Yesterday the National Weather Service posted a Winter Storm Warning for the Tetons. Often, I think they do that to protect their butts, not wanting to get called out for missing a snowstorm that causes accidents, closures, and economic losses. They’d rather err on the side of caution since most people will be happy if [...]
Winter storm warning. Such a pregnant with meaning phrase for skiers. Right in there with “I am pregnant” or “I love you”. So many possibilities and so much hope springs to mind when skiers hear or read these words in this order. More normal people may cringe and curse at the prospect of dangerous roads, [...]
Maybe folks around here have already missed work too often this winter on powder mornings and are beginning to feel guilty, or the work has just piled up too deep and has to be dealt with. Whatever the reason, this morning Grand Targhee received some of the lightest snow in weeks and even with 7″ [...]
After last night’s National Weather Service’s prediction of lots of snow turned into rain here in the Tetons, I thought, what the heck, why not get further depressed and look at NASA’s global temperature map for February 2009.
As you can see, only Western Canada and Siberia were below normal while much of the Arctic and [...]
On waking up this Monday morning, not to the 8-12 inches of new snow the National Weather Services folks optimmistically predicted for the Tetons, but to a mere 2″ at Grand Targhee and 3″ on Jackson’s upper mountain, one wonders about the difficulties of weather prediction in the mountains, or the variance between weekend weather [...]
The forecast, that is. The National Weather Service is predicting up to a foot of snow tonight for the Tetons. AND, up to a foot of snow tomorrow and possibly another 9″ tomorrow night.
That’s the good news. What’s the catch? Tomorrow, the temps are predicted to reach 38 degrees- in the mountains!- and winds up [...]
This morning’s snow reports are encouraging: Jackson says they picked up 3″-5″ of snow after closing yesterday making for 6″-10″ in the past 24 hours. Grand Targhee is reporting 3″ since the lifts closed and 8″ in the past 24 hours. Further north of here, even snow starved Big Sky and Bridger have picked up [...]
