Winter 4.00 Here At Jay Peak Vermont!

It’s a winter wonderland again here in the northeast kingdom of Vermont. Fat flakes over achieving all day Monday and another round Tuesday. Powder ski skiing for Wednesday. This front definitely over-achieved. It’s an arctic front April style with a wave of low pressure perfectly positioned to get us over the 400 inches for the season.

It happens almost every spring here, looks like winter might be over and then all of a sudden it’s snowing again. And that is the case here both Monday and Tuesday. Monday was really the overachiever with several inches of snow. And it came on top of the old surface that was hardening up. So we were able to groom that in. Now we’re almost at midwinter status on some of the groomed trails. Dare I say we’re going to have a powder -packed powder - groomer morning here for Wednesday skiers and riders. It was a windy Monday. So it’s not uniform coverage. But groomed terrain is mostly edge to edge white and carvable.

Higher elevations still have enough snow in the Glades. And as the temperature warms up, we’ll be back there again by the end of the week, if not sooner ~ POW Weds?

On the back edge of this early week overachiever we have high pressure coming in with a clearing sky Tuesday night and a nice cold start for our Wednesday. The moon is still up as lifts load in the morning. The temperature is in the teens. It looks like a bluebird Wednesday, with conditions going from fast groomers to perhaps corn snow where we can get any sunshine. It’s a pretty chilly day though with a high temperature rolling near 32°.

We emphasize pretty once again!

The high-pressure responsible for this chilly air mass is going to be pushing east and out on Thursday. So Thursday morning looks like some classic spring skiing. Temperatures starting off in the 20s and getting up into the 40s as wind picks up from the west. It may get pretty gusty late in the day with corn snow on the menu.

Thursday night may stay just warm enough that we have soft snow to start the day on Friday. Friday looks pretty nice too with fairly gusty wind from the southwest and the temperature pretty close to 50° before a cold front comes in late in the day. There'll be rain showers by Friday evening and then a little bit of upslope snow to kick off the weekend.

Maybe 1 to 2 inches of Saturday morning snow, and it doesn’t look like a very hard freeze. So Saturday looks great. With high pressure coming in the temperature is gonna get up to the low 40s with not too much wind. Just a gorgeous spring day!

High pressure is right over us on Saturday night so it’ll firm up with fast surfaces first thing Sunday ~ evolving into more corn snow by late morning.

A great weekend!

A warm front pushes north of us Sunday night with some rain showers as possible.

Then next week looks really interesting. A cold front is going to dip south in Canada and there is more action in the middle of the week. It could be wet or it could be white, it’s a tough call, but “should be interesting.”

It’s so fun saying 400 inches for the season!

All systems go headed in through mid April!

Let’s see if we can add some more in the Friday write up. 

Happy midweek skiing and riding. 

Talk to you then.

TK