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December 8, 2017 Trail Conditions, Weather Blog No Comments

Snow Conditions and Outlook: Update 12/8/17

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 […]

November 27, 2017 Weather Blog No Comments

First Look at Snodeo Weekend 2017

Snowmobiling season starts after sundown, Sunday December 3rd which marks the conclusion of big game hunting season in Hamilton and northern Herkimer counties. This would make Monday, December 4th the first official day of the new season. Will we be riding by then? Right now, I don’t think so. Here is a forecast panel for […]

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Bottomed out at -17*F at ilsnow storm center in Indian Lake, NY early this morning before cloud moved in. Modest Canadian Clipper slated to roll through tonight with accumulating snow to help those who want to bang out a Moose River Plains ride this week.

Last week I started looking into the idea of a significant eastern United States weather system around New Year's Day. ECWMF is beginning to latch onto that concept. Since we'd be dealing with stale Canadian chill, this would likely be wet snow or rain changing to wet snow. Far too early to sort the details, but my interest is piqued.

My latest 7-day forecast at ilsnow.com/weather/ . After Christmas Eve, weather gets really quiet through Saturday. Our next brush with rain (pain) is probably Sunday.

People gotta get off the notion that December has been great. Snowmobiling playground is quite limited in much of the Adirondacks. And we're likely to finish December with 3 rain/thaw cycles. Our standards have lowered considerably. Better than last year? Yeah. What is used to be? Nope...