Thursday, January 25, 2007

Good news for New England skiiers

Clearly most of you can feel the chill in the air, and perhaps see a few flakes in the sky, but it looks like Winter is back for a little bit. Vermont should have high quality skiing for the next 2-3 weeks basked on pockets of Arctic air that are swirling our way, and hitting moisture pockets, creating snow. Good times coming!

The link below is a technical discussion on the weather metric NAO which is a good indicator for what will happen in our region. The NAO is currently negative, which is good for both the Alps and New England skiing. Here is a technical definition of the NAO

Also below, is a pretty unreal descent by a snowboarder. Just watching this is scary.

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