 Poster: A snowHead
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No, that would be a Jeremy Corbyn bot 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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?
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Will keep a track from January when I’m usually hooked on the Arabba forecasts n webcams.
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
@ster, it’s consistently wrong. Always forecasts lots of snow and revises it as you get nearer the time. You’ll see them forecast about 12 inches 5 days out, then with 3 days left it’s down to 8 inches and by the day of the snow it’s down to about one or two.
I never trust snow-forecast more than a day or two out other than to give an idea of the general trend. |
That's weather forecasting for you.
I am used to weather reports forecasting great conditions for upcoming weekends (snow in the week then sunshine) then seeing it get worse and worse as the weekend actually approached, funnily enough it was the forecast on the lift company's website.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@RobWa, both from skiing and through work I would say something around -15 is the limit for exposed flesh. Have skied in the states in -25 when exposed flesh would become painful after a few minutes and the guides would be pulling people for having their eyeballs out. I do occasional maintenance work for a large fast food chain. Walk in freezer can't get above -18 and if you are in there for 5 minutes your face stops working. 10 minutes and everything is hurting. You only make that mistake once.
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@SnoodlesMcFlude You said it was "consistently wrong" and "always forecasts lots of snow and revises it as you get nearer the time".
Those are sweeping statements. Had you said you had experienced that for the majority of ski trips over several years I would not have quarrelled with you.
The more often you compare forecast with outcome, the more often you will see that the errors occur in both directions. This last few days is a case in point; many areas throughout the Alps got so much more snow than was forecast that it caused chaos. Snow forecast did predict lots of snow - just not quite as much as actually fell in many areas.
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Based on all your suggestions and advice I have got some thin fleece balaclava and a box of hand and feet warmers. We already have silks for inside our gloves and neck buffs and given my other two sons are not skiing this year we have a load of spare layers we will take just in case the forecast is as cold as predicted.
If necessary we can be completely covered up so no exposed flesh.
I will report back on how accurate the forecast was 5 days ahead.
Thanks all.
Rob
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@pam w, sorry, didn’t realise my work was being marked.
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If it's proper cold another tip to add is: do not hold your ski poles by the metal on the chair lift. Holding a big, heat conducting, aluminum pole with your gloved hands is unwise. Tuck them under your legs and get them out in time for the top.
Unless they are carbon 
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@motdoc, On really cold days I use my touring poles with the added insulation on the shaft.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Scarpa wrote: |
| @motdoc, On really cold days I use my touring poles with the added insulation on the shaft. |
On the shaft...or in the shaft (Brandy). 
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FAQ
Maybe I should have clarified that it was only what I've experienced, but I thought that was fairly obvious. I can also write off the idea confirmation bias as the majority of those trips have had snow forecast on the site and absolutely none fallen.
