January 17th, 2025
Did they say snow today?
It’s Friday just after lunchtime. Great to see all the lifts are spinning. I’m happy to see that it’s snowing. Except for the fact that we didn’t think it was going to snow today.
Whatever, it’s the Jay Way...
And it sure beats the other way around!
Another overachieving week of snow means another overachieving weekend here at The Resort.
We are just wall-to-wall, base to summit, smiles for miles and miles with all this new snow. Not to mention, a brief lull in the wind department.
It has snowed at least a little bit every day so far this year. Many of those days it has snowed a lotta bit.
Let’s keep that streak going!
This weekend is a tough one to dress for.
I’m calling it shed a layer Saturday and add ~ a couple layers ~ Sunday.
There’s a wave on an Arctic boundary passing to our north to start the weekend. That means we get gusty wind from the south. That means it’s going to be freezing.
Yeah, close to 32°, practically a heat wave!
And of course, if we’re talking, Arctic wave, we’re talking about more snow. It wasn’t even supposed to snow on Friday. So I’m afraid to guess how much snow on Saturday. It does not look like the most organized system. But somehow we will probably squeeze out another heavy dusting. Heavier than last weekend’s dusting ~ let’s call this one 4 or 5 inches, especially late in the day and at night.
The pressure gradient also tightens up, so that 'warmer' wind from the south is likely gusting past 35 or 40 mph. We know what that means. Fat snow drifts! (and perhaps wind hold issues)
That low pressure passing to the north Saturday night, is going to open the floodgates of new air from the north pole, spreading across most of the lower 48 United States.
But we are not the coldest, just colder.
It also means a bunch of blower POW coming in here all day Sunday.
The timing has sped up compared to what we were thinking a few days ago. It looks like we’re going to be cold all day long. As a matter of fact, the temperature near 0° in the morning may actually warm up to 10° with the very low density snow becoming fairly intense again Sunday afternoon.
The colder air is going to come in pulses.
Our temperature is really gonna pulse down on Sunday night and Monday.
And probably stay down for several days.
The arctic pulse on Sunday night should also generate another 5 or 6 inches of snow.
Then the temperature on Monday is going to be stuck near 0°.
With the wind out of the west west at 30 to 40 mph or greater.
That’s a good day to do some indoor chores.
Like maybe wash all the layers so they will be available for this well advertised Arctic blast that is coming in most of the week.
As Arctic blasts go, it’s not that extreme for us. We’re on the edge. The coldest weather is going to be to our west. So it’s nothing we haven’t seen before. Tuesday looks windy with continuing light, incredibly low density snow. Another few inches.
Temperature topping out around 5° Tuesday with wind more like 25 to 30 mph.
Wednesday probably ends up being the brightest day of the week. And the least windy. The temperature starts the day at around 10° below zero Fahrenheit. But there should be some sunshine and much less wind with a high temperature close to 8° above zero Fahrenheit.
After that we gradually warm back up.
And anytime we change the temperature. It comes with more clouds and snow. It looks like there’s going to be a sizable storm approaching late in the week. And perhaps getting here before next weekend. But with the decreasing chill we should be back to 20° or better by Friday. With probably some snow here , or right on our doorstep.
So we should have another good weekend next weekend.
And it looks fairly similar with the temperature starting off comfortable next Saturday before the next arctic surge comes on Sunday, January 26.
But the crystal ball gets fuzzy, or is it frosty, that far out.
We’ve pretty much run out of superlatives.
So just call it 'Shed A Layer Saturday' and 'Add A Layer Sunday' fun weekend.
Talk again Tuesday.
-TK
