My girlfriend won’t be happy when I wake up at 5am to go to Jay.
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Dual Late Season Storm Thread
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kingslug
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Just be...real...quiet...
We picked up maybe 1-2 at the base and 2-3 up top. Couple drifts might be deeper, but another under-whelming storm here unless we pick up more (right now seems to have almost stopped). The snow on the bottom half was pretty wet and sticky. Up top was much drier. Lot of lift delays here today. Opening time mid-week is 10AM. Finally had Valley House open at 10:15. HG opened maybe around 11 (although now is on wind hold). GH opened somewhere in the 10:30-10:45 range. North Lynx opened shortly after 12. And Super Bravo finally opened ~12:30.
Snow didn't really bond too well with the frozen layer underneath. Quite solid underneath (but edgeable).
slatham
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Another storm that didn't really materialize, though this one was way more of a tease. Seems like Jay the winner though the N Maine areas have a shot too.
Zand
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The only place this storm busted was northern NY (which was starting to become apparent yesterday when the models started shifting east). From the beginning this was only really a Jay and Mansfield event, with maybe a few inches on the back end for the peaks further south.
Not to mention there is still 8-12 more hours of accumulating snow left for northern Greens. Rates will slow down but my 10" prediction at Jay should materialize.
kingslug
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All I hope is that Stowe/Vail doesn't groom the shit out of it.
KustyTheKlown
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yup, was called for adirondacks and vermont north of 89. shifted east. northern nh got some. northern Maine might. stowe to jay seems to be right on target. my only question now is do i splurge for a smuggs ticket on Saturday instead of driving down to sugarbush where it is free. if i don't opt to spend at smuggs, this will be the first year in nearly a decade that i haven't gotten one day at smuggs.
kingslug
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Looks like Smuggs will get more snow than SB..I imagine it already has.
KustyTheKlown
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it definitely will. its a do i want to spend money and drive in the wrong direction question, not a conditions question. also a consideration of slow ass double chairs with covid sending them up as single chairs.
Did you see VT Ski and Ride's April fools article today? They definitely took a swipe at him in it... I thought it was hilarious and think you'd probably appreciate it too.
NWS Announces New Ski Area Forecasting Program, VT Observatory – VT SKI + RIDE
APRIL 1- Burlington, VT: The National Weather Service announced today that it will be launching a new weather forecasting pilot
vtskiandride.com
Zand
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Smuggs reported 8" at noon which is...questionable? Haven't seen anything close to that yet. But if it's legit then good for them.
KustyTheKlown
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Did you see VT Ski and Ride's April fools article today? They definitely took a swipe at him in it... I thought it was hilarious and think you'd probably appreciate it too.
NWS Announces New Ski Area Forecasting Program, VT Observatory – VT SKI + RIDE
APRIL 1- Burlington, VT: The National Weather Service announced today that it will be launching a new weather forecasting pilot
lol i started reading that this morning, got to 'leather shoe wearing office workers in a Denver suburb' and realized what the date was, and then stopped reading lol.
just finished, thanks for point that out. that group grinds my gears but i do find the weather posts to be useful.
"“We hope this new forecasting project will give skiers and riders real-time intel as to the actual conditions versus getting their beta from, say, a corporate resort reporter, a Facebook group, or some weather hobbyist sitting in his basement in Albany reading “Meteorology for Dummies,” said Graupel."
This was the highlight for me.
Ebenezer Crankshaft, 87 and a life-long dairy farmer from the Northeast Kingdom, is one. “Ya, I don’t have much time for them fancy phrases like ‘whorographic lift’ or ‘bimbogenesis,’ Crankshaft said. “ I just know that when my gals lay down in their stalls at night, the next day my fields are gonna be whiter than a town meeting in East Corinth.”
kingslug
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Yeah..after Smuggs would be a long drive..but its all ending soon. I would wait and see what SB ends up with. If I had a pass I would do that as it cuts 45 minutes from the drive back..
KustyTheKlown
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yea. i am in a stowe hotel tonight and Friday night. then a rutland hotel Saturday night. the drive from northern vermont is too much on a Sunday, so i like to ski K or south on the day i drive home. so it would be smuggs to rutland on Saturday after skiing. stowe hotel > sugarbush > rutland all makes lots more directional sense. also ~$90 i don't need to spend. and I'm spending face value minus 25% at jay (3rd indy day). we'll see.
Zand
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“And we’ll find out if that ‘Jay Cloud’ is real or just bong vapor.” 
I don't think we'll end up with anything near what Smuggs gets...
slatham
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Based on yesterday afternoon (<24 hours prior to storm) NWS snow maps there were a lot of busts.
Nothing promising to report from NH. Even raining on top of the Cat @ 43 & Mt Wash is in an inverted Fog cloud
