The Official "Winter Has Been Cancelled" Thread.

[andyzee]

It's not going to be winter until you guys are nice to Marc. So, say something nice.....winter will start. :wink:

Well, I guess we may as well pull out ther shorts, t shirts, and flip flops. :lol:

 

[2knees]

Isnt it still fall though?

Like they say in so many other aspects of life, it aint how you start, its how you finish.

 

[JimG.]

maybe its time to start sacrificing virgins and burning witches again ,screw burnin the skiis

Now I've got images from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in my head.

 

[2knees]

hey jim, good call on the shorter poles. Really helped yesterday.

they suck on groomers though. i felt like i was gonna fall on my face trying to plant.

sorry for the hijack but this thread needs to go away anyhow. :wink:

 

[JimG.]

hey jim, good call on the shorter poles. Really helped yesterday.

they suck on groomers though. i felt like i was gonna fall on my face trying to plant.

sorry for the hijack but this thread needs to go away anyhow. :wink:

Yeah, the shorter poles take alot of getting used to on groomers. They'll force you to get alot of hip, knee and ankle angles just so you can get low enough to the snow to actually make a pole touch. Which isn't a bad thing either.

In bumps, the difference is an immediate improvement. Loving my adjustable Goode's...best of both the longer and shorter pole worlds.

 

[bvibert]

If she weighs the same as a duck then she must be a witch!

 

[Greg]

hey jim, good call on the shorter poles. Really helped yesterday.

they suck on groomers though. i felt like i was gonna fall on my face trying to plant.

sorry for the hijack but this thread needs to go away anyhow. :wink:

Yeah, the shorter poles take alot of getting used to on groomers. They'll force you to get alot of hip, knee and ankle angles just so you can get low enough to the snow to actually make a pole touch. Which isn't a bad thing either.

In bumps, the difference is an immediate improvement. Loving my adjustable Goode's...best of both the longer and shorter pole worlds.

I went out with 47"ers down from 52" and 50"ers (I thought they were 50" and 48" respectively; I was wrong). The only time I noticed, and I think Jim can attest to this, was when I first went to push off to get on the quad at the base. I almost bit it right out of the gate... Otherwise, I seemed to adjust pretty quickly. Can't wait to get in some bumps to see how they feel. I'll try them out and may lop another inch off if need be.

 

[andyzee]

 

[JimG.]

If she weighs the same as a duck then she must be a witch!

And what do we do with a witch?

BURN!! BURN THE WITCH!!!

Such a classic.

 

[ctenidae]

And what do we do with a witch?

BURN!! BURN THE WITCH!!!

Such a classic.

"She turned me into a newt!"

"A newt?"

"Well, I got better..."

 

[billski]

you know, there is so much pent up energy here that when this group gets out on the slopes, you'll burn it up so fast that the snow will melt under your boards. New problem...

 

[from_the_NEK]

you know, there is so much pent up energy here that when this group gets out on the slopes, you'll burn it up so fast that the snow will melt under your boards. New problem...

Amen to that

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[mattchuck2]

What really depresses me is the long term forecast (which nobody seems to be talking about right now) that calls for ANOTHER warm spell a week and a half from now . . . Areas better crank out the snow right now, because it'll be christmas soon, and they are going to want to try to get some cash flow going around the holidays.

 

[from_the_NEK]

Can't wait till tomorrow night when winter may or may not decide to finally come. My guess is that we sill have 3.5 inches of rain and a slight dusting of snow that will get melted when it warms up to 50 degrees again next week.

What really depresses me is the long term forecast (which nobody seems to be talking about right now) that calls for ANOTHER warm spell a week and a half from now .

I've seen it too. That's why I haven't gotten all that excited about this next week.

 

[ajl50]

what forecasts calls for a warm-up next week.
The NWS has temps in the Burlington area 8-10 below normal till next weekend and then the days 6-10 has the temp below normal for the entire northeast and then neutral from days 8-14.
Accuweather mirrors this in the 'dacks and prob. for much of the vermont area from Kmart north.
50's as highs in conn, NY, NJ, LI, and coastal Mass for this time of year isn't that off the mark.

 

[rob56789]

yeah hopefully the warmth in the forcast will change and it will just stay cold. Those weather men are always wrong anyways.
:uzi: warm forecast

 

[andyzee]

yeah hopefully the warmth in the forcast will change and it will just stay cold. Those weather men are always wrong anyways.
:uzi: warm forecast

Ah, finally, the voice of reason!

 

[snoseek]

we have a real nice cold stretch for early dec. so why worry about what may happen 10 days out. Naturally we will have spurts of warmth, it's o.k. really

 

[from_the_NEK]

More exciting news from November:

Statement as of 05:15 PM EST on November 30, 2006


... Record high temperatures were set or tied today at Burlington,
Saint Johnsbury, Montpelier and Mount Mansfield in Vermont... and
Massena in New York...

a record high temperature of 63 degrees was set at Burlington
today. This breaks the old record of 60 set in 1991.

A record high temperature of 62 degrees was set at Saint Johnsbury
today. This breaks the old record of 60 set in 1934.

A record high temperature of 65 degrees was set at Montpelier
today. This breaks the old record of 61 set in 1991.

A record high temperature of 49 degrees was set at the top of Mount
Mansfield today. This breaks the old record of 48 set in 2001.

The record high temperature of 66 degrees was tied today at
Massena, New York. 66 degrees was last reached in 1991 on this date.

Also... November snowfall for Burlington was a trace... that ties for
the least snowiest with several years (1915, 1937 and 1948).

Further... Mount Mansfield snowfall for the month of November was
only 0.5 inches... the least snowiest November since observations
began in 1954. The previous least snowiest was 7 inches set in
1964.

 

[billski]

Ah, finally, the voice of reason!

7-day out forecasts are a bunch of baloney. If you watched this last 7day forecast morph, you wouldn't even recognize it. I wish I had a job where I could erase my mistakes and start fresh every day....

Anyways, an interesting stat I saw about 10 years ago, was that in the 1950's the forecast accuracy was 50%. In the 1990s, replete with all the computer models, radar, storm trackers and so on, the accuracy didn't change much, other than to give people an excuse to stay home from work because the storms (which didn't arrive) would be so bad. (He says "Sorry boss, the weather's too bad to get to the office" while he packs his ski bag...) The best forecaster is your eyes and nose, a step out the door. When the going gets tough, follow the plows....