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I used the term “isolation” since I’ve heard that used to describe Jay Peak’s setting before, but after really looking at its position on the map, perhaps “exposure” (to wind) is a better choice. It’s clear from the topographic map showing the Green Mountain spine that Jay Peak isn’t some sort...

While the snowfall collection and reporting at Jay Peak Resort is a bit of a mystery, the high snowfall isn’t just marketing and hype; there are a number of factors potentially playing into increased precipitation/snowfall for the Jay Peak area vs. Mt. Mansfield. I’ve highlighted four elements...

Tony asked me to weigh in on this thread since the topic of snow measurement has surfaced. Unfortunately I don’t have any insight into how Jay Peak does their snow measurement in the way we were able to get at it for Mt. Mansfield with Powderfreak. It is somewhat annoying how opaque the snow...

James sent me an email about this thread and asked me to provide some input. As a Northern Vermont local, let me tell you that I haven’t encountered a single person discussing 2014-2015 as a contender for “best NE ski season in the last decade to go to northern VT”. As usual there’s probably a...

I think Tony’s approach is a very reasonable way to get an objective assessment of what the typical resort visitor is going to encounter with respect to lift-served skiing; realistically, since avalanche control issues are minimal in bounds at resorts in the Northeast, if a ski area is keeping...

Thanks James, I think a lot of it is simply because we get the best snow; when you get it in quantity and quality that’s matching or exceeding many places in the Western U.S., it sort of makes it easy. On that note, snow is definitely starting to creep into the forecast here, so it looks like...

As I’ve done before, I’m passing along part of our J&E Productions 2012-2013 Ski Season Summary, which focuses on the Northern Greens. Long story short, it was a subpar season, but not horribly so. Powder outings still comprised ~77% of the total as detailed in the list of reports below, which...

Tony, thanks for the expert analysis on the Powder Magazine list; I definitely thought of you when I was reading it, so it’s nice to read your thoughts. I figured I’d comment on this topic since we’ve talked about it extensively on the forum in the past; the low acreage numbers for the Vermont...

I’m thinking that must be it; so maybe not lowest snowfall of all time, but probably lowest snowfall for Jay Peak in the last 30 years? There’s certainly some solace in that information based on the quality/quantity of the skiing we did have in 2011-2012. What could have really sent it over...

That’s interesting Tony, I wouldn’t think that 71.5% of average snowfall would be a record for Jay Peak; looking at your Northeast Ski Areas Table, the standard deviation in that data set (21.3%) is actually slightly higher than for Smuggler’s Notch (19.6%) or Stowe (18.0%). This season was...

I’ve written up my summary for the 2011-2012 ski season in a similar manner to the 2010-2011 Ski Season Summary that I put together last year. Hopefully these data will be useful for Tony in his Vermont Weekly Snow Conditions Charts. Beyond that, I know there’s not much interest in Northern...

OK, thanks for finding that Tony - I see that it was Powderfreak that made the final leap to the snowmaking days. That's the part I was curious about because I'm not sure how I would have gone about doing that. He's got the resort operations experience to make those kinds of estimates. I see...

I do remember hearing something about this; do you have a link to the discussion? It could be my memory, but I’m thinking someone other than me did the analysis you are talking about. I say this because 1) I don’t know how I would even do an analysis like that, and 2) although I do recall...

I agree, if the aim is to track and represent typical in-bounds resort conditions, some tempering may need to be done with respect to the quality of surfaces being skied on certain days. We’re just skiing what’s out there of course, but not everyone is willing to put in the extra effort to get...

Indeed, that was Thursday, January 13th at Bolton; there was certainly some quality Champlain Pow to top things off by that point. Looking at the details for that storm, when I did a snow analysis at 4:00 P.M. on Wednesday, it was coming in at a very synoptic-like 10.9% H2O, by the 10:00 P.M...

Tony told me about this thread and suggested that it might be nice to have some input, so I figured I would comment on my impressions of the ’10-’11 season from the Northern Vermont local perspective. It’s interesting to note that for Burlington, winter ’10-‘11 was well above average for...

Some of the people involved with Stowe snowfall measurements (Powderfreak etc.) met with Fred Lavenberg yesterday, so I figured Tony would be interested in Powderfreak's comments from Wednesday, and Thursday. Basically everyone knowns that the snowfall numbers associated with the stake data are...

Snowpack at the stake is in nice shape as you indicated, it should certanly be past 90" today and there might even be a new max for the season with the recent snows. I think temperatures up at Bolton were expected to be in the 20s F on Saturday, so I doubt I would have hit the high country for...

As you surmised, our website format is WordPress now. We started using WordPress for our department about a year ago, so I got a lot of training on that as part of the website development team. One of our other faculty is an expert in it, and his wife is a web designer that uses it extensively...

That info is frequently reported here, and even from the mountains when I’m out there, several examples from this very thread are below: “I've added in my EasternUSwx observations posts from last night and this morning for reference below. We had another 0.31 inches of liquid precipitation...