They say March is often the snowiest month for New England ski resorts.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026

That’s the way it used to be anyway.

Not the last few years, though.

So far there’s been more snow this month from Massachusetts to Maryland.

But the month is young and we have a long way to go.

Apparently Ullr is also on vacation this week, along with schools here in Vermont.

As of this writing on midday Tuesday, we’re looking at a system that generated 2-3 inches of snow over the mid Atlantic on Monday, moving north into New England this afternoon. But once again, the jet stream is just a little too far south to bring us the goods here at Jay Peak. It’s been cold enough, and I’ve heard our groomers could not be in any better shape than right now. So we have that going for us. And also, the northern edge of the snow is reaching up here for our Tuesday night with some minor Wednesday morning freshies. 

And there’s not much wind either, got that going for us too. That strong high pressure system that brought the cold air has moved away. Now we have a couple of stationary boundaries. One to the north with the Arctic air bottled back up in Canada, the other well to the south with waves of energy rippling along from Long Island to Cape Cod.

And here we are in the middle. Without much of a pressure gradient, not too windy, not too cold, not too warm.

We’re trying to squeeze out 2-3 centimeters of snow for our Wednesday morning. It’s hard to sugarcoat the weather story, there’s not really much snow in our forecast for the next few days. Any early snowflakes will probably shut down with a lot of clouds and a bit of sun may break through the clouds Wednesday afternoon with the temperature near 32°.

There’s a little bit of a high-pressure system nosing down from Canada to cool us back down to about 20° early Thursday with some sunshine first thing in the morning. Clouds are going to thicken up again with a few snowflakes possible at night and early Friday. Maybe another inch or two. Take the under.

Not much change Friday, cold is mostly bottled up in Canada, warmth is at bay to our south so we will be near freezing, a mostly cloudy day with highs near 32° and still not much wind.

It’s later Friday that we have more appreciable precipitation coming at us. But low pressure is going to track north of Montreal. So we’re on the warmer side of that. Any wintry mix on Friday night with snow, and freezing rain, and rain possible by Saturday morning.

The odds of this thing shifting south do exist. What’s the old saying, hope for the best but prepare for the worst. And the worst would be that it’s an icy wet foggy start Saturday with the temperature still in the 30s. It gets more windy late in the day and at night with a weak cold front coming across. So some snowflakes are possible with cooler drier air first thing Sunday. We should break into the sunshine on Sunday with comfortable weather in the mid 30s. Looking like the pick of the weekend, another thing we have going for us.

Next week features the jet stream, mostly lifting across Canada with some quiet warmer weather possible Monday into Tuesday before the next cold front tries to press south Tuesday night. Now we’re talking a week out. But at that point it looks like a more snowy pattern should return by the middle of next week.

This is so similar to the pattern we had last winter where we were nothing but cold and snowy until early March. Then things changed up. But Winter came back! 

And we’re expecting the same thing to happen this year. There’s a long way to go.

Any homage to Ullr would probably be helpful at this point. 

We’ll talk again Friday. 

TK