Whiteface Winter 09/10, and El Nino?

[NPN]

[quote="Harvey44"]Maybe NPN should change the title of his thread to:

Whiteface Weather 09/10quote]

In tribute to the King of Gore side weather, this edit's for you!

[Harvey44]

If you guys are up for it, I'll try to contribute to this thread this year.

I don't get to Whiteface often enough. I REALLY want to be in position to get up when the slides are open.

These are maps for Dec-Feb temp and precip in a collection of El Nino years:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...rankus_djf.gif

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/product...rankus_djf.gif

Not the most optimistic stuff, but it's a long way off.

And as usual flexibility to get the goods will probably trump even a tough luck winter.

Best to all of us.

[NPN]

If you guys are up for it, I'll try to contribute to this thread this year.

Considering how hard you work on the Gore Weather posts that's a really generous offer.

All I can say is thanks, and I, for one, would be way game.

[Harvey44]

Cool. I wasn't sure if you were bustin on me or not. I can't make any promises. Folks from the Gore side know I basically vanished for the second half of the season - the economy hammered our business and I worked like a dog all winter with no days off, barely breaking even on my pass. I had 19 days total and no WF.

As far as long range...Bastardi is really the only guy who is venturing a guess this far out. Around Sept 15 he'll come out with some more long range weather porn. I'll keep my eyes peeled.

While I haven't watched the weather for WF the way I watch it for Gore...it seems to me that you guys have about a 5 degree advantage at the summit. Like if we get snow...that turns to sleet for a few hours...and then goes back to snow....it's all snow at Whiteface. Another 50 miles north and 1200 plus feet sure doesn't hurt.

I'll see what I can do to post WF links on my blog. Here's a start on my homepage. I added a NWS WF link in the upper right:

http://harvey44.blogspot.com/

I'll see what else I can add.

[Snowballs]

another example of " the Little Ice Age"......

i just returned from four days in Maine at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland, Maine. while we were there we visited the Owl's Head lighthouse. A local there was kindly giving us the historical yarn and mentioned an very old photo of people on a frozen sea well out into the bay and the off shore islands. He said it never freezes now. ice doesn't even really form on the edge. He said it always puzzled him how people were able to go so far out on the sea as it doesn't freeze now. i put a smile on his face by informing him about the Little Ice Age. AAAAAH! he was very happy to know the answer to a puzzle that had long bewildered him. some of these islands are 2 miles+ off shore.

the rocky Coast of Maine is beautiful and makes for prime habitat for...... the d-licious Lobster! i hope you guys will feel sorry for me as i ate 10-12 lobsters, plus tons scallops, oysters, haddock,etc, over the last four days. rough, huh? we haven't had a "regular" meal since Thursday.

if you go, doesn't even have to be during the festival, take a cooler. the road south of Rockland has many vendors who sell live lobsters cheap. the best price we found was $3.25 per pound. after some of Snowball's charm, she voluntarily sold to us for $3.00 per pound, so we brought 20 big Lobsters home.

Life is good. thank you Lord.

[Harvey44]

Looks like I'm not the only one starting to Jones for long term weather info. More info on the chart above on Harvey Road.

[Harvey44]

Some may say this is the work of a desperate man. And they'd be right.

I found this on the NWS forecast for Whiteface...it's a start:

[NPN]

Some may say this is the work of a desperate man. And they'd be right.

I found this on the NWS forecast for Whiteface...it's a start:

No, no, no this is exactly what I'm looking for ( can't speak for anyone else though ).

[NPN]

http://www.skinet.com/ski/blogs/2009...id=enews092309

[Harvey44]

To me this article makes no sense and even seems to contradict itself. But it loosely classifies as stoke and it's on topic:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=a3xIDCXcK5kc