Historical snowpack data

[awf170]

Check this out:

54-64. I can't even believe how 11 straight years can be so consistently bad. None of the last few supposedly bad seasons are even as bad as any one of those 11 seasons. Absolutely horrid. I think I would leave NE if we ever got in a pattern like that again.


I think these 5 seasons a few years later might of sort of made up for it though.

Some pretty wacked out patterns...

 

[riverc0il]

IIRC, the 50s into the 60s was also the peak of number of ski areas which started to decline following those terrible winters. The reasons for areas disappearing are wide and varied including smaller areas not keeping up with better product and people preferring areas with chairlifts and gondis over local hills with surface lifts and let's not forget travel time decreases due to the interstates. But those winters certainly killed many southern New England areas that did not have the benefit of Stowe's much higher snow fall rates even during bad years.

 

[awf170]

Help me out here, What am I looking at. I see the dates, and the depths. But hwat do all the lines mean? Is there a different one for each year, or for different resorts?

Sorry, just a little brain dead.

Each line is a different year. The green colored in section is the average. You can't really follow one when they are shoved together into one graph, but it gives a general idea of how the era was.

Here is this season so far which is a lot easier to interpret since it is only one line.

 

[loafer89]

The winter of 1960-1961 was one of the most severe winter's in New England's history. Killington recieved a 4' dump of snow between April 11th-17th of 1961 and provided skiing until May 8th, 1961. This was a very erratic winter with huge costal storms, December 1960, and February of 1961 and rain and mild weather during Presidents week.

 

[loafer89]

I just did a bit of climate research and found out that New England had a severe drought, the worst since colonial times, from 1961 nearly until 1969. By the summer of 1965, 60,000 square miles of New England was experiencing a severe drought: