Weather by Tim Kelley

April 1st, 2025

New month, same weather!

April kicks off, trying to do its best imitation of March. 
What a cold front last night!
It was in the 40s at sunset, then it was in the teens up top by sunrise. 
That makes for a challenging morning for our mountain operations team.

It was an incredibly snowy week last week, Saturday was a powder day!
We were in a bit of an ice fog Sunday before it turned drippy.
Full on spring warmth, with April showers coming a day early, on Monday.
Now here on April Fools' Day we have more the feel of March than April.
Even a few snowflakes to start the day, along with gusty Canadian wind.

I guess the best news is we are going to have our regularly scheduled not too windy Wednesday. High pressure from Canada has moved in. The melting has ceased. 
And we have a refreeze in progress. But it should be a good night for grooming. And some classic spring skiing here for our Wednesday. Feeling a little bit more like early March than early April. Temperature starting off in the teens and going up into the 20s. But thanks to March sunshine we should be able to soften up the surface a little bit. And the best news is the day is going to feature some sunshine and light winds. At least for a short time.

We continue that parade of coast to coast storms. We had four of them in March. And we have about three of them in the next week. 
And it’s going to be challenging timing each one. It is gonna snow some more!
But it’s also gonna do other things.

Buckle up.

Wednesday, sunshine fades, increasing clouds. Snow develops in the evening. Snow changes to sleet overnight. We wake up to a couple of inches of that dense mix Thursday morning.

We have another strong low pressure system tracking to our north during the day Thursday.
That means that the wind comes around from the south and the temperature jumps from about 32° in the morning to the 50s by afternoon!

It may rain a little bit in the morning. But the sun could come out in the afternoon.
Wind could be an issue, gusting from the south past 40 mph. Maybe even up to 50 miles an hour.

And just like in the last couple of days all of a sudden, it’s going to turn colder again. 
We’ve got a cold front coming through Thursday night, hopefully without too much action.
Hopefully not too much rainy action that is.

But it doesn’t look like we get much snow on the backside.

That should set up a pretty nice Friday. The temperature is cooling only about 32° by morning. So just enough to set up the snow a little bit, and with sunshine on Friday and decreasing wind from the northwest, we should get up into the 40° area.
And it looks like we COULD have sunburn weather actually.

There’s a waxing crescent, pink moon that should make for a delightful evening as the temperature slowly falls back down into the 20s by Saturday morning.
It’s a marginally cold high-pressure system coming in to start the weekend.

Saturday should start off calm with a little sunshine. But then increasing clouds and some more mixed precipitation coming in by afternoon.

We are really straddling between cold in Canada and warmth trying to come up the East Coast again here by Saturday afternoon and through Sunday into Monday.

There’s a chance it could be snow.
But that’s a pretty low chance.

There’s going be a bit of an inversion. So there could be some ice in there.
But at this time, odds favor more wet than white by later Saturday into Sunday.

And then another late season Arctic front is going to come in Sunday night and Monday.
That should be accompanied by at least a little snow. And we’ll put the brakes on any melting that’s going on.

Another cold wave is setting up for next week. But we’re not sure how much snow it’s going to involve.

Last week’s cold snap and snow really kind of saved our April. So we're in pretty good shape I would say.

No fooling!

Once again, I am eagerly anticipating what we have to say here on Friday.
We’ll talk again then

Rabbit Rabbit

TK