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NWS 2016 / 2017 Winter forecast!
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Abubob
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Didn't mean to come down hard. Novembers openings are BECOMING more difficult however.
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ScottySkis
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I watched her for forcaster for a while now she good predicted weather
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She definitely puts a lot of time into her forecast.
bdfreetuna
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Why? Snowmaking isn't going anywhere. Are you making long term climate predictions based on an El Nino year?
Abubob
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4aprice
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Oh I don't think you are necessarily being hard. My point really is that things have always been this way in the Northeast. Yes snowmaking is great and we probably really don't see its total capabilities (though K just showed a lot with getting the WC course ready), but the weather has pretty much been the same. Some of those times I have skied early were at Hunter Mt back in the days when they used to go for it with making snow. They don't do that anymore. This fall ended up as it was predicted, warm, and now with the cold seemingly on the doorstep it seems pretty normal to me.
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ss20
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For the first time since the 2014-2015 season, the foreseeable weather future looks great! 
dlague
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I have to disagree, lots of ski areas target early December, but there are lots that open in November still. Heck, just last year in Colorado, Loveland for example shut down snowmaking operations by Thanksgiving weekend. This year has been an unusually warm start everywhere I will give you that but I think Thanksgiving with become the target for many and early November the target for the few.
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dlague
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Some have ragged on Open Snow but they have been dead on IMO. They talked about a series of three systems that would change this here and boom Wolf Creek is 100% open Vail 45% open and many others are cranking open terrain by the day. Now they are talking about a couple more systems here which will be awesome.
Now some of these have traveled northeast and warmed up but the last round we had looks to be headed your way and is looking good and with pattern set up like it is this will make a turn for the better in New England.
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Now some of these have traveled northeast and warmed up but the last round we had looks to be headed your way and is looking good and with pattern set up like it is this will make a turn for the better in New England.
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hammer
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Guess I was basing this on feeder hills closer to home (southern/central NH). They usually have good snowmaking capacity so all they need is a stretch of cold weather. Sometimes they have a WROD available on Thanksgiving weekend but they usually are open by early December. Seems the past few years the opening has been more like mid-December to Christmas.
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Looks like the cold will come in on sunday which will be great for expanding terrain plus sunday night into monday morning there might be a storm that will drop 4-10 inches in the green and white mountains
bdfreetuna
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Monday night into Tuesday morning. And then maybe some more Tuesday night.
Tin
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Nickels Sun-Tues. Need to wait on the 12z. Close to rain for Wednesday-Thurs but the spine of VT could stay snow, only looking like .25-.5 of liquid so not an epic melt down/snow fall. It will be some heavy/wet conditions until the wind wrap around refreshes things. Hopefully a net gain. The GFS 4-6 days out has modeled systems too far north thus far this year (Oct 27-28/Nov 21/last week) so hopefully that is true again.
Kleetus
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No storm thread for this but looking good for Mt Snow for founders day. If only I didn't have to work...
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dlague
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You guys have to be psyched about the weather coming in today and this about New England:
One of the biggest storms we’ve seen this season will hit this Friday, it will bring some of the best conditions we’ve seen all year. Sunday there is the chance for a good follow up storm, and way down the line we’re tracking a potential storm for next Tuesday.
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One of the biggest storms we’ve seen this season will hit this Friday, it will bring some of the best conditions we’ve seen all year. Sunday there is the chance for a good follow up storm, and way down the line we’re tracking a potential storm for next Tuesday.
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This looks great http://www.wmtw.com/article/noreast...-snow-rain-to-maine-and-new-hampshire/8540594
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Ya vt should do well but nh and maine should get buried. 3 years ago id be in vt already for the week. 2 kids under 3 and im sitting in my living room in jersey with 2 sick little guys. Meh
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dlague
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