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 #16 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 01/10/2009 @ 14:27 |
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I have the Nina effect on snowfall wherever I go...so much so that I wonder if my parents gave me the wrong name!!!
Sure fire way of getting powder days....don't go away with me  |
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| #17 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 01/10/2009 @ 22:18 |
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Well it's already snowing down in the SLC resorts and Jackson...... The Rockies are due a hit this weekend.....
First REAL dump of snow of the year is always a good thing :0) |
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"If you know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction..... you may be living in Canada!" |
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| #18 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 00:21 |
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For anyone interested I wrote a post in my blog on the effects of El Nino on Whistler
http://www.rideonwhistler.com
Have a look and let me know what you think! |
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| #19 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 18:06 |
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Check out these pics from Grand Targhee on TGR: Early Snowfall
Along with Danii's pics from WH20.... El nino?? I'm not so bothered anymore! :o)
Even if this lot does melt.... who cares!... There'll be more!  |
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"If you know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction..... you may be living in Canada!" |
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| #20 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 20:14 |
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I was in Kicking Horse, BC 07 and it got hammered - I missed the pukage in Nov & Dec 06 but that left a 3+m base by New Year and, after the usual Jan dry spell, it continued to get hit.. I think it may have even been a record year with well over 10m total precip... |
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| #21 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 20:35 |
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Bloomberg reported a much colder winter for the US ... i was interested in the gas price forecast. If they are hedging millions then i reckon they are getting good data... |
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| #22 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 20:43 |
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I normally get pow wherever I go......in 30 years of hitting the snow I can only recall a couple of times when it has been a bit less than average.. 
Normally when I hit Cham we have too much of the stuff ! |
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| #23 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 20:50 |
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Interesting...  Seems that the ground snow figures are shifted a month earlier in El Nino years and drop off a cliff in March. So early season looks great but late season looks sketchy. Fingers crossed for the winter olympics 12-28 Feb. And even more so for the paralympics in March! Of course there's a huge difference between the base and the Roundhouse, so things might be much better up there. Did you look at Roundhouse stats? Do they exist? |
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| #24 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 02/10/2009 @ 23:25 |
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QUOTE (wesdev - 02/10/2009 @ 20:35) Bloomberg reported a much colder winter for the US ... i was interested in the gas price forecast. If they are hedging millions then i reckon they are getting good data...
S&P rated Lehmans AAA and AIG AAA loads of people looking on Bloomberg saw that too and considered it pretty good data...... 
Fingers-crossed regardless though! |
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"If you know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction..... you may be living in Canada!" |
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| #25 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 03/10/2009 @ 07:18 |
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QUOTE (Stuart - 02/10/2009 @ 20:43) I normally get pow wherever I go......in 30 years of hitting the snow I can only recall a couple of times when it has been a bit less than average.. Normally when I hit Cham we have too much of the stuff !
Strikes me that we need to stop watching what El Nino is up to and just follow Stuart wherever he is going  |
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| #26 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 07/10/2009 @ 17:58 |
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Just did a quick road trip over to Invermere from Vernon via hwys 1 and 5. Just beautiful!
The fall leaves are in full colour in the Columbia Valley and I stopped for a few minutes at the Bugaboo helipad north of Edgewater to look west into the range. The snow is still pretty light on top but the temps are perfect for an early start to winte - just need some moisture!
There's more snow up high in the Roger's Pass, still nothing to get excited about but, again, if we are lucky to get a few storms the temps will ensure that the snow pack will get a good start by November. |
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| #27 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 29/10/2009 @ 20:47 |
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| #28 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 29/10/2009 @ 21:42 |
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Looks like we're getting some UK snow this week, temperatures are forcast to be an overnight low of -6 with steady -1.53 forcast throughout the day. Giving nightly deposits of snow localised in Manchester, near the Trafford centre...  |
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You're never too old to give it a try. |
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| #29 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 30/10/2009 @ 22:55 |
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I gather a number of the southern California resorts are now open.
Granted, they're on manmade snow but this is only the second time in the past 20 years, I think, that they've been open before Hallowe'en! |
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| #30 Re: El Nino on it's way??? Posted 04/06/2010 @ 20:45 |
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Well, the winter of 09-10 was fairly typical for an El Nino year in the end. Most storms were deflected south towards Mammoth or north towards Whistler, with states in the middle (like Colorado & Wyoming) getting alot less than normal from Dec-Feb. But the impact this had on ski & snowboard conditions isn't obvious from the total snowfall stats. Whistler, for example, had a staggering amount of snow in December, but the warmest January on record (about 9C for most of the month) meant that they had to import snow for the Olympics in Feb. And most Colorado resorts were only 10%-15% below normal in total, but suffered abnormally long periods when they got nothing. Hopefully the same won't be true in 10-11... on which subject I'm about to start a new thread...  |
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