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Are we in for a repeat of Nov-Jan 2006-07?

Greg

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0.5 Month Outlook for Nov-Dec-Jan 2007-08
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I was hoping for a stronger start this season, but if Feb-Apr 2008 is similar to this past season, I'll try to remain patient.
 

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Above normal is one thing. Last December and early January is a whole different world. 74 degrees on January 6th isn't just above normal. If that happens again...
 

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Greg- weren't you the one quoting Twain? If you don't like the weather just wait a few minutes?

Just wait a few minutes, it's early yet ;)
 

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Greg- weren't you the one quoting Twain? If you don't like the weather just wait a few minutes?

Just wait a few minutes, it's early yet ;)

Of course. And I'm forever the optimist; just go search a few posts from this time last year. Just trying to spark some discussion. I'm not a firm believer in longer term forecasts, and like HPD said, it is what it is. Just fun to speculate this time of year.
 

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to worry about it seems like a wast of energy. It will be what it will be.
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Keep it simple. Just go where the snow is.
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It's hard to ignore the lack of snow... but then again I can't even remember the last time I had a white Xmas around these parts (a real white, not frost on the grass). So... we'll just have to wait and see - we did have some excellent storms late last year...

But we just have to accept the NE reality... that we probably won't have any real snow skiing until after December anymore.
 

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yea...i have to say that above normal and the start of last winter are two totally different things.
Then again I'd be willing to take a nov-jan being like last year if mid jan-april is like last year also.
 

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Upcoming season

I'm the eternal optimist (I see the glass as 5/8 full) but last year certainly put a crimp in my optimism. The ski industry can ill afford a repeat of what we experienced in the early part of last season.

Climatic change doesn't happen overnight. It's a gradual trend over decades and centuries. We can have unseasonably warm weather one season and epic cold and snow the next but anyone who thinks global warming is a fiction is deluding themselves. The present day trends are discouraging.

A long time ago I spent nine years in the field of meteorology in the Air Force, in college, and in broadcasting. I taught introductory meteorology and climatology at the University of South Florida and spent 3 1/2 years as an on air weatherman at Channel 8 (WFLA-TV NBC) in Tampa. I finally got around to watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The guy may be in serious need of a charisma transplant but there's no arguing with his conclusions. I just hope my new grandson won't have to learn about skiing from history books.
 

JimG.

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Yes!

But this year will be Nov-Jan 07/08.

I believe that Nov-Jan comes around every year. Check the calendar.

Because I know you aren't talking about the weather.
 
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