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this seasons supposed to ba a lanina year which in real terms means loads a snow for the pnw coastal ranges like in 99/2000 which was a record year for mt baker , has anyone else heard of this phenoma ...................http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/enso/ensofaq.html
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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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just found this on a fernie web site showing monthly snowfalls and el nino years and la nina years
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I don't get it, i'm hungover and this is all very sciency. I did hear it's going to be a la nina year, and I'm going to be in Fernie this season. Is La Nina good or bad for me? 
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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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Nino And La Nina check this out for fernie...... http://far.redtree.com/snowfalls.html
Some of the recent unusual weather can be attributed to the El Nino of 1997-98 and the La Ninas of 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The long-term records we have analyzed back to 1971 do not show the dramatic impacts one might infer from the past 3 years.
La Nina increases snowfall about 20% at most areas north of Utah and California, so we recommend early season bookings in Canada, the Northwest and Northern Rockies during predicted La Nina seasons. Snowfall is reduced substantially in Southern California and Arizona, but only mildly (10% or so) at Mammoth, Brian Head and in New Mexico.
El Nino predictions are less helpful to skiers. The positives are in the same locations which are negative for La Nina, but the extra snow tends to be late in the season with negligible impact upon early season reliability. Only in interior Canada and Montana is El Nino snowfall reduced as much as 10%.
Long-term data shows no significant El Nino or La Nina trend in Lake Tahoe, Sun Valley, Utah, Colorado or the Northeast. Those who tout the huge 1983 and 1998 El Nino seasons in the Sierra often forget the poor 1988 and 1992 El Ninos
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boozy, That's good I'm planning to go to Canada.
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That one about the european predictions seems to say "be a crap winter, just not as crap as last year" or am i wrong?
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Timmaah,
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a crap winter, just not as crap as last year
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Nice interpretation of:
"...the predicted winter NAO index for 2007/8 is weakly negative at -0.34 with a standard error of ±1.0. The relatively small amplitude of the predicted index relative to the error bar means there is little associated signal for below- or above-normal European winter temperatures or precipitation..."
for the meteorological idiots among us (me included!).
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what is 'normal European winter temperatures pr precipitation'
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brian
brian
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rayscoops, usually they mean over a 30 year average, 1971-2000. Average over that time period would be fine !
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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brian, interestingly in most cases the 'average' never occurs 
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brian
brian
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rayscoops, no, I think I can state with near certainty that both temperature and precipitation will either be above or below average. 
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You know it makes sense.
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brian, best to go to the alps when it is 'above' the average in that case
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