April 24th, 2025
Winter 2024/25 ~ 470 Inches of Snow ~ Not Too Shabby!
How about a few more to top it off this weekend?
Yes please.
Happy ~ But a little sad.
We’re just about to turn the page on another season.
I get sad when any season ends, no matter which one it is. But it’s probably hardest for me ~ most of us ~ when ski season ends.
Of course we could travel to the southern hemisphere and keep the season going.
But that might be a little cost prohibitive and the family might not be on board with that.
This is the 44th and final TK blog of our 2024/2025 Winter.
I’m not big into retrospectives, but I do a lot of documenting.
And if I have to, I can look back and assess the situation, looking back at this winter, it was a good to great one.
Winter really began the second week of October. That’s when it started snowing ~ 193 days ago.
And guess what, it’s going snow again this weekend!
The difference is we had to hike for turns back on Columbus Day.
This weekend you can just take a lift ride.
One rude recurring pattern has popped up in the last couple weeks though... Saturday rain.
This is the third wet one in a row. And for the first time in weeks. We did not have any midweek powder skiing and riding.
It’s been a warm one this week, we’ve been harvesting a lot of corn. Corn skiing has been really good.
And that’s mostly what we'll have until the final chair of the season, which would be some point in May by the look of things.
Our immediate future features a powerful storm moving across the country, it's been generating severe weather, especially with the tornadoes in Texas. But it’s still snowing in the Rockies! So there’s still some cold around. And that cold is going to come in on the backside of our weekend weather front. The front side of the front though is a warm front with rain showers, turning into a heavy rain for part of our Saturday. And like last Saturday, we may actually have a thunderstorm.
I don’t think it rains quite as hard as last week, but it’s going to be close.
Possibly an inch of rain with gusty wind from the south and southeast with the temperature and dewpoint near 50°, that means fog too.
And then much like last Saturday we have a cold front at night. But unlike last Saturday. This one is even colder and there’s a wrap around shield of precipitation on the backside. And it’s going to be mostly snow!
It should be snowing at the summit before the sunrise on Sunday morning.
We will likely have several hours of accumulating snow. Maybe even powder snow at the very summit.
There’s a chance we could get close to 6 inches of snow at the top. And it could be a case where we get less than an inch at the bottom, where it may go back-and-forth between rain and snow depending on intensity. It doesn’t look too windy first thing on Sunday. But there are pretty thick low clouds and fog. The temperature will probably be about 35° at the base and maybe 29° at the summit.
Regardless of the precipitation type. It’s going to be a wet day. And it’s probably going to be pretty sticky.
But it’s going to be very pretty too, especially new snow up on top.
Precipitation probably does not end until about 5 PM or so.
So much for sunny dry tailgating, but we know how to dress for it.
So let’s do it! Falling snow should add a festive vibe to the day.
Chilly high pressure moves in Sunday night. So there could be a nice groom for early Monday.
The sun is out and it’s a nice day with the temperature going up back to the 50s.
And so it goes. A very warm front comes through here with showers and a chance of a thunderstorm again later Tuesday and Wednesday. Temperatures may get up into the 70s thanks to that high-pressure system going well to our south. Then it’s another potent front coming through Wednesday with new colder air.
And that could set the stage for a few more elevation snowflakes Next Friday or Saturday.
I’m staring out at a very thick white streak on the Jet trail.
That snow zone will make it till next week no problem. How far into May can we go?
Oue weather crystal balls can not see that far.
It’d be more like voodoo to try and guess the middle of May.
But there have been a few hints that there could be another flaky surprise down the road.
Speaking of down the road, I guess I’m headed south for a while.
Although it hurts a little, we gotta rip the Band-Aid off eventually.
And turn the corner into the next season.
I like gardening and surfing too.
As for the winter we just experienced.
I’m not really hearing too many complaints.
When we add it all up, I think most of us are giving it a solid B+ ~ If not a straight A ~ for a grade.
Well done Mother Nature, you've made the honor roll again!
Keep smiling ~ and sliding ~ as long as you can.
Eventually we need some more sunscreen.
Lord willing, I’ll be back again next season with the play-by-play here at one of the most exciting snow venues in the eastern United States.
Oh why stop there, the whole world!
470 inches of snow, with another half a footer to go.
Hopefully, we’ll talk again in November.
Sea Ya At The Shore
TK
