bigdaddyk

About 13 " in Bloomsburg.

Distance wise it's closer, time wise it's not, because JF is a straight shot on 80 for me. Don't do parks, so it wouldn't be an issue. Don't do parks, so it wouldn't be an issue.

Take the NF lift to Iron horse. At least you get to do a small run in between.

I was actually thinking about that. I want to check it out this year anyway. I heard somewhere that it is about the size of BB.

The 0z NAM and GFS models keep putting the storm farther east, which means more cold/ snow

Really good and it rained the entrie time. The employees I talked to were even surprised with how many people were there.

The latest GFS runs are putting it a little farther to the east. Plus there is supposed to be a cold front come in first, bringing reinforcing cold air. If high pressure keeps the cold air locked in, the Poconos might not be that bad off. The 18z gfs should shed a little more light on it. It's too early to go either way, because the models are still waffeling. If it does mix, it should go back to snow as more cold air is drug in.

They have three bands this time, including Panacea. Anybody who is not familiar with Panacea, they have a huge following and are being looked at nationally.

Yes...I know that you can't always follow the models, I took a climate class.

I have a winter storm watch here in Bloomsburg. If we are supposed to get a lot of snow, the Poconos should also get a lot. We rarely get more than the Poconos. Areas N and W of the I-95 corridor are supposed to stay snow. I still don't believe we will get it...I'd be more ready to believe that we will get anything but snow.

Anybody going to Feb. 18th midnight madness. I work till 11pm, but might still try to get out. It should be better than the last one.

I'll believe it when I ski it.

I'm 45 mins west of JF and JF usually gets more snow than I do, due to the mountains. Here's what NOAA is calling for where I live, near Bloomsburg: OVERALL...ABOUT 10 TO 14 INCHES FOR MOST AREAS...SLIGHTLY LESS NORTH CENTRAL ZONES...PERHAPS A FEW MORE INCHES IN ISOALTED AREAS ACROSS HIGHLANDS...AND NORTH OF MDT...ESPECIALLY UP TOWARD SULLIVAN CO. WELCOME TO WINTER.

East Mountain

We've really jinxed the shit out of this storm.

Last I heard, that was for the coastal states and not the Poconos. The latest forecast for Lake Harmony. These temps would make it champegne powder...something were rarely see.: Monday Night: A slight chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 12. North wind between 5 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. Tuesday: A chance of snow, mainly after 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 15. Wind chill values between -2 and 3. Northeast wind between 9 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Tuesday Night: Periods of snow. Low around 3. East wind between 6 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Wednesday: Snow likely, mainly before 1pm. Cloudy, with a high near 25. Chance of precipitation is 70%. Wednesday Night: A chance of snow showers before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 4. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

400 ft can make a differnece in marginal temps, though.

For eastern PA, that translates into at least 6 inches of snow, the darker blue could be around a foot. Keep in mind, that's only for a six hour time period, a lot could change either way, also. Man, if we haven't jinxed this storm. For the weather weenies, go to the forum below and check out the headlines: http://p209.ezboard.com/ftristateweatherfrm7

Is the trail any better this year for racing, since they put all of those fans on it, or didn't you race it last year??

What is the link for these maps?

http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/nwprod/analysis/ http://www.coolwx.com/ptype/ I'll believe it when I ski it.

Yeap...hitting the first whale wasn't bad. The problem was that you would start to land on the second one and there was no prep time or time to recover .

The mountain was fairly crowded, but the lift lines weren't bad because they had both sides of each lift station opened. I didn't have much chance to look before I lept. The snow wasn't sticky, it was pretty dry, but the two snow whales at the bottom were in the shadows, so you hit them by surprise on your first run down .

Today it seemed like at least a 1/4 of the mountain was not groomed. Dematte's Demise was more like Dematte's Death Trap. My first run down it, I was sort of excited to see ungroomed powder. I quickly realized that it wouldn't be as great as I thought, because the snow was blown from tower guns, not fans...hence snow whales. I made over the whales and down to where it starts to run out, then bam....I hit a snow whale that I didn't see because of the shadows. I recovered, but right away, bam another snow whale. There was no way to recover from the last whale. I went flying, along with all of my stuff. It was really stupid to have two whales left ungroomed at the start of a run-out, and in a location where shadows are casted. On the ride up the lift, I saw another person hit the same whales....they ended up going out on a tobagon. Throughout the morning, people kept hitting these bottom two whales and wrecking. An ungroomed sign should have been at the top of Dematte's. I saw a few racers come flying down and loose it, in the same area. The lane from Dematte's to the quad area was also whaled up and ungroomed. There was also a lot of ungroomed snow blow over toward Jane's lane and Lehigh, but that snow wasn't lupmed up with whales. Anyway, other than that one instance, it wasn't too bad of a morning.

Yep, it's jinxed. The latest model runs put if farther south