On our web site, you will see 10 different FREE BLOGS in the center of the front page. These blogs will have some occasional information with regard to the upcoming weather pattern and forecasts. In addition, whether you are a weather novice or addict, the blogs will have some weather maps with lessons on how we forecast.

However, for paid subscribers, we will have much more relevant and frequent FLASH REPORTS that blow away our competition who don't have experience forecasting for the mountains. These forecasts are very timely, and are updated when weather maps change to give you a 'potential jump' on where the best powder will be.
Many services report WHERE THE POWDER is. However, our service offers subscribers interesting, accurate, and some humorous reports about where you should head over the next 1-20 days to ski/snowboard.

We also have our LONG RANGE NEWSLETTER--which is a separate service and talks about long range trends a month or two in advance, and is 3 issues during the winter, and 5 issues during the summer and fall hurricane season.

SAMPLE 1
ROEMER...TUESDAY DEC. 14, 2004
POWDER, POWDER, POWDER

Even though up through Monday a.m. we had some nice powder since Friday, but far less than I was thinking--some people may have been ready to stand me on my head, ship me up the Castlerock chair without my skis on, and dump me in the woods. However, if you did that, and I then hiked around the Castlerock warming hut, or up in the woods near the top of Lincoln Peak, there would likely be 2 feet of Powder in some places. The radar (first map) shows the snow banging into the peaks of the Greens, and dumping mostly on top last night. The snow first hits the western slopes of the Greens then dumps on the other side—classic, but rare lake effect.

Well with all of the incredible complexities of tracking two separate surface storms that A)--Barely brought in enough warm air to give us a high water to snow content on Friday instead of heavier snow ; B) The lack of lake effect snows yesterday from the Great Lakes, as winds weakened aloft; C) Everyone giving up hope that a big powder day was dead, the final 'script was one of the most complex, intricate, and interesting triple barrel storm systems I have ever seen in Vermont . Lake effect absolutely nailed us, and our expected 20" of snow from last Friday came to fruition this a.m.--unbelievable.

Last Friday ahead of this winter's (well late fall’s) first big cold wave of the season, I alluded to the fact that Lake Champlain was still warm, and "if" the winds were northerly along the lake, we might get nailed here. Check out map from late last night (here). For those who think that lake effect does not exist in Vermont, this is the quintessential example that it does-unbelievable?--Well this has happened before, usually in the early winter before lakes are frozen, and is something computer models and most forecasters "cannot pick up." This map (sfc_temp) illustrates the intricacies of trying to forecast lake effect in Vermont. You will notice the little lines in northwest Vermont pointing from up to down (north along the lake). This is the wind direction coming right down the length of the lake; similar to what happens at Snowbird, Utah coming off the Great Salt Lake. The temperatures are represented by little circles. Early this a.m., you can see temperatures east of the Green Mountains around 20, but west of the lake over the Adirondacks around 5 degrees. This temperature difference over a small area helps to lift the air right into the mountains. If you ever wondered why Sugarbush gets 15-20% more snow than areas east of us, and from the majority of ski resorts in the White Mountains---here is a perfect example why--Lake Champlain.

So goes the final evolution of a new Rossby Wave pattern we talked about last week. This means we will likely see normal to above normal snowfall for the next 10 days into Christmas, with systems every few days, and possibly one Nor'easter during this time frame.

Next update either Thursday or Friday.

Roemer