Get Over It (Part Two: Make Hay When The Snow Falls)!

By: Greg
November 28, 2010 4:47 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing | 11 Comments | Permalink

For any new readers we’ve acquired over the last few months from out west, first WELCOME, and second, I don’t want to give off the impression with this “Get Over It!” series that all we do back east is ski grass, white ribbons of death, or worse. No, we do actually get the goods back here. The truth is though sometimes it just doesn’t want to be winter even when our climatology says otherwise. Indeed, the standard deviation of our temperature records is quite high on the east coast. In other words, even if the average temperature for the last week of November is 29 degrees F, that certainly doesn’t exclude the possibility that it’s 59 on Monday, 9 on Tuesday and 29 on Wednesday, all the while maintaining our “average” temperatures. To add insult to injury, this year’s La Nina global weather event seems to want to make our weather’s mood swings even more violent. And that right there is the reason we’re going to be saying “Get Over It” a few times in the weeks ahead. If you don’t make hay when the snow falls (perhaps literally as well as figuratively) you can’t complain; you’ve just got to get over it. Indeed, when the snow fell yesterday, it left more than a tiny bit of snow on the frozen-as-a-rock ground to make for great schuss conditions. Here’s what happened:

Christian started off with a V2 “pow-blem”
Christian on a V2 pow-blem
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Get Over It (Part One)!

By: Greg
November 27, 2010 11:02 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing | 4 Comments | Permalink

If you’re living in the PNW this doesn’t apply to you (nice TR Allen!) For the rest of us who still find ourselves on the EC: GET OVER IT. It’s a La Nina year, and that means a jet stream that enjoys putting us in the freezer-box until JUST before it’s about to precipitate… at which point it warms up to 50 degrees. High five. Not.

So what do we do? I already told you: Get over it! Keep the skis in the car, pay attention to the weather, and when it snows: go. If you find something good tweet about it @FISWX. That’s what I did today. If you don’t do any of the above steps: GET OVER IT.
A new friend from Sugarbush RIPS his tele sticks
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TR: Late November in the PNW

By: Allen
November 27, 2010 8:03 pm | Category: Full Trip Report, Skiing | Comment | Permalink

Click the image, or click right HERE to read more.

Last weekend was a spectacular weekend to be a ski bum in the PNW. The snow was deep and the sun was out.


Thanksgiving Weekend Forecast…deja vu all over again.

November 22, 2010 11:46 am | Category: Weather, WTF | 10 Comments | Permalink

Ahhhh shoulder season la nina. Nothing makes the weather writer happier than realizing you’re in for a six to eight weeks of rollercoaster weather and computer guidance. Watching the weather and the computer guidance go from warm and wet to cold and dry, to dry and warm and back again to cold and wet all in the span of 36 hours makes your head spin and drives you slowly insane. Aside from reducing your forecast accuracy beyond 60-72 hours to a range similar to that expected of a B-24 over Dresden(firebombing joke…too soon?), it simply sucks the fun out of the venture. To some, if you know you are going to look like a fool, then what’s the point? I guess that’s a valid perspective if you care about being right all the time, however I think it misses the point. Weather forecasting is about guessing what you think will happen and discussing the possible scenarios- NOT telling somebody what will happen as if you have the grace of god. (And if you do….give me a call. We have some things to discuss). PLUS- as Ms. Hutz will tell you, since the fear of looking like an idiot hasn’t stopped me from doing anything so far (see e.g.: Opening 37 seconds of my first ski run ever) so what’s the point in starting now? And with that lets head into a discussion of the exciting and wooly weather weak to be:

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When November Takes a Nose Dive…

By: Greg
November 21, 2010 4:12 pm | Category: Quick Update, Skiing | 11 Comments | Permalink

…get back in the saddle….
KC getting ready to administer a chin clip
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