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Anyone know of a good source that summarises conditions / weather for various seasons and mountain areas?
eg would good to see a 2013-14 Season Roundup mixing subjective / objective observations.
I'm NOT talking just histograms of snow depths..
With the mass of data in this thread, surely some diligent / SH with time on their hands could do the honours..?
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
trickygibbon
, you've to the job!
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
I'll start.
My objecive & subjective take on the winter in the
Shiribeshi area on the island of Hokkaido, northen Japan
.
Total snowfall at village level in Higashiyama, Niseko Resort Area (~ 300 m)
13.58 m (535")
The mean for the 8 winters I've been measuring is 14.27 m (562").
So slightly below "average"
Late November into mid-December we had three rain events which wiped out the snowpack down low. Took a while for all the sasa (bamboo grass) to be covered up.
Biggest change this winter was the increase in wind events resulting in lift closures and sometimes whole resort closures.
Despite the above, the powder was excellent.
I skied 100 days, of which 63 were knee deep or deeper powder days.
Not many areas in the world that have that consistency.
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