Not much of anything to report on. We are still white on New Year's Eve. But that may even change, depending on how much R we see on Saturday before the change over to snow. Hope everyone has or had a safe and fun New Year's Eve.
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I just looked at the long range forecast and they changed it again. If it comes true, don't make any plans that involve snow. Because we may be back to grass again, if we get what's predicted.
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Wishing everyone a Safe and Merry Christmas. Eat much, nap well and enjoy your new toys!
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We're blessed with a new coating of snow yesterday, to keep it looking like a winter wonderland and Christmas. We still need more snow in my book, before I would take one of my sleds out. But with that said, there are two sleds at Fastrac fueling up as I'm typing. As with anything...beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Hope you're ready for Christmas, only a few days till it's here.
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There may not be enough snow to ride. But it sure does feel like Christmas again. The trees have snow sticking to them and no grass is showing. Then add in 2 below this morning and it feels and looks like a winter wonderland again. Long range forecast is showing some snow for the end of the week. But only time is going to tell on that one.
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I guess fall is over or at least that's what it felt like this past week. But we are back to winter as of this morning and snow has returned to Old Forge.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 AM EST SUNDAY... * WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 3 to 7 inches. The highest totals will be over the southwest Adirondacks, extreme northwest Saratoga County and portions of Washington County.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snowfall rates will approach an inch an hour late this afternoon into the early evening. Sleet may mix in at times late this afternoon into early this evening across the Mohawk Valley and northern portions of the Capital Region, including central and southern Saratoga County.
If it keeps snowing like it's been for the last few hours, till 7am Sunday morning. We'll have a foot plus of good packing snow on the ground. If some sleet does mix in, all the better. It will pack down that better and add up faster.
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I'd like to thank everyone that came to Old Forge this weekend for SnoDeo 2021.
You'll see in the video that there was a good turnout at the Rec. Center today. It is sad that we lost what snow we did have. Not that it was really enough to ride. But I think having that light layer of snow has an effect on people and helps with the Christmas spirit. A spirit they will take back home.
It's 6:56PM and the cold front is hitting our area. The wind has picked up and it's pouring. My weather station is showing constant 20 plus and one gust was 48MPH.
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Does anyone need a picture for your Christmas card? This could be it. It also looks like the is some ice forming on first lake.
The organizers have decided that the prediction of rain all day and high winds of 30mph make it unsafe to hold the Shootout on Saturday and have made the difficult decision to move it to Sunday. We appreciate your understanding. Gates will open at 9:00, racing will begin at 10:00.
I saw the first sleds of the season on the webcam at the rec. center today. There is a thin ice base, with a few inches of snow on top. But not enough for me to fire up my sled just yet. Forecast isn't looking all that great and I'm hoping we don't lose what we got.
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The organizers have decided that the prediction of rain all day and high winds of 30mph make it unsafe to hold the Shootout on Saturday and have made the difficult decision to move it to Sunday. We appreciate your understanding. Gates will open at 9:00, racing will begin at 10:00.
The 32nd annual New York Shootout will take place for its 6th year on Chip & Cindy Sauer’s Track behind The Ole Barn in Inlet, NY on Saturday, December 11th. The gates will open at 9:00 a.m. and the racing will begin at 11:00 a.m. Spectator fee is $10.
The event will be hosting 3 snowmobile manufacturers: Cook’s Recreation (Arctic Cat) of Tully, NY, Arctic Adventures (Ski-Doo) of Rosendale, NY, Kebecka’s Polaris (Polaris) as well as performance shop modified runs and trail riders runs. Trail riders can run 660' for $10.
Product sponsors include Woody’s and there will be a live remote by The Moose of Boonville. Food trucks on site will be Squishy’s BBQ & Catering (Lowville, NY) & City Dawgz of NNY (Watertown, NY), beer by Screamen Eagle (Inlet, NY) and other vendors including Death by Chili Sauce (Rochester, NY) & Tug Life (Lowville, NY). There will be raffles benefitting Inlet Barnstormers Snowmobile Club & Raquette Lake Volunteer Fire Department and lots of free give-a-ways, as well!
Lake effect is in the area now and local forecast has it moving south overnight and back north tomorrow. The wind has also picked up over the last few hours.
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It's 6:11PM and the R has changed back to snow. We took a good hit from the R. Virgin snow pretty much was gone. But anything that was packed down and frozen stuck around.
Have R coming out of the sky this morning and it's in the forties. But the worst is to come this afternoon.
WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST TUESDAY...
WHAT...Southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected, becoming westerly this evening.
Don't need this, as there isn't allot of frost in the ground yet and we could have trees falling over.
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Forecast is calling for winter weather all week. But still can't say for sure if we'll be riding next weekend or not.
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