Opening Update – 11/19/07
Hello skiers and riders! The wind is howling this morning and the forecasters tell us it’s bringing in a system that should drop about two inches of snow on the mountain. But the real good news is that it should bring in ideal snowmaking temperatures for the rest of the week! We need two or three really good nights for the West Coast’s largest snowmaking system to get the mountain ready with a quality and durable snow surface. We’ll do our part, but if you want to say a little prayer to your snow deity of choice, that would be swell. Hope to see you all on the mountain soon!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:39 am
morning out there the weather is getting colder
so get out that ski gear.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:46 am
sweet! Im planning on going up this saturday. Hope it’s open by then!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am
All Praise be to the great Flying Spaghetti Monster !! Please give us more snow.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:06 am
LuftWaffle – Brilliant! Praise the FSM! See you guys on the slopes this weekend.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Nice, looks like a friday opening isn’t out of the question. i’ll be hittin it up next monday, when my pass isn’t blacked out.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Nice! you guys rock! Please be open by Thanksgiving. More snow! More snow!
November 19th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I´am in Brazil, doing “the snow dance”!!!
November 19th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Well, since you are asking for prayer, the only One I know who ultimately controls the wind and snow is Jesus Christ, so I am praying to Him: not only for this week, but for an entire season of great storms, which repeatedly dump multiple feet of nice dry powder, and for clear sunny days for the holiday crowds to get up here to enjoy it. JDS in Minden, NV.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Are you all seeing something different than the weather channel.com? Its says mid 40’s,. low 50s all this week, through next week and only rain. Is there something Im missing? Is the higher elevation getting colder now, no inversion?
November 19th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Just two or three nights??
That’s like Wednesday or Thanksgiving! Aaahhh… sure would like some real snow, but this will work!
How much of the mountain can you guys open with only the manmade snow?
November 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I hope you guys get your snow storm! I was there this weekend in hopes that opening day was still going to happen. Turned out being t-shirt weather
Maybe be back in Jan/Feb!
November 19th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Cool…pls open by Thanksgiving..i’ve booked all the things!
November 19th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
Wahoo!! Please hook us up for a two year in a row opening on Thanksgiving day!!!
In the words of the Sou and Chippewa tribes!
“Butawawauuta” “Make snow in hurry and after we’ll have Turkey!
-Peace out!
November 19th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Snow for Thanksgiving is like white gravy, and we like lots of gravy! We want more and are thankful for the opportunity to work off some of that feast, in our favorite manner, writing our name in the snow with fresh tracks.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Totally had my snowboarding boots on this weekend, dancing around for snow.
C’mon, Mother Nature! HELP US OUT! We are ready for boarding!!!
November 19th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
I have my boots on in my grad class RIGHT NOW. Snow damn you snow!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
SNOW///Thinking,breathing,eating,drinking whatever it takes…
November 19th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I hope there’s enough snow by the 27th, Already got by tickets booked. I’m coming from Seattle, our mountains should be opening soon. Plenty of moisture up here.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Com’on snow! Please don’t make me go to Boreal for my traditional Turkey day ski! PLEASE!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:24 am
LET IT SNOW!!! We got a package here, and already moved it to this Friday, thanks guys for doing all you can to get it open!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Im going to reiterate this. Im checking weather.com and the temps are supposed to be mid 40’s for the next 10 days. Today it says 46 is the high. But it is 20* at this point. There seems to be a weird difference between what they say and im hearding here.
On another note, the past temp. averages on weather.com show tahoe as being an average high of low 40’s each day in january (its coldest month). But other statistics Ive seen show much lower, in the low 30s to 20s for the past averages. Which is right? For those of you locals, what would you say you normally see as a daily high for january?
November 20th, 2007 at 8:36 am
This is for the naysayer that says weather.com predicts warm weather. NOAA is the only forecast worth checking, and here’s a summary of their nighttime temps for the next few days for Tahoe:
.TONIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS 12 TO 22.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT…PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 16 TO 26.
.THURSDAY NIGHT…CLEAR. LOWS 16 TO 26.
FRIDAY LOWS 15 TO 25.
daytime highs generally in the 40s but it’s the nighttime temps that count for snowmaking
November 20th, 2007 at 8:51 am
the temp showing on weather.com is flat land temp.
November 20th, 2007 at 8:54 am
Right now my thermometer says 27. It’s chilly here at the lake right now.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:42 am
There is nothing wrong with the weather channel’s forecast temps. They are very reliable. They are calling for lows in the low teens and highs in the 40s all week. So for South Lake Tahoe, that means the low in some of the colder areas (at Lake level) will be in the low teens and the highs in some of the warmer areas (at Lake level) will be in the 40s. Generally speaking, you can subtract 5 degrees for each 1000 feet of altitude you go up. That means highs in the mid 30s at 8,000′ and up. I say generally because this changes as a ‘temperature inversion’ builds in. Then, when there is no wind to move the air around, the cold air settles in the low lying valleys, and the mountain elevations can be significantly warmer. That is not present now, but will probably build later in the week. They are currently able to blow snow throughout the night and during a significant portion of the day as well.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Do you guys know how many runs would be open during the opening days?
November 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
to Spench, and the others, I was just asking about how their predictions fall to lake level versus mountains. Not trying to be a nay-sayer. i realize their predictions are in the teens at night and you can make snow. Im just used to places I ski being below freezing in the day. Ive never been to tahoe so Im curious. Also, how does the inversion add up in late january. Again, Im used to about 5-10 degrees colder at top of mountain.
November 20th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
to RT turbo…heavenly can be down right freezing when the storms come off the pacific 5-10 degrees is nothing…I have seen snow up there freeze on the lift in a matter of seconds…
November 20th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I see. Tahoe in Dec and Jan tends to get quite cold at night, in a general range of 5-20 degrees, and then during the day if the sun comes out the temps will shoot up into the low 40s in a hurry, turning powder to mush within a couple of runs. If the sun doesn’t come out (which is kind of rare) it stays quite chilly during the day, around freezing. A few degrees warmer by the lake than on the mountain, 5 degrees per thousand feet sounds about right, adiabatic cooling I think they call that.