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Day two on the mountain at Wildcat and conditions were really good. Entire mountain (one complete run from top to bottom) was packed powder. Snow making continues on Polecat and it is likely they will complete Upper Polecat before the rain visits on Tuesday. Reflection of the day is the low sun angle in December, I did my entire six pack of runs in the shade and only saw the sun when I got in my car to leave!

First day on the mountain at Wildcat and conditions were quite good. Upper mountain was packed powder, mid to lower mountain was similar but they had snow making in progress and that gets a bit wonky. Pleasantly surprised by overall conditions. Looks like they were blowing on Polecat (2.75 miles in length) so that might be open within a week or so. Wildcat is like stepping back into the 80's, and I think as I get older, that becomes even more OK with me!

13.0 and my point and click has me going to -11

A general observation here for the epic resorts so far. One of the benefits of standardized websites for the vail resorts should be the simplicity of providing updates to the public, but most of the northeast locations have blank screens for their snow and weather report. Stowe seems like the favorable exception with a good write up. In all fairness, the only people that are likely interested in the first days of the season are people with season passes, and so they have the longest arc of consideration, but from a customer point of view, it sure would be easy to cut and paste a simple message that expresses gratitude for being interested, and expressing a tentative opening date. onward nevertheless, such a great thanksgiving gift for a blanket of snow for the north country, bring it on! might have to venture to Sunday River on Friday to get some runs, but I'd stay local at wildcat if it was an option.

the thanksgiving weekend will certainly have a winter feel, happy turkey to all!

agreed. I think they went for the watch for the southern zones already hedging on the travel impact and population density, even though the conditions don't quite match warning criteria. So, they probably opted to not even do such a thing for less travelled areas. we shall see!

With ideal conditions i suspect Killington can perform the necessary snow making in 36 hours. I think the event has to check depths a week beforehand. We shall see!!!

looks legit to me!

first flakes at Jay earlier today https://www.facebook.com/JayPeakResort/videos/1060214048367022

Looks like Tropical storm Ampil (08W) is going to switch teams to baroclinic but has a chance to regenerate as well. No hard science on this, but in following the Atlantic Basin for swell production and keen eye on the continental westerlies for good winds, usually about 3 weeks after a recurving WPAC system is when I lean a bit into a good period of good winds and swells for SNE. The swell from Ernesto on Saturday was in the solid utility range (6 feet at 15 seconds) but very much compromised by local SE winds, resulting in very little attenuation as the swell hit the final kilometers of the nearshore zone. If we had sub-moderate NW winds on Saturday before dark, very likely we would have seen some significant breakers. Onward!

Hopeful for a good season too! I have the epic northeast.

smoke in northern New Hampshire rather thick, can't recall what fires are fueling this, but the morning was beautiful. It is still really nice outside, just lots of smoke haze.

The road to my home in Berlin had serious damage and isn't possible to access my place. Going up after work on Thursday. Looks like 3.5 inches in 4 hours

53 in Berlin with a refreshing nw breeze

Not the best, but a few shadow bands. I think being next to a frozen lake made it even more interesting