Weather Blog
February Winter Fireworks? Update 2/1/14
2/2/14 Update: Indian Lake ended up with 4 inches of dense snow last night. This should help tremendously! 🙂 January 2014 was the ultimate Jekyll & Hyde month. Take a look at how the temperature bounced up and down like lottery ping pong balls at the Indian Lake Dam: Take a look at the impressive […]
Long Range Weather Update 1/24/14
The relative lack of snow for the past three weeks has been very discouraging. There won’t be any significant thaws for at least the next week to 10 days, but I think the pattern will be hostile to the development of a widespread significant snow event for the Adirondacks. Short term: If you want it […]
Trail Report 1/14/14 & Weather Outlook
UPDATE 1/15/14: The prospects of a significant snowfall on Saturday continue to dwindle to the point where I don’t think it has a realistic chance of happening… Trail Report 1/14/14: This shot of downtown Indian Lake just about tells the story here. We are at the end of skid row, the bottom of the barrel. […]
Thursday Storm Update 12/31/13
WOW! There has been lots of internet and media consternation over the upcoming storm. Lots of flip-flopping, ping-pong forecasting out there with each model run every 6 hours. I try to avoid that, because in the end, it’s a meaningless exercise. Back on the 29th, I showed how the upcoming North American weather pattern supported […]
Trail Report 12/29/13 & Outlook
As expected, the snow late Sunday into the evening was very heavy and wet. It mixed with rain for a while at the onset here at the ilsnow.com storm center but I did end up with an inch-and-a-quarter of wet cement-like snow. Speculator/Morehouse area had much less rain mix and ended up with 3-4+ inches […]