12/11/17 Update
The lake-effect snow guns were kind to us Sunday & Sunday night and dropped 5 inches of air-fluff snow on Indian Lake, which is nearly our total snow cover at the moment.
Snow cover increases to around a foot as you traverse Moose River Plains into the western Adirondacks.
Midweek Outlook
Looking good with another 6-12 inches of snow on the way for Tuesday and a blast of bitterly cold air for Wednesday. If you decide to hit Moose River Plains, beware of the usual early season hazards like rocks, washouts and low lying/fallen trees.
By the way, I’m not sure whether the gates to Moose River Plains have been opened for snowmobile traffic yet, it may be better to wait until we get Tuesday’s storm so DEC would be compelled to open them due to sufficient snow accumulation.
12/8/17 Report
Snodeo Weekend is here, so I’d say it’s high time for my first “official” update of the year.
The northwest Adirondacks got creamed with Thursday’s lake-effect snow event with some places getting more than a foot of pow-pow!
But further south, the snow was just cosmetic with no base under it. I’ll let the web-cam pics from Friday morning tell the story:
Far be it from me to tell you what to do, but I’m not hard-up enough to ride Moose River Plains this weekend on what we got now.
I’m sure that some people will be taking their sleds to Snodeo to ride around a bit. But I’m more than content to wait until there is actually some kind of a base to ride on. Snows on Sunday will be minor and not add much to the “pile”.
Next week?
Another lake-effect snow is in the cards for Sunday night, which will deposit beneficial snows over Moose River Plains into the western Adirondacks.
Monday will be a cold, but quiet day while a Canadian clipper system approaches:
There are some indications this may give us a decent snowfall on Tuesday. Sometimes, we get the Clipper on Steroids. But I have seen these kind of systems fizzle on approach. At this point, we’re sitting on “wait-and-see”.
Cold? Yes!
In the wake of Tuesday’s fun, Wednesday should get quite cold! Here are the possible Wednesday afternoon temperatures:
Yes, you read the chart correctly: Single digit temperatures for Indian Lake and the central Adirondacks!
With cold like this, sub-zero nights are a given and that will help freeze the swamps and crust over the larger lakes with ice.
Bottom line
Next week will be a definite win in the cold department, and perhaps snow as well. The needle is moving in the right direction. 🙂
If you haven’t already, check out my new Indian Lake Downtown web-cam hosted at Pine’s Country Store! I like it so much, I’ll be putting another one in Indian Lake. But I will leave the location a surprise until it has been installed. 😉
For the ilsnow nation,
Darrin
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