Going to be another bad winter? No Snow?

[imdoo'n]

the sun is shining mr crazy legs. no snow joe is smiling down upon west of the divide hill again, all is good for another week .


NO snow joe is echoing throughout the land.

 

[007sevens]

Suddenly feels like fall during the night. Seasons are a changing.

 

[007sevens]

Won't be long now and Ray and Larry will have there LongJohns on. Complaining about aching knees and cold plumber cracks.

 

[RhinoWhino]

Shorts till november !!!!

 

[ferniesnow]

Shorts till november !!!!

I don't think Larry owns a pair of shorts and Ray may only wear his when he is in the equatorial zones.

 

[ferniesnow]

Suddenly feels like fall during the night. Seasons are a changing.

I agree totally............we'll get some great days but the night time temps are going to start falling.

 

[imdoo'n]

Won't be long now and Ray and Larry will have there LongJohns on. Complaining about aching knees and cold plumber cracks.

i already do that. old age!

 

[AreWeThereYet]

My hot tub is starting to steam now in the evenings, you can definitely tell its starting to cool down,... 4c this morning

 

[ThrottleOps]

the bull trout started spawning a month early around here too, they were pretty well done before the normal start times

 

[toyz]

I came back from Golden yesterday and there was a lot of snow on the hills. I know it will melt but it looked nice.

 

[arff]

I don't think Larry owns a pair of shorts and Ray may only wear his when he is in the equatorial zones.

Mild winter ahead. No snow or very little

 

[Weirboondocking]

We put on about 75% of the miles last year compared to a normal season, and it was hard to tell anyone to drive for the snow we had. Even with the small snow pack we had some really great riding up high, and if we get a winter like the last one I will still ride lots and I think that anyone that loves to ride just needs to stop being snow snobs and get it when you can.... if you keep waiting for it to be epic you end up missing some of the skinny days that can be just as epic. I say spend time working on skills and riding the trees when the snow isn't awesome and when it is you will have more skills to slay the living hell out of it.

 

[Quattroman]

That is true. A lot of people have said the last 2 years have sucked, sure the weather might not have been the greatest, But i had as many awesome days as any other year, just had to go higher or look harder for the good stuff.

And in doing so i find over time my tree magnetism had deteriorated

 

[C of Red]

We put on about 75% of the miles last year compared to a normal season, and it was hard to tell anyone to drive for the snow we had. Even with the small snow pack we had some really great riding up high, and if we get a winter like the last one I will still ride lots and I think that anyone that loves to ride just needs to stop being snow snobs and get it when you can.... if you keep waiting for it to be epic you end up missing some of the skinny days that can be just as epic. I say spend time working on skills and riding the trees when the snow isn't awesome and when it is you will have more skills to slay the living hell out of it.

Ya, what he said.

 

[knee deep in it]

i took a quick look at snowfall in Fernie and compared it El Nino and La Nina years. Some data is missing and not all years have a El Nino or La Nina

year	snowfall	el nino	la nina
84/85	420"		weak
85/86	204"
86/87	306"	moderate
87/88	360"	moderate
88/89	468"		strong
89/90	372"
90/91	468"		moderate
91/92	264"	moderate
92/93	276"
93/94	360"
94/95	272"	weak
95/96	252"		weak
96/97	443"
97/98	321"	very strong
98/99	440"		moderate
99/00	348"		moderate
00/01	178"		weak
1/2	440"
2/3	315"	moderate
3/4
4/5		weak
5/6
6/7		weak
7/8	316"		moderate
8/9	216"
9/10	170"	moderate
10/11	246"		strong
11/12	408"		weak
12/13	258"	weak
13/14	304"
14/15	102"

average is 318"

 

[ippielb]

I hate reading threads like this, makes me so itchy...

 

[CUSO]

Thanks, now It looks even more confusing.

i took a quick look at snowfall in Fernie and compared it El Nino and La Nina years. Some data is missing and not all years have a El Nino or La Nina

year	snowfall	el nino	la nina
84/85	420"		weak
85/86	204"
86/87	306"	moderate
87/88	360"	moderate
88/89	468"		strong
89/90	372"
90/91	468"		moderate
91/92	264"	moderate
92/93	276"
93/94	360"
94/95	272"	weak
95/96	252"		weak
96/97	443"
97/98	321"	very strong
98/99	440"		moderate
99/00	348"		moderate
00/01	178"		weak
1/2	440"
2/3	315"	moderate
3/4
4/5		weak
5/6
6/7		weak
7/8	316"		moderate
8/9	216"
9/10	170"	moderate
10/11	246"		strong
11/12	408"		weak
12/13	258"	weak
13/14	304"
14/15	102"

average is 318"

 

[knee deep in it]

Thanks, now It looks even more confusing.

what I see is that La Nina years tend to be bigger snow, El Nino is all over the place, no real correlation. The only very strong el nino was slightly above average so I am not too worried about this year.

 

[Quattroman]

Yea, El Nino makes about this much sense

 

[chrishew]

Couple Pics my Buddy @ripitup84 took while snowboarding in Kananaskis Saturday morning August 22nd 2015. He said there was 5-7"still by the time he got up there and hot already so probably melted down a bit. Thought you guys might appreciate this.