Oct 27: the white stuff is here

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Sometime, maybe 10-pm on Oct 26, with the temps at about 30-degree and no wind, the snow wands .... www.waterville.com/cams-summit .... high up the Waterville Valley ski area were turned on for the first time, this season.

Temperatures up top probably got down to 25 and the snow wands are still running the next morning, Oct 28 at 11:45-am. That's a good long run for a first day of sno-making.

$135 will be the prime time lift ticket price this year, up 20-dollars from last years $115. Hey, it costs big to be making all this man made snow, you know!.

One can always get a $19.95 pair of Yaktrax Pro ice and snow grips from eBay and ski poles and go walk the 4.8 miles out and back, up and down the Mt Tecumseh Trail ... http://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/ne...ille-trailhead ..... to the summit of 3997-foot Mt Tecumseh, which is very very close to the Waterville Valley Ski Area.

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Sunday, Nov 17; the weather forecast for the next two weeks from Weirs Beach is looking (click on Warnings) 55-high days, 35-low nights and man-made sno needs freezing, 32 or lower, to be blowing the sno.

The website for www.waterville.com says Opening Day Nov 30th, a Saturday, so sno-making started on Oct 26, up top on High Country, and opening day is projected to be Nov 30.

There's no natural snow cover on the ground here in Waterville Valley. In the past going back to 1987, there was usually natural snow cover on the ground, like on the golf course, starting on November 8, that would exist until about April 8.

Is a warm start to the snow cover season ........ oh well ??? ...... anything with the weather is pretty much possible? Time will tell? .....

[fatlazyless]

8:20-am, Waterville Valley: In the last hour or so from 6:45 to 8:20-am the temperature has gone up from 30 to 32.5 degrees, and it certainly looks like what had been a light dusting of white snow had now changed a rain/slush mix falling from the sky.

It's been enough to turn the green grass into grass with a white coating but not enough cold and snow to turn the black asphalt town road from black to white. There's no wind, is totally calm.

So, whatever and who know's what going to be happening with this snow storm? Time will tell?

Predictions say 6-12" snow, but it sure don't be look'n like that for now? C'est la vie?

[fatlazyless]

Waterville Valley, Nov 29: Just came in from a long walk and this storm left about six to eight inches of wind blown, crusty, water heavy snow that's stuck to all the tree branches.

Looking at the bare ground on the BearCam, behind the house in the back yard, it looks like Bear Island got no snow accumulation.

Bear Island is about 35-miles, air distance to Waterville Valley.