drjeff
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Going deep into May or June often has more to do with weather luck than how much snow they put on SS in the final build out. It has seemed, anecdotcally atleast to me, that while it's now taking another few weeks in the Fall for more consistent windows of cold air to arrive and stay, it also has seemed to me that April in particular and often into early May , have seemed like the cooler weather pattern has lingered a few extra weeks which has helped with later closing dates. Now this year, Mother Nature decided that often cold, juicy rain events was going to be her weekend modus operandi from say early/mid April on...* Zero June openings pre-World Cup, but 5 out of 7 years post World Cup (excluding covid and superstar construction years)
* 75% of pre-World Cup years had October openings but only 22% (2 of 9) post WC