I'm not going to call this one a "Storm Update" although that's what it really is, it's just not the type of storm we're looking for with both r@!n and wind, and the back end snow looks like barely a booby prize. On the crap weather scale of 1 to 10 this one only scores a 5 and you can find dry weather and non-held lifts both days at dozens of ski areas.
This update is really an addendum to the Weekend Outlook that was published yesterday. I have better guidance for the timing of the r@!n, and also some wind holds to look forward to on Monday that will mostly correspond with the r@!n. As always we'll start out with the wide view to set this up, this time from the ECMWF covering all of Sunday and Monday.
We've had a pretty good December as things go and the holiday so far has offered above average amounts of terrain for this time of year and even natural terrain open at quite a few ski areas, though that terrain is primarily too thin to survive much of a challenge. As Northeasterners are certainly used to the ups and downs and we will soon get another up. It looks like some will recover by the following weekend with the next storm similar to what happened earlier in the month with potentially days of back end snow! I'll put out something on that system later today.
I'll go over the Precipitation Forecast and break down the the timing of the r@!n on both Sunday and Monday to help you plan or dodge, and then in the Wind Hold Forecast I'll cover the impacts that are expected Monday.
