12/19 - 12/20 Storm Discussion Thread

andrec10 · Dec 15, 2010

It will snow! I will be at Whiteface this weekend for GS races, then gotta work till Wed.

HD333 · Dec 15, 2010

drjeff said:
Patriots vs. Packers Sunday night , 8:20 kick off at Gillette Stadium, I'm there

Yup. No skiing this weeknd. We are hosting a couple of Cheesheads for the game.

Where are you seats? Our season tix are in 240.

drjeff · Dec 15, 2010

HD333 said:
Yup. No skiing this weeknd. We are hosting a couple of Cheesheads for the game.

Where are you seats? Our season tix are in 240.

I'm just on the other side of the lighthouse from you. The 1st row of 202. Gotta love that end of the stadium as the winds USUALLY aren't as bad as they are over by the other endzone. The othr 1/2 of my group sits up in 316 (almost opposite of your corner) 4 rows from the top

The running joke we have with them is that we get to see the play about 3 seconds before they do :lol: and if there's a pregame flyby, they get to look DOWN on the pilot in the cockpit! :lol: I sat up there once (the Miami game a couple of seasons ago where they rolled out the wildcat and destroyed the Pats that game

the rest of my group "banned" me from ever sitting up there again as the Pats poor effort that day obviously had to be attributed to me not sitting in my usual seats! :lol:

UVSHTSTRM · Dec 15, 2010

drjeff said:
I'm just on the other side of the lighthouse from you. The 1st row of 202. Gotta love that end of the stadium as the winds USUALLY aren't as bad as they are over by the other endzone. The othr 1/2 of my group sits up in 316 (almost opposite of your corner) 4 rows from the top The running joke we have with them is that we get to see the play about 3 seconds before they do :lol: and if there's a pregame flyby, they get to look DOWN on the pilot in the cockpit! :lol: I sat up there once (the Miami game a couple of seasons ago where they rolled out the wildcat and destroyed the Pats that game the rest of my group "banned" me from ever sitting up there again as the Pats poor effort that day obviously had to be attributed to me not sitting in my usual seats! :lol:

I love it, Weather, Pat's, and Skiing (not in that order).

drjeff · Dec 15, 2010

UVSHTSTRM said:
I love it, Weather, Pat's, and Skiing (not in that order).

You forgot one key item, ....... BEER! :beer:

Glenn · Dec 15, 2010

The NWS has issued a "special weather statement" when I looked up my local weather in CT. They're saying the storm will be here, but they don't know the exact track yet.

billski · Dec 15, 2010

Glenn said:
The NWS has issued a "special weather statement" when I looked up my local weather in CT. They're saying the storm will be here, but they don't know the exact track yet.

I saw that. seems kinda premature. I notice the best chance, even though low, is to clip Rhody Island

Glenn · Dec 15, 2010

That's pretty much what I was thinking too. I'm not getting my hopes up.

drjeff · Dec 15, 2010

billski said:
I saw that. seems kinda premature. I notice the best chance, even though low, is to clip Rhody Island

Glenn said:
That's pretty much what I was thinking too. I'm not getting my hopes up.

Hop aboard the Nantucket Ferry for your best chance at powder turns from this one

soulseller · Dec 15, 2010

billski said:
I saw that. seems kinda premature. I notice the best chance, even though low, is to clip Rhody Island

pow day at yawgoo!

billski · Dec 15, 2010

soulseller said:
pow day at yawgoo!

THAT might actually motivate me to drive the 2 hours to Yahoo Yawgoo! :snow:

soulseller · Dec 15, 2010

billski said:
THAT might actually motivate me to drive the 2 hours to Yahoo Yawgoo!

Its 30m from me but no amount of snow could convince me to pay $40 to ride their lift. I'd rather go check a couple NELSAP hills off my list.

drjeff · Dec 15, 2010

billski said:
THAT might actually motivate me to drive the 2 hours to Yahoo Yawgoo!

Growing up for a couple of years my parents lived about 10 minutes from Yawgoo. I hit it once on about a 12" powder day. Let me tell you 1 thing about Yawgoo and powder - they don't mix very well, since the terrain is just too flat to enable one to actually maintain any speed in powder over say 2-3" deep

RISkier · Dec 15, 2010

I live near the mighty "goo." Pretty flat. Basically a couple of head walls between some relatively flat sections. We only go once in a while. But given it's location (base elevation is probably around 50' and it can't be more than 4-5 miles from the ocean as the crow flies) they do a remarkable job. It's a place where lots of local kids get a chance to slide.

lerops · Dec 15, 2010

drjeff said:
This one is going to try and track along the classic Nor'easter path (i.e. headed up the coast from the Florida panhandle area), which is good for snow. The problem is (and why it looks like it will miss us out to sea) that there will be a BIG dome of high pressure moving in from the Great Lakes region, and as of right now timing wise, it looks like that dome of High pressure will "beat" the low to the Northeast, thus pushing the track of the low far enough to the East that as of now looks like the best chance of seeing more than a few flurries would be Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard (even there *maybe* a couple of inches max).

If the high slows down in it's Eastward progress, then the chances improve for more widespread accumulating snow across the Northeast

But do we have enough time to fill in the sea and build some hills?

Glenn · Dec 16, 2010