so, you guys remember the winter of 04/05? I was in Fernie for that winter and it went a little something like this: preseason was good, average to slightly above average. december/early january was average or so.
mid january the pineapple express came through and we got rain. the same storm made it rain to around 3000m for most of southern BC. after the rain event it was warm (sat around the freezing mark or slightly above) for what, 6 weeks? in February we were downloading the timber chair due to lack of snow. Other than the coast getting hammered with snow in mid to late april the winter of 04/05 was as close to a write off we have seen in recent history.
Now... go for a ski, tell me what the conditions are like, look at the forecast for the rest of January, and please, please tell me I'm going crazy. I hate to be the negative dude who hates, but it's getting depressing here in Rossland. we're at least a meter shy of our normal base, the snow is getting beyond firm, there's no snow in the foreseeable future... and yea, and the avalanche conditions are all, well... fucked.
If you have something to sacrifice to Ullar, I think now is the time.
I guess this thread's purpose is to discuss repeated weather patterns and seeing if there's a trend. If you wanna hate on me for talking negatively about the current skiing conditions, please don't. There's nothing I hate more than people getting mad at me for talking about the weather if the forecast is calling for less than ideal weather. It doesn't matter if we talk about the weather or not, it's going to do it's own thing. we have no control over it, so get over yourself.
