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What an unreal winter. Left SE Wisconsin mid Jan for the UP, had more snow in SE Wisconsin. Went to Lutsen and passed through Duluth mid March. Saddest state. I still have pictures from when I went there April 2023 and there was so much more snow.

I hate this pattern so much! Where was this in February? Could have been 10 inches of good snow.

Blizzard warning at Lutsen and my friend is heading up there to ski. Just hoping this backside rain underperforms, I got one or two Granite Peak trips in Wausau left in me.

23-24 was catastrophic. We need a good winter here, winter sports in the midwest are struggling this year. Ski resorts are already crying about getting federal funding to save them and some of them lost close to a million dollars this year between expenses and lost revenue. I just got back from Lutsen Resort, all the runs without snowmaking were closed. They were at 20in of total snow for the season before the snow this week, normally see 120in. Even with this late storm, they have no base on their other runs so nothing else is gonna open. I've got my indy ski pass for next year so I'm really hoping I can use it a lot more next year. It's so far away though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomfJ26YiCc

Kind of interesting accuweather is calling for 2-4 yet everyone else is going for 6-10 in Wausau. Specially since the models on TT say 5-12.

Woke up to a wwa about 4-8 in se wi for Friday, wtf. I still have a few days to get to granite peak. Crazy to think there's some good snow possibly up there. Even if they got back side rain, 8 inches before that sounds like really good conditions for late spring ski and board.

Oh thanks for the heads up, 07-08 was pretty crazy looking at the chart from the link I posted.

I checked those strong nina years on the WI Climatology site and only 2010-11 was above average in snowfall. 2010-11 also was pretty cold but had a strong january thaw. Something we sort of lacked this year. https://climatology.nelson.wisc.edu/first-order-station-climate-data/madison-climate/historical-snowfall/

Yes, I got hammered. Torrential rain, pea sized hail. Nothing seems to be damaged but it was raining hard. I have drain tile that drains to my garden to auto-irrigate when it rains, collecting rain water off the side of the house since I have no gutters. There was probably a foot of water in the garden. Was pretty wild, definitely finished off the resorts in SE Wisconsin who thought they could recover from last weekend's heat.

This winter was unbelievable bad for winter sports. The last few winters we still managed to pull of regular length seasons. From a ski/snowboard season that normally goes from late november to the third week in march, we didn't really get started until after new year's, and places barely made it to the start of March. Cascade wasn't fully open until mid January, two to three weeks later than normal, and they are closing three weeks earlier than normal. I still managed to make the best of it, and have one last trip planned, maybe two. I made the most of it but still, pretty terrible. I sure hope next winter is better.

Don't ask questions, just eat the bugs!

TropicalTidbits added the Euro AIFS model for free.

Man the West is really calling me after such a bum winter out here. I think I'm gonna end up having more days in a shirt than a coat on the hill this year.

Starting to think maybe these resorts down here aren't so crazy to keep blowing snow when they can in this weather. Maybe they can make it past the first week of March and still get two more weeks. I know they usually have a goal of being open until St Patrick's Day weekend.