Oh No! No Snow.

Posted by Mitch Kaplan Dec 20, 2006

This warm weather at Christmas time is enough to make skiers and snowboarders cry. Nordic skiers might want to commit hari-kari.

I’m not even talking about receiving actual snow. That seems out of the question.

Weather.com’s ten-day forecast says that the New York metro area won’t see freezing temperatures at night, and the highs will zoom into the 50s.

If we could get some consistent cold, ski areas could make snow.

As it is, I cancelled a day at Mountain Creek today. Not open yet.

The ten-day forecast for Mount Snow, where I’ll be this weekend, does at least call for overnight below freezing temps. But, daytime will be too warm. And there’s a threat of rain (sorry, I know we’re never supposed to say the R-word).

It’s getting beyond depressing. Especially when I get news like this: Whistler Resort receives 20-feet of snow before Christmas.

20 feet?

Can’t they share?

Even in Europe, they’re getting skunked. The NY Times ran an article this week focused on how Europe’s the low-elevation resorts are snow-free and fretting about it.

And me, I’m due in Austria in a month.

The current bottom line is this: you wanna ski? Go to Colorado, Utah, British Columbia or the Pacific Northwest. They’ve got snow.