Not any changes to speak of. Cold tonight, should be in the 20’s from top to bottom. Ridge moves back in for Tues-Thurs and creates more mildish (it continues to be a few degrees colder everyday than models are forecasting) weather with big inversions. Lows should not go below freezing for two nights above 7000 ft. Thursday night a storm comes down inside of us and helps to begin pushing the ridge offshore. This is now possible because the low pressure helping to for the Rex Block kicked out across the country over the weekend. Temps should be in the 20’s again top to bottom Thursday and Friday night.
During the day on Saturday an Arctic front moves thru from north to south ushering in the coldest air of the season. This will erase inversions and temps will finally be colder the higher you go instead of warmer. As the ridge moves out to 140w we will be stuck in the cold at least until the middle of next week if not much longer. Storm is coming down over land for the weekend, but the air will be so cold it will be very unstable and snowshowers should persist thru the weekend. Snow levels will be very low, well below 5000 ft. so lots of powdery snow piling up fast but only up to maybe 6 inches over the weekend.
Ridge looks to continue migrating at towards 150w next week with the chance for significant snowfall Tues & again Thurs. I will get into more details about accumulations for the weekend and next week on Wed. BA
Monday, December 8, 2008
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WOOHOO! anything thing other than snow-making runs going to be open by X-mas?
We would need at least 2-3 feet of natural snow to open other trails. Northstar can cover 50% of their mtn. with snowmaking alone though. Noone else can do that in North Lake.
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