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Originally Posted by wa-loaf  This may date me a bit, but I remember in 87 we had a great winter in Maine with a huge snowpack. There was a big rainstorm in April that caused massive flooding and wiped out a lot of roads and flooded all the towns along the rivers. It was a real mess. There was so much snow though that Sugarloaf managed to stay open. The gondola was still running from the base and they had these 6x6 wooden poles making up the lift line. Before the storm I could lean on the top of them and after I had to jump up to touch the top. They probably lost 6 feet of snow in one rain storm. That is a lot of water hitting the rivers at once. |
Wow..Blue mountain lost 1-2 feet of base in just the past two days..due to temperatures in the 40s and 50s and rain..But that's manmade snow which is way more dense. Every bit of the natural snowpack got wiped out..even a layer of ice..from several hours of freezing rain. It's amazing that off-piste terrain I was skiing 5 days ago is now bare ground..
One thing that rules about the east is how exciting and changing our climate is. I'd probably never be a weather nut if it wasn't for our uber interesting winter weather..
It's boring out west with their powder dumps and sunny skys..we get Thunderstorms in February..
