If you enjoy skiing and riding and live in the Northeast United States, there is nothing nice you can say about last night and today. The nascent 2008/2009 ski season at every eastern resort took a hit overnight as a hot r@!n penetrated the area. Lesser ski areas which had not built up a base will be in trouble. The Killington Resort, which has spent the last month making feet of snow everywhere, should come though this just fine.

Needless to say, I did not ski today. There is no picture of the mountain, because all there was to see was an impenetrable cloud. The picture of the snow stake is also fairly poor, as the drenching non crystalline precipitation had turned the snow stake wood a dark brown. With a little help from Photoshop, I was able to pull out the details, and it is not pretty. At 10:00 AM this morning, the stake stood at 4 inches, down 5 and 3/4 inches from yesterday....so it goes.

The silver lining in all of this is that it looks like the warm up will be short lived. Temperatures at Killington have steadily declined all day, and are forecasted to go below freezing around sunset. The weather forecast is calling for todays storm to end with 4 to 6 inches of snow this evening followed by a major snow storm on Thursday evening into Friday. The National Weather Service has posted both a Winter Weather Advisory and a Winter Storm Watch for the area through Friday afternoon. NOAA is currently forecasting "in excess" of 6 inches of snow late Thursday night. Of course how many times is the weather forecast right? But we can hope.

With Killington's 50th Anniversary Weekend coming up, a nice coating of new snow will take care of everything.....let it snow!