Tuesday/Wednesday time frame (with more lighter snows) and again sometime late next week with another bout of lighter snow.. cross your fingers...

exactly. In the long run you will make more profit off the season passholder because of their frequency. Quite a few of us spend a little $$ still while we're there.. and thats on high profit margin items such as food, etc.

I'm in.. always in for wearing crazy shit

If you guys want it.. I can do it. I don't know about twice daily... but i can try for every day. i'm not a meteorologist (wanted to be when i was a kid tho), but i can give it a shot when theres snow Good news though.. it looks like Sunday night/Monday looks to be little more than just showers/lighter rain, probably no more than a quarter inch. Nothing BC can't handle. It will warm up though.. so no snowmaking tomorrow night (oh well, we've had a good run). Monday night looks promising for snowmaking.. Wednesday could be a real problem --- right now the GFS shows a lot of warm air being pulled up cause the low pressure passes to the west of us. For snow here.. you want these storms to run about 100 or so miles off the coast of Jersey. That's not happening here yet.. and the energy transfer -- where the low pressure to our west dies out and transfers its energy to the coast happens way too late for us and we get a good deal of rain. (did that make sense -- you've probably heard Ed Hanna talk about this lol?) After that the model looks to be suggesting the coldest weather of the season so far.. we're talking 20s for highs and single digits for lows for the middle of next week..but thats far in the future. Overall, save for maybe 4 days or so over the next 2 weeks BC and others should be able to make snow nightly. Too bad we just can't get any of the real shit. Eh, this is better than nothing..

yeah their benefits for season pass holders seem to be lacking a bit. They have to be making money there.. the least they could do is take care of the people who plunk down a couple hundred a year. I think the Season Pass lot is a really good idea.

Heres some tips for you. The 850mb line to watch is the 0 line. That is where it will be below freezing in the upper levels of the atmosphere. At the 500mb level, the 540 line is typically a good indication of the rain snow line. On the precip maps.. remember that the fallen precipitation is from the PREVIOUS amount of time (3-6-9-12 hrs). There's more but those are some basics. Like i said, google.

Looking at the cams.. it's busy.. but the lines for the lifts are perhaps 60% of what they were yesterday,. you should be fine!

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ I suggest you also google a little reading on understanding what these models do. It will help you to understand the output better. That said.. here's what I'm seeing Sunday's storm will be more freezing rain that anything. Sucks cause its going to ruin some good conditions.. Wednesday's also looks more liquid.. the storm track is way too far inland. That said.. the period from the 13th on looks nice.. with a Alberta Clipper system about every 36 hours. Wish i had better news

Yeah.. I saw that message right before I left and decided to wait.. lines at the lifts were crazy! It was busy right up until 9:00-9:30... usually by then the place is dead. My friend whos the cocktail waitress said the grille was slammed all day. Hope she made some good $$$$...

Did somebody just really mention the gfs weather model.. do you mean i'm not the only nerd in here who looks at that shit? FWIW, that model does have somewhat of a persistent cold bias in the winter in the long range...